If we want to transform an unjust world, we face a challenge. All of us have internalized many elements of the status quo. What if the biggest barrier we face in achieving our mission is our inability to reshape deeply rooted assumptions that shape our thinking and behavior?
In this course, we will go on a collective journey of unlearning. We will fearlessly explore our own assumptions, and the ways these may be in conflict with our values. We will examine what ‘hidden curriculum’ we learned from our schools and society. We will investigate what it takes to reshape ingrained patterns of behavior. This is dangerous work. When deeply rooted assumptions are challenged, we can encounter fierce resistance both from within ourselves and our wider society.
Course Objectives
- Understand the relationship between learning and unlearning, and why this is vital for the work of achieving our mission.
- Fearlessly explore your own history of learning and unlearning, and identify what you most want to unlearn.
- Identify the main sources of resistance (both within yourself and your society) to unlearning, and develop a long term plan for unlearning informed by an engagement with learning theory.
Is this for me?
This course is for anyone who believes our societies are on a perilous and unsustainable path. And is particularly relevant for program designers and people who support the development of others. It’s also relevant for anyone who think we need to ask fundamental questions about what we are learning, implicitly and explicitly, in our schools, and for anyone committed to our mission who wants to challenge their thinking, i.e. anyone who sees unlearning as a vital part of their own, and others’, leadership development.
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU:
- READ the course description
- REVIEW dates and times, make sure you convert to your time zone
- KNOW what language options there are for the course
- CHECK if you are the intended audience
This course will be held in English and will have 5 x 120-minute sessions from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. GMT on the following dates:
- September 4,11,18,25
- October 2
Apply here.
If we want to transform an unjust world, we face a challenge. All of us have internalized many elements of the status quo. What if the biggest barrier we face in achieving our mission is our inability to reshape deeply rooted assumptions that shape our…
