REGENERATIVE DESIGN FOR CHANGEMAKERS
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YOU CARRY A BLUEPRINT FOR SYSTEMIC CHANGE
Self-Paced Online Social Permaculture Course
Are you curious how regenerative design can transform your personal life and catalyze lasting social change?
Do you identify as a consultant, educator, entrepreneur, or community changemaker looking to evolve your capabilities in dismantling racism and other forms of oppression?
Are you a changemaker feeling burnt out and overwhelmed living in late-stage capitalism and yearning to regain your creative agency?
Regenerative Design for Changemakers is a compelling and accessible Social Permaculture course that calls changemakers to action by applying ecosystem intelligence and justice practices to their social impact projects. Taking a fractal approach, participants learn scaleable frameworks to redesign their inner lives, relationships with others, and wider social systems in accordance with regenerative patterns from the natural world.
WHAT WE'LL COVER
This is a companion course to Abrah Dresdale’s groundbreaking book Regenerative Design for Changemakers: A Social Permaculture Guide, and covers:
- Social permaculture exercises that champion changemakers in replacing degenerative patterns with regenerative, life-affirming practices
- Justice-based frameworks and ecological principles to dismantle racism and other forms of oppression
- A “Social Design Lab” for analyzing and designing one’s own change-making project
- Creative structures that support overextended changemakers in self-care practices that center rest and reflection
- Group resilience frameworks, including accountability buddies, implementation teams, and alliance-building.
- Invitation to engage in regular rituals such as grief release and project reflectionÂ
COURSE COMPONENTS
Inspiring video lessons that guide you through regenerative design theory and practical approaches
Applied exercises that you can share with colleagues, plus additional reflection and integration journal prompts
Informative readings in the form of posts and short articles from Regenerative Design for Changemakers: A Social Permaculture Guide
Thought-provoking discussion prompts for inspiring dialogue
An exclusive learning community on Regenerative Changemakers’ wider network to connect with fellow participants and workshop faculty, Abrah Dresdale
An online network to support a community of practice for workshop alumni long after the course concludes
YOUR TEACHER
Regenerative Design for Changemakers is hosted by Abrah Dresdale, M.A., (she/her), Co-founding Director of Regenerate Change, a visionary educator, curriculum designer, and culture-shift consultant specializing in regenerative design, social permaculture, and prison food justice.
Abrah has been Faculty since 2011 at the Sustainable Food and Farming program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and for Omega Institute’s Center for Sustainable Living since 2015. She was the Founding Faculty and Coordinator of the nationally acclaimed Farm and Food Systems program at Greenfield Community College. She later established and led the Jail-to-Farm-to-College & Employment program in Massachusetts’ Franklin County Jail.
Named a New England Fixer by Grist Magazine, she is author of Regenerative Design for Changemakers.
Visit her website at: abrahdresdale.com
Regenerative Design for Changemakers is hosted by Abrah Dresdale, M.A., (she/her), Co-founding Director of Regenerate Change, a visionary educator, curriculum designer, and culture-shift consultant specializing in regenerative design, social permaculture, and prison food justice.
Abrah has been Faculty since 2011 at the Sustainable Food and Farming program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and for Omega Institute’s Center for Sustainable Living since 2015. She was the Founding Faculty and Coordinator of the nationally acclaimed Farm and Food Systems program at Greenfield Community College. She later established and led the Jail-to-Farm-to-College & Employment program in Massachusetts’ Franklin County Jail.
Named a New England Fixer by Grist Magazine, she is author of Regenerative Design for Changemakers.
Visit her website at: abrahdresdale.com
COURSE TIMELINE
Regenerative Design for Changemakers contains 14 Units, organized over a 7 week timeframe. While this course is ideally completed within 7 weeks, the course material will remain available to you indefinitely.
Taking a fractal approach, each week we’ll cover 2 units with content related to:
1. personal regeneration of the SELF, and
2. applying regenerative design to social SYSTEMS, such as organizations, institutions, and businesses.
- Week 1: UNIT 1-SELF: Our Roots & UNIT 1-SYSTEMS: Context
- Week 2:Â UNIT 2-SELF: Personal Emergence & UNIT 2-SYSTEMS: Holistic Goals
- Week 3:Â UNIT 3-SELF: Bearing Fruit & UNIT 3-SYSTEMS: Analysis & Assessment
- Week 4:Â UNIT 4-SELF: Seeding Leadership & UNIT 4-SYSTEMS: Social Design
- Week 5: UNIT 5-SELF: Healing Rains & UNIT 5-SYSTEMS: Implementation
- Week 6:Â UNIT 6-SELF: Soil of Relationships & UNIT 6-SYSTEMS: Evaluation
- Week 7:Â UNIT 7-SELF: Silence at the Center & UNIT 7-SYSTEMS: Reflection & Integration
This course is an asynchronous course spread over 7 weeks. This means that you can log on and engage with the course content and the learning community whenever you like! While there are no live video calls to fit into your schedule, you can post questions to faculty Abrah Dresdale and each week she will respond to your comments.
Depending on your learning style and pace, each week participants will spend about 2-4 hours engaging with the content in this course. Additionally, you can choose how much or little you want to dialogue with others by posting in the course activity feed. Remember, the course is “active” during the 7 weeks, but the course material will remain available to you indefinitely.
REGISTRATION COST
All our educational offerings at Regenerate Change are run on a sliding-scale model, with three tiers to allow for participation from changemakers of a wide variety of backgrounds. Before you sign up, please review the options below and pick the tier that feels most appropriate for your circumstances.
SCHOLARSHIP RATE
$165
A limited number of scholarship seats are reserved at this rate solely for participants who identify as low-income BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color). Register here by self-selection – no application necessary.
SUSTAINER RATE
$485
Register at this rate if you’re an individual or representing a new organization, and do not land in either the Scholarship or Sponsor descriptions. This rate reflects the true cost for Regenerate Change to deliver this course.
SPONSOR RATE
$725
For participants who have access to intergenerational wealth or self-generated surplus income, we encourage registering at the Sponsor rate. This rate directly supports our ability to provide scholarships and funds towards our reparations commitment.