CONTENT + SKILLS GAINED

WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT

Jump start your career in creative change making by exploring historical and contemporary theories, concepts, and actions around what change is and how to make it! This course will give you a more profound perspective on change, packed with agency-boosting content that helps you to explore what change means to you and then define a personal approach to your change-based practice. By the time your screen fades to black, you will be ready to go forth and enact change (be it personal, political, social, or environmental) in your sphere of influence.

WHAT YOU WILL UNCOVER IN THIS COURSE

  • Undergo a critical evaluation of personal actions in relation to effecting change and sort through cognitive experiences of change.

  • Engage in reflective thinking around theories of change as well as their respective conceptual frameworks in order to begin developing your own theory and application of change.

  • Understand the dynamic relationship between intrinsic and extrinsic motivators to determine how to create conditions that shift behavior through systems interventions.

  • Apply change-making approaches in real world scenarios and consider your own agency.

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

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Certificates are issued by the UnSchool (using third party certifier Accredible.com) upon successful and demonstrable completion of all course elements. Accredible uses bank-level encryption and blockchain logging to ensure legitimacy and verification, and offers easy to share credentials that you can receive as a downloadable PDF, share on LinkedIn and other digital platforms. Accredible also allows you to control your own data via their credential portal, accessible for free when you receive any certificates or badges.

Dr. Leyla Acaroglu

Instructor Bio:

Sustainability provocateur, award-winning designer, 2016 UNEP Champion of the Earth, and creative changemaker pioneer, Dr. Leyla Acaroglu challenges people to think differently about how the world works. As the founder of the UnSchool and creator of the Disruptive Design Method, Leyla weaves together her skills as a designer, sociologist, and social entrepreneur to create highly immersive educative experiences. She is a renowned international expert on systems thinking and sustainability, running workshops around the world and designing activating experiences, gamified toolkits, and unique educational experiences that help equip people with the tools to intervene and change systems to make the status quo obsolete. Sought after for her unique approach to activating positive social change by design, Leyla's main-stage TED talk on sustainability has been viewed over a million times, and she is the author of several handbooks, as well as an op ed contributor for major publications like the New York Times.

Dr. Leyla Acaroglu

UnSchool Founder + Global Change Maker

Course curriculum

  • 01

    Welcome

  • 02

    Part 1: What is Change?

    • What is Change?

    • Video: What is Change?

    • Read: Why Make Change?

    • Activity: Feedback Loop of Inaction Activity Worksheet

    • Read: Barriers to Change

    • Watch: Three Myths of Behaviour Change

    • Read: Practical tools for Putting Ideas into Action

    • Activity: Barriers to Action Worksheets

    • Knowledge Check: What is Change?
  • 03

    Part 2: Historical and Contemporary Approaches to Making Change

    • Read: Making Change

    • Watch: Historical and Contemporary Theories of Change

    • Read: Theories on Change

    • Activity: Force Field Analysis Worksheet

    • Read: Social Practice Theory

    • Read: Organisational Change

    • Watch: Organisational Change Concepts

    • Read: Habits and Change

    • Read: Nudge Theory

    • Read: The Change Curve

    • Activity: Actioning Creative Change Worksheets

    • Knowledge Check: Theories of Change
  • 04

    Part 3: Systems, Drivers and Tools for Change

  • 05

    Part 4: Your Brain on Change

    • Video: Your Brain on Change

    • Read: Challenging Social Norms

    • Watch: Understanding Social Norms

    • Activity: Changing Social Norms Worksheet

    • Read: Types of Motivation

    • Read: Mental Models, Schemas & Heuristics

    • Read: Change Blindness

    • Read: The Status Quo

    • Read: The Value Action Gap

    • Read: Perspective Shifting

    • Read: Mindsets

    • Activity: Fixed vs Growth Mindset Worksheet

    • Read: Redesigning your Brain

    • Knowledge Check: Change and the Brain
  • 06

    Part 5: How to Make Change

  • 07

    Conclusion

    • Tying It All Together

    • Additional Resources and Links

    • Make Change Course Final Reflections

    • A message From Leyla
  • 08

    Completion Certificate

    • Make Change Course Final Knowledge Check Quiz

    • Get your certificate of completion!

  • 09

    Next steps

    • Continue Your Learning Journey!

WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT THE UNSCHOOL

“The content has given me a practical way to delve into complex problems, exploring thinking far beyond my normal lines of inquiry, and to surface new areas for intervention and innovative ways of designing those interventions. Everyone who is tackling systems should learn this.”

CATRIONA MCLAGAN

“I can explain it as, the moment you realize you're not just an individual in a community but a part of it, and most importantly you can be the one who enacts a positive change within it.”

CECILIA FERNAN

“I used to become so easily frustrated at our world’s problems, the ignorance, cognitive dissonance, at how people lived every day with complete disregard for the environment and the rest of society, but I spent 4 days learning how to love these problems and discover the best way to interject in a system and create solutions that make the old obsolete.”

KIRBY CLARK

HOW TO MAKE CHANGE

UNCOVER YOUR PERSONAL SECRET WEAPON IN

In this knowledge session, we dive into the historical and contemporary theories of how to affect change in our lives and the world around us. From behavioral change theories to the evolution of collective conventions, we’ll explore theories, concepts, and actions to gain a more profound perspective on this critical thing called change-making. 

This session enables participants to explore what change means to them and how to develop personal approaches to enacting a change-based practice. Whether you’re looking to enact personal or political change, the fascinating thought provocations and practical applications found in this module will leave you with the know-how to remedy the problems around you.

Step One: Be willing to change How You Think 

You will learn a variety of theories and practical approaches, designed to help build a stronger mental toolkit that can be adapted, deployed, and explored by any practitioner who is interested in contributing to positive change through their work. 

After all, it’s the things we do that define our participation in the world, not just what we think. That said, the very first and crucial step to change is thinking differently! So, let’s get started!

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