SUSTAINABILITY
Learn how to map life cycles, how to calculate your ecological footprint, develop your ability to think critically about sustainability and bust through persistent eco-myths.
SYSTEMS THINKING
This foundation course will help you wrap your head around the systems at play and give you the tools you need to understand the complex social, industrial & environmental systems and how they interact.
MAKE CHANGE
This course will give you a more profound perspective on change, packed with agency-boosting content that helps you explore what change means to you and define a personal approach to your change practice.
RESEARCH
Far from any traditional more boring approaches like clipboard-based surveys, this course will help you develop exceptional and rigorous approaches for designing, enacting, and interpreting research.
GAMIFICATION + GAME THEORY
Learn how to use gamification in experience design, using the mechanics and motivators that support engaging people in delightful and fun ways and form a powerful toolset of cognitive and social understanding.
COGNITIVE SCIENCES + BIASES
Understand where to focus your efforts as a change-maker and know where to intervene, you need to understand the intersections of behavior, bias, attitudes, and social structures.
ETHICS + EMPATHY
Unpack contemporary philosophical and practical applications to ethics and ethical conduct (through the lens of social change and sustainability) and explores the visceral and cognitive experience of empathy.
LANGUAGE, INFLUENCE + EFFECT
From dream time stories to methodologies, become adept at concepts governing Moral Panics and logistical framing, and discover how to master language and storytelling for positive social change.
SYSTEMS INTERVENTIONS
The tools gained will prepare you to identify where and how to intervene in a system, build effective systems interventions, plus design systems in which these interventions can exist.
IDEATION + PROTOTYPING
Whether you’re working on products, systems, or services, this course will refine your ideation skills and help you find a format that works for you in your creative production practices.
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION
Gain an understanding of the impacts of material processes, of different ways to reduce the use of global materials and of the ecological impacts our production and consumption choices cause.
PROJECT AMPLIFICATION & ACTIVATION
Establish benchmarks and iterative design changes to build stronger, more robust outcomes, set up feedback loops that will help make your future interventions more impactful and get your projects activated.
DISRUPT DESIGN MASTERCLASS
Dive into the full 12-part series of the Disruptive Design knowledge set and learn how to apply the Disruptive Design Method to activate positive social and environmental change.
FREE OVERVIEW OF THE DISRUPTIVE DEISGN METHOD
Understand the core concepts and discover how identify your own pre-established thinking, restructure the relevance, and then build new knowledge and help solve problems at a planetary scale.
INTRODUCTION TO THE DISRUPTIVE DESIGN METHOD
A holistic approach to complex problem solving that combines sociological inquiry methods with systems and design thinking approaches, the DDM helps you to develop systems interventions.
INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS MAPPING
Discover how to create quick and complex analog systems maps, introduction to systems thinking and the techniques for doing more advanced maps and learn how to see relationships in complex systems.
INTRO TO SYSTEMS CHANGE
This starter course was developed to help you understand one of the core tools needed to replace the linear unsustainable model. By taking this course you will learn how to advance a systems mindset so we can move to a regenerative, circular and sustainable economy. This short introductory course on systems change is about introducing systems thinking as a tool, identifying the core techniques and looking at different ways of applying it. This is designed to help you get started using this approach in your daily professional activities in helping to bring about a sustainable future.
INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS DYNAMICS
Focus on stocks and flows, causal relationships and being able to identify archetypes in systems dynamics, systems mapping techniques and advance your understanding of systems thinking.
INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABLE DESIGN STRATEGIES
Learn a full suite of sustainable and circular design strategies and how to apply them to the design process in order to leverage the power that design holds for making positive impacts.
INTRODUCTION TO THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Understand the difference between our existing, resource-draining linear systems and the circular systems that we need for a regenerative, sustainable future.
INTRODUCTION TO BUSTING COGNITIVE BIAS
Learn all about cognitive biases and develop more mastery over your cognitive processes, and, as a result, be able to make more ethical and considered decisions in your interactions.
