Notes on a just and regenerative future

On our blog, you’ll read contributions from a range of people and organisations who share our enthusiasm and our ambition for a just and regenerative future, and our desire to learn from each other.

Writing as a Collective, Systemic Process: Insights From Co-creating the Systems Change Learning Handbook

This piece draws on content from the School’s Systems Change Learning Handbook and acknowledges its co-authors: Anna Birney, Rachel Phillips, Rachel Maria Taylor, Saskia Rysenbry, Sean Andrew and other collaborative partners at the School, notably Laura Winn and Payam Yuce Isik. …
by Katie Slee

April 28, 2025
Constellating Change: How the Stars Gathered Around Our Systems Change Learning and Practice Series

Written by Anna Birney in conversation with Sean Andrew and Louise Armstrong Just over a year ago, the School of System Change hosted the first session of Constellating Change, a learning and practice series that allowed us to explore the dynamic and interconnected nature of …
- #In Practice
by Anna Birney

October 16, 2024
A Refreshed Curriculum: Four Learning Outcomes and Seven Capabilities for Systems Change

Where it started It’s said that each life cycle takes seven years to complete. In 2017 we held our first School of System Change Basecamp, a deep dive into the foundations of systems change practice, designed to stimulate five capabilities for systems change. These capabilities …
- #In Practice
by Anna Birney

October 12, 2024
Unearthing the Inquiries to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning as Systemic Practice

Having worked in change making spaces for twenty years, and being passionate about learning, I have always been interested and enjoyed the work of monitoring and evaluation; bringing cycles of learning to projects, teams, designing learning frameworks and doing my postgraduate …
- #In Practice
by Anna Birney

March 19, 2024
A Personal Journey Shaping a Philanthropic Portfolio Along the Three Horizons Framework

Marion Birnstill is a seasoned global health and partnering professional with close to 15 years’ experience spanning a career working for leading organisations across the private, public and non-profit sectors. She is partnering with the School to explore together how we might …
- #Alumni Stories
- #In Practice
- #Health
by Marion Birnstill

February 16, 2024
Working Systemically for Transformation

This is blog four in our series created to complement Stepping Into Systems, our introductory short film series on systems change. In blog one, we speak about the process of creating the film series, which involved in-depth interviews – yarnings – with a diverse range of systems …
- #Worldviews & Philosophies
- #Relational
by Saskia Rysenbry

February 8, 2024
The Importance of Systemic Worldviews

This is blog three in our series created to complement Stepping Into Systems, our introductory short film series on systems change. In blog one, we speak about the process of creating the film series, which involved in-depth interviews – yarnings – with a diverse range of …
- #Worldviews & Philosophies
- #Relational
by Saskia Rysenbry

January 31, 2024
What Is Systems Change?

This is the second blog in the series created to complement Stepping Into Systems, our introductory short film series on systems change. In the first blog, we speak about the process of creating the film series, which involved in-depth interviews – yarnings – with a diverse …
- #Worldviews & Philosophies
- #Relational
by Saskia Rysenbry

January 26, 2024
Learnings and Insights From Stepping Into Systems

The School of System Change exists to nurture a systemic, living paradigm, where learning is change. Learning is not the transactional, linear process of acquiring institutionalised knowledge; it’s the process of cultivating the ability to be in the world as it changes. It’s the …
by Saskia Rysenbry

January 19, 2024
Embracing Emergence: Reflections on Facilitating a Changemaker Writing Retreat

Written by Louise Armstrong & Anna Birney With some light support and augmentation from Chat GPT Laid back emergent facialition at its best (Left to right — Anna, Louise & retreat participant Saskia) We — Anna & Louise — cohosted a writing retreat for changemakers in …
- #In Practice
by Louise Armstrong

January 19, 2024
Change Through Irrigation

Sarena is the Partnership and Programs Lead at the School of System Change. This article, Change Through Irrigation, is part of a series exploring our intentions for inquiry and storytelling through six key themes as we live into our new way of being at the School. As the story …
- #In Practice
by Sarena Chan

November 1, 2023
Organising the Critical Yeast of Change

Sean is the Learning and Practice Partner Lead at the School of System Change. This article, Organising the Critical Yeast of Change, is part of a series exploring our intentions for inquiry and storytelling through six key themes as we live into our new way of being at the …
- #Relational
- #In Practice
by Sean Andrew

October 2, 2023
‘A new world of possibilities’: Climate change and its impacts on health

Emma Iovoli, a Life Sciences Consultant in Climate and Health, shares her experience and key learnings from completing Delta, our five-week introduction to systems change course, in spring 2023. Plus, discover how a complexity mindset and systems change approaches can open up “a …
- #Alumni Stories
- #Health
by Emma Iovoli

August 31, 2023