2023 Summer Institute for Changemakers - Registration NOW OPEN!
Are you ready to amplify your role as an agent of change in your organization, your work, and your community?
Hey Changemakers!
A couple of weeks back, I told you about a new Summer Institute for Changemakers that I am launching for July and August.
I want to thank everyone who filled out the survey that I shared in that post. Thanks to your feedback, I am now ready to officially share all the details and open up registration!
Summer Institute for Changemakers 2023
Change is a constant – yet how do we as professionals, leaders, staff, and students learn to not just respond to this change, but become shapers of it? How might we see ourselves as strong advocates for positive change within our organizations, especially with regards to advancing equity, inclusion, and accessibility in our work?
The 2023 Summer Institute for Changemakers is a 4-week experience where we will dive deeper into key aspects of transformation and change.
During a series of four interactive, discussion-based online workshops, we are going to identify key changes we can make in our organizations and our work practice, challenge some “business as usual” assumptions, and develop strategies we can enact right away to become agents of change within our own work and beyond.
Each workshop in this Institute will be 2 hours long and hosted through Zoom. This time each week includes a lot of discussion, reflection, sharing, and asking questions that are immediately relevant to each participant’s change practice and the barriers they might be facing.
The workshops will include individual reflection, small group breakouts, and large group discussions with exercises designed to:
reflect on our relationship with change
build empathy within our institutions
prioritize the human connections within our work
grow our support network to catalyze collective action
provide each of us with the tools and strategies needed to more effectively advocate for change and move towards our goals
Your registration also includes:
membership in a private Substack group created specifically for the Institute only
additional opportunities to connect with others in the group to share challenges, successes, and burning questions
reflection prompts, practical tools, and ongoing resources to support your change practice.
2023 Summer Institute Dates and Times:
Wednesday, 7/26, 1 pm-3 pm Eastern (10 am-12 pm Pacific)
Wednesday, 8/2, 1 pm-3 pm Eastern (10 am-12 pm Pacific)
Wednesday, 8/9, 1 pm-3 pm Eastern (10 am-12 pm Pacific)
Wednesday, 8/16, 1 pm-3 pm Eastern (10 am-12 pm Pacific)
You'll receive a Zoom link and follow up details shortly after you sign up. Registration will be capped to keep the workshops small, so we can focus on getting to know each other, learn from each other, and build a community of changemakers that we can stay connected with after the summer ends.
Worried that you might not be able to make it to all the sessions, but still interested in participating? Note that there will there will be asynchronous community support material available for those who might have scheduling conflicts during one of the sessions.
Finally, please don’t hesitate to contact me at murawski27@gmail.com if you have any questions!
This work of transformation requires that we build community, and work together in community to support each other. That’s why we need to come together as a collective of changemakers to bring focus and intention to making change happen. That’s why I’m invested in this new series of Institutes, and the work we’re doing here through Agents of Change.
We all have a role in solving our current crises because I believe that we absolutely can transform museums and nonprofits. We can have hope for a better future and begin building that future right now.
It is up to us to choose to step up, be a solution to the problems we’re experiencing, & make this change happen together.