Welcome to this deep-dive into Changemaking!
This residential is an intensive, immersive & multidisciplinary experience, helping you build a toolkit for making positive change: with purpose, courage, knowledge and ambition. During the week you’ll be invited to focus on:
- yourself, your values and drivers, and how you (can) show up in the world
- developing gritty skills for getting things done
- contextualising all of this in geo-political realities of world systems: power, tech, finance, climate change, politics…
Self: changemaking begins with you
- Self-awareness
- Motivation
- Values & ethics in the embattled present
- Intersectionality and presence
- Contemplative, embodied resilience
- Deep listening
- The powerful effects of imagination
Society: the tools you need
- Public speaking & rhetoric
- Difficult, courageous conversations
- Crafting a compelling narrative
- Creativity, art and mindful practices
- Entrepreneurship (finance, pitching, collaboration)
- Frugal Innovation
- Navigating complex organisations
World: systems and contexts
- Change models & how to’s
- Climate, colonialism and justice
- Living equality
- Systems thinking
- Case study field trip: art, power, change
- Case study theory to practice: the Inner Development Goals
The programme includes plenaries, workshops, ‘building the toolkit’ parallel sessions, peer-coaching groups, 1:1 mentoring, discussions, a field trip, access to a co-working/quiet space, and plenty of good food and drink in the mix. There’ll be sessions with leading changemakers, and the chance to network with them, and access all week to Changemakers’ ‘Artist in Residence ’. And at every step of the way you’ll be invited to reflect on the skills you’re building and the insights you’re developing, layering up the learning as you go. You’ll also be supported by a fulsome set of ‘Prompts for Thinking’ & an extensive reading list.
'Convened by Homerton Changemakers' Academic Director, Dr Alison Wood, and the Changemakers Team'
