Free Programs

We provide Arenas of Activation year-round with free public offerings

— that is, arenas that help us as changemakers to spark and connect with our highest aspiration, our best future potential, and to sense the fields of resonance with fellow changemakers across other sectors and geographies, while beginning to operate from that felt connection in the now. Since 2015 we have had more than 200,000 registered participants in our free online-to-offline arenas of activation.

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Photo Credit: Alexy Kudrik, Theory U conference, Israel | by BeDo

u-lab

u-lab is an annual cycle offered for free and can be done with partners (such as MITx), with the purpose of democratizing access to the methods and tools of awareness-based systems change. Today’s global challenges require new structures, and new mindsets, new sources of awareness and creativity across social systems. The u-lab programs support leaders to operate from these deeper levels.

 


u-lab 0x | ongoing

Leading Change in Times of Disruption: Introduction to Theory U

This is a free 90-minute course to introduce you to Theory U, a framework and method for leading and supporting systems change based on the work of Otto Scharmer and colleagues at MIT. u-lab 0x is an entry point to a longer journey and emerging global network – both of which you will have the opportunity to join after completing this course.

This is a self-paced course.

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u-lab 1x | September-November

Learn to Lead from the Emerging Future

This MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) run in partnership with MITx is a 6-week program on the foundations of Theory U, a transformative process for transformative change that blends systems thinking, consciousness and wisdom traditions, and civic action. It is a “learning by doing" program where you get familiar with Theory U tools, methods, and frameworks and start cultivating your ability to apply them to your life and work. 

This is an online self-paced course complemented  with synchronous live sessions bringing together thousands of change makers from around the world. 

u-lab 1x runs every year from September to December. In partnership with MITx.

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u-lab 2x | February-May

From Prototype to Eco-System Impact

u-lab 2x is designed to help teams apply their learning from u-lab 1x, PFP or ELFP,  to change initiatives in their communities and organizations. Participating teams join a three-month, online and offline innovation journey that applies awareness-based tools and methods to and rapid cycle prototyping to help to evolve from prototype to eco-system impact.

This is an online self-paced course combined with live sessions for teams. u-lab 2x runs every year from February to May. Participation is by application only.

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Hub Hosting & Activation

In order to support change through awareness-based action, there is no doubt that the community is needed. People all over the world gather when u-lab runs, learn and apply the learnings together, and many of the community members continue to work with each other all year long. Learn how to organize and host generative spaces, and how to activate intention and action toward civilizational renewal.


Hub Hosting | ongoing

Organizing and holding generative spaces

Learn how to organize and hold the spaces which brings together pioneers, change-makers and social innovators from around the world for dialogues and experiential learning journeys. 

This course contains links, guidance and usuful resources on how to host a hubs - safe spaces to deepen understanding of our programs, do deep system-sensing, cultivating shared awareness, and activating transformation.

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GAIA | ongoing

Global Activation of Intention and Action

A series of monthly sessions to provide you resources to activate a more empathetic and generative world.

This course contains recordings and resources of the sessions occurred in 2020-2021 each focusing on a specific area for societal transformation and planetary healing, like: Mission-Driven Finance, Social Arts, Soil & Food and Climate Change.

The learning experience follows a weekly rhythm of inhalation and exhalation, involving day-long series of events or live sessions. Sessions include deep listening practices, small breakout groups, intentional stillness, reflective journaling, social presencing theatre, live music performance and social image resonance.

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Transforming Finance as a Force for Good

Money and Finance are one of the key ‘acupuncture points’ for systemic change that when addressed together, they hold the potential to transform our dominant civilizational forms by bridging the ecological and social divides of our time, and by transforming our underlying operating systems from from ego-system to eco-system awareness.

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Just Money | July-November

Banking as if Society Mattered

What is the role of a bank in producing societal well-being? This program looks into banks that operate differently, namely, “just banks" that use capital and finance as a tool to produce positive social, environmental, and economic change.

No previous knowledge of finance or banking is needed to take this course.

This is a self-paced course with live sessions. Just Money runs every year from July to November. In partnership with MITx.

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Join the u-school action-oriented learning experiences. Connect with a community of innovators, change makers, activists, educators and social entrepreneurs all around the world.

 

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