Welcome to Living Smart
“My Living Smart course attracted a group of inspiring people that want to make a real difference to the world we live in.
It encouraged me to make small changes, but also gave me the confidence to make extraordinary changes too.”
Andy
Just what is Living Smart?
Living Smart is a multi award-winning behaviour change program founded in Fremantle in 2003. The course provides participants with the skills and knowledge to take action in their own homes to improve their quality of life and reduce their environmental impact.
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What We Do
The full Living Smart program consists of ten key modules – from Simple Living and Waste, to Gardening for both biodiversity and food production, to the more traditional topic of Water, Power and Transport, plus Healthy Home and You and a big focus Community. Living Smart short courses can focus on any of these modules.
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What makes Living Smart so unique?
​There are several things that make Living Smart unique. The people who enrol in the course are generally motivated and committed to create change in their own lives and community. As well as changing their own habits and behaviours, many participants become sustainable champions in their own communities.
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Rather than just developing an awareness of issues and hoping people will change their behaviour, Living Smart has a focus on behaviour change, using sound behaviour change theory.
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Living Smart facilitators are trained in adult learning principles. The course is not a “chalk and talk” lecture-style experience but uses cooperative learning, the sharing of participant knowledge and hands-on activities to encourage both sustainable changes and the development of community.
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Each Living Smart course is designed by the facilitator based on the needs of each individual group. Besides the 10 key modules, Living Smart does not have a set curriculum. Each course takes into consideration the needs and interests of the group, as well as utilising expertise within the group to further develop community.
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The ten topics of Living Smart mean it has a very wide breadth. No other environmental education course has this full range of topics, meaning that participants leave with a very broad understanding of what it means to be sustainable.
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Most Living Smart participants express a desire to continue to meet with fellow participants and the wider Living Smart community, and so many post course Living Smarties groups now operate, further supporting sustainable changes. Other participants feel motivated to join or create community groups in their own communities.
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Want to know more?
Feel free to get in touch if you want to know more - whether it's about where courses are running or hosting is course in your community - we'd love to hear from you!
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