Young Person’s Guide to Systems Change
“The future can’t be predicted, but it can be envisioned and brought lovingly into being. Systems can’t be controlled, but they can be designed and redesigned”.
Donella Meadows
A Collaborative, Adaptive Approach to Learning
Through this free education and leadership program, we offer you 6 on-line sessions as a pathway to develop the skills necessary for understanding and solving complex issues.
In the first cohort, participants were invited to co-create a shared toolbox filled with adaptable knowledge and strategies tailored to diverse challenges.
Now, graduates from cohorts 2 and 3 will have the unique opportunity to join the From Symptoms to Roots track, taking part in a mentorship programme with systems-thinking experts and grassroots practitioners, and translating their insights into real-world interventions.
Together, we cultivate leadership, foster versatility, and build a collaborative spirit for effective action within our systems.
A call to action from the youth
Every young person holds the potential to drive meaningful transformation, actively shaping the systems they are part of and reimagining a more inclusive, interconnected future.
Our goal is to encourage you to:
- Reweave the Fabric of Complex Systems
Leading the way toward sustainable, adaptable change within your community. - Act as an Agent of Transformation
Equipped with practical tools, you will be able to reimagine systems to address pressing social issues.
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Introduction: why a young person’s guide to systems change?
Congratulations, dear reader! By opening this guide, you have taken your first bold step into the swirling vortex of systems change—a realm so perplexing and
convoluted that even the universe’s most advanced AI
have been known to fake a system crash just to avoid
dealing with it.
The modern world, as you might have noticed, is not
exactly user-friendly. It comes pre-installed with an
overwhelming array of glitches: climate crises, social
injustices, political and economic disparities, and Wi-Fi
passwords that never work the first time. These
systems—if we may call them systems—function with
all the elegance and coherence of a badly organized
sock drawer.
Special Track: From Symptoms to Roots
The second chapter of the Young Person’s Guide to Systems Change Fellowship Available exclusively to graduates of Cohorts 2 and 3 of the...
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