Our learning experiences will help you build collaborative capacity and make greater impact.
Build your capacity to work better together to address our region’s complex problems and create community assets for all. Learn to use systems practice, a process to understand the system you’re working in and identify leverage points for change, and explore a suite of skills and mindsets to help you create the conditions for meaningful collaboration. Filter the list of upcoming learning experiences by the impact areas below, find the path that is right for you and take the next step in strengthening your organization, network and community.
Ready to learn? Let us help! The Learning Fund provides financial support to help local changemakers cover tuition and conference fees for virtual learning experiences offered from partners across the globe.
Upcoming Learning Experiences
Time: 10:00 am
Offered by TSNE, examine personal and societal biases and what impact these biases have on our work, explore successes and challenges related to inclusivity, develop skills to discuss these topics and identify policies and practices that promote greater inclusion and equity within organizations. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 7:30 am
Offered by Perspectivity, this 2-day workshop will explore which situations and contexts Sprockler is best used, how to design story-based inquiries, how to work with the three tools Designer, Collector and Visualizer, and how to get creative with storytelling and collecting stories in your own work. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by Interaction Institute of Social Change, this 7-part series will explore practical tools and skills to engage your own and your colleagues’ skills, wisdom, end energy and learn frameworks for using these collaboration tools to build shared power. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 12:00 pm
Offered by Human Systems Dynamics, learn about HSD and how it works to inform understanding and action in human systems that work outside the bounds of traditional systems logic, giving the option for insight and intentional action event when the system and its future are unknowable.
Time: 12:00 pm
Offered by Systems Innovation Network, explore fundamental ideas of systems inquiry and concepts and ideas on systems mapping in a way that is going to be accessible and easy to understand.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Tamarack Institute, this 7-part cohort workshop will explore new skills, tools and frameworks which enhance your ability to lead change, participate in reflective activities which deepen your knowledge and skills, have access to peer and individual coaching sessions to accelerate change, and hear from leading practitioners in the field of community change. Deadline to apply March 17. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by Ideo U, this 5-week cohort will explore techniques for mapping complex systems and identifying the root causes, establish a shared view of the system, and reframe problems from different perspectives to uncover new solutions. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 8:00 am
Offered by the School of System Change, this 5-part course supports underlying capabilities needed to work systemically and relationally, with others and yourself, to support the application of systems change in practice. Previous to this course, participants should have a foundational understanding of systems change, previous group facilitation experience, and an opportunity to apply the skills you are learning from this course in a practical setting. Apply by April 5. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 2:00 pm
Offered by CoCreative, this 3-part course will explore the critical elements of multi-stakeholder collaborations and how to convene diverse networks across organizational, sectoral, cultural, and political boundaries to increase your collaborative impact. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 10:00 am
Offered by TSNE, explore foundational principles of new governance frameworks and strategies to engage communities more directly in the governance process, learn about the benefits and challenges of these frameworks, and develop a plan to bring back the learning to your boards or networks/coalitions. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by Interaction Institute of Social Change, this 7-week series will explore practical tools and skills to engage your own and your colleagues’ skills, wisdom, end energy and learn frameworks for using these collaboration tools to build shared power. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.