Are you looking to build a culture of sustainability in your organisation? Do you want to empower your educators and equip them with tools for transformative learning? Do you want to support students with the skills they need to meet our current and future global challenges?

This workshop is designed by educators for educators, whether they are working inside or outside the classroom. Participants will explore the concept of sustainability with a specific emphasis on the role of education and the use of systems thinking to enhance student learning. Educators will be equipped with a suite of systems thinking tools to enable them to help students develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions necessary to participate in a complex and interdependent world. The course will be a mix of theory and practice; educators will see examples of these tools in practice and be invited to innovate and strengthen their lessons, units, and programs.

Whether you are running a school, facilitating a conversation in your classroom or working with young people in other contexts, this workshop is for you.

Learning objectives:

• Discuss the imperative for sustainability education in a global context

• Understand the relationship between sustainability and systems thinking

• Explore the educational uses of systems thinking tools

• Discover how sustainability habits of mind can be integrated into teaching and learning

• Develop plans to include sustainability perspectives and systems thinking tools in your lessons or projects