INTRODUCTION TO LIFE CYCLE THINKING
Gain the skills to do quick, paper-based life cycle explorations for comparing products and services, know when and how to get LCA data, support and apply the new knowledge through practice exercises.
INTRODUCTION TO THEORY OF CHANGE
Equip yourself with the tools for taking action and making positive change and get started using this approach in your daily professional activities with a range of approaches to make positive impact.
DESIGN SYSTEMS CHANGE E-BOOK
The core content in the handbook, the fifth in a series on how to make positive impactful change, offers a practical roadmap for activating a career as a creative changemaker by design.
DISRUPTIVE DESIGN METHOD E-BOOK
Discover the unique creative method of activating positive social and environmental change by learning the tools and techniques of the Disruptive Design Method.
CIRCULAR SYSTEMS DESIGN E-BOOK
This fourth handbook in the Make Change series by Leyla Acaroglu defines the key tools of Circular Systems Design, systems thinking, life cycle thinking and product service systems models.
TIPS & TRICKS FOR FACILITATION CHANGE E-BOOK
This e-book shares insights from cognitive and social sciences so you can uncover the secrets to excellent, highly engaging facilitation techniques to empower and activate others through ethical leadership.
MAKE CHANGE E-BOOK
Make Change helps you craft intended and integrity based interventions into existing systems, to empower and enact positive would changing outsources through the things that you do.
GOOD DESIGN GUIDE INTERACTIVE E-BOOK
This book offers a simple interaction to the suite of sustainable design strategies that can be employed when creating sustainable goods and services. It’s designed for educational contexts for young adults.
DESIGN PLAY CARDS TOOLKIT
The Design Play Cards help players explore and frame creative problem solving through the lens of design for sustainability and disruptive design thinking. English & Spanish. Great for use in schools, universities and design studios around the world, the award winning Design Play Cards helps players explore & frame creative problem solving through the lens of design for sustainability.
GAME CHANGER GAME TOOLKIT
Perfect for strategists, campaigners, communication experts and creative teams, the Game Changer Game challenges players to think through new lenses to generate amazing new ideas.
THE FULL DELUXE DESIGNERCISE IDEATION TOOLKIT
Over 20 short games inviting you to positively disrupt your everyday thinking, this toolkit combines cognitive sciences and design thinking techniques to create high energy exercises for professional play.
DESIGNERCISE KIDS KIT
The Designercise Kids kit helps younger people think differently through a series of fun age appropriate ideation games and unleash their innovative thinking skills through fun games.
DESIGNERCISE STORYTELLING KIT
This kit helps players develop approaches to divergent language and narrative use, build stronger communication skills and improve collaboration, including suggestions to overcome narrative block!
DESIGNERCISE DESIGN THINKING KIT
This kit is perfect for designing games around empathy, design research, innovative thinking and the role of design in everyday life.
DESIGNERCISE IMPROVISATION TOOLKIT
Take a physical approach to shifting perspectives and problem-solving using emotion, language and interpersonal cues through the card decks, to build improv skills through games.
DESIGNERCISE FLEXIBLE THINKING KIT
This toolkit combines cognitive sciences and design thinking techniques to create high energy exercises for professional play.
CIRCULAR SYSTEMS THINKING KNOWLEDGE BUNDEL
Activate your circular economy and systems skillset today with our expansive jam-packed learning bundle. Including in this expansive set is the Introduction to the Circular Economy Course, Systems Thinking, Systems Interventions, Sustainability and much more!
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN KNOWLEDGE BUNDLE
Advance and integrate sustainability into your creative practice. This jam-packed bundle includes Sustainability, Ideation & Prototyping, Sustainable Design & Production, Intro to the Disruptive Design Method, Intro to the Circular Economy + Much more!
SYSTEMS & SUSTAINABILITY KNOWLEDGE BUNDLE
Advance your thinking in systems and sustainability with our 7-course pack which includes the Make Change, Systems Thinking & Sustainability courses plus bonus resources. Level up and jump-start your creative superpowers with this learning pack!
