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Intensive Course

Modern Food: How we are what we eat

What are the costs & conveniences of modern food? From who makes it to what goes in it, we want to re-establish our connection with food and where it comes from.

Josefina Venegas Meza, PhD & Pavan Mano, PhD

Live Online25 students max2 sessions

Starts July 4, 2026

Oumaima Talouka · AI What You Can. Human What You Must.™️

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You're Not Behind. You're Discerning. AI Literacy for Thoughtful Professionals.

Build real AI literacy, a clear stance on AI and personal framework so you can decide how to engage with it in a way that protects your expertise, your standards, and your way of thinking.

Khawar Malik · Helping changemakers sustain their work 🌱

A Life That Can Hold the Work: Build Your Personal Wellbeing Blueprint

Build a stronger foundation for meaningful work through practical lessons in nutrition, movement and emotional wellbeing designed to help changemakers sustain their energy, health and impact over time.

Live Online8 students max4 sessions

Starts August 10, 2026

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Tending to the Roots of Conflict in a Divided World

Deepen your capacity to unearth and tend to the unconscious beliefs, protective patterns, and survival strategies at the root of conflict, division, dehumanization, and polarization.

Lena Papadopoulos · Award-winning educator and leadership coach working at the intersection of personal and collective liberation

Live Online15 students max8 sessions

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Writing Elsewhere Geographies

Collective study and generative writing space to write from within ruptures—mapping out the geography of betrayal, grief, and oppression towards mapping the geographies of hope, joy, and liberatory modes of being and belonging.

Shraddha Shah, PhD · Neuroscientist | Writer

Starts June 5, 2026

Hala Saleh · Technologist, Community Builder, and Culture Bearer working towards Collective Liberation

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Digital Uprising: Reclaiming our Tech Sovereignty

Learners will gain the knowledge, critical frameworks, practical tools, and collective imagination needed to understand how technology perpetuates oppression, how to resist digital surveillance capitalism, and how to migrate to and/or think about building alternative technologies rooted in community ownership and liberation.

Themrise Khan · International development practitioner

"International" Development and Activism for Social Justice. Why don't the two ever meet?

What's wrong with "international" development as it stands today and what can YOU do about it as an activist?

Live Online20 students max2 sessions

Starts August 1, 2026

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Pluriversal Storytelling: Design a Pluriversal Story for the Future

Explore how colonial patterns are embedded in dominant narratives; rewrite narratives that centre justice, care, and reciprocity; and design imaginative stories that hold many worlds and many futures at once.

Cinthya Sopaheluwakan · Systems thinker and storyteller. Founder of The Big Picture.

Live Online20 students max5 sessions

Angela Montijo, LCSW · Relational Facilitator & Educator

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The Values Lab: Living What You Stand For

A 4-week relational lab for people questioning what matters to them, exploring the stories behind their values, and experimenting with how to live in closer alignment with what they stand for.

Live Online15 students max4 sessions

Building Our Capacity for Resistance

How do we continue to resist oppressive systems in adverse climates, while taking care of ourselves? This course works through what holds us back in our advocacy work and how to overcome those limitations sustainably.

Sarah Seraj, PhD & Saamiya Seraj, PhD

Starts July 8, 2026

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Relational Leadership as Design

Leaders learn to design systems needed to thrive with the Relational Leadership Design Framework, a paradigm that reframes leadership from a positional function into a collective capacity grounded in consciousness, context, and presence.

Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo, PhD · Transforming Data and Lived Experiences into Strategic Clarity and Direction

Sam Passeport · Relational Coach, Education Disruptor, Feminist Killjoy

Engaging in Feedback Dialogues for Liberation

This workshop explores feedback as a relational, dialogical encounter to foster meaningful feedback happenings, grounded in emotional safety and equity, in diverse spaces: from educational contexts to workplace and community spaces.

Starts July 14, 2026

Tricia Douglas · Designing human development across systems, relationships, and culture

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Development by Design (DxD): Power, Perception, and Human Systems

Learn to see and reshape the hidden forces shaping human behavior—within yourself, your relationships, and your environment—through a Development by Design (DxD) approach grounded in neuroscience, systems thinking, and critical theory.

Live Online25 students max6 sessions

Starts July 12, 2026

Sheila Pontis, PhD · Professor & Researcher in Imagination, Wellbeing and Design

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Being Human: The Path for Change

Systems strip humanity away. We are disconnected. Our ability to flourish diminishes. How can we restore our humanity? How can we become more empathetic, loving, and hopeful to cultivate the conditions for change?

Live Online16 students max4 sessions

Ruth Osman · Writer, composer, and educator developing an inquiry into spiral structure across art, ecology, and collective life.

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SpiraLogics: Using Spiral Intelligence to Navigate Change, Constraint, and Transformation

A guided inquiry into spiral logics across nature and culture, exploring how spiral principles can be used to design and sustain processes that remain coherent, adaptive, and generative under conditions of change, pressure, and constraint.

