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edX is the platform hosting the course. There you will find videos, readings and short exercises, and you will also be able to register for a verified certificate from MITx if you choose to do so.
The u-school website is the companion platform. Here you will be able to meet and interact with others through the discussion board, find a coaching circle, sign up for the listening assessment and access the key tools and practices.
Check the program structure and timeline below.
“Many of us sense that the civilization we are a part of is hitting the wall... we want to be part of a different story - we just don’t know how.”
- Otto Scharmer
Join a 14-week global / multi-local journey of “learning by doing" where you get familiar with the methods and principles of Theory U and cultivate your ability to apply its tools, methods, and frameworks to the most pressing challenges of our time.
Whether you’re working to transform business, society, or self, u-lab 1x is designed to deepen your capacities and give you practical experience for enacting awareness-based systems change. While most strategies of change focus on optimizing the past, u-lab gives us the tools to sense into and lead from the future that is wanting to emerge.
Today's challenges call for profound innovation across all societal sectors. Rethinking, reinventing and evolving the way we operate in our society requires a profound shift in how we think, engage and act (activating the intelligence of the head, heart, and hand). Join the program and a global community of people who sense that another world is possible.
u-lab 1x is run in partnership with MITx. Click above to join us.
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The course will feature:
The Orientation Module will be made available on September 1st. All other Modules will be made available on September 8th. While you can complete the course at your own pace, the instructors will facilitate Live Sessions on a monthly basis - as indicated below.
Orientation Module:
In this Introduction to u-lab, you will learn how to use and navigate the social and community elements of the course, and you will find some guidelines to get familiar with the edX platform.
Module 1: Co-Initiating
This module is the actual start of the course, and it consists of an introduction to the deeper sources of our current global challenges. You will learn about the art and practice of deep listening, and set your intention for the journey ahead. There will be a Live Session on September 22nd that corresponds to Module 1.
Module 2: Co-Sensing
To sense into your current context, in this module you will learn how to gather data by suspending and listening through practices such as learning journeys and stakeholder interviews. The second half of this module will teach you how to make sense of the data you generate using Social Presencing Theater.
Module 3: Presencing
At the bottom of the U, you will be guided to retreat and reflect, allowing deeper sources of knowledge to emerge by connecting with a future possibility that is in need of us. There will be a Live Session on October 20th that corresponds to Module 3.
Module 4: Co-Creating
To move upwards after the profound phase of Presencing, in this module you will learn how to stay connected to your deeper sources of inspiration and pay attention in a way that will enable you to move from idea to action -- learning by doing. This module also describes practices to engage in prototyping activities to generate feedback that will help you evolve your inspiration / idea. In a nutshell, this module contains principles to support the evolution from an idea, to a prototype, to an initiative with the potential to scale.
Module 5: Co-Evolving
We all know about many episodes and stories of great transformational change and breakthrough. But at the end of the day they remain merely that: episodes. Sooner or later the larger system snaps back into the old way of operating. Unless the deeper root issues are addressed, transformational episodes may lack the conditions to spread across the remaining system. How to attend to these root issues while prototyping is the question we will explore in this Module. There will be a Live Session on November 17th that corresponds to Module 5.
Module 6: The Journey Ahead
What is emerging globally from u-lab 1x and what is needed to carry momentum forward? What are the next steps in the u-lab journey? There will be a final Live Session on December 8th addressing these questions.
Certificate:
Deadline for the verified certificate of completion track is December 15th.
Want to know more? Check the General Course Information