Meaningfully engage people in your work to drive social change with this workshop series on Co-Design in Complex Systems. This program has been designed especially for managers and leaders in public and community organisations in Australia and New Zealand who want to co-create better outcomes with their colleagues, clients and communities. It has also been appreciated by public servants and social innovators from around the world, including Canada, the United States, Qatar, the UK, and Denmark.
📜 Program Description
Co-Design in Complex Systems is a short course for public and community sector professionals who want to apply systems thinking and co-design together in practice. The online workshops involve hands-on exercises and discussion to understand how to effectively accommodate design, dialogue and co-creation in project planning, commissioning and management.
Designed and delivered by Dr Emma Blomkamp, this training program presents a Practice Framework for systems-aware co-design. This ethical and evidence-informed approach covers the key domains of systems change, co-design and social innovation: place, people, process, practice and principles.
The course will model how to effectively engage community members online. In addition to the practice framework and case studies, participants will also gain access to a resource bank with relevant materials and tools that they can share with their organisation/network.
The workshop series is offered over 4 x 2-hour online sessions, once a week for a month.
📆 2023 Course Schedule
We have scheduled three series of Co-Design in Complex Systems for 2023.
All recent series sold out in advance. Tickets for the November series can be purchased below. If you would like to receive an invoice, save your spot in any future course, or have any questions, please contact the team.
Next series: Fridays, 10th, 17th and 24th November, and 1st December, 10.30am-12.30pm AEDT (Melbourne/Sydney/Canberra/Hobart).
That’s 7.30-9.30am for Perth/WA, 9.30-11.30am for Brisbane/QLD, and 12.30-2.30pm for New Zealand.
For North America: it’s on Thursdays 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th November, at 3.30pm Pacific Time / 6.30pm Eastern Time / 5.30pm Central Time.
🗝 Investment & registration
Payment: your place will be confirmed on full payment. All prices are per person.
Participation cost (all 4 sessions & resources): $725 AUD + GST
Other payment options include:
We can send an invoice free of GST to participants based outside of Australia.
Paying via invoice to deposit into an Australian or New Zealand bank account (NZ-based individuals and organisations can pay the same fees in NZD this way).
A 50% scholarship for a First Nations practitioner from Australia or Aotearoa.
Discounts for people from lower-income countries.
🎁 Team bonus: free follow-up coaching session (valued at $350), when registering 3-5 people from the same organisation.
If you would like to receive an invoice to register for any future course, or have any questions, please contact the team.
Register for the 2023 courses above or express your interest below to hear when tickets for future courses go on sale.
We highly recommend registering early to avoid missing out - the 2022 courses all sold out well in advance!
💬 Previous participants have said…
“Co-design for complex systems is a deep dive into all the principles, components and elements to make co-design real in your work. Emma's method is empowering as it lays out the foundations, but also allows the flexibility of translating the principles to make them more relevant and meaningful.”
— Kate Chua, Capability Development Advisor, New Zealand"You'll get to explore and apply a great framework for thinking about co-design in complex systems. The course combines theory and practical elements well and draws on the collective experience and wisdom of participants. Emma is a warm, intelligent and engaging facilitator. I'm already using leanings from the course and recommend it to others who are working in this space."
— Sofiah Mackay, Social Impact Consultant, Australia
“For me, this learning experience was the equivalent of being hosted in a home for thinking well together. Of course, you don't get to know the whole house - its rooms, backyard and neighbourhood - in one shot but you are hosted very well and you are given very helpful substance and connection through conversations with wonderful people. And you are invited to come back to to learn more. This isn't a store that sells you stuff that ends up as clutter later on. It's a community that's smart and deeply human that wants to support you in your effort to help others with your best self.”
— Pierre Lecours, Canada
