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Expand and advance your career in creative change-making. From single classes to certification tracks, we got you covered when it comes to systems thinking, sustainability, creative disruption and making positive change.
Systems Thinking Course
Unlock your ability to see problems holistically and navigate the interconnections of social, natural, and industrial systems. Join thousand of alumni with our most popular course.
Sustainability Course
How can you approach problem-solving in a way that won’t cause harm to the environment or to people? Learn principles and practical approaches for sustainability in business and design.
Disruptive Design Course
Challenge the status quo, but for outcomes that benefit all of us and support regeneration. Learn how to approach problems with critical (but flexible) thinking, and a rebellious flare.
I’m super inspired by the UnSchools online classes so far - this is everything I wish my $24k design education had been (but surely wasn't).
EmilyUnSchool student
Course library
Sharpen your skills with a single course or bundle up your brain with curated collections. All courses are self-paced so you can learn on your own schedule.
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30 Day All Access Pass
Welcome to 30 days of UnSchool! We know there are a LOT of courses available, and we created this...
90 Day All Access Pass
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365 Day All Access Pass
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Practitioner Certification
Start your disruptive change maker journey today with our 6 month self-directed certification track covering the entire Disruptive Design...
Unmasters Certification
Activate your leadership as a creative change maker with our self-directed UnMasters certification.
Educator Certification
Advance your leadership as a creative change making facilitator with our self-directed Educator certification.
UnSchool team
Meet the creative duo behind the visually appealing and knowledge-rich content
Leyla is sought out for her creative and passionate way of taking complex ideas and making the accessible and fun to engage with. She is an international expert on sustainability and systems thinking, is invited to run workshops with Fortune 500 companies and keynote high profile events around the world. Emma is a creative powerhouse who has been working in the design industry for over 25 years. From science illustrations to corporate reports and children’s books, Emma can visually interpret anything into a beautiful and accessible format. She is a certified UnSchool educator and currently completing her PhD in sustainable design.
Dr. Leyla Acaroglu Founder / CEO
Emma Segal Chief Creative Officer
Leyla’s Course Pick
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.
Emma’s Course Pick
In this 5-part course, discover how to employ best-practice sustainability and eco-design strategies, learn how to embrace the circular economy, and activate a toolset that enables the development of sustainable products, services, and systems. This course is available when enroll in the 12 part DDM Masterclass.
Jamie’s Course Pick
Take our 30 Day Systems Thinking Sprint to advance your knowledge of systems approaches to complex problem solving, learn systems mapping, explore systems dynamics and discover systems archetypes via our unique, digestible daily content!
Learning opportunities
Why people train with us
Making change is a skill set that anyone, anywhere can learn. Our courses help you develop the thinking and doing tools needed to transform the world.
Our learning approach
We build career-enhancing courses to advance your skills and develop the thinking and doing tools needed as we transition socially and culturally to a more circular and regenerative future. Engage with content as video, written text and diagrams to help access and absorb quickly.
Critical thinking tools
Sharpen critical thinking and doing skills and tools for activating change through your own practice. Learn how to think in life cycles, and gain the ability to see the hidden lives of everyday things.
Creative reflexivity
Build your creative autonomy by developing reflexive thinking around cause and effect. Learn how to intervene in systems and design creative interventions for change.
Systems thinking skills
Embrace the messiness of problem loving and discover how every problem holds its own solution. Explore dynamic systems and see how they interconnect to the larger whole.
3 free ways to get started
At any level of access you need, we have something for you – from fully open source and free resources, to lower priced courses and books, as well as an always-open rolling scholarship program.
Free Intro to the DDM
Learn about the method that underlies all the UnSchool courses
Free Pathfinder Quiz
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Free Tasting Plate of Courses
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All access pass
If you’re not sure what courses you want to take – or you want to take ALL of them! – these All-Access-Passes are perfect for you. Get everything UnSchool in one place for 30, 90 or 365 days.
30 Day All Access Pass
You have one month to download and learn as much as possible.
$2800 USD
$249 USD
- Instant access
- 30 days to download & learn
- Keep whatever you download forever
- One time payment. No subscription
- All the micro courses
- All the introduction courses
- All the challenges & sprints
- All the toolkits & Books
- All the workshop kits
- All 12 of the Disruptive Design Method courses
Annual Unlimited Pass
You have a year to download and learn as much as possible
$2800 USD
$949 USD x year
- Instant access
- 365 days to download & learn
- Keep whatever you download forever
- One time payment. No subscription
- All the micro courses
- All the introduction courses
- All the challenges & sprints
- All the toolkits & Books
- All the workshop kits
- All 12 of the Disruptive Design Method courses
90 Day All Access Pass
Same as the annual pass (unlimited access), but without the bonuses
$2800 USD
$349 USD
- Instant access
- 90 days to download & learn
- Keep whatever you download forever
- One time payment. No subscription.
- All the micro courses
- All the introduction courses
- All the challenges & sprints
- All the toolkits & Books
- All the workshop kits
- All 12 of the Disruptive Design Method courses
15,000+ happy alumni
Exceeded expectations
Far exceeded my expectations. 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
An eye opener!
Systems thinking! I am an engineer and did have a quite technical definition of a supply chain (which was what my mental model of a system more or less looked like) in mind. The idea of systems thinking and how this is understood in circular design really was an eye opener to me!
Maik
Tick, tick, tick!
I loved every moment of it. Did the course deliver what it said it would? Advanced? Tick. Training? Tick. Circular Systems Design? Tick, tick tick. Yeah, I filled a gap in my knowledge, but far beyond that.
Scout
The DDM
The Disruptive Design Method is an approach to creatively understanding and intervening in the world to enact positive social and environmental change. Developed by 2016 UN Champion of the Earth Dr. Leyla Acaroglu as a way of helping activate systems, sustainability and design for positive impact.