Facilitating systemic change

Systemic change needs sustained, creative, future-oriented collaboration among diverse actors. Facilitation is fundamental to this. Effective facilitators build trust and relationships and enable productive sharing, quality decision-making or dynamic innovation with groups. This unit expands on the essential ways of thinking and doing to be an effective, reflexive practitioner and facilitator of systemic change at a scale relevant to you and your current or future context.

The unit will build your critical awareness of leading theories of systemic change and system transformation. These come from diverse, often interdisciplinary and practice-led origins. You will become aware of the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches, and deep dive into at least one. These theoretical foundations and deeper knowledge will inform and guide your systemic practice.

Common to most systemic change approaches is the need to convene diverse perspectives to set visions, goals or map future-oriented action pathways. You will be equipped with facilitation principles and collaboration design tools to enable you to creatively plan and run powerful, purposeful workshops, meetings and other gatherings to advance positive systemic change.