In this initial session, we’ll meet as humans and set shared agreements to create a space that supports everyone’s learning and growth.

We’ll ground ourselves in what we mean by power, participation, and the conditions for change.

You’ll begin exploring self-reflective practices to support you throughout the course and your learning journey.

We’ll also spend time surfacing your personal ‘why’—clarifying what brings you here and helping to anchor you as you continue to build your practice.

In the second session, we’ll explore what it means to have, hold, grow, and use power in your work.

This session offers an opportunity to slow down and reflect on your current relationship with power—examining your associations with it, what power is, where it comes from, and how it can be used.

We’ll look at models and frameworks others have used to explore and conceptualise power.

Finally, we’ll consider how you want your relationship with power to evolve—clarifying the ways you do, and don’t, want to nurture and use power in your work going forward.

In this session, we’ll explore what it means to work in the open, and how it can help to shift power, support participation and enable more equitable change.

We’ll look at the risks of working “in the dark,” including missed perspectives, and fostering perfectionist, fear-based cultures that hamper progress.

Together, we’ll unpack how transparency, honesty, and learning mindsets can nurture the energy needed for change.

You'll also have the space to reflect on the origins of your current behaviours around working in the open, failure and risk. Exploring how progress—not perfection—can become part of your decision-making.

In this session, we’ll focus on how people are engaged, involved, and connected within your decision-making processes.

We’ll build a shared understanding of what participation is—and what it isn’t—exploring the different levels and approaches to involving others in meaningful ways.

Together, we’ll reflect on how to balance benefits and potential harms in participatory processes and begin to imagine what more equitable, inclusive participation could look like in your work.

In the final session, we’ll take a deep dive into giving and receiving feedback.

Together, we’ll explore your relationship with feedback, some principles and practices for giving and getting feedback, and plan ways to practice this in your work.

This session will focus on personal and interpersonal feedback, particularly the kind that touches on the deeper drivers of our actions, behaviours, and decisions—and how these impact others.

We’ll invite reflection on the impact of your positionality and how your approach to feedback moments can act as a powerful catalyst for change.

Supporting you to speak up when something isn’t quite right, stay receptive to what needs to be addressed, and continue fostering the conditions for learning and growth.

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We’ll also take a moment to reflect on and close the course.