Virtual Course
Apply the process with your team.
Collaborative Strategy
Design
About This Opportunity
You have shared concerns. Now what? This applied course walks your team through the complete collaborative strategy design process, from stakeholder consultation through landscape analysis to prototyping solutions. Working on your actual initiative, you'll learn to center equity throughout—examining how dominant cultural values can undermine collaborative efforts and building concrete practices to create more inclusive processes.
Who Should Join
This course is ideal for leaders and teams actively designing collaborative strategies for systems change. Ideal for intact teams ready to move from shared purpose to concrete action. Strategy leads, backbone staff, and consultants working on live initiatives will get the most value.
What You’ll Gain
This is not a course about frameworks—it's a working session for your real initiative. You'll leave with draft strategy components and a clear path forward.
Equity as Method, Not Just Outcome: Examine how dominant cultural values shape ways of knowing, organizing, and interacting—and learn practices to create processes where more voices genuinely influence direction.
Stakeholder Consultation: Master the art of system leader and experience interviews. Learn to build both a systemic view of your challenge and a human-centered understanding of those most affected.
Landscape Analysis: Apply multiple mapping methods to help your collaboration develop shared understanding of the system you're working to change.
Co-Design Process: Move from insights to critical shifts to ideas to prototypes using a structured innovation process that keeps diverse stakeholders aligned and engaged.
Practical Applications
You'll leave with tangible outputs:
A draft interestholder consultation plan for your initiative
Practice conducting and synthesizing insights from experience interviews
Draft critical shifts that define your "problem space" with clarity and focus
Concrete practices for addressing power dynamics throughout your process
Your Trainers
Additional Information
Not assigned yet.
Not assigned yet.
This course is offered on demand for organizational cohorts and teams. Contact us to discuss bringing Collaborative Strategy Design to your community or organization.
If cost poses a barrier to your participation, please contact us.
Facilitating Collaborative Innovation
Collaborative Strategy
Design
What You’ll Gain
This is not a course about frameworks—it's a working session for your real initiative. You'll leave with draft strategy components and a clear path forward.
Equity as Method, Not Just Outcome: Examine how dominant cultural values shape ways of knowing, organizing, and interacting—and learn practices to create processes where more voices genuinely influence direction.
Stakeholder Consultation: Master the art of system leader and experience interviews. Learn to build both a systemic view of your challenge and a human-centered understanding of those most affected.
Landscape Analysis: Apply multiple mapping methods to help your collaboration develop shared understanding of the system you're working to change.
Co-Design Process: Move from insights to critical shifts to ideas to prototypes using a structured innovation process that keeps diverse stakeholders aligned and engaged.
Practical Applications
You'll leave with tangible outputs:
A draft interestholder consultation plan for your initiative
Practice conducting and synthesizing insights from experience interviews
Draft critical shifts that define your "problem space" with clarity and focus
Concrete practices for addressing power dynamics throughout your process
Trainers
Not assigned yet.
This course is offered on demand for organizational cohorts and teams. Contact us to discuss bringing Collaborative Strategy Design to your community or organization.
What Others Have Said About This Course
Refund & Cancellation Policy
We understand that sometimes changes in circumstances and availability mean you might no longer be able to attend a training session for which you've registered.
We're ready to work with you to resolve any conflicts, including transferring your registration to another member of your team.
If that's not possible the following cancellation and refund policy will apply to all training course registrations received on or after September 21, 2021.
Cancellations received in advance of 30 days before a workshop will receive a full refund.
Cancellations received less than 30 days but more than 10 days before a workshop will receive a refund of 60%.
Cancellations received less than 10 days before a workshop will not be refunded.
To inquire about transferring your registration or requesting a refund, please contact us.
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Welcoming Guest and Co-Host, Lucinda Garthwaite
Lucinda is the founder and Director of the nonprofit Institute for Liberatory Innovation. The ILI generates innovative solutions to create liberatory environments - where compassion leads to action, curiosity inspires connection, and accountability ensures sustained progress. Their work invites people to think and behave differently, and to align their day-to-day lives more closely with an increasingly thriving, just, and peaceful future.
Prior to founding the ILI in 2019, Lucinda worked in youth-serving organizations; and taught writing and social change at the University of New Hampshire and Goddard College, where she also co-directed the undergraduate program, and served as Academic Dean.
Lucinda holds a Doctorate in Leadership for Change from Fielding University, and is a Fellow of the Fielding Institute for Social Innovation. She also has Masters in Education from the University of New Hampshire, and an MFA in Creative writing from Goddard College. She’s the author of Bumbling Humans: Reflections on Liberatory Change (2023). She posts regularly in the ILI newsletter.
