An Exploratory Journey into Changemakers Learning Programs

towards Sustainability

Claudia Raffo Pablo Villoch

Chieko Azuma Pablo Villoch Elvio Coletinha

Research Team

Advisors

Cesar Levy Franca André Benaim

Card Game(20’)

Presentation(20’)

Mind Mapping

(20’)

William

Kamkwamba

Malawi

Master’s in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability

Karl-Henrik Robert

Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development:

The Natural Step Framework

bth.se/mslsnaturalstep.org

Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development:

The Natural Step Framework

System

Success

Strategic

guidelines

Actions

Tools

Increasing world population

Increasing conflicts and inequalities

Decreasing trust and social cohesion

Increasing resources consumption

Increasing demand on ecosystem services

Pressures to limit access to resources

Tiempo

Communities

Institutions

Companies

Sustainable

society

unsustainable

Root Cause: Disconnected mechanistic world view

The World in a (metaphoric) Funnel

Changemakers for sustainability

“Leadership is about learning how to shape the future and about creating new realities” . Senge (1998)

“Everyone can be a changemaker.”Drayton (2006)

Research Questions:Primary Question:

What tool can we design for individuals to become a

sustainability changemaker, regardless of their accessibility to institutionalized programs, which reflects the assumptions of the leading-edge learning programs for changemakers?”

Secondary Question:

Which of the assumptions that guide the design of

some of the leading-edge learning programs for

changemakers best serve for everyone to become a sustainability changemaker?

Methods

Methods: Our Journey through the U

1. Co-initiating

Listen to others and to what life calls you to do

•Literature review and Online resource review

2. Co-sensing

Data collection

• Dialogues with participants, coaches, organizers

• Participatory Observation

3. Co-presencing

Retreat and Reflect, allow the inner knowing to emerge

•Analysis of findings

4. Co-creating

Prototype a microcosm of the new

•Thesis writing, reviewing, rewriting.

•Tool design : Brainstorming , Focus group, Online survey,

5. Co-evolving

Methods: Our Journey through the U

1. Co-initiating

Listen to others and to what life calls you to do

•Literature review

•Online resource review

Methods: Our Journey through the U

1. Co-initiating

Listen to others and to what life calls you to do

•Literature review

•Online resource review

2. Co-sensing

Data collection

• Dialogues with participants, coaches, organizers

• Participatory Observation

Methods: Our Journey through the U

“Certainly the schools who have come together

for this event are amongst the most innovative

in the world.”

(Peter Senge, about the Art of Hosting, Karlskrona,

Sweden, February 2010)

Research Methodsin

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Interviewee Role, Institution

