THE SHIFT LEARNING COMMUNITY
Advancing social transformation through sharing and exchange
The SHIFT Learning Community is composed of diverse individuals from across Concordia and the greater Montreal who:
- Drive work within their neighbourhood, community, or institution towards justice, equity, and sustainability;
- Want to learn from others about how to increase the socially transformative impact of their work;
- Want to contribute to collective learning about how community-scale initiatives can bring about systems-level change.
All members of project teams that receive funding from SHIFT are invited to join the SHIFT Learning Community.
SHIFT regularly hosts networking, relationship-building and skill-sharing events for members of the Learning Community to connect. We also partner with experts within the SHIFT network to offer workshops on specific topics of interest to our members.
SHIFT offers a six-part workshop series for members of the Learning Community who want to expand the socially transformative impact of their work by building a deeper understanding of systems change theory and practice.
Learning from experts in the community and from one another, participants in the Horizons Learning Journey will take ownership of systems change theories as they support and challenge each other in activating them in their work.
What to expect
SHIFT is launching a new, six-part workshop series for members of the Learning Community who want to expand the socially transformative impact of their work by building a deeper understanding of systems change theory and practice.
- Learning from experts in the community and from one another, participants in the Horizons Learning Journey will take ownership of systems change theories as they support and challenge each other in activating them in their work.
- Six workshops featuring:
- Accessible introduction to a key concept or approach in systems transformation
- Real-life perspectives from a community leader whose initiative applies this approach to transforming an unjust, inequitable or unsustainable social system
- Peer support to challenge, highlight, integrate or expand the potential of this approach within your own work
- Monthly exchanges with a learning partner to share in your journey, hold you accountable to the goals you set for yourself, and listen to the challenges you experience;
- Reading and reflection exercises to deepen your understanding and integration of the knowledge and wisdom that you access within your own work and community;
- A supportive community committed to non-judgmental listening, the wisdom of lived experience and diversity.
Your commitment
- Attend a series of six workshops (two hours monthly) between September and December 2022.
- Complete complementary preparatory work (reading and reflection) before each session.
- Engage in a learning partnership with another participant (approximately one touchpoint per month, schedules based on your availability).
Estimated total time commitment: six hours per month.
Interested?
The Horizons Learning Journey is a feature of the Gateway Program and is open to project teams that have been selected through the program.
Teams that have previously received funding from SHIFT are welcome to join the Horizons Learning Journey, please contact your point person to express your interest.
Contact us
For further questions, send us and email or book an appointment with a staff member.
