Systemic Change
An 8-session online program for sustainability and climate practitioners who want to work more wisely with complexity, change, and burnout
If you work in sustainability or climate change, you may know this feeling:
You care deeply, you’re trying hard, and yet the same problems keep coming back.
You may be:
feeling frustrated or burned out
questioning whether your current ways of working are helping
trying to create systems change inside resistant organisations
struggling to engage others in meaningful change
dealing with culture, power, and uncertainty
looking for a better way to work
Systemic Change is for practitioners who want a more thoughtful, practical, and effective way to respond to complex change.
This 8-session online program runs from July to December, finishing before Christmas.
Why this program, why now?
Sustainability and climate work is not just technical. It is relational, political, emotional, and systemic.
Many practitioners are doing important work inside organisations and systems that are:
fragmented
overloaded
resistant to change
shaped by competing priorities
not designed for the scale of transformation needed
That can leave you feeling stuck, isolated, or exhausted.
This program is designed to help you:
understand why change is so hard
stop relying only on linear, technical approaches
work with complexity rather than against it
engage others more effectively
take strategic action
build a more sustainable relationship with the work
What you’ll learn
Across 8 sessions, you will build practical and reflective skills in:
Seeing the system
Learn how to diagnose the challenge you’re working on and understand the patterns, relationships, and politics shaping it.
Engaging others in change
Develop ways to bring people with you, create shared understanding, and work productively with different perspectives.
Working with complexity
Explore complexity science and living systems thinking to better understand change that is uncertain, adaptive, and interconnected.
Creating adaptive processes
Learn how to design ways of working that support learning, experimentation, and creative tension.
Taking strategic action
Develop approaches to change that are iterative, political, and grounded in what is possible now.
Reducing burnout and frustration
Reflect on how the systems, expectations, and ways of working around you may be contributing to exhaustion — and what to do differently.
Thinking about futures
Explore possible futures and learn how to respond more wisely to uncertainty and less-favoured scenarios.
Strengthening ongoing reflection
Build a reflective practice you can continue beyond the program.
How is this program different?
This is not a generic leadership course.
It is designed specifically for sustainability and climate practitioners who want:
real-world application
honest reflection
peer learning
tools that fit complexity
support for difficult working conditions
a more regenerative way of contributing
You will be invited to work on a real workplace challenge throughout the program, so the learning is immediately relevant.
What is the format of the program?
8 online sessions
running July to December
finishes before Christmas
designed for sustainability and climate practitioners
includes applied learning, reflection, and peer consultation
centered on one real workplace challenge
This is a space to think, test, reflect, and learn together.
Is this program the right fit for you?
This program is for you if you are:
a sustainability, climate, or regenerative change practitioner
feeling frustrated, overloaded, or burned out
working in or with organisations that resist change
interested in systems, culture, and uncertainty
looking for a deeper and more practical way to work
ready to explore new approaches with peers
It may also be a fit if you’ve been asking:
Why do the same problems keep returning?
How do I engage others in change?
How do I make progress without burning out?
How do I work more strategically in a complex system?
How do I stay effective in a culture that doesn’t fully support this work?
Free webinar
Not sure yet? Join the free webinar.
You’ll hear more about:
the program content
the approach and learning design
who it is for
the kinds of challenges it can help with
why it may be valuable for aligned sustainability and climate practitioners