Zulma Patarroyo KaosPilot , Colombia

Paul Natorp Former Head of Studies, Kaos Pilots, Denmark

Pete Sims Team Leader, Kaos Pilots

Paul Haaversen Student, Kaos Pilot , Costa Rica

Lauren Gross Student, Kaos Pilot, USA

Wouter Kerstin Research & Innovation Director, ENVIU, Netherlands

Jose Mari Luzarraga Lecturer & Coach, Mondragon Team Academy

Sari Veripää Coach, Mondragon Team Academy, Finland

Liher Pillado Coach, Mondragon Team Academy

Maitane Aramburu Student, Mondragon Team Academy

Jose María Larrañaga Senior Lecturer at Mondragon University

MikelGantxegi Director MUNDUKIDE

Javier Pradini EMAUS FUNDACION SOCIAL

Isabel Fernandez Coach, Innovandis

Paul San Sebastian Coach, Innovandis

Juan Garibi Director FIARE

Pablo Angulo Fourth Sector Transformation Strategy , INNOBASQUE

Paul Ortega Internationalization Director, INNOBASQUE

Carolina Pereira ARTEMISIA , Brasil

Christine Hogan Expert in Empowerment & Facilitation, Australia

Reinoud Meijer Executive Coordinator, YIP, Netherlands

Claudia Raffo Ontological coach, Chile

Participatory

observation

1. Co-initiating

Listen to others and to what life calls you to do

•Literature review and Online resource review

2. Co-sensing

Data collection

• Dialogues with participants, coaches, organizers

• Participatory Observation

3. Co-presencing

Retreat and Reflect, allow the inner knowing to emerge

•Analysis of findings

Methods: Our Journey through the U

1. Co-initiating

Listen to others and to what life calls you to do

•Literature review and Online resource review

2. Co-sensing

Data collection

• Dialogues with participants, coaches, organizers

• Participatory Observation

3. Co-presencing

Retreat and Reflect, allow the inner knowing to emerge

•Analysis of findings

4. Co-creating

Prototype a microcosm of the new

•Thesis writing, reviewing, rewriting.

•Tool design : Brainstorming , Focus group, Online survey,

Methods: Our Journey through the U

Visual Crowdsourcing

Multicultural

Focus Group

Online survey

1. Co-initiating

Listen to others and to what life calls you to do

•Literature review and Online resource review

2. Co-sensing

Data collection

• Dialogues with participants, coaches, organizers

• Participatory Observation

3. Co-presencing

Retreat and Reflect, allow the inner knowing to emerge

•Analysis of findings

4. Co-creating

Prototype a microcosm of the new

•Thesis writing, reviewing, rewriting.

•Tool design : Brainstorming , Focus group, Online survey,

5. Co-evolving

Methods: Our Journey through the U

Findings

World view:

• Individuals within a society within ecosphere in a metaphoric funnel

Success:

• Leaders with knowledge of Strategic Sustainable Development + Organisational learning

Key words

• Safe space, experiential learning, peer learning, self reflection, personal development, science

Mental

Models

System

Success

Strategic

guidelines

Actions

Tools

MSLS: Master in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability

Kaos Pilots (3 years program,Denmark)

World view:

• Self-motivated creative independent thinkers within business and social innovation field within a society.

Success:

• Creative entrepreneurs that navigate uncertainty for their own benefit and society.

Key words:

• Self confidence, authenticity, flexibility, identity, creative thinking, playfulness, design

Mental

Models

System

Success

Strategic

guidelines

Actions

Tools

Mental

Models

System

Success

Strategic

guidelines

Actions

Tools

Mondragon Team Academy, (4 years program,Spain)

World view:

• Entrepreneurial Teams in a cooperative business world in a global economy

Success:

• “Passionate Team-preneurs” and “personal mastery/development”

Key words:

• Rocket Model, team learning, real experiences, international experiences, passion and enthusiasm, brand, community, learning contract

World view:

• Interconnected whole with individual as mirror of the whole

Success:

• young people entrepreneurs with a holistic aspect of self, society and life.

Strategic Guidelines:

• Learning by head/heart/hands, holding safe space, holism, trust, personal development.

Mental

Models

System

Success

Strategic

guidelines

Actions

Tools

Youth Initiative Program, ( 1 year, Sweden)

Assumptions

Key Assumptions for Sustainability Changemakers KP MTA YIP MSLS

Human Society is facing a Sustainability challenge, represented by the metaphore of a Funnel

The deeper root cause of unsustainability is the sense of “separation” embedded in the reductionist mechanistic world view.

Success is defined as a sustainable society living within the four sustainability principles

A backcasting from sustainability principles perspective can help society to move strategically towards sustainability

Self-motivation and initiative: Learning must be purposeful, meaningful

Learning should be connected with personal self-development, self-identity and vision

Trust in participants: Social systems have the capacity to self-organize themselves.

Challenging the mental construction of self, the world, and their relationship expands

awareness

Collaboration: Peer learning, Team Learning and Team work helps a fruitful learning

Learning happens through an experiential learning cycle: learning by doing connected with

real life Fostering and holding a safe fertile space, providing basic tools facilitates learning from taking

risks and making mistakesLearners’s Self is the primary resource for learning: both intuition and logic are necessary

Learning is deeper and more authentic when head, heart and hands are integrated

There is diversity in learning styles and how people process new ideas and knowledge, so

learning experiences should be inclusive with that diversity

Learners need a non-judgemental space where they can open their heart to connect

with what really matters for them

IT’S TIME TO PLAY THE GAME!

