Systems/Change Creatively Exploring Systems for global citizenship educators with Eimear Mc Nally Back to events list
Date: May 25th, 2024 at 10:00 to May 26th, 2024 at 16:30
Price:Standard €60.0
Price:Discounted €20.0
Price:Scholarship €0.0
Venue: MTU Crawford College of Art & Design, 46 Grand Parade, Cork
Cost €60 for the weekend
The price is heavily subsidised by Irish Aid
We do have some further discounted tickets for unwaged learners or for people who may be facing barriers to accessing education
We also have a limited number of scholarships available.
Priority for the scholarships will be given to learners from minority groups
for example, migrants, travellers, refugees/asylum seekers
Apply via email to claire.coughlan@mtu.ie
Adult & Community Educators and Youth Workers:
Join us for our 2-day exploration of systems thinking in the context of GCE. This will be an interactive, participative workshop with other folks interested in learning creatively about systems. We will cover:
principles of living systems
understanding what we mean by "complexity"
frameworks for systems thinking
mapping tools for exploring global justice issues
After this workshop you will have:
Access to our Exploring Systems Resource- as a PDF or Zine
More confidence to explore complex global justice topics creatively
More of an understanding of the principles of living systems
Language to talk about complexity in your context
Some new methods/ activities you can adapt to use with your group
Used a lot of post-it notes ��
What is systems thinking? How do we begin to visualise and make changes to the systems around us? What do we mean by complexity? How can this way of thinking and working with groups make us more effective change-makers? What tools are out there to support us to navigate complexity together?
In this two-day collaborative workshop Eimear will introduce creative methods to support learning about complex systems. Together we will work through activities and reflect on their application to our own practices. Eimear will facilitate conversation and learning around systems thinking as a way of seeing the world and making change. Together we will adapt and refine methods and tools that we can take away and begin using with the groups we work with.
This will be suitable for anyone who is working in a non-formal learning context with adults or older young people, interested in engaging in global justice issues. There will be some theory but it will be mostly about practicing methods, reflecting on their effectiveness and adapting them to suit different applications. Most methods will have a visual thinking approach but being able to draw is not a requirement. Bring your own creativity and open mind and willingness to participate.
FACILITATOR BIO:
Eimear is a freelance visual facilitator and designer. She began her career in non-formal learning in 2004 in Mayfield Community Arts Centre in Cork. She has since worked in Development Education in a variety of contexts, particularly training and communication. She began practicing visual facilitation in 2010. In 2015 she took the leap into full-time freelance work as a visual facilitator, also collaborating with an innovation consultancy using design-thinking to support businesses to develop better products and services. She has illustrated live at hundreds of event for a wide variety of clients from large corporate organisations to small non-profits. Eimear has also delivered trainings in visual facilitation to government departments, state agencies and of course Creativity & Change. She is a co-founder of Drawesome, the all-island network of visual practitioners in Ireland. She has a BA in History of Art & Design and Craft Design from NCAD and an MSc in Sustainable Development from DIT. She has also trained and worked with practitioners from the Art of Hosting community.
https://www.drawesome.ie
http://www.eimearmcnally.com