Welcome to the Working Well Network
Healthy Working Cultures for Environmental Practitioners
What does it mean to work well, both in terms of impact and wellbeing, when it feels like time is running out?
The Working Well Network is a space for environmental practitioners trying to build deeply healthy cultures. Our work responds to some of the environmental movement’s most enduring challenges such as burnout, lack of diversity and difficulties with collaboration.
Our explorations together are experiential and expansive, weaving between the personal and the collective, the inner experience and the outer reality.
Our belief is that how we feel, what happens between us, and how we arrive at something deeply impacts the impact of the work we do.
We meet every two months, with opportunities for further meetings in between, and is open to anyone, free of charge.
You can find out about our meeting times and how to join the Network here.
Our Values
Our values are constantly evolving and deepening as we grow in our understanding of what it means to work well together.
However, these three values, developed during the Working Well Network's inception, are something that hold us together as a community.
The first is to welcome more of ourselves. We invite all of ourselves to the work, such as our emotions, intuitions and bodies, as well as our minds. Our doubts, fears, failures and not-knowing are also valued as vital to the work we are doing together.
The second is to make time for each other. We take time to build our relationships of trust, which in turn enables us to be more authentic, collaborative, creative and, ultimately, effective. This also means making time to face into the challenges of our working together where we find difference, trusting in what could be learned from those experiences.
The third is to live what we hope to create. We experiment with embodying the kind of changes we hope to see in a more sustainable world, including a fairer distribution of power, and respecting the limitations of our personal and collective resources.
You can read more about how the Working Well Network (formerly the Sustainable Wellbeing Environment Network) came to these values, and what it means for us to live them out in practice here.