Learn how to design and implement systems change to positively disrupt the status quo and ensure that effective outcomes are achieved. Learn about theories of change and systems interventions so you can create effective systems change outcomes.
The movement toward a circular and regenerative economy is well underway, and this handbook is here to help anyone discover how they, too, can design systems change for a positive future.
The decision to be involved in change, be it in your personal or professional life, starts by discovering how to activate your personal agency, identifying the sphere of influence you uniquely hold and then actioning your creative potential to engage with change. 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.
Contents
What’s inside this book?
This handbook is an in-depth exploration of agency-building tools for activating a life of creative changemaking. Packed with new insights and ideas on how to expand your sphere of include and contribute to the transition to a circular and regenerative future, this handbook is also a workbook, complete with interactive reflections and actions to help expand your capacity to make change.
This handbook is an in-depth exploration of agency-building tools for activating a life of creative changemaking. Packed with new insights and ideas on how to expand your sphere of include and contribute to the transition to a circular and regenerative future, this handbook is also a workbook, complete with interactive reflections and actions to help expand your capacity to make change.
Download the handbook in handy PDF format and get started on your change-making journey!
Advance your learning
Ready for the next level?
Consider taking the Systems Thinking course. Overcome linear thinking and unravel the interconnectedness of our world. This 5-part course will get your head around systems thinking and give you the tools you need to understand the complex social, industrial, and environmental systems at play.
“Being part of the UnSchool is not just about finding a connection with a global group of individuals eager to do good. It’s about finding a way to activate your own agency, knowing that that’s the only real way to change your world.”
“The content has given me a practical way to delve into complex problems, exploring thinking far beyond my normal lines of inquiry, and to surface new areas for intervention and innovative ways of designing those interventions. Everyone who is tackling systems should learn this.”
Catriona McLagan
Refreshing
“As someone operating in the nonprofit sphere, it was refreshing to branch out and learn a new way of thinking. I’m going to take this new learning to become an agent of cultural change in my circles.”
Michael Paone
World renowned expert training
Your instructor
Sustainability provocateur, award-winning designer, UNEP Champion of the Earth, and creative changemaker pioneer, Dr. Leyla Acaroglu challenges people to think differently about how the world works. Leyla’s main-stage TED talk on sustainability has been viewed over a million times, she is the founder of the UnSchool and creator of the Disruptive Design Method. As as a renowned international expert on systems thinking and sustainability, she runs workshops around the world and designs unique educational experiences that help equip people with the tools to intervene and change systems to make the status quo obsolete. Leyla is sought after for her unique approach to activating positive social change by design.
Options and Pricing
Three payment options:
Full price: This pricing level is for those who have the resources to contribute the full price in one or two split payments. Your full price payment helps support those who otherwise would have a hard time accessing the course.
Supported price: This pricing level is for those who can contribute to the course cost, but not at the full level, however are still relatively comfortable with the cost. The supported price is equivalent to approximately half price.
Emerging price: This price level is for those who have either currency conversions that are distinctly unfavourable, are students, or are experiencing other hardships or circumstances that are impacting their ability to pay the full or supported fee.
What you get
Learn about designing systems change
Identify strategic points of intervention
Get your change-making provocations out into the world!
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