Approaching Systems Change Series
A series of exploratory sessions supporting you to shape your own path into systemic learning and practice.
fundamentals
Approaching Systems Change Series
Sep-Oct 2025
Why this series?
As mainstream interest in systems change grows, so does the desire for a single tool or formula to make change work and projects and initiatives more ‘systemic’. But real systemic practice isn’t one-size-fits-all - it’s about learning to navigate complexity in your unique context.
At the School, we offer different routes into systems change, supporting you to discover what works for you and your challenge.
Approaching Systems Change is a beginner-friendly series designed to help you explore the foundations of systems change and develop your own approach. Join all three sessions or just the ones that feel most relevant to your work:
- Session 1: Holding different systemic worldviews
- Session 2: Systemic capabilities and practices
- Session 3: Taking a multi-method approach
Whether you’re new to systems change or reconnecting with the fundamentals, join us to pause, reflect, and chart your own path - one that fits the complexity you’re navigating.
"Simply, our worldviews are how we see the world. They are the frames through which we understand everything, shaping our sense of self, our relationships with others, and our behaviours and beliefs. There are, of course, many and diverse worldviews."
School of System Change, The Importance of Systemic Worldviews
What you will learn
About the sessions
Session 1: Holding different systemic worldviews
Date: Monday 22 September 2025
Time: 10:00-12:00 EST / 15:00-17:00 BST / 16:00-18:00 CEST
This session helps you explore the systemic nature of your projects and initiatives. We will share four different systemic worldviews that help us pay attention to the diversity of approaches we use in our change and impact work. We will explore the roots of systems change practice through understanding systemic worldviews and mental models, and why and how they might inform our strategies, actions and practices.
Read more on worldviews and why they are important to systems change work.
Session 2: Systemic capabilities and practices
Date: Monday 29 September 2025
Time: 10:00-12:00 EST / 15:00-17:00 BST / 16:00-18:00 CEST
This session invites you to reflect on your current capabilities and practice: the edges where you feel called to stretch, and the gifts you already carry. We will introduce you to the School’s refreshed curriculum: four learning outcomes and seven capabilities for systems change, offering a purposeful lens for evolving your practice. Together, we’ll explore how these can help you clarify the role you play in change - shaping your learning path, deepening your questions, and articulating your contribution, in connection with others.
Session 3: Taking a multi-method approach
Date: Monday 6 October 2025
Time: 10:00-12:00 EST / 15:00-17:00 BST / 16:00-18:00 CEST
This session shares the multiple methods across the fields of systems change practice that we support changemakers to navigate, selecting which tools and frameworks to use in your unique changemaking work.
Read more about taking a multi-method approach.
Please note all sessions will be recorded to be accessed by attendees, and potentially shared publicly in future.
Learning outcomes
We encourage you to join us for all three sessions. Each session will help you in different ways:
- Start to orient yourself to what it means to integrate systemic capabilities and practices in your own ways of working and collaborating with others
- Acquire introductory knowledge and application of tools and frameworks from across the systems change field
- Gain guidance from experienced systems facilitators on using tools and frameworks on your complex challenge
- Self-assess your potential pathways in your systems change learning and practice development and decide on the direction you want to take
- Engage in a virtual learning environment of passionate, systems-minded changemakers
How we host
At the School, we believe there is no one ‘right’ way of doing systems change work, and embrace both multiple methodologies and multiple ways of learning. In these sessions, we host you through a combination of participatory online workshops, personal reflective exercises, small group and plenary discussions. You will also be asked to take your learning away and apply it to your work, with our support.
Facilitators
Date & Time
Session dates
Session 1: Holding different systemic worldviews
Date: Monday 22 September 2025
Session 2: Systemic capabilities and practices
Date: Monday 29 September 2025
Session 3: Taking a multi-method approach
Date: Monday 6 October 2025
Timing
All sessions are 2-hours long from 10:00-12:00 EST / 15:00-17:00 BST / 16:00-18:00 CEST.
You can join from anywhere in the world, so long as you can attend the time listed above.
Course Fees
The School of System Change is continually working to improve the financial accessibility of our courses. It is our intention that those able to finance the higher tier fees contribute at the full rate, in order to support others to access the discounted rates.
For the full series
- Regenerative: £185 GBP
- Supporter: £150 GBP
- Supported: £125 GBP
For individual sessions
- Regenerative: £75 GBP
- Supporter: £60 GBP
- Supported: £45 GBP
Which option is right for you?
Regenerative: We encourage philanthropy, corporations, and the public sector to join our series on the regenerative rate. Your registration will support others to participate. This rate reflects the true cost of the series.
Supporter: We encourage those working in the small to mid-size for-profit organisations, charity sector and community organisations (typically a participant joining to financial sponsorship from an employer) to join our series at this rate. This rate reflects most of the cost of the series.
Supported: The supported rate enables those who are independent or freelance, or who have limited funds to invest in their learning and development. Each cohort has a limited number of places for those coming in on the supported rate. When possible, we encourage those with some flexibility to join us on a supporter rate.
VAT does not apply.
Enrol
Enrolment is first come, first served until we reach our maximum cohort size, so we encourage you to enrol as soon as you can.
Join the full series (at a discounted price) or just the sessions that feel most relevant to your work.
Equity & Diversity
We seek to create safe and brave spaces for participants from different backgrounds and lived experience to engage in learning together. We acknowledge the power and responsibility we hold in our role as a convenor and learning provider, placing multiple ways of knowing and awareness of difference as fundamental design principles in our programmes.
Read more about our commitment and journey around equity and difference.
Accessibility
If you will need additional support for your wellbeing or access needs, then please let us know as soon as possible, so we can factor this into our session design. You can let us know when you enrol or email us at [email protected] - we are happy to arrange a call to discuss how we can support your learning.
Contact Us
Are you interested in speaking with one of our team to answer any specific questions you may have? Please send us an email at [email protected]. We're looking forward to hearing from you!