Starts August 2, 2026

kirthi jayakumar · researcher

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Decolonial Feminist Approaches to Foreign Policy

learn about decolonial feminist approaches to foreign policy and reflect on how you, in a deeply interconnected world, can navigate global politics by interrogating power and sowing seeds for softer and gentler alternatives.

Sarah Elahi · Educator, Writer, Imaginer of Collective Liberation

Childhood, Power, and Decolonial Praxis

Through decolonial theory, liberatory pedagogy, and guided personal reflection, learners will develop the language, tools, and embodied practice to transform how they raise, teach, and care for children.

Live Online25 students max2 sessions

Starts August 15, 2026

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Climate Fables for Activists

Examining how environmental action narratives influence the futures we are able to envision—and how they can inspire us to organize towards a better world.

Karina Anastasia Mathew · Writer & Independent Educator Exploring Liberation Pedagogy

Hanieh Khosroshahi · Independent Design Consultant

Intensive Course

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Radical Imagination: Visions for Liberatory Futures

Co-create radical visions for liberatory futures through radical imagination, collective visioning, and collaborative worldbuilding.

Live Online25 students max2 sessions

Starts August 8, 2026

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The World on our Plates: Culture, Politics, and Food Systems

From historical migration, imperialism, gender, and capitalism: how is the world around us reflected in the food on our plates, why does it matter, and what can we do about it?

Josefina Venegas Meza, PhD & Pavan Mano, PhD

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Creative Activism for Kincentric Justice

Decolonize, decarcerate, demilitarize and rebuild kincentric worlds.

JuPong Lin, PhD · From the river to the sea, from mountain rainbow to darkest bed of soil, we shall all be free

Live Online20 students max8 sessions

Themrise Khan · International development practitioner

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Imagine. A world without "international" development.

What if "international" development didn't exist and development was simply that?

Mayra Ruiz-McPherson, PhD(c), MA, MFA · AI Psychologist • Creative Intelligence & Visuality Coach

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The Cyberpsychology of AI Creativity

This course examines what remains uniquely human about creativity as AI proliferates, blending cyber/AI psychology, aesthetics, and critical reflection to help learners rethink authorship, imagination, and collaboration with machines.

Sarah Seraj, PhD & Saamiya Seraj, PhD

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Find Your Voice

Our stories have the power to transform systems that were never designed for us. In this class, we will empower you to unpack your racial trauma, explore your identity, and find your voice.

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Beyond Sustainability: Connection, Wisdom, and Regenerative Leadership

This course invites you to explore sustainability from a place of empowerment, connection, and inspiration rather than fear and urgency. Drawing on environmental psychology, storytelling, and ancestral wisdom, it focuses on embodying practices that create meaningful impact. By the end, you’ll feel equipped to engage with environmental work authentically, reconnect with the land and community, and lead initiatives grounded in purpose and care.

Najla Abdellatif Vallander · Environmental Advocate

Sheila Pontis, PhD · Professor & Researcher in Imagination, Wellbeing and Design

Living with Imagination and Optimism

A transformative experience to reclaim your imaginative powers: Journey inwards by using a blend of mindfulness-based practices and interdisciplinary techniques to dismantle internal barriers, unlock your unbound potential, and integrate imagination into your life and work.

Live Online16 students max4 sessions

Idea to Impact: How to Birth a Soul-Aligned Venture in the World

Do you have an idea that has been tugging at your heart? It's time to create the space and time to birth this venture into the world so that "one day" becomes "today"!

Besan Abu-Joudeh · Social Entrepreneur

Live Online10 students max4 sessions

Starts August 5, 2026

Hanieh Khosroshahi · Independent Design Consultant

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Designing for Liberation: Tools, Methods, and Pathways for Just Futures

Liberation begins within. This course explores the link between inner awareness and relational responsibility, interrogating our relationships with each other, our work, and the environment. Learn to envision and build futures that serve everyone.

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Embodying Liberation

This course offers a transformative journey into embodied resistance and collective healing. Developed under siege and exile, Ashira Active Meditation draws from Sufi whirling, somatic release, and indigenous Palestinian practices to support healing from trauma on both personal and collective levels. Participants will: - Explore how continuous trauma shapes the nervous system - Learn how the body can be a site of both memory and liberation - Engage in movement practices, grief rituals, and storytelling - Reclaim joy as a form of resistance Guiding Questions: - How do we grieve while building resilience? - How can our bodies become vessels for transgenerational healing? - What does it mean to be radically alive in times of collapse? This course centers voices from SWANA and global majority communities, offering tools that are culturally rooted, somatically empowering, and spiritually sustaining.

Ashira Darwish · Healer

Laura Basu, PhD · Independent Scholar

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Capitalism vs. Love

An exploration of the fundamental tension between capitalist logic and our human need for love, connection, and community. This course examines how economic systems shape our personal lives and how we can reclaim love as a revolutionary force.

Live Online25 students max