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Live, small-group courses taught by scholars, artists, and practitioners. Small groups of 10-25 learners. Real dialogue. Deep transformation.

Summer 2026
Intensive Course
WorldbuildingNarrativeWellbeing

Development by Design (DxD): Power, Perception, and Human Systems

Learn to see and reshape the hidden forces shaping human behavior—within yourself, your relationships, and your environment—through a Development by Design (DxD) approach grounded in neuroscience, systems thinking, and critical theory.

Tricia Douglas
Tricia Douglas · Designing human development across systems, relationships, and culture
Live Online25 students max2 sessions
Starts August 23, 2026
Summer 2026Fall 2026
4-Week Course
Worldbuilding

Idea to Impact: How to Birth a Soul-Aligned Venture in the World

Do you have an idea that has been tugging at your heart? It's time to create the space and time to birth this venture into the world so that "one day" becomes "today"!

Besan Abu-Joudeh
Besan Abu-Joudeh · Social Entrepreneur
Live Online25 students max4 sessions
Starts August 5, 2026
Summer 2026Fall 2026
Weekly Course
NarrativeWorldbuildingLiberation

Writing Elsewhere Geographies

a collective study and generative writing space serving as a container for grief praxis | rigorous imaginings | brave breathing towards and for liberatory present-futures

Shraddha Shah, PhD
Shraddha Shah, PhD · Neuroscientist | Writer
Live Online25 students max4 sessions
Starts August 6, 2026
Summer 2026
Intensive Course
LiberationWellbeingWorldbuilding

Weaving Webs of Care

Together, we'll unpack how hyperindividualism shapes social change work; reroot into our need for relational reciprocity and interdependence; and explore how we can weave wider webs of solidarity and support in our lives and leadership

Lena Papadopoulos
Lena Papadopoulos · Award-winning educator and leadership coach working at the intersection of personal and collective liberation
Live Online20 students max2 sessions
Date TBA
Summer 2026Fall 2026
4-Week Course
WorldbuildingNarrative

You're Not Behind. You're Discerning. AI Literacy for Thoughtful Professionals.

Build real AI literacy, a clear stance on AI and personal framework so you can decide how to engage with it in a way that protects your expertise, your standards, and your way of thinking.

Oumaima Talouka
Oumaima Talouka · AI What You Can. Human What You Must.™️
Live Online15 students max4 sessions
Starts October 1, 2026
Summer 2026
Weekly Course
NarrativeWellbeing

The Values Lab: Living What You Stand For

A 4-week relational lab for people questioning what matters to them, exploring the stories behind their values, and experimenting with how to live in closer alignment with what they stand for.

Angela Montijo, LCSW
Angela Montijo, LCSW · Relational Facilitator & Educator
Live Online15 students max4 sessions
Date TBA
Summer 2026Fall 2026
Weekly Course
Liberation

Engaging in Feedback Dialogues for Liberation

This workshop explores feedback as a relational, dialogical encounter to foster meaningful feedback happenings, grounded in emotional safety and equity, in diverse spaces: from educational contexts to workplace and community spaces.

Sam Passeport
Sam Passeport · Relational Coach, Education Disruptor, Feminist Killjoy
Live Online20 students max4 sessions
Starts October 6, 2026
Summer 2026Fall 2026
4-Week Course
LiberationWorldbuilding

Decolonial Feminist Approaches to Foreign Policy

learn about decolonial feminist approaches to foreign policy and reflect on how you, in a deeply interconnected world, can navigate global politics by interrogating power and sowing seeds for softer and gentler alternatives.

kirthi jayakumar
kirthi jayakumar · researcher
Live Online25 students max4 sessions
Starts October 6, 2026
Summer 2026
Weekly Course
WellbeingLiberation

Living with Imagination and Optimism

A transformative experience to reclaim your imaginative powers: Journey inwards by using a blend of mindfulness-based practices and interdisciplinary techniques to dismantle internal barriers, unlock your unbound potential, and integrate imagination into your life and work.

Sheila Pontis, PhD
Sheila Pontis, PhD · Professor & Researcher in Imagination, Wellbeing and Design
Live Online12 students max4 sessions
Starts April 3, 2026
Fall 2026
6-Week Course
LiberationWorldbuilding

The Law Is On Your Side

A Crash Course on International Law and How To Use It for Collective Liberation

Yukti Saumya
Yukti Saumya · Restorative Justice Practitioner
Live Online25 students max
Enrollment opens soon
Fall 2026
WorldbuildingNarrativeLiberation

Time & Space to Dream

There are countless, pressing issues in the world as it is. But now more than ever, it's critically important to imagine more hopeful futures and dream of the world as it could be.

Keaton Wadzinski
Keaton Wadzinski · Imagining and Building More Hopeful Futures
Live Online25 students max6 sessions
Enrollment opens soon
Fall 2026
LiberationWellbeingWorldbuilding

Tending to the Roots of Conflict in a Divided World

Deepen your capacity to unearth and tend to the unconscious beliefs, protective patterns, and survival strategies at the root of conflict, division, dehumanization, and polarization.

