Join us for our Experience Prosocial course! This will be a practical, fun and transformational learning journey.
Together we will explore the question “How can we collaborate in service to the regeneration of the Earth?” Join us on our 6 week learning journey beginning July 11th!
Over 6 weeks, we will explore the planetary predicament humanity is in with an empowering focus on how to guide the intentional cultural evolution of trust and cooperation at different scales. This includes real-world examples of landscape restoration where diverse people come together around the shared purpose of restoring rivers and bringing forests back to degraded landscapes.
Each week we will meet for 1 hour seminars as a whole group to introduce key content; then you will have the option of attending one or more 90 minute smaller group conversations, which are more like workshops. We call these “community calls.”
The course will unfold organically in response to the needs and interests of students, but always holding in mind our core question. We will introduce the basics in the first weeks, then respond to the themes that emerge from the community conversations. There will be opportunities for sub-groups to form around particular sectors or questions, and pursue their own interests.
There will also be an opportunity for you to complete a hands-on project to enhance a group or network that you are passionate about. At the end of the course, you will have a broad understanding of an emerging approach for working with complexity in human systems, and you will have joined a global community of people using ProSocial to make a difference. If you want to learn what ProSocial is and how it can aid you in your work to regenerate the Earth, this is your next step.
Because we practice both systemic and emergent approaches through ProSocial, this is a responsive course that we will build with you. Each journey is unique to the people coming together for it, however, wherever our journeying takes us, at the end of the 6 weeks you will:
To learn more about Regenerating Earth with ProSocial, you are warmly invited to attend one of two optional webinars:
The total time commitment to get the most out of the course is 3.5-4.5 hours per week for 6 weeks.
This consists of a one hour ‘content’ call outlining key ideas and engaging in Q&A, a 1.5 hour ‘community call’ to collectively reflect upon and discuss the materials, and approximately 1-2 hours per week in reading, personal reflection or preparatory materials. (You are welcome to attend more than one community call if you wish.)
Although we will be starting with the broad outline of the ProSocial model, the direction of the 6 weeks will unfold in direct response to the needs and interests of the group. Our focal question that will guide us throughout the journey is "How can we collaborate in service to the regeneration of the Earth?"
And while we are confident that the ProSocial model will help us to respond to that question, the primary point of the experience is:
Please attend the community calls/workshops and then watch the webinar recording or attend live (as desired).
"Prosocial provides practical and well-developed tools to bring out pro-social values and behaviours in teams. I highly recommend it to organisations wanting to put their values into practice every day."
Co-Founder and Director, Common Cause Australia
"Take this course if you want to befriend your fears, doubts, and vulnerabilities. Trust me, Prosocial is the great adaptation our society has been waiting for."
Human
"The most valuable thing about this course is to know that I am not alone, there are others out there, at the edge, moving in the same direction."
COO/Co-founder, Nearsoft, Lnc.
I am a social psychologist, facilitator, researcher and author. My passion in life is creating more harmonious, cooperative, meaningful relationships. I co-founded Prosocial World with David Sloan Wilson and was lead author of the book articulating the Prosocial method. The last 10 years have been the greatest privilege of my life to get to meet and be influenced by the wonderful Prosocial World community. These days I am noticing I spend more time asking myself 'what does the system need here and how can I help?'. This is profoundly satisfying for me. We, humans, were designed to ask that question much more than our individualistic societies invite us too! I look forward to meeting you properly.
I am a practitioner of Earth Regeneration who brings more than two decades of experience in applied cultural evolution, Earth Systems Science, and strategic engagements with diverse social movements around the world. As a founder of the Design School for Regenerating Earth, I help people organize their landscapes around cultural and ecological regeneration practices.
Pip has worked as a Manager of a large not for profit and as an executive coach in for profit organisations. She currently uses Prosocial approaches with Cooperatives and not for profits. She has facilitated Prosocial training courses for the last 3 years and is always learning.
