IHM: Green Team

Sustainable Community

IHM Green Team

The IHM Green Team is an educational team of consultants with expertise in sustainable living. Our services include designing processes for organizational transformation and planning and implementing "green" renovation and construction practices to significantly reduce or eliminate the negative impact of buildings on the environment and on occupants.

Ask Yourself

We begin by asking your organization or community to make choices based on four foundational questions:

In what ways will the choices you make

Contribute to a transformation of consciousness, be it spiritual, economic, ecological, feminist, social, racial, political or communal?

Contribute to working in a partnership way with persons, systems and structures beyond ourselves?

Address how those who will be affected will be included in the planning and decision-making?

Address who benefits and who loses from any decision and what the trade-offs are?

Organizational Transformation

We believe sustainable community is essential to green development and living. The pastoral, organizational planning and leadership that supports transformative change requires careful attention to spirituality and the value-sharing underpinnings of the process of change. Complex decision-making and understanding shared by a broad base of people will be a foundation that will support movement forward with energy and vitality.

We offer processes for organizational change that tend to feelings and data, intuition and clarity, learning styles and dialogue skills that all work together so that decisions on sustainable design and renovation, buildings and property can be metaphors for the way community members are changed.

What We Provide

Our design team will provide tips and strategies on the entire spectrum of planning and implementing sustainable design. Specific areas include how to build a green design team; how to educate for green renovation; how to determine the decision-making process; how to create a green design for your building; and how to conduct the programming phases, establish controls, document requirements and communicate protocols.

Green Team Members

Janet Ryan, IHM, is a member of the IHM Leadership Council and serves as the Council's liaison for the community's sustainable renovation projects. Her professional experience includes 24 years in teaching and administrative positions.

Danielle Conroyd, former IHM, has been the project director for the IHM congregation's sustainable renovation since 1998, and has held senior management positions for prominent Detroit corporations. She has more than 25 years experience working with organizations as a change agent.

Suzanne Sattler, IHM, is a Detroit attorney specializing in nonprofit organizational development. For over 25 years, she has developed new programs and served on the governing boards of a variety of organizations.

Nancy Seubert coordinates the IHM Justice, Peace and Sustainability Office and specializes in the topic of global climate change. Her professional experience includes 16 years as an educator and group facilitator. She is the author and editor of two books on storytelling.

Your consultation will be customized to meet your needs. To schedule an appointment, call Sharon Venier, 734-240-9754.

Lunch is included in your visit. A list of Monroe area hotels is available, if needed.