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Sustainability Toolkit is a 12 month programme designed for those wanting to learn about systems thinking and to make the transition to sustainable work.

For the date of our next Sustainability Toolkit Open Day – click here

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 "The Toolkit works around my full-time employment to encourage an engaging look at myself and the world of 'systems'. We're collectively guiding ourselves through ideas and interests within systems thinking - and it feels like it's only just begun!" 

Aim: This Schumacher Institute programme exists to provide a knowledge and skill base to underpin your transition to sustainable work.

A mindmap of the aims can be found here (PDF)  ... and an animation version here (MP4)

What you will learn: On successful completion of the programme, you will:

Understand:

  • What is a worldview and why this is important;
  • How you learn;
  • The difference between the prevailing mechanistic and the emerging systemic paradigms, and their associated consequences in the context of sustainability;
  • A range of useful tools and techniques for interpreting the world.

And you will be able to:

  • Recognise your own worldview and how it affects your interpretation of the world;
  • Evaluate different perspectives on the basis of evidence;
  • Effectively communicate your ideas, and who you are, in a range of different contexts;
  • Work with others to achieve a shared outcome;
  • Create, design, deliver and lead a project;
  • Intervene more effectively to bring about desirable change, for yourself and others;
  • Think more effectively.