I Would Choose No Straw!
Academy Fellow, Marissa Jablonski PhD, is a development engineer and educator who collaborates and cooperates with transdisciplinary groups worldwide wrestling with complex concerns related to water, sustainability, and culture. In this blog, Marissa shares her recent experience working with hotels in Phuket, Thailand to eliminate single-use plastics in their rooms.
WHAT IF YOUR NAME GOT WRITTEN ONTO EVERY PIECE OF PLASTIC YOU USED… […]
Educational Ecosystems for Societal Transformation
Academy Fellow, Joshua Cubista, is an international experiential designer, facilitator, and strategist. This month Joshua co-authored and published the Global Education Futures Report: Educational Ecosystems for Societal Transformation.
We paradoxically live in the midst of accelerating global complex socio-ecological challenges while at the same time we are immersed in a windfall of increasingly vibrant human innovation and ingenuity the world over. […]
The Soil Under Our Feet
When people and organizations have different stakes and challenges within complex systems, how do we help them collectively create change?
The following is taken from an article (reposted from the Presenting Institute) written by Academy co-Founder, Hal Hamilton, and Elizabeth Reaves of the Sustainable Food Lab. You can read the full article here.
This past June, while facilitating a learning journey with a […]
Free Webinar – Restoring Leadership as a Noble Profession
Creating Islands of Sanity: Restoring Leadership as a Noble Profession
On May 11th, the Academy hosted Margaret Wheatley in discussion about her latest book: Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality. Claiming Leadership. Restoring Sanity.
You can watch the webinar here
Since 1966, Margaret Wheatley has worked globally in many different roles, as a speaker, teacher, community worker, consultant, advisor, formal leader. […]
The Journey from Academy Fellow to Faculty
Our former Donella Meadows intern Catherine Rocchi, talked with Yunlan Ni about her experience as an Academy Fellow
A participant in the first cohort of Fellows, Yunlan Ni feels deeply transformed by the Fellows program. “People sometimes think the word ‘destiny’ is too much,” she said, “but I really feel that way about the Fellows program.”
Yunlan describes the Fellowship as “a […]
Academy Launches Second Cohort of Fellows (2018)
The Academy for Systems Change has selected 25 extraordinary leaders to participate in the second cohort of the Academy Fellowship program.
Following an extensive nomination, application and interview process in 2017, the 25 successful candidates came together in-person in Maine this February to officially launch the program and begin to build the community that will support them for the next 3-years […]
Webinar: Collaborating with the Enemy
Collaborating with the Enemy: The Academy for Systems Change hosts a virtual discussion with Adam Kahane
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In this free online webinar, the Academy for Systems Change hosts Adam Kahane in discussion about his most recent book: Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with Or Like Or Trust.
Adam Kahane has faced […]
Systems thinking in Costa Rica
In 2015, several members of the Academy for Systems Change came together in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica to develop a collective financing strategy that would support the overall health of the Peninsula ecosystem, community, and economy.
I received a deep calling from the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica to help protect its rainforest and marine ecosystem in a way that would […]
Focus on a Fellow: Udom Hongchatikul
Through our Academy Fellowship program, we worked with an extraordinary group of accomplished systems change leaders, each working to inspire and demonstrate ecological, social, economic, and spiritual well-being within themselves and for the communities, organizations, and networks that they serve.
Udom Hongchatikul holds his PhD. in Organization Development from Assumption University of Thailand. After 20 years working in different industries, small companies […]
Camp Snowball has ben a place for educators, youth, parents, business and community leaders to learn together
To thrive in our changing world, students need to think in systems and take action for a healthy future. Using systems thinking as a foundation through the week, Camp Snowball — a summer professional development program that brings together school and district-wide teams of educators, youth, parents, business and community leaders — increased everyone’s capacity for learning and leading.
At Camp Snowball, […]