Strategies For Change
Strategies for Change — Online Cohort
A Guided Learning Experience for Designers, Organizers & Community Builders
Impact is a practice. And it grows stronger in community.
The Strategies for Change Online Cohort is a live, guided training designed for people who are ready to bring intention, structure, and clarity to the work of social transformation. Whether you’re building a new initiative, supporting a community effort, or mapping a challenge inside an organization, this cohort gives you the tools and frameworks to design solutions rooted in justice, collaboration, and long-term sustainability.
Participants receive a digital copy of the Strategies for Social Change Workbook as the core companion—your space to think through the work, sketch possibilities, and apply what you learn directly to your own project.
This is not a passive course.
This is hands-on impact design—guided, supported, and rooted in real problems you’re ready to solve.
What This Cohort Is
A four-part online learning experience where you:
- Bring a real project or problem you want to make progress on
- Learn core concepts from Impact Design to create systemic change.
- Apply tools from the workbook in real time
- Receive guidance, reflection prompts, and feedback
- Work alongside a community of people committed to building a more equitable world
Each session blends teaching, facilitated exercises, group discussion, and individual design time.
By the end, you’ll walk away with clarity about your challenge, a systems-informed strategy, and a grounded plan for your next steps.
Who This Is For
This cohort is built for:
- Designers working in social, community, or service design
- Organizers and movement leaders
- Nonprofit practitioners and educators
- Social entrepreneurs and cultural workers
- Anyone with a mission-driven project seeking structure, alignment, or momentum
If you’ve been searching for a way to make your work more intentional, more strategic, and more connected to the systems you’re trying to shift—this is it.
What You’ll Learn
• Systems Mapping for Clarity
Understand root causes, relationships, influences, and leverage points.
• Backcasting for Future-Aligned Strategy
Define the future you want, then design your way there.
• Why Me / Why This / Why Now Inquiry
Strengthen purpose, motivation, and community alignment.
• Multiple Truths & Stakeholder Insight
Build solutions that hold complexity with compassion and honesty.
• Failure Harvest & Reflective Learning
Identify hidden knowledge and refine your direction.
Each module is grounded in the workbook, giving you a clear roadmap you can reuse for any future project.
What You’ll Leave With
- A mapped understanding of the problem you’re addressing
- Clear insights into the people, systems, and conditions involved
- A strategic path informed by future-oriented thinking
- A deeper sense of purpose, alignment, and direction
- A supportive network of peers working on parallel challenges
- And a complete, filled-in Strategies for Social Change Workbook you can return to each time you design for impact
Bring a Project. Leave With a Plan.
The cohort is most powerful when you show up with something you care about—a community issue, a new idea, a challenge inside your workplace, an initiative you want to grow. Throughout the sessions, you apply every tool directly to your work, gaining clarity one step at a time.
This is how impact becomes actionable.
Join the Cohort
If you’re ready to design solutions with intention, build work that honors people and place, and strengthen your practice inside a supportive learning community, join us.
The future doesn’t change itself.
We design it. Together.
Pay-What-You-Can Tuition
Because healing, clarity, and self-leadership shouldn’t be a luxury this course is pay what you can.
This course is valued at $5000, is intended to take 3-6mos of working strategy sessions, and includes personal consulting time. However, depending on your situation.