Seedling Series: Using AI to Augment Systems Change Practices

For many of us, generative AI has become a tool of efficiency, helping us move more quickly through an abundance of work. Sometimes this means more time for the critical relational work, but often it results in the AI doing the thinking and we become the interpreters of its thoughts.

This session will help you find a new path for using AI – as a way to strengthen your systems change practice and augment your and your partners' capabilities. We will explore where and how you can integrate AI into your work, with a focus on ‘AI in the mix’ of your relational processes rather than ‘humans in the loop’. 

You will hear about examples where systems change efforts have been disrupted and transformed, where habitual thinking has been made visible, and where groups have made real-time discoveries during planning sessions to strengthen their work. You will have an opportunity to practise with a tool that can disrupt your thinking. To do so, you’ll need access to an LLM (Large Language Model) of your choice and be working on a computer, not a mobile device.

This short course is offered in collaboration between PolicySolve 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.

Is this course for me?

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

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

• Shift your AI use from efficiency to augmenting your systems change practice, going beyond human capability and capacity

• Identify specific places within systems change processes where you can use AI strategically

• Engage with AI in collaborative ways, bringing it into your work with others

• Train AI to strengthen your systems strategies, thinking, and sensemaking, disrupting our typical thinking patterns

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 Wednesday 9 September 2026 for 2 hours starting at 08:00 ET / 13:00 BST / 14:00 CEST / 17:30 IST.

You can join from anywhere in the world, so long as you can attend the times 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.

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.

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 Tuesday 8 September 2026 at 17:00 BST.

If the short 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.

Any questions? Please get in touch with the School team at [email protected].

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