Lena Papadopoulos
Lena Papadopoulos · Award-winning educator and leadership coach working at the intersection of personal and collective liberation
Live Online15 students max8 sessions
Enrollment opens soon
Fall 2026
LiberationNarrativeWorldbuilding

Pluriversal Storytelling: Design a Pluriversal Story for the Future

Explore how colonial patterns are embedded in dominant narratives; rewrite narratives that centre justice, care, and reciprocity; and design imaginative stories that hold many worlds and many futures at once.

Cinthya Sopaheluwakan
Cinthya Sopaheluwakan · Systems thinker and storyteller. Founder of The Big Picture.
Live Online20 students max5 sessions
Enrollment opens soon
Fall 2026
WellbeingWorldbuilding

Being Human: How to Reclaim Agency & Flourish in Uncertain Times

Colonial systems and capitalism erode humanity. We live disconnected and in autopilot. How can we revert our sense of worthlessness? How can we cultivate the conditions for change and the foundations for a better way to live?

Sheila Pontis, PhD
Sheila Pontis, PhD · Professor & Researcher in Imagination, Wellbeing and Design
Live Online14 students max6 sessions
Enrollment opens soon
Fall 2026
Weekly Course
WorldbuildingLiberation

SpiraLogics: Using Spiral Intelligence to Navigate Change, Constraint, and Transformation

A guided inquiry into spiral logics across nature and culture, exploring how spiral principles can be used to design and sustain processes that remain coherent, adaptive, and generative under conditions of change, pressure, and constraint.

Ruth Osman
Ruth Osman · Writer, composer, and educator developing an inquiry into spiral structure across art, ecology, and collective life.
Live Online20 students max4 sessions
Enrollment opens soon
Fall 2026
NarrativeLiberationWorldbuilding

Climate Fables for Activists

Examining how environmental action narratives influence the futures we are able to envision—and how they can inspire us to organize towards a better world.

Karina Anastasia Mathew
Karina Anastasia Mathew · Writer & Independent Educator Exploring Liberation Pedagogy
Live Online25 students max8 sessions
Enrollment opens soon
Fall 2026
Narrative

The Cyberpsychology of AI Creativity

This course examines what remains uniquely human about creativity as AI proliferates, blending cyber/AI psychology, aesthetics, and critical reflection to help learners rethink authorship, imagination, and collaboration with machines.

Mayra Ruiz-McPherson, PhD(c), MA, MFA
Mayra Ruiz-McPherson, PhD(c), MA, MFA · AI Psychologist • Creative Intelligence & Visuality Coach
Live Online20 students max4 sessions
Enrollment opens soon
Fall 2026
8-Week Course
Wellbeing

Embodying Liberation

This course offers a transformative journey into embodied resistance and collective healing. Developed under siege and exile, Ashira Active Meditation draws from Sufi whirling, somatic release, and indigenous Palestinian practices to support healing from trauma on both personal and collective levels. Participants will: - Explore how continuous trauma shapes the nervous system - Learn how the body can be a site of both memory and liberation - Engage in movement practices, grief rituals, and storytelling - Reclaim joy as a form of resistance Guiding Questions: - How do we grieve while building resilience? - How can our bodies become vessels for transgenerational healing? - What does it mean to be radically alive in times of collapse? This course centers voices from SWANA and global majority communities, offering tools that are culturally rooted, somatically empowering, and spiritually sustaining.

Ashira Darwish
Ashira Darwish · Healer
Live Online25 students max8 sessions
Enrollment opens soon
Coming soon4-Week Course
LiberationWorldbuilding

Rewriting the Script for Humanitarian Aid Accountability

Map the scripts keeping accountability in the aid sector performative, then flip them. Reimagine the story through a template/process from your work. Leave with a redesigned artefact to share and people to keep building with.

S
Sonja Wiencke · Activist-Evaluator.
Live Online20 students max
Enrollment opens soon
Coming soon
LiberationWorldbuilding

Collective Liberation & AI: A Decolonial Practice

Examine AI through decolonial, embodied, and liberation-centered frameworks while building practical tools for community, narrative sovereignty, and collective action.

S
sahra@sahraali.com
Live Online20 students max6 sessions
Enrollment opens soon
Coming soonIntensive Course
LiberationWellbeingWorldbuilding

Modern Food: How we are what we eat

What are the costs & conveniences of modern food? From who makes it to what goes in it, we want to re-establish our connection with food and where it comes from.

Josefina Venegas Meza, PhDPavan Mano, PhD
Josefina Venegas Meza, PhD & Pavan Mano, PhD
Live Online25 students max2 sessions
Date TBA
Coming soonWeekly Course
LiberationWellbeing

A Life That Can Hold the Work: Build Your Personal Wellbeing Blueprint

Build a stronger foundation for meaningful work through practical lessons in nutrition, movement and emotional wellbeing designed to help changemakers sustain their energy, health and impact over time.

