David Key
Director
BA (Hons.), MSc Human Ecology, FCHE
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An accomplished strategist and group facilitator with over ten years of diverse and international experience, Dave’s work has a reputation for challenging the deeply-seated cultural and personal ‘assumptions’ that hold many of us in unsustainable, inequitable and unhealthy lifestyles. Starting from the client’s perspective and not a predefined agenda, he brings creative, realistic and practical solutions to the considerable challenges of sustainability through a gentle, accessible and effective style. |
Dave started out as a marketing consultant in London but ‘escaped’ to a career in outdoor education and management training and development in New Zealand. He returned to the UK in 2000 and graduated from the Centre for Human Ecology in Edinburgh in 2003 with an MSc., with distinction, in Human Ecology. Today he’s a Teaching Fellow of the Centre and programme leader of the post-graduate module in Ecopsychology that the Centre runs in collaboration with the University of Strathclyde. He is a member of various committees and groups in the sustainability sector, notably in tourism, education and psychology.
He also works alongside a psychotherapist, to deliver the UK’s only outdoor-based Professional Development programme in Ecotherapy which explores ways of working with personal and cultural psychology to encourage sustainable living.
His special interest is in the transformative power of wild places to shift people towards sustainable lifestyles, and he has lectured internationally and published numerous articles on this subject.
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