YOUR JOURNEY

Collective Shuffling

Random walk

And exchange cards

Don´t read them yet!!

Grounding practice:

Breath

Imagine yourself in front of a blank canvas

Bring the presence of someone special for you, may be a mentor or a spiritual master

(you already know who)

What do I need to learn today?

What is my burning question today?

Free individual writing /drawing

Go with the flow. Don’t think. Let it flow.

What is my gift for the world?

What future wants to emerge through me?

What are those seeds of future waiting to be born?

Now take a card

and reflect on its meaning.

If it has no meaning for you,

Try with another card

Silence

Collective mindmapping

Express yourself

Draw whatever emerges

Final circle:

What happened

Aha moments?

What did I discover about me and my work?

What is my next step?

What am I going to do with what I learnt?

How can we keep connected?

outofthe

meaningfulconsulting

pablo@glocalminds.com

craffo@outofthebox.cl

Vision

Inspiration

Guidelines from Learning Programs

How the guidelines are reflected in the game

•Hold a safe space for self-learning

•Help clarify identity and vision,

•Use learner’s ‘self’ as primary instrument

•Help them face and master• VOC, VOJ, and VOF

•Integrate head, heart, and hands

•Strategic Sustainable Development

•Grounding practice, Challenge by choice

•Cards that invite to reflect on thevision.

•Learner centered game

•Cards with inspirational quotesand powerful questions

• Cards that invites player tothink, feel and act.

•Structured template and cards withquestions that guide the Backcastingprocess.

KaosPilots Mondragon Team

Academy

YIP Innovandis Global College Artemisia

Integrate Head,

Heart and Hand

Playful, Real

world, Streetwise,

Risk taking,

Balance,

Compassion

Win the student,

Win the customer,

Win the planet

Body & Mind,

Theory & Practice,

Local & Global

Chaordic, Social

innvoation

Business, Process

and Project Design

Creative

leadership

Connect dreams

with world needs

Peter Senge’s Fifth

Discipline

Knowledge creation

Learning by Doing.

Team-preneur

Team Learning

Team Company

Rocket Model

Personal Mastery

Experience

Economy

Dialogue Sessions,

Learning contract,

Learning Diary,

Learning journeys

Build community

and network around

your brand and

customers

Waldorf pedagogy,

based on Rudolf

Steiner’s

Anthroposophy

Action-oriented

Direct contact with

the needs and

aspirations of local

communities.

Overview of

current global

challenges

Encourage an

active role in the

big picture.

Theory U

Learning as self

transformation

process.

Collaborate and

share success .

Practice and

experiment

Innovate and

make mistakes

Ask yourself what

you expect and

how can you

contribute

Encourage to

pursue dreams

Enjoy, because it’s

the only way to

learn .

Democracy into

practice

Let students partake

in democratic

procedures

concerning all

educational matters.

Multidisciplinary

approach

Work in groups and

cooperation in

integrated projects

Practical training for

people who need to

Develop skills to

undertake work in

social business.

Selects and supports

social business, in

early stages of

development and high

potential for social

and economic impact,

offering all the

necessary technical

and strategic support

to ensure their

consolidation and

accelerate their

growth.

Case studies

http://sites.google.com/site/yourlearningpath/

Ciclos geológicos lentos (erosión y erupciones volcánicas lentas)

Ciclos geológicos lentos (sedimentación y mineralización)

Closed System for Matter1) Nothing disappears2) Everything spreads

Open SystemFor Energy

Fotosíntesis

Sustainability:

Society’s capacity to

survive within the natual

cycles

Natural Cycles

Relatively large flowsof substances extracted from the earth crust

Introduction of artificialpersistent components

Phisicaldegradation of ecosystems

Barriers thatprevent

people to satisfy their

needs

How to destroy the natural cycles

...concentrations of substances

extracted from the Earth crust,

...concentration of substances produced

by that society,

...degradation by phisical means.

...are not subject to conditions that

undermine their capacity to meet their needs

In a sustainable society, people

And nature is not subject to the sistematical increase of

4 sustainability principles