Why Take a Common Earth Course
At the heart of our organization lies a commitment to providing meaningful educational journeys. There’s no better way to illustrate this than through the stories of those who have experienced this first hand. We hope their stories will inspire you.
- Workshops are available to be delivered online or in-person. (icon of a person with a computer)
- Timing ranges from 1-3 hours or full days depending on client’s needs. (icon of a watch)
- Workshops can be combined for a comprehensive experience and be distributed over 3 different days. (icon of a calendar)
Workshop Benefits
Workshops Strands of Inquiry
Our workshops are designed to meet the needs of the school, organisation and audience with whom we will be working and attend to three major strands of inquiry: systems, sustainability and purpose.
- Systems
The systems strand points to the ubiquity of interconnected systems in our world. Visual and conceptual frameworks help make sense of the micro and macro systems at play in everything around us.
- Sustainability
The sustainability strand draws attention to regenerative, long-term, expansive, and inclusive ways to meet human needs in ways that do not compromise the needs of other living beings or future generations.
- Purpose
The purpose strand explores alternative ways of understanding the purpose and goals of human activity. Presence and compassion are emphasized as essential qualities for exercising agency in reimagining our present and future global community.
Workshop Options
Remembering What You Already Know
Remembering What You Already Know
- Systems – identifying natural and human-created systems and what distinguishes one from the other (intervention, intention to control, limitless growth vs oscillation towards default equilibrium)
- Sustainability – looking to nature’s wisdom can lead us to better planetary and (therefore) human outcomes
- Purpose – there is a default wisdom inherent in us all that allows us to recognize the power of thought and our ability to choose a different story
Zooming Out (To Zoom In)
Zooming Out (To Zoom In)
- Systems – everything is a system within a system, both macro and micro
- Sustainability – using the human ability to collect data while also exercising imagination shows us how zooming out allows us to see ‘the story’ playing out over time, and to anticipate unintended consequences of our past and current actions
- Purpose – this information can be used to design and create a better present and future
Systems Tools
Systems Tools
- Systems – systems tools and frameworks such as the Iceberg Model and the Leverage Points help us navigate complexity with more ease and confidence
- Sustainability – the environmental problems we are currently facing are multi-factored and complex, and with the right tools we can have a deeper understanding of them and focus on better ways of leveraging change
- Purpose – understanding interconnectedness and leveraging change
The Classroom as Commons
The Classroom as Commons (for schools)
- Systems – identifying systems archetypes, particularly The Tragedy of the Commons, and turning your classroom into the Triumph of the Commons.
- Sustainability – ensuring climate justice and wellbeing for all communities on Earth rather than the benefit of a few
- Purpose – individual agency and collective freedom
The Evolutionary Process
The Evolutionary Process (for schools)
- Systems – complexity has been increasing since the creation of the universe with the Big Bang
- Sustainability – interfering with our own and other species natural creative evolutionary processes defies Earth’s systems resulting in the lost opportunity for planetary and human adaptation
- Purpose – hope resides in the idea that our human path and its impacts on other creative forms are incomplete; we are a species still in progress (as is everything else)
Reach Out
We love talking about what we do and how it can make a difference to you.