Explore Our Courses

Weekend Intensive

Ida Persson · Design and strategy for social and environmental change

Design Beyond Commerce

What might become possible if we stopped designing for profit, growth, and consumption? This course explores how Care, Community, Craft, Culture, and Contentment can become radical alternatives to designing for the market.

Live Online25 students max

Shawna Wakefield · Social justice and embodiment facilitator, strategist and guide

The Undergrowth Sanctuary: Practicing Freedom as Things Fall Apart

We will reflect on, imagine and strategize what it means to practice freedom as core to new world building as systems unravel; guided by intersectional feminist, creative and embodiment praxis.

Live Online20 students max

Weekend Intensive

Kai (Kari) Altmann · New World Artist, Musician, Director, Nomad, Culturalist and Futurist. Visionary. Host.

Re-Wilding Futures Thinking

A live, collective discussion and edit of my compiled list of 250+ Futurisms genres (https://monoskop.org/Futurisms). What's missing? What needs tweaking? We'll look at this list together and then use it to create our own new visualizations and possibilities.

Yukti Saumya · Restorative Justice Practitioner

The Law Is On Your Side

A Crash Course on International Law and How To Use It for Collective Liberation

Live Online25 students max

Sonja Wiencke · Activist-Evaluator.

Rewriting the Script for Accountability in Nonprofits and Philanthropy

Map the scripts keeping accountability in the social impact sector performative, then flip them. Reimagine the story through a template/process from your work. Leave with a redesigned artefact to share, a plan for how to put it into practice, and people to keep building with.

Live Online20 students max

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Collective Liberation & AI: A Decolonial Practice

Examine AI through decolonial, embodied, and liberation-centered frameworks while building practical tools for community, narrative sovereignty, and collective action.

Sahra Ali · AI Governance · Decolonial Practice · Narrative Sovereignty

Live Online20 students max6 sessions

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Giving Yourself Permission to Dream: Building Hope in Dystopian Times

There are countless, pressing issues in the world as it is. But now more than ever, it's critically important to imagine more hopeful futures and dream of the world as it could be.

Keaton Wadzinski · Imagining and Building More Hopeful Futures

Live Online25 students max6 sessions

sahibzada mayed (صاحبزادہ مائد) · creative alchemist cultivating tools of liberation

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Uprooting the Coloniser Within Us: Composting What We've Inherited, Stewarding Possibilities Otherwise

Colonialism not only mapped lands and disciplined bodies, it also constrained our imaginations. Join us on a 6-week journey where we confront the narratives and practices we've inherited, and dare to dream possibilities otherwise.

Live Online25 students max6 sessions

Oumaima Talouka · Founder @ The Human x Tech | 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.

Live Online15 students max4 sessions

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

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.

Live Online15 students max8 sessions

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Writing Elsewhere Geographies

a collective study and generative writing space serving as a container for grief praxis | rigorous imaginings | brave breathing towards and for liberatory present-futures

Shraddha Shah, PhD · Neuroscientist | Writer

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

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Anti-Colonial Storytelling: Telling Stories Across Multi-World Futures

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.

Live Online20 students max5 sessions

Weekly Course

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.

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

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Being Human: How to Reclaim Agency & Flourish in Uncertain Times

Modern systems and capitalism are eroding humanity. We live disconnected from ourselves, others, and the planet. How can we build a stronger sense of self? How can we cultivate the conditions for change and the foundations for a better way to live?

Live Online14 students max6 sessions

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

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.

kirthi jayakumar · researcher

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.

Karina Anastasia Mathew · Writer & Independent Educator Exploring Liberation Pedagogy

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Creative Responses to Climate Collapse: Worldmaking with Art & Literature

Create and examine environmental art or literature that inspires a more life-affirming future.

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.

Najla Abdellatif Vallander · Environmental Advocate

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Beyond Sustainability: Connecting Deeper to the Environmental Conversation

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.

Besan Abu-Joudeh · Social Entrepreneur

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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"!

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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.

Ashira Darwish · Healer

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Stephanie Sacco · Anthropologist and social impact practioneer

Ethnographic listening for positive social impact

You'll learn to look and listen like an anthropologist before you act, so you can build programs with a community, at its pace, from its own ideas of a good life.

Live Online20 students max

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

Weaving Webs of Care

Together, we'll unpack how hyperindividualism shapes social change work; reroot into our need for relational reciprocity and interdependence; and explore how we can weave wider webs of solidarity and support in our lives and leadership

Live Online20 students max2 sessions

Josefina Venegas Meza, PhD & Pavan Mano, PhD

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.

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Khawar Malik · Helping changemakers sustain their work 🌱

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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

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

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.

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

Sarah Seraj, PhD & Saamiya Seraj, PhD

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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.

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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

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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.

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

Sarah Elahi · Educator, Writer, Imaginer of Collective Liberation

Decolonizing Motherhood

Through decolonial theory, liberatory pedagogy, and guided personal reflection, learners will develop the language, tools, and embodied practice to transform how they raise children, and their own experience of parenthood.

Hanieh Khosroshahi · Independent Design Consultant

Radical Imagination: Visions for Liberatory Futures

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

Josefina Venegas Meza, PhD & Pavan Mano, PhD

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?

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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

Imagine. A world without "international" development.

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

Date TBA

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.

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

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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 Online12 students max4 sessions

Hanieh Khosroshahi · Independent Design Consultant

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.

Laura Basu, PhD · Independent Scholar

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