Seedling Series: The Somatics of Queering Systems Change

Join Deanna Sophia Danger and Ishmaiah Moore to explore your sector of systems change work through a somatic, ‘queered’, decolonial practice lens as an embodied alternative to conceptualizing change.

Participants are invited to navigate and ground their analysis, leverage and choice-making somatically - that is, in context of body-up, lived experience, relationship, timeline and place. Learn and practice shifting your systemic understanding of a ‘margins-to-center’ approach from polarized,  disembodied surface-level inclusion to an orientation that prioritizes embodied, dynamic relational impact.

As part of the 2-hour session participants will be guided through somatic learning and practice, free writing exercises, breakout rooms, partner practice and group sensemaking.

This short course is offered in collaboration between MyQueerRhiza and School of System Change as part of the Seedling Series: short courses supporting changemakers to embrace complexity through discovering the diversity of systemic approaches and practitioners.

Ishmaiah Moore

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Systems Change & Healing Justice Facilitator

Seedling Series courses are for changemakers who want to learn to embrace complexity through discovering the diversity of systemic approaches and pracitioners that exist in the field.

This short course is for you if you want to learn to:

• Make more embodied decisions based on responsive wisdom rather than reactionary instinct
• Surface unknowns in order to prioritize the right systemic relationships
• Bring awareness to the ways mental models can unintentionally replicate systems of oppression
• Improve your relational, group learning skills

To maximise your learning, spaces on this cohort are limited. We encourage you to enrol as soon as you can to secure your place.

This course will run on Thursday 7 August 2025 at 10:00-12:00 CST / 11:00-13:00 ET / 16:00-18:00 BST / 17:00-19:00 CEST.

You can join from anywhere in the world, so long as you can attend the time listed above.

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The School of System Change is continually working to improve the financial accessibility of our courses. For this course we offer three rates, and ask that you select the one that fits your financial situation. It is our hope that those able to afford the higher fees help us cover costs and support others to access the discounted rates.

Contribution Ticket: Regenerative - £55 GBP

Contribution Ticket: Supporter - £40 GBP

Contribution Ticket: Supported - £25 GBP

VAT does not apply.

Refund policy: Tickets are non-refundable but can be transferred to another participant.

Enrolment is first come, first served until we reach our maximum cohort size, so we encourage you to enrol as soon as you can. Enrolment closes on Wednesday 6 August at 23:00 ET.

If the course is full before the enrolment deadline, we will start a waiting list of those interested.

Refund policy: Tickets are non-refundable but can be transferred to another participant.

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.

If you have any questions about this short course or the Seedling Series, please get in touch with the School team at [email protected].