What You'll Learn
Unlock the power of collective learning to drive meaningful change in complex systems. This workshop shows you how groups, organizations, and communities can move beyond rigid planning, pause to reflect, and adapt together to achieve shared goals. Through real-world examples and interactive exercises, you’ll see how small, intentional actions can add up to big, lasting impact.
You’ll leave with practical tools to make thinking visible, balance competing priorities, and connect everyday efforts to larger outcomes. Learn how to foster a culture of experimentation, equity, and collaboration—so your team or community can navigate complexity, solve tough challenges, and create the kind of change you want to see in the world.
How to use emergent learning to navigate complexity
Learn how groups, organizations, and communities can adapt together, using small, intentional actions to create meaningful change in complex systems.
How to make thinking visible and connect actions to outcomes
Explore tools like polarity mapping, emergent learning tables, and line-of-sight worksheets to link everyday efforts to larger goals.
How to foster an experimental and resilient learning culture
Learn strategies to create inclusive spaces, embrace diverse ways of processing information, encourage experimentation, and turn reflection into shared learning that drives lasting impact.
What's Included in the Course
This course allows you to access the material at your own pace, online. Each module will provide you with an instructional video and tell you how long that module will take you to complete. Some modules include tasks or toolkits that encourage you to pause and apply your learning to a scenario you are currently working on. At the end of the modules, you’ll get access to the slides from the course. Then, we’ll ask you to submit your feedback on the course.
Workshop Modules
Meet Your Instructor
Morgan Schmehl
Collaboration Manager
Morgan balances head, heart, and hands in their work to create inclusive, engaging spaces for collaboration. They plan gatherings, organize logistics, and support projects. They do this by thinking strategically, learning from communities, telling stories, and authentically showing up as their true self. Grounded in emergent principles of anti-racism, trauma-informed practice, and consent, their work at the Civic Canopy seeks to honor difference and foster opportunities for people to come together to build a more nourishing reality. They bring experience in education, nonprofit operations, food justice, activism, and place-based engagement. Morgan’s contribution today reflects a long lineage of change-makers of the past, and their visions reach generations into the future.
