CENTER PROGRAMS 2024-2025
At the Center for Systems Awareness, we have a strong emphasis on capacity building to support learning and development for very diverse groups of people to become compassionate systems practitioners and leaders.
We host open introductory workshops for those who are interested to start working with a systems awareness orientation. And we run longer term, broad scale change projects where capacity building is an integrated aspect of our support and commitment.
Foundations I
(Center Programs - Open to all)
Registration is Open!
Hybrid
October 1-4, 2024
Location: Oxnard, California (Hybrid)
Facilitated by Peter Senge (In-person), Center Site Development team (In-person) & Mette Boell (Virtual)
Registration is Open!
Hybrid
November 11-14, 2024
Location: Melbourne, Australia (Hybrid)
Facilitated by Mette Boell/Gus Boll (In-person) & Peter Senge (Virtual)
Registration is Open!
Hybrid
March 11-14, 2025
Location: MIT, Cambridge, MA USA (Hybrid)
Facilitated by Mette Boell & Peter Senge
Foundations II
(Offered for those who have completed Foundations I)
Foundations II Series - A new series of advanced workshops, providing opportunities for practitioners to deepen their knowledge in key concepts and skills. Read more about our Foundations II series here.
- Foundations II for Systems Change – a practical deep dive into Compassionate Systems tools and practices in education and workplace contexts.
- Foundations II for Systems Awareness – a focused opportunity to practice cultivating somatic and relational awareness, to work intentionally to grow our quality of attention, presence, aspiration, grounding and compassion.
Registration is Open!
Fully Virtual
October 15-17, 2024
9:00 am - 3:30 pm EDT (Last day ends at 12:30 pm)
Location: Zoom
Facilitated by Mette Boell, Peter Senge, and the Center for Systems Awareness facilitators
Eligibility: Alumni of the Foundations I Introductory Workshop
In-person
Foundations II for Systems Awareness
Indication of Interest form
More details will be provided soon.
Advanced
(Offered for Master Practitioners Only)
Apply by September 23, 2024
Prerequisite
Blended program with multiple virtual convenings plus one week-long, in-person retreat.
Faculty: Mette Miriam Boell, & Roger Burton
Starts September 25, 2024 and ends March 27, 2025
Eligibility: Compassionate Systems Master Practitioners
Special Programs
(Local based programs)
California Participants: Humboldt and Ventura Counties
A ten-month journey for communities of educators in California
Hybrid program with multiple virtual convenings plus a two-day, in-person launch workshop
Starts August 2024 and ends May 2025
Eligibility: Educators in Humboldt and Ventura Counties, California, USA
PROJECTS
Over the past decade, a gradual approach to "compassionate systems change" has started to gain momentum – first and foremost in educational systems – in many different places in the world.
The Compassionate Systems Framework has been trialed and tested in diverse educational settings, across all spectrums of hierarchies – from students and teachers, principals, district-level leaders, ministry leadership, community-based organizations, out-of-school learning as well as with boards, parents, and communities - in different countries and cultures.
Below are some overviews of the various types of projects and initiatives that the Center for Systems Awareness is involved with.
For more information on how we partner, contact info@systemsawareness.org.
"It is our aspiration with this work that people feel not only better equipped to tackle challenging, complex issues in their personal and professional lives, but also a greater sense of connectedness and belonging, an overall increase in experience of well-being and meaning in life."
-Dr. Mette Miriam Boell
RESEARCH
Over the past years, we have been prototyping systems awareness initiatives in multiple settings. We are continuously designing more substantial pilots and projects based on the findings of these prototypes.
In 2021, the MIT Systems Awareness Lab was launched, led by Dr. Mette Miriam Boell, Dr. Peter Senge, and Dr. Eric Klopfer. The Lab represents a community of researchers and practitioners dedicated to the rigorous, scientific study of long-term, transformative, and ongoing “systems change in the making.”
We are interested in developing a systems awareness methodology, an approach to understand better what change processes actually work for people and also to understand what it takes for these changes to stick, and to become self-sustaining over time.
Visit the MIT Systems Awareness Lab website for more on research on systems awareness and our ongoing compassionate systems work.