GET ALL THE HANDBOOKS!
Activate your brain with all our digital handbooks on making change, creative disruption and systems change! This super pack includes all five digital handbooks plus bonus material. Download and get started today!
GET ALL THE HANDBOOKS AND TOOLKITS NOW!
Activate your agency and skills for making positive change with ALL our cool creative activation tools and a bonus of the Disruptive Design course! This superpack has all our five handbooks + all our digital toolkits to help you facilitate change!
GET ALL OUR DIGITAL TOOLKITS
Download all of our creative change-making toolkits today with our superpack! Get started today with Designercise, Game Changer Game and a bunch more exciting and ready-to-use downloadable facilitator tools and games.
BRAIN ACTIVATING 30 DAY CHALLENGE
Discover how to bust through negative bias, build your creative agency and make a positive change in the world around you! This program has been specifically curated for those who want to be guided through a 30-day brain activating bootcamp around systems thinking, circular economy and positive rethinking tools.
ACTIVAING CHANGE SUBSCRIPTION PACK
Dive deep into all our change-based courses and content with our monthly subscription pack. With over 15 courses, toolkits and handbooks you get access to a wealth of content for one low monthly price. Explore at your own pace, cancel at any time!
BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY SUBSCRIPTION PACK
This Business Sustainability Course Subscription Pack includes access to all our courses in activating sustainability and systems change in the workplace & business decision making plus much more. This is great value online learning with our monthly subscriptions.
CIRCULAR ECONOMY SUBSCRIPTION PACK
Dive deep into all aspects of designing products and businesses that advance and embrace the circular economy with our monthly subscription pack. Get access to all our courses on sustainable supply chains, life cycle thinking and eco-design + more.
CIRCULAR AND SUSTAINABLE DESIGN SUBSCRIPTION PACK
Advance your business and leadership skills in sustainable design and the circular economy with access to all our courses and content on sustainable and circular design strategies. Collect all the certificates at your own pace with our cost-effective monthly subscription option.
FACILITATION AND LEADERSHIP SUBSCRIPTION PACK
Upskill your Facilitation & Leadership skills with access to Make Change Course, Language Influence & Effect, Project Amplification and Activation, Organizational Change & much more. Get great value online learning with our monthly subscriptions.
SYSTEMS CHANGE AND SUSTAINABILITY SUBSCRIPTION PACK
Dive deep into all things systems thinking, sustainability and tools for activating positive change with our UnSchool monthly subscription pack dedicated to systems change and designing a sustainable future. A monthly subscription pack to loads of unique content!
FREE CIRCULAR ECONOMY REDESIGN WORKSHOP TOOLKIT
This FREE Toolkit is designed to support a flow from traditional linear thinking through to circular and sustainable solutions, the workshop kit includes 6 worksheets that step you through the process of understanding a linear system through doing a product life cycle thinking exploration, identifying areas of intervention that could be adopted with this current model, exploring circular business strategies, looking at sustainable redesign options and then ideating a series of propositions that can be converted into a new circular flow.
CHANGE MAKERS LAB
This universal card deck was developed as part of the ChangeMakers Lab. The kit comes with 56 cards and 21 activities that can be downloaded and used by anyone to advance sustainability and creativity. In this pack you get a full card game pack in Thai and English with games to play focused on sustainability, systems thinking, active citizenship and making change.
THE CIRCUALAR CLASSROOM FREE EDUCATIONAL TOOLKIT
The Circular Economy Curriculum designed for use in high schools, offers tools to learn how to redesign products and services so that they are more sustainable, equitable, and effective at meeting our human needs without creating negative consequences to the planet. A series of interactive educational tools that includes workbooks (available in English, Finnish and Swedish) and videos designed to integrate circular thinking into the classroom.
CIRCULAR SYSTEMS DESIGN TOOLKIT
Discover systems-led design change for participating in the circular economy with our beautifully illustrated downloadable starter pack on Circular Systems Thinking for Designers! Includes intro e-book, conversation cards and studio poster!