Khawar Malik
Khawar Malik · Helping changemakers sustain their work 🌱
Live Online8 students max4 sessions
Enrollment opens soon
Coming soonWeekly Course
WorldbuildingLiberation

Digital Uprising: Reclaiming our Tech Sovereignty

Learners will gain the knowledge, critical frameworks, practical tools, and collective imagination needed to understand how technology perpetuates oppression, how to resist digital surveillance capitalism, and how to migrate to and/or think about building alternative technologies rooted in community ownership and liberation.

Hala Saleh
Hala Saleh · Technologist, Community Builder, and Culture Bearer working towards Collective Liberation
Live Online20 students max4 sessions
Enrollment opens soon
Coming soonWeekly Course
LiberationWellbeing

Building Our Capacity for Resistance

How do we continue to resist oppressive systems in adverse climates, while taking care of ourselves? This course works through what holds us back in our advocacy work and how to overcome those limitations sustainably.

Sarah Seraj, PhDSaamiya Seraj, PhD
Sarah Seraj, PhD & Saamiya Seraj, PhD
Live Online25 students max4 sessions
Enrollment opens soon
Coming soonWeekly Course
LiberationWorldbuildingWellbeing

Relational Leadership as Design

Leaders learn to design systems needed to thrive with the Relational Leadership Design Framework, a paradigm that reframes leadership from a positional function into a collective capacity grounded in consciousness, context, and presence.

Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo, PhD
Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo, PhD · Transforming Data and Lived Experiences into Strategic Clarity and Direction
Live Online25 students max4 sessions
Enrollment opens soon
Coming soonIntensive Course
Liberation

Childhood, Power, and Decolonial Praxis

Through decolonial theory, liberatory pedagogy, and guided personal reflection, learners will develop the language, tools, and embodied practice to transform how they raise, teach, and care for children.

Sarah Elahi
Sarah Elahi · Educator, Writer, Imaginer of Collective Liberation
Live Online25 students max2 sessions
Enrollment opens soon
Coming soonIntensive Course
LiberationWorldbuilding

Radical Imagination: Visions for Liberatory Futures

Co-create radical visions for liberatory futures through radical imagination, collective visioning, and collaborative worldbuilding.

Hanieh Khosroshahi
Hanieh Khosroshahi · Independent Design Consultant
Live Online25 students max2 sessions
Enrollment opens soon
Coming soon
LiberationWellbeingWorldbuilding

The World on our Plates: Culture, Politics, and Food Systems

From historical migration, imperialism, gender, and capitalism: how is the world around us reflected in the food on our plates, why does it matter, and what can we do about it?

Josefina Venegas Meza, PhDPavan Mano, PhD
Josefina Venegas Meza, PhD & Pavan Mano, PhD
Live Online25 students max8 sessions
Enrollment opens soon
Coming soon
WorldbuildingNarrativeLiberation

Creative Activism for Kincentric Justice

Decolonize, decarcerate, demilitarize and rebuild kincentric worlds.

JuPong Lin, PhD
JuPong Lin, PhD · From the river to the sea, from mountain rainbow to darkest bed of soil, we shall all be free
Live Online20 students max8 sessions
Enrollment opens soon
Coming soon
Liberation

Imagine. A world without "international" development.

What if "international" development didn't exist and development was simply that?

Themrise Khan
Themrise Khan · International development practitioner
Live Online25 students max8 sessions
Starts March 31, 2026
Coming soon
LiberationWellbeing

Find Your Voice

Our stories have the power to transform systems that were never designed for us. In this class, we will empower you to unpack your racial trauma, explore your identity, and find your voice.

Sarah Seraj, PhDSaamiya Seraj, PhD
Sarah Seraj, PhD & Saamiya Seraj, PhD
Live Online25 students max8 sessions
Enrollment opens soon
Coming soonWeekly Course
WellbeingNarrativeLiberation

Beyond the word sustainability: connecting to the environmental conversation more authentically

This course invites you to explore sustainability from a place of empowerment, connection, and inspiration rather than fear and urgency. Drawing on environmental psychology, storytelling, and ancestral wisdom, it focuses on embodying practices that create meaningful impact. By the end, you’ll feel equipped to engage with environmental work authentically, reconnect with the land and community, and lead initiatives grounded in purpose and care.

Najla Abdellatif Vallander
Najla Abdellatif Vallander · Environmental Advocate
Live Online25 students max4 sessions
Enrollment opens soon
Coming soon
WorldbuildingLiberation

Designing for Liberation: Tools, Methods, and Pathways for Just Futures

Liberation begins within. This course explores the link between inner awareness and relational responsibility, interrogating our relationships with each other, our work, and the environment. Learn to envision and build futures that serve everyone.

Hanieh Khosroshahi
Hanieh Khosroshahi · Independent Design Consultant
Live Online25 students max8 sessions
Enrollment opens soon
Coming soon
Liberation

Capitalism vs. Love

An exploration of the fundamental tension between capitalist logic and our human need for love, connection, and community. This course examines how economic systems shape our personal lives and how we can reclaim love as a revolutionary force.

Laura Basu, PhD
Laura Basu, PhD · Independent Scholar
Live Online25 students max
Enrollment opens soon

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