Courses

This program brings together leaders and practitioners from government, regional development and community development organisations who can envisage a thriving, prosperous and resilient future for their region and want to make it a reality using Community Wealth Building.

This proven approach brings real benefits to local towns and people, tangible improvements in economic, social, cultural and environmental outcomes, and a growing number of places across the world are adopting this approach.

As a result of this program, you will:

• Transform your perspective and thinking about regional and economic development;
• Understand the key principles, strategies, approaches and tools to apply community wealth building to regional and economic development;
• Learn from thought-leaders and change-makers from Australia and internationally;
• Be exposed to real world examples of community wealth building;
• Apply learning to priority issues in your region;
• Collaborate with and create a network of practitioners to support each other during and after the program.

For more information on the Intermediate Course schedules for 2022, please contact [email protected]lds.com or 0407024036.

Leveraging Ethical Fields and partnership expertise, you’ll develop a vision and transition plan through the course. You’ll have access to a comprehensive online course, the Ethical Fields Interviews and three hands on sessions to practice using core technique and use them to develop your own project.

• Make sense of the future in practical ways
• Learn concrete strategies you can use alone or with your team to understand the future
• Connect the future with present day actions
• Use the image of the future to help tackle problems creatively
• Find alignment between you, your work and the change you want in the world

Each module comes with

• Thinkific Supported Online Course
• A video (approximately 15-20 min each module)
• Examples for each lesson
• A pdf overview that explains key concepts
• Course Miro Board
• Interviews and ideas to inspire
• Embedded examples
• Space for collaborative learning
• Space for your own project
• You will also be invited to join our slack group, and we will provide technical support if you have any troubles accessing content.

What’s in the online course?

• Module 1: What does systemic leadership mean? An intro to the systemic leadership triangle.
• Module 2: The Futures Landscape, an essential audit tool to understand future-readiness.
• Module 3: All about alternative futures and scenarios, and the cognitive science behind thinking about the future.
• Module 4: Jim Dator’s 4 Futures Model, a quick way to consider alternative futures.
• Module 5: Sensing and sense-making, the thinking behind identifying trends, weak signals and emerging issues.
• Module 6: The Futures Wheel, an easy to use tool to extrapolate cause and effect and identify future implications.
• Module 7: Three Horizons of Change. An advanced method for mapping change and developing robust strategic pathways that align with our preferred future.

Themes in the course:

• The inter (cognitive-emotional) and outer (practice) foresight journey
• Human blind-spots and challenges in thinking about the future
• Mapping change and anticipating change
• Leadership and foresight
• Systems, wicked problems and complexity
• Used Futures
• Transitions and change dynamics

Holistic Management Courses

To access the videos by Bruce Ward from the holisticresults.com.au website simply register below.

You will be sent a link to the videos and can learn at your own pace. If you’d like to attend a course with others in attendance or get consulting specific to your context please get in touch with the Holistic Management Educators.