Sustainable communities are places where people choose to live and work. They provide people with the housing, amenities, schools, hospitals, and transport they need to live fulfilling lives in an
environmentally sensitive way. They are safe places, offering opportunities to all and contribute to a high quality of life, but they don’t happen or thrive by accident.

Over 100 occupations have been identified as being involved in this challenging task. To enable the development of sustainable communities, the whole range of people involved in the process must have the generic skills they need to work across sectors and disciplines.

Creating:excellence is championing a variety of experiences to equip sustainable communities professionals and organizations with the skills to work with other people and organisations to create places where people want to spend their lives.

This brochure explains how 'real ways of learning' can bring professionals and organizations together to share knowledge and experience. These way of learning are intended to complement professional abilities and aptitudes, and enable individuals and organisations to become more effective in their work and in their contribution to the creating sustainable communities.

The brochure sets out a number of 'real ways of learning' which sustainable communities professionals and organisations can draw upon to develop the generic skills needed to work across sectors and disciplines.

The real ways of learning will enable people to develop their skills to:

All the above generic skills identified as core for people involved in sustainable communities work.

The document suggests a number of 'real ways of learning' that professionals and organisations can engage with in order to develop the core generic skills needed by people involved in sustainable communities work.

Methods suggested in the brochure are:

For each, a summary of the approach is provided accompanied by a case study of the approach in practice.

People and organisations involved in sustainable communities work.

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