Our values

We believe our future depends on working together

Overview

Treecreate Studio is about linking community, creativity and culture to have positive social and environmental impacts locally and globally. We are guided by Treecreate’s 9 Values which inform our commitments and actions.

We work globally with like-minded organisations are poly-focal, exploring interconnected themes of climate, social and environmental justice and honouring Indigenous knowledge systems.

Treecreate facilitates positive action for eco-systems, people and place. By working in partnership with key organisations and individuals, Treecreate’s objectives are to to leverage and build community of awareness

Treecreate’s 9 Values

Our values were defined in 2020 as a way of weaving together our long term goals and commitments.

Treecreate’s value tree
  1. Nurture: Mindful regeneration and care for all life on the planet.
    We believe in future focused actions framed with a sentiment of hope, addressing the need for achieving enduring benefits.
  2. Knowledge: Sharing across cultures and disciplines.
    We believe in the interconnectedness of all things and that relationship is the pathway to knowledge. 
  3. Integrity: Social justice and equity for all living beings.
    We believe in the rights of nature, the value of social contracts and ethical ways of working together
  4. Awareness: The interconnectedness of all things human and more-than-human.
    We believe that social action is enhanced by an awareness we ‘are the earth.’
  5. Wellbeing: Embedding a culture of care.
    We believe through inclusive indoor and outdoor hands-on education programs facilitates wellbeing. 
  6. Respect: for Indigenous knowledge, culture and language.
    We believe in working with sovereign people and reconnecting through ancestral pathways to the land.
  7. Inspire: collaboration through deep listening creativity, innovation and shared purpose.
    We believe in creating opportunities to learn, make and grow in ways that enhance wellbeing of all life.
  8. Regenerative: Projects to build healthy community locally and internationally.
    We believe that the definition of community includes rivers, creatures, places and people.
  9. Connect: Use appropriate technology to support social and environmental justice.
    We believe that responsible development and use of technologies can enhance the growth and knowledge of communities of care.

Measuring up to our commitments

Regenerating ecosystems

We offset our c02 emissions with GreenFleet and donate to the Moreton Bay Foundation.

Empowering community

We actively volunteer in the community, through our work with Bribie Island Community Arts Society, Pumicestone Indigenous Education and Employment Council (PIEEC) and Bribie Island Environment Protection Association (BIEPA).

Sharing knowledge

We facilitated workshops covering somatics, eco-dyeing, bookbinding and mindfulness in the UK, Aotearoa NZ and in Australia.

We have also supported our local First Nations Elders through recording and editing stories for screen and print publication.

Alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goals

In support of the Uluru Statement and Black Lives Matter
We at Treecreate fully support the Black Lives Matter movement in all its forms across the globe. We believe that it is time to create new systems of inclusion, empowerment and connection through acknowledging the past, truth telling and ally-ship.