What if educators had the community and tools to teach for complexity, not just within it?
We’re building a global movement to help educators connect, experiment, and evolve systems change education — together.
As educators, changemakers, and systems thinkers, we already feel the pressure.
We’re teaching and leading amid rapid systems change fueled by areas with chronic underfunding, the rise of AI, mental health crises, cancel culture, environmental stress, and violence and polarization impacting global populations.
Yet many of the systems we work within still behave as if problems are simple and linear — as if the same thinking that created these challenges can somehow solve them. As if fighting harder will fix everything.
Yet, we know, fighting harder only creates more fight. It’s not a problem solving approach — it’s a acceleration. We need to shift gears.
The linear approach to change isn’t serving us. It isn’t serving those we educate for and with. And it isn’t serving our collective futures.
What if you found a place purpose-built for you?
Imaging connecting with educators around the world who get it —who understand the weight you're carrying and the complexity you're navigating.
Imagine learning from peers who are also doing this work — sharing what’s working in their context, and accessing tools and frameworks to educate for these times.
We don’t need another professional development requirement or another item on our to-do lists. What we need is community — a movement. A place where educators can grow together as the agents of change these times demand.
We're building a global community for educators and systems change practitioners who are ready to move beyond linear thinking and influence change in their education offerings and beyond, together.
Introducing
Systems. Change. Educators. Unite.
This community understands that the crises we're facing aren't simple problems to solve—they're symptoms of deeper system dynamics. We are uniting educators who are ready to learn how to contribute to shifting those systems, in their classrooms and far beyond, and the tools and practices to help their students do the same.
The future of humanity, this planet, and of education require systems-aware, self-aware, and impact-focused educators who, in turn, support the development of those mindsets and skill-sets among their students and clients.
By connecting and learning together we can not only fuel our own personal growth and capacities as educators, but also our individual and collective capacity to accelerate systems change contributions in a world in need of ethical, impact-focused, leaders.
And we're starting with a 6-month pilot—a taste test of something that could become much bigger.
If there's enough demand and interest in these first six months, we'll launch this as a non-profit and scale it globally. But right now? We're inviting a founding cohort to help us build it, shape it, and see if we can prove that educators need and want this kind of community.
This isn't about adding more to your plate. It's about finally having the support, tools, and community to do the work you're already trying to do—but more easily, and not alone.
This is a 6 month experience for changemakers at the front of the wave.
What’s On Offer
A six-month pilot designed for educators navigating complexity.
Access to a learning community for educators from around the world with workshops, networking, and resource sharing opportunities.
Research and a platform to share what educators need, want, and can offer in these complex times.
A home to share global systems change education efforts and a place for them to connect, cross-promote, co-learn, and co-create.
What You’ll Get
A learning community that fits your life.
This pilot will start with offering three calls every month, designed to fit into your life.
Drop-In Peer Mastermind Sessions:
Bring what's going on for you. No prep required. Just show up, share your challenges, and think through them in small groups with peers who get it.
Facilitated Conversations on Timely Topics:
Things like "teaching in an AI world" or "navigating polarity in the classroom." No prep, just show up and engage with what matters right now. (These are recorded in case you can't join live but want to watch it later.)
1-2 Presentations Each Month
Learn directly from educators bringing systems thinking into their classrooms, or working on systems change in their organizations and communities. (These too will be recorded so you can watch them live or on your own time.)
Here's just a taste of what's coming:
Tracy Benson, former Director of the Waters Center for Systems Thinking, will show you how she brings systems thinking practices to everyone from kindergartners to corporate executives
Nicole Swedlow will share how to use the Sustainability Compass as a systems thinking tool that frames social impact through sustainability
Paul Heidebrecht will share how he and his team at the University of Waterloo integrate government understanding into systems change work—helping social innovators work with and through government, not around it
Elinor Bray-Collins, Sara Hassan, Isabel Sousa, & Stephen Stockton will present on the practices that have fueled Humber College’s success at bringing systems education to hundreds of students across their polytechnic including a program that spans three continents
Daniela Papi-Thornton will lead a workshop on tools for complex times, presenting frameworks that help you navigate and understand the complexity of the current moment
How to join
How do you put a price on belonging to a community who understands your challenges, desires positive change, and is walking this path with you? You can’t. And really, you shouldn’t have to. Our hope is that in the future we can attract significant grant funding so this work can reach even more people at even lower costs. But for now, we need you, all of you who believe in this work, to chip in and help build this community.
We are committed to making this accessible, so if this pricing doesn’t work for you, reach out, and let’s make a plan. If you can afford this, we hope you will chip in. And as a thank you to all founding members, you will have discounted access to the community for as long as you stay a member, so if you like, FOR LIFE.
Here is how to join us:
Individual Membership:
$375 USD total for 6 months
40% off until November 30th
$225 USD total = $37.50 per month
A chance to build this community together, contribute to our initial research on what educators need in these times, as well as full access to all live and recorded calls, the resource repository, and the global community. If you're committed to deepening your systems understanding and contributing to this movement built by and for educators, this is for you.
Group Membership:
$1,500 USD for 6 months
40% off until November 30th
$900 total = $150 per month for 5 educators = $25 each per month per educator
Bring up to 5 people from your university, organization, or team (with even further discounted access for additional members). This is for people those institutions that want to support this work, be recognized at the forefront of systems change education, and have exclusive access to Institutional Member gatherings. Perfect for departments, centers, or schools that want to build systems understanding capacity across multiple peers.
Sliding scale financial support available for those who come from emerging economies, chronically underfunded institutions, or other areas of need—we're committed to making this accessible. Reach out if you need this.
Right now, the world needs educators who understand complexity. And right now, educators need each other.
We're launching the Educator Community at our gathering in Iowa this November, and we're inviting you to be part of the founding cohort—the educators who will shape what this community becomes.
This is your chance to stop going it alone. To find your people. To get the tools, frameworks, and support you need to become the educator these times demand.
And to help build something that could serve thousands of educators around the world.
If enough of us say yes to these first 6 months, we'll prove there's demand for this work. We'll build the non-profit. We'll help it reach globally. And you'll have been there from the beginning.
The systems we work within haven't caught up to the complexity we're facing. But together? We can change that.
Register your interest now or jump in and become a founding member.