FREE DISRUPTIVE DESIGN METHOD FACILITATION TOOLKIT
This workshop facilitation toolkit is designed to support the creative exploration and development of digital campaigns. This toolkit includes a step-by-step guide to facilitating engaging workshops and designing creative campaigns to active positive change for an equitable future. Part 1 shares a workshop process through systems thinking and creative ideation from the Disruptive Design Method (DDM), and Part 2 provides a set of actions to support designing and developing creative and engaging digital campaigns. This toolkit is free to download and use.
FREE POST DISPOSABLE ACTIVATION TOOLKIT
Your everyday actions can help to seed a movement that will dramatically and quickly reduce the massive environmental and social burdens that disposability has led us to, and help activate a global shift to a future that has positive outcomes for the entire planet. This requires all of us to embrace #POSTDISPOSABLE change!
FREE EVERYDAY SUPERPOWERS ACTIVATION KIT
Discover how to activate your everyday superpowers for making a positive, purpose-filled impact on the planet today! 12 everyday Superpowers that everyone can use to make change! We put together this toolkit of everyday superpowers so every active citizen of the world who wants to participate with more purpose in the construction of the systems around them can.
PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION TRACK
This self-directed learning experience is a 6 month program designed to activate your agency in creative change making through the Disruptive Design Method (DDM) core content and agency building skills. Each month you get curated materials laid out in a progressive learning experience that covers core content, along with learning challenges and activities. This certification includes the full 12 module set of the Disruptive Design Method Masterclass, with additional unique content and activities.
UNMASTERS CERTIFICATION TRACK
This 10 month online learning (+2 month mentorship) certification program is designed for emerging leaders, intrapreneurs and career changers deeply passionate about making a positive impact through all that they do. We provide content and provocation to help you establish your facilitation and leadership skills. This program offers advanced training in the Disruptive Design Method and is perfect for people wanting to drive change within an organization or wanting to solidify their career as a leader in this space.
EDUCATOR CERTIFICATION TRACK
Gain advanced skills in designing and facilitating transformative, cerebrally engaging and agency activating knowledge transfer experiences with our UnSchool Educator Certification Track. This is advanced learning experience is designed for committed and established practitioners wanting to significantly advance their capacity as facilitators of change and obtain certification from the UnSchool in our methods, techniques and experiential pedagogy.
TAKE ACTION MONTHLY LEARNING JOURNEY
A unique journey with monthly curated content to support you in developing a career in creative change-making. Focused around agency development, mindset shifts, sustainability and circular economy tools, systems thinking and creative development.
BRAIN ACTIVATING 30 DAY CHALLENGE
This program has been specifically curated for those who want to be guided through a 30-day brain-activating bootcamp around practical skills, applicable knowledge and positive rethinking tools. Covering Personal agency activation, Systems Thinking, Sustainability and much more. This is a great way to explore the Unschool methods.
YOUTH ACTIVATION 4-WEEK PROGRAM
We designed this 4-week learning challenge for any young person who wants to take action and make positive social and environmental change. With loads of UnSchool content from systems thinking to agency development and creativity, we have packed this 4-week program full of exciting and motivating content that's perfect to get any young mind activated, engaged and passionate about being a positive force for good on the world around them.
INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABLE & CIRCULAR BUSINESS STRATEGIES
Kick off your transformation by uncovering the core concepts and approaches to sustainability in business, be inspired by diverse industry case studies and map your action plan.
BUSINESS & WORKPLACE SUSTAINABILITY IN BUSINESS 101
A detailed introduction to sustainability in the workplace, focusing on operational impacts across energy, waste, water & procurement, supply chain, and tools for developing a sustainability action plan.
BUSINESS AND WORKPLACE SUSTAINABILITY 102
Dive deeper into the economic impacts of sustainability in business, financial risks and opportunities, as well as explores strategies for taking on the challenges and leadership roles in this global movement.