Tutors:  Robina McCurdy, Dave Hursthouse, Emma Morris, Inna Alex, Leo Gedye, plus other guest tutors.

This week-long embodied experience seeks to reframe activism as an essential, positive contributor to the transformation of social and ecological systems. The course will offer a range of tools and tactics for effective change-making – facilitated through dynamic group exercises, deep connection, adventure, and play. This immersive learning experience will equip change makers with the skills to navigate the complexity of the modern world.

 Themes:

• Embodying and facilitating skills for activism
• Enabling and empowering personal sense of purpose
• Nourishing wellbeing and avoiding burnout
• Turning passion into your livelihood
• Building and supporting networks and communities
• Living in a deep relationship with social and ecological systems

 Including:

• Communication and facilitation skills;
• Dealing with root causes and targeting action at ‘pressure points’ to leverage change;
• The vibrant ‘rainbow of activism’ – how to generate change through diversity, solidarity, and alliance;
• Tracking patterns, systems thinking and frameworks;
• Storytelling and mapping ecological identity;
•  Kaitiakitanga;
•  Deep Ecology and Theatre of the Oppressed;
•  Networking, communications, marketing, upskilling, consultancy, and charging;
•  Community co-design, social governance, and decision-making processes;
•  Succession and Leadership; and
•  Dynamic group problem solving and play.