School of System Change

We know that growing a global community of change agents is our best chance to accelerate a transition to a sustainable future. Want to know more?

Spark Europe 2021

Spark Europe is a 2-month facilitated virtual learning experience for intermediate system change practitioners running from November - December 2021. Apply by 26th September.

About the course structure and format

About the facilitators

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Growing System Change

We are living in a world of increasing complexity. As emerging change practitioners, it is important to continuously build our capacity to create a world with greater equity, justice, sustainability and wholeness. This requires new ways of being and doing together—ways that disrupt the status quo, engage our whole selves, and work effectively with sameness and difference. It requires engaging tools that allow us to hold multiple points of view and engage complexity to catalyze change in people and systems who are stuck in old patterns and practices.

Outcomes

This course will help you to:

Build your confidence and ability to introduce systems change in an inspiring way
Gain facilitation skills to support systems change, including:
Increase your self-awareness and capacity for perspective-taking
Workshop new approaches to the systems problems you are currently engaging
Deepen and support the application of new systems change tools
Set clear intentions to guide your leadership development

Course structure & format

This 2-month virtual learning experience will be delivered through:

Peer-learning with an international network of other facilitators of systemic learning
Facilitated online sessions for the full cohort and smaller groups via video call, with 20 hours of instruction time across five sessions
1-to-1 coaching in practice, with feedback and support from an experienced facilitator to support your growth as a systems change practitioner
A tailored online learning environment and set of resources
Reading, exercises and reflection to be completed in your own time

Is this for me?

This course is suited to individuals who have:

an intermediate level of systems change practice, gathered through the School of System Change Basecamp or a similar program, or through extensive applied learning in facilitating change with a systems lens
some previous group facilitation experience, whether learning offers, workshops, or collaborative projects
an opportunity to apply the skills you are learning from this course in a practical setting or to facilitate an introductory systems change session in the near future (this could be purely informal, with colleagues etc. - the key is that it is with real people and putting into practice)

Course Details

Date & Times

Facilitated online sessions will be held on the following dates & times:

DATES

Kickoff week (3 sessions - 2 to 4 Nov)

Session 1: 2 Nov (Tues)
Session 2: 3 Nov (Wed)
Session 3: 4 Nov (Thurs)

1-to-1 coaching period between kickoff and closing weeks

Closing week (2 sessions - 16 & 17 Dec)

Session 4: 16 Dec (Thurs)
Session 5: 17 Dec (Fri)

TIMING

Each session will be 4-hours (with breaks) held at 8:00-12:00 GMT / 9:00-13:00 CET

Plus exercises and reflection to be completed in your own time

Facilitators

Anna Birney

Anna is Director of the School of System Change, overseeing the learning and curriculum and driving the vision and ambition internationally. Anna brings years of practical experience equipping people and businesses, NGOs and others with cutting edge tools for system change, and deeper thinking and inquiry from her research.

Charlene Collison

Charlene is Associate Director, Sustainable Value Chains and Livelihoods at Forum for the Future and heads Forum’s Challenge Lab on Sustainable Value Chains, which works to make value chains of key land-based commodities net positive, through employing sustainable and regenerative agriculture, providing decent livelihoods and using fair, distributive business models.

Course fees

Individual: £950 GBP / €1100 EUR *

Organization: £1350 GBP / €1550 EUR **

*The Individual rate is available to incoming participants interested in furthering facilitation, inquiry and systems change practice, for their own development.

**The Organization rate is available to those furthering facilitation, inquiry and systems change practice on behalf of an organization.

VAT does not apply. As part of our efforts to broaden the reach of our programs to traditionally underrepresented groups in this space, we are offering a 30% discounted rate for those in need of financial assistance.

How to join

Complete our short enrollment form to join the course. A few spots remain! Apply today to join us in November!

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