Dive into the full 12-part core series of the Disruptive Design knowledge set and learn how to apply the Disruptive Design Method to activate positive social and environmental change.
This 10 month online learning (+2 month 1:1 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. This certification includes the full 12 module set of the Disruptive Design Method Masterclass, with additional unique content and activities.
Advance your leadership skills in systems thinking, sustainability, design interventions and creative change making
Refine and establish your facilitation and communication skills for supporting organizational change towards a sustainable, regenerative and circular future
Master the entire Disruptive Design knowledge set and become skilled in applying the Disruptive Design Method
Activate your agency, expand your sphere of influence and develop your career as a creative change maker proactively effecting positive change out in the world around you
Access to a private LinkedIn group for all certification trackers to network, share, communicate and collaborate with each other and the UnSchool team
Curriculum
What’s inside this Certification
We designed the UnSchool UnMasters in Creative Change-Making because we believe that every organization should have a professional Change-Maker role as part of its core leadership team. Leaders with a creative systems thinking mindset to help transform old linear ways of thinking that prevent transformative change, with a sustainability focus to ensure longevity and ethics in programs and processes and reflexive, critical brain power to develop new solutions to tired problems that no longer work.
This program is designed for aspirational leaders who want to establish themselves as a creative force for positive impact.
The UnMasters program is for emerging leaders, intrapreneurs and career changers who are deeply passionate about making a real and significant change either within an organization or in the world at large.
This is a 10 month part-time online learning program that delivers monthly content around the Disruptive Design Method, agency development, facilitation, leadership, community engagement, systems thinking, reflexivity and positive impact.
These 10 months are broken down into monthly knowledge acquisition sections around the core DDM knowledge bank and leadership development. There are then 2 months of dedicated mentorship to support your learning advancement and get you ready for your final certification challenge.
Certification as an UnMasters give you the ability to demonstrate your commitment to creative change and your role as a leader in this space.
You will have advanced communication, reflexivity, systems thinking and facilitation skills, supporting you in shifting to a career in positive impact or further developing your role in this space.
Modules
Part 1: What is Research?
Part 2: Types of Research Approaches
Part 3: Ethics in a Research Practice
Part 4: Planning and Implementing Research Strategies
Part 5: Change Based Research Practices
Resource List
In this course, take your understanding and application of systems thinking to the next level. Develop your theory of change and learn advanced techniques for leveraging change-making systems interventions.
Certification
Looking to advance further?
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. This certification includes the full 12 module set of the Disruptive Design Method Masterclass, with additional unique content and activities
“The DDM is more well rounded than many of the methods that I have come across. It is not just another toolkit or stepwise approach but really encourages you to further define your individual changemaking skills and take ownership of them. You’re challenged in your mental models and belief systems and are given tools to be able to look beyond what you see at first sight. I believe this is key in being able to make change.”
Myrthe LantingSustainable Urban Developer
My brain went through a full renovation
“I learned and thought about so many different things at a depth and speed that I had not experienced before. Not only did I find this learning experience deeply gratifying, it made me realize how fun self-directed research and learning can be when you start to see the world through a systems thinking lens.”
Charlie ShipmanProduct Manager
World renowned expert training
Your instructor
An award-winning designer, sustainability provocateur, social scientist and entrepreneur, Leyla Acaroglu (PhD) developed the Disruptive Design Method and creates educational experiences, toolkits, and social enterprises that help design a sustainable, circular and regenerative future. Leyla is a mainstage TED speaker, LinkedIn Changemaker and was named UNEP Champion of the Earth in 2016 for her work in advancing science and innovation for sustainability. Leyla leads trainings around the world on activating positive social and environmental change through systems interventions.
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What you get
All 12 Modules of the Disruptive Design Method Masterclass
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We work hard to balance providing reduced tuition for our programs, offering open source tools & resources, and generating enough revenue to maintain and innovate our programs. As a socially motivated business, we operate on a lean budget and work hard to distribute our resources to support our applicants in highest need. We offer limited scholarships to community members who would otherwise be unable to attend a program at all.
We encourage everyone to apply for scholarships if they feel that they would not be able to access programs otherwise. We are always working towards removing financial, physical, language and time barriers by offering scholarships, diverse international program locations, and online education and free content in a growing number of languages. We also offer additional access support for those identifying as from First Nations, Aboriginal, Native or other Indigenous communities.
We offer custom designed educational and corporate training packages, workshops and curriculum projects. This can be delivered in any combination of live, live online, and hybrid formats to small or large teams. Reach out to discuss with one of our team members.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
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The Unmasters certification gives you access for one full year from the date of purchase.
We review requests for extensions on a case by case basis, and consider 3 month at a time extensions. Depending on the situation, there may or may not be a cost involved.
As our programs are based in action, it varies from person to person. The actual reading and watching time is easily manageable for someone working a full time job, however it may take longer to complete the activities. Most people manage to complete the certification in about a year, and dedicate a few hours a month to their course work. Others complete it in a sprint over a few months during time off.
We have closed captioning for the videos that are included in the program available in English. You can also use a browser (we recommend Chrome or Brave) to translate the written content on the screen into your preferred language.
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