The School of System Change aims to equip people with the capabilities to lead system change initiatives addressing complex sustainability challenges. It offers learning experiences, tools, case studies and a global community of practice to connect change agents. The presenters discuss the design process of their learning experience, applying systems change capabilities to their own work. They outline frameworks for systems change and strategies for building the field. Their goal is for the School to fulfill the role of enabler and energizer of the wider network and field of systems change.

1. The School of System Change
as a system change endeavour
RSD 6 Oslo, October 2017
Laura Winn, Corina Angheloiu
Link to slides: https://goo.gl/447sSx

2. Who we are
Forum for the Future
Forum for the Future is a global sustainability
charity founded in 1996, which offered a certified
one-year Masters programme in Leadership and
Sustainability from 1998 to 2016 in order to deliver
the education-focused part of its charitable
purpose.
School of System Change
The School of System Change, nurtured by Forum, is
equipping people with the capabilities to lead system change
initiatives addressing complex sustainability challenges.
The School offers flexible access to the best learning
experiences, tools, case studies from the field of system
change. It is growing a global community of practice by
connecting existing networks of change agents who want to
shift whole systems.

4. 1. The design process of creating a learning experience about systems change
2. Applying systems change processes to our work - The 5 capabilities for
systems change
3. Questions going forward
What we’ll be covering today

5. Capabilities for system change

6. Systemic diagnosis: applying Multi-Level Perspective
Adapted from Geels, 2007

7. Frameworks of the Field: creating a mirror for the field
Link to map: https://systemschangelab.kumu.io/system-change

8. Strategy design: not just a learning offer, but building the field
[COURSES]
[RESOURCES]
[COMMUNITY]

9. Innovation for impact: creating the connective tissue

10. Basecamps are a system They have...
A function
The learning
outcomes and
curriculum they are
trying to deliver
A pattern
The structure and
flow of the learning
experience based
around principles and
assumptions about
learning for system
change
Relationships
Between the
participants, hosts,
coaches,
contributors,
fieldwork partners
and the content

11. Collaboration and engagement

12. Leadership and learning
Different developmental pathways for networks.
Adapted from Baran, 1962.

13. Questions going forward
● How might the School fulfill the role of enabler and energiser of the wider network
and therefore the field of systems change?
● How might the Frameworks of the Field be able to model this?

14. Questions?
Get in touch:
Laura Winn | l.winn@forumforthefuture.org
Anna Birney | a.birney@forumforthefuture.org
Corina Angheloiu |
c.angheloiu@forumforthefuture.org
Link to slides: https://goo.gl/447sSx