Understanding Your Nervous System: A Path to Greater Connection, Creativity & Wellbeing Online workshop with Jax Wechsler. Background image tree tops that look like nerve silhoettes. School of being and social design sydney logo.

Understanding Your Nervous System

Understanding your nervous system  : A Path to Greater Connection, Creativity & Wellbeing   Our nervous systems shape how we experience the world—affecting our ability to connect, collaborate, and create. Yet, most of us move through life without a deep understanding of how our nervous system works or how we can support it. This online workshop

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PhD Research: Designing Regenerative Transitions

In this presentation and discussion of her PhD research, Michelle Miller will present her thesis in two halves. The first half will look at the Transition Design case study she undertook to understand how to increase transition to regenerative, ecological, and resilient approaches to agriculture—by design. The second half will then delve into the design-based methodology and

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Creative Approaches to Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD)

Creative Approaches to Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) in Challenging Contexts Dimitrios Papalexis from Soulgen will discuss how to creatively mobilise local strengths and assets to tackle obstacles in youth and community development. Sharing case studies where ABCD principles have been applied to address community needs, build trust, and reignite engagement, including youth-led initiatives, environmental projects, and intercultural collaborations that

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Trauma is more common than you think

This post is a personal one where I share some reflections about my journey, and how I came to see that for me, trauma was not something out there, but something that was inside of me too. Trauma can show up in places we may not expect, and is not restricted to specific cohorts or topics which is why it is important that designers practise in a trauma informed way, know how to respond to traumatic distress should it arise, and understand the risks of vicarious trauma.

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Selling community adaptation with Kiri Bear from Amble Studios

Selling Community Adaptation : Turning a social change, community engagement initiative into a product What happens when you cross a team of nerdy role-playing do-gooders with a film-maker who is passionate about community climate change mitigation? Kiri Bear from Amble Studio tells the story of The Adaptation Game. A collaborative, storytelling board game and community building initiative about adapting to

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Designing for an economics of radical interdependence

How might design help to foster systems-level transitions towards regenerative economics and bioregional governance? What is the practical value of design in embedding non-human perspectives and relational ontologies into broader systems of economics and governance, including through systems convening, prefigurative practice, multi-stakeholder forums, theories of change, visual sensemaking, and what are the challenges faced?   Nascent

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Changemakers listening circle

What’s happening in the world at the moment? Have you too been asking yourself this question? Designers and researchers are navigating the territory of new technologies, complexity and change, organisational pressures and politics, tightening job markets, and many of us experience burn out and misalignments with our personal values. As designers and researchers we help

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Designers Listening Circle : Navigating our Practice from Personal to Collective. People sitting around a fire talking.

Designers Listening Circle : Navigating our Practice from Personal to Collective

The design field is constantly evolving and we are working within the context of a greater transition to more sustainable and regenerative ways amidst current business paradigms and concerns. We are navigating the territory of new technologies, complexity and change, organisational pressures and politics, tightening job markets, and many of us experience burn out and

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