Get to know this simple tool that supports the integration of sustainability and scaffolds systems thinking into project, programs, research, and community outreach. Nicole Swedlow has served as the Executive Director of Compass Education and is looking to share this tool far and wide so we can all embed it into our work, and into our classes. It will be an interactive session where you get to actually use the tool so please be on your computer if you can so you can engage more fully in the session.

If you work with High School aged children, or are just interested in the conversation about systems and complexity education in high schools, please join us! We will be joined by members of the Systems Transformation course teams at both UWC SEA (joining us at 6am their time- yikes! THANK YOU!) and UWC Atlantic (joining us at 10pm their time, yikes again! Thank you again!) as well as others globally who are interested in this conversation. We will also hear brief updates from anyone else who plans to join about what they are offering in HS including Trina Clemans from the Collegiate School and Nicole with Compass Education. Trina helped make this call happen as she is interested in bringing a Map the System concept into a global High School systems learning community, and if YOU are interested in that conversation too, join us!

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We committed to doing at least two calls that would work in the AUS time zone and this will be one of them. In both cases the call will be recorded so those who are not in a time zone to be able to watch the call live can watch it later. This call will be part 1 of 2 on "Tools for Systems and Complexity Understanding".

Join our office hours Beta Test. We want to see if group coaching support might work well with a rotating mix of educators and systems practitioners. In this trial office hours offer, Rob Ricigliano and Linda Booth Sweeneywill be available to support any SCEU members who is needing support. Bring your questions, issues, and ideas and Rob, Linda, & Daniela will see if they can support you to move forward.

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Join a conversation with Jocelyn Wyatt, CEO of Alight and co-founder of IDEO.org, on what it looks like to design alongside communities in moments of crisis and change. Drawing on more than two decades of work across the design and humanitarian sectors, Jocelyn will reflect on how proximity, co-creation, and deep listening have shaped her leadership and Alight’s approach to supporting people through displacement and disruption. Through stories from the field and hard-earned lessons, participants will explore how these principles can help organizations navigate complexity, shift power, and build more responsive, human-centered ways of working.

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In a world obsessed with scaling up, speeding up, and replicating success, what if meaningful transformation is actually slow, relational, and rooted?

This session introduces Scaling Deep—a regenerative approach to systems change that centers cultural depth, healing, and relational coherence. Born from over a decade of inquiry with systems leaders, funders, and movement builders, Scaling Deep offers a reframe: that lasting change grows not through replication, but through deepening roots, relationships, and narrative shifts.

This session is especially relevant for systems educators, changemakers, and practitioners navigating complex spaces—who sense that something deeper is needed, and are ready to name and nourish it.

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Many of the student changemakers who we have the privilege of working with are quite driven, devoting countless hours to co-curricular activities, pitch competitions, and civic action in addition to their academic commitments. But their ambition can be a double-edged sword: propelling students to make an impact, while also leading to exhaustion and burnout. Moreover, many of these students are personally impacted by the systemic challenges they are seeking to address, and may also be navigating mental health concerns. This workshop will create space for educators to share and reflect on ways we have been equipped to support the wellbeing of our students. Beyond tactics and toolkits, what are our strategies and practices for enabling connection and care?

This workshop will be facilitated by Paul Heidebrecht, the inaugural director of the Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement at Conrad Grebel University College and the University of Waterloo. For the past decade the Centre’s Grebel Peace Incubator has supported the founders of start-ups that are pursuing peace and justice, and for the past seven years it has facilitated Waterloo’s participation in Oxford’s Map the System competition. For the past three years, Paul has hosted a working group for staff and faculty colleagues who are interested in expanding perspectives on—and opportunities for—student success in curricular and co-curricular entrepreneurship programs at Waterloo.

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For the inaugural SCEU Book Club meeting, we’ll be joined by Frank Uit de Weerd and Marita Fridjhon for a discussion about their book Systems Inspired Leadership. Please come ready for a co-creative discussion on the material covered in Systems Inspired Leadership. You can get your copy of the book here (https://systemsinspiredleadership.com/)

Here are some of authors' paraphrased suggestions to help guide readers in reflecting on the material and preparing us for the discussion:

1. What questions came up for you as you read?

2. What are some of the applications from the book that you've attempted and what were their impacts? What follow-on questions do you have?

3. What do you see, hear, and sense about the approach of Systems Inspired Leadership that is relevant and needed in our global world? Where and why do you think this approach feels suited to this landscape?

4. What are some of your personal insights that changed your life and that now guide you daily?

Linda Booth Sweeney is a celebrated systems educator who has worked with the youngest learners to the leaders of global foundations. Her work has been formative for many of us in this community, so we are very delighted that she is sharing her brilliance with us directly here at SCEU. Linda has a number of resources to share with us, from books she has written sharing systems thinking with young learners to a range off other educational offerings, but the main focus of her time will be on the "Systems Literacy" resources she helped create with PBS many years ago. She is hoping to advocate to PBS LEARNING MEDIA to reinvest in this and expand them, so she will ask the community to check them out during (or before, if you prefer) the call and share what else we all hope might be included in the future. 

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Join us to learn all things Kumu! From basic principles to get you started, to more advanced techniques to present your work, we'll be diving into the software that helps us visualise the complex systems that drive our research. 

To deliver the session, we have two global finalists from Map the System 2025, who were recognised with an Excellence in Systems Mapping and Analysis Award from the Skoll Centre.

The People Need People gathering is a space of care, curiosity, and humility to learn and connect through the Warm Data process, developed by Nora Bateson.

You don’t need to be an expert, just someone willing to listen, share and notice what’s changing. Together, we'll weave new possibilities and expand our collective capacity for what's now and what's next.

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