GameChangers: Regenerative Leadership Programme 2024
For people ready to make a difference in the world
'Regenerative leadership is a way of leading that creates life-affirming conditions' Laura Storm & Giles Hutchins
An invitation to learn to create better futures.
So, we know things are not working very well right now. And yet the world is full of clever, capable and decent people. How are you going to influence systems? How will you make small and large change? How will you direct your precious energy and humanity to things that matter? What is it that matters most to you? And how will you become someone who is part of the transformation for good?
We don't need business as usual greener and fairer: we need different business, different ways of doing things. Combining old wisdom with the latest innovation; of working and influencing and leading in ways that are life-affirming, across every level (people, eco-systems, cultures, governments). This is a huge task, but there are ways to do it.
Regenerative leadership offers one set of tools and perspectives that will help us make the transition. Leadership doesn't always mean corporate climbing or becoming a founder or CEO. It means:
- knowing something of your deep motivations and your power
- having serious tools in your kit for getting things done, including relationship building and influencing; and knowing where levers of change really are
- a large-minded perspective, including regenerative design principles, a practical long-term view, and an understanding of the interconnectedness of things
The GameChangers programme works in these three areas - yourself, tools and system-change - to hone your capacity for substantive regenerative leadership, in any field. It offers an immersive & challenging experience, led by people who are demonstrably committed to changing their part of the world.
GameChangers is offered annually. Applications to join the 2024 cohort are now closed. Applications for the 2025 cohort will open Michaelmas 2024.
Structure
Strand I Selfhood & leadership: pre-session exercises; selfhood and your ideas of leadership; where and how to place energy and attention; ‘rehearsing’ relationships and encounters; introduction to regenerative principles
Strand II Tools for regenerative practice: influence & persuasion, deep listening, dialogue across profound differences
Strand III A global, regenerative view: futures literacy, systems awareness, regenerative design and thinking, immersion in a case study (Eden Project)
Commitment
- A 2-day residential @ Homerton
- 3 x 3 hr seminars, online and over dinner
- A 4-day field trip to the Eden Project, Cornwall
- pre-sessional reading; a peer-coaching circle; and a final self-reflection exercise
Faculty
- Johnnie Moore, Unhurried
- Dr Victoria Stewart-Jolley, legal adviser and former UN adviser on electoral process
- Juliet Alexander, Guyanese-born British educator, journalist and television presenter
- Professor James Walters,(LSE), Founding Director LSE Religion and Global Society
- Dr Loes Damhof, UNESCO Chair Futures Literacy
- Richard Good, Catalyst and educator, Eden Project
- Pam Horton, Eden Leadership Manager, Eden Project
- Dan Ryan, Ecologist, Eden Project
- Dr Alison Wood, Homerton College, Cambridge
Logistics
- GameChangers is open to all current Homerton students whatever your year level, subject or degree
- Places are strictly limited and awarded by application. The cohort is kept to 20-25 places each year.
- As GameChangers is relationally-based participants are asked to commit to attending all programme sessions
- Alongside structured sessions there will be prompts for thinking and self-led exercises to support your journey through a programme that draws on substantial academic and professional experience. Please note, however, that GameChangers is not only academic - it asks you to explore other ways of learning and experiencing. Many sessions will be experiential, relational and reflective, with minimal powerpoint or lecturing. Our time in Cornwall will mostly be outdoors - in woodlands & on the coast - and the biomes of the Eden Project. The field trip will require capacity for walking in wilderness and on steep coastal paths.
- Participants will be asked to contribute £75 towards the cost of the programme. If this will be a difficulty, please contact Changemakers’ Academic Director Dr Alison Wood in the first instance
- An application to the programme means you agree to the best of your ability to attend all programme sessions. If - due to illness, family emergency etc - you are not able to attend a session please contact the programme convenor Dr Alison Wood as soon as possible. 90% attendance is required to earn a certificate of completion.
- All costs, less £75, will be covered by Changemakers, including travel to and accommodation at The Eden Project.
GameChangers is offered annually.
Post-programme reflection
You will be asked to create a reflective piece on your experience of the GameChangers programme. Reflections can take on any form you like - a short essay (500 words), photo essay, a poem, a diary entry, a video, an object - and will be due 5 July 2024
