What we do
What we do
The Academy works across a wide range of activities related to personal, organizational and systems level change approaches, three dimensions that when applied in combination (as opposed to in isolation) have proven to inspire and escalate collective energy for positive change.
Given the multi-disciplinary nature of social change, the scope of the Academy is broad and varied, cutting across multiple thematic areas and geographical boundaries, and involving individuals, teams and organizations from corporate, non-profit, government, academic and research sectors.
Learning opportunities
Donella Meadows Project
The mission of this Project is to preserve Donella (Dana) H. Meadows’s legacy as an inspiring leader, scholar, writer, and teacher. We aim to maintain an easily accessible archive of Dana’s work online, and to develop new resources and programs that apply her ideas to current issues, making them available to an ever-larger network of students, practitioners, and leaders in social change.
Systems Leader’s Fieldbook
This online Fieldbook provides tools and resources for system leaders to develop skills in collective leadership. This ever-growing collection of tools, methods and approaches aims to support people and groups as they develop the skills to accelerate progress on intractable problems together.
Workshops and Online Learning
We collaborate to offer learning experiences grounded in multiple ways of knowing, that build relationships and focus on deepening leadership and systems change capacities.
Academy Stories
By sharing inspiring examples of deep systems change, we aim to not only support such change, but to tell each story in such a way that fosters a deeper level of understanding of the subtle interplay between the “inner” and “outer” dimensions of change. We are constantly exploring new ways of telling these stories in distinctive and compelling ways that integrate deeply personal and systemic insights.