Learning

1. Collaboration for Impact university course within the Master of Social Impact or Post Graduate Certificate in Social Impact through the Centre for Social Impact

A 2–3 month learning program for collaborations or organisations that covers:

• Systems thinking
• Leadership for complexity
• Collaborative processes and design
• Community engagement and mobilisation
• Monitoring, learning and evaluation for systems change

• Systems thinking
• Leadership for complexity
• Collaborative processes and design
• Community engagement and mobilisation
• Monitoring, learning and evaluation for systems change
• How to take up the role of the backbone
  • The unique role and functions of being a backbone
  • How the backbone role can be taken up at different phases of the change process
  • How to build out a backbone team in a way that is reflective of context and the phase of change process
  • Some skills development of adaptive leadership and facilitating collaboration between First Nations and other Australians.
  • Using Platform C as a resource for framing and planning the work

• Collective Impact
• Systems thinking
• Leadership for complexity
• Collaborative processes and design
• Community engagement and mobilisation
• Monitoring, learning and evaluation for systems change
• The role of the backbone

Support to groups who want to deepen their systems change practice, share learnings, provide peer support to each other and solve problems. Typically, we provide this type of learning support to:

• Multi-site initiatives
• Self-organising groups of backbone teams

Where we partner with an initiative, or multiple initiatives, to co-design and deliver a program of skill development, peer learning, reflective practice and planning. These learning events are typically 1 – 2 days.

• Action learning circles where small groups are facilitated to support one person make progress with an adaptive challenge they are grappling with.
• Case in point processes. Case-in-Point is a method of experiential learning used to teach leadership. The method involves using the actions and behaviours of individual participants as well as focusing on the group of which they are members. Case-in-Point is an immersive, reflective, and ideally a reflexive exercise facilitated by an instructor but in best practice, shaped by group/class participants. Case-in-Point help leadership practitioners with two key components of leadership development:
  • It is teaching method that more realistically prepares people to have stamina, resilience and a willingness to work with others in the heat of change in order to adapt
  • It helps practitioners generate a heightened awareness of themselves, their impact and the systems they are a part of

We take groups of people to spend time with other systems change initiatives.