Dounia strives to embody the more beautiful meaning of her name -in oh so many languages (Arabic, Hindi, Swahili, Farci, Indonesian, Turkish, Tatar…) dounia means world. A renegade economist, citizen of the world, she is constantly reflecting and playing with what it means to love. Dounia trained as a Prosocial facilitator in early 2021 and just joined the Prosocial World team as community catalyst. Dounia currently breathes and dreams on the unceded Mi'kmaq territories of Southern Nova Scotia where she lives with her family.
Dounia strives to embody the more beautiful meaning of her name -in oh so many languages (Arabic, Hindi, Swahili, Farci, Indonesian, Turkish, Tatar…) dounia means world. A renegade economist, citizen of the world, she is constantly reflecting and playing with what it means to love. Dounia trained as a Prosocial facilitator in early 2021 and just joined the Prosocial World team as community catalyst. Dounia currently breathes and dreams on the unceded Mi'kmaq territories of Southern Nova Scotia where she lives with her family.
As core steward/director of Prosocial Schools and Prosocial Youth, Peter draws on his experience as head, curriculum specialist, and science teacher at several schools in Vermont and New York. For 13 years he developed and taught school and summer youth programs at Shelburne Farms, a National Historic Landmark and leader in education for sustainability, where he also served as an organizational development fellow. Recently Peter served as the Founding Director of the Eileen Rockefeller House ("Rock-E") where he met David Sloan Wilson and became trained as a Prosocial facilitator under Paul Atkins. Throughout his career Peter has practiced dynamic governance with students and faculty. Learn more about Peter at Linkedin
With one foot in the commercial design world (Sr. Design Director at Magic Leap and former Chief Creative Officer of Second Story), the other is firmly rooted in regenerative design and cultural change. Joel is a certified Prosocial facilitator, a fellow at the RSA (Royal Society of Arts) and contributor to organizations such as Earth Regenerators and Local Futures. Joel is co-founder and executive producer of Outside In, a podcast about the inner and outer work of transformative design. He also serves on the advisory board of Our Hidden Worlds, an immersive entertainment venue for ocean conservation.
I am a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and have been working in the National Health Service in the UK for over 25 years. About 12 years or so ago we started using Contextual Behavioural Science approaches, such as ACT, DNA-V & CFT in our Medical Paediatric Psychology Service. We started experimenting with PROSOCIAL to see if it could help us support a couple of children and it was a transformative experience for us. We have now been applying and adapting PROSOCIAL to many health and social care services across the country, all the while enjoying the journey and being a part of the PROSOCIAL World community.
Karin is an Independent HR Consultant, having worked in HR within a myriad of industries for over 30 years, including large corporates, SMEs, not-for-profits, and healthcare environments, as well as manufacturing and local services. Most recently, she achieved a Master’s in human resource management. Her research focussed on the analysis and efficacy measurement of well-being interventions available to over 500 staff working within a mental healthcare residential facility. The conclusions of the research led her directly to PROSOCIAL in her search for paradigm-shift solutions to address barriers to effective resource management, sustainability, and team culture shift. She has been using Prosocial principles and facilitating change through her practice since 2020. She has seen the efficacy of using these to bring about sustained collaborative problem-solving and solution-finding within varied and complex environments. LinkedIn
Ian describes himself as a curious generalist, exploring different ways of understanding the world and making a difference in it. His fascination with how people and places shape each other drew him to study Geography and then take a role in UK local government. Here Ian led efforts to improve collaboration between public sector organizations, departments and communities. He went on to complete a Masters in Behavioral Science before joining the RSA, where Ian led consultancy work helping others with their innovation and change projects. Now in the humanitarian sector with the Start Network, Ian is continuing his inquiry into how we can collaborate across systems to create the conditions for change.
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Ella supports communities, organisations and individuals grapple with their long term challenges and progress their change efforts using innovation and change processes. She’s worked on lifelong learning, health, future of work and regenerative futures programmes as former Innovation and Change Manager at the RSA (Royal Society of Arts). Her interests have centred on how global challenges play out in local contexts and at an individual level. She has an MSc in Global Migration and BSc in Psycology. She joined the Prosocial community and became a Prosocial Facilitator in 2020, greatly enabling her to realise the power of collaboration, working with others towards common social agendas. LinkedIn