The Makechangework masterclass
Your Push for Change
Visit our Masterclass to comprehensively understand how psychological barriers and macroeconomic effects stop organisations from the sustainable change they need.
MAKECHANGEWORK
The Masterclass in Februar 2025.
The Masterclass is all about understanding the psychological biases and macro-economic effects which stand in the way off sustainability. In our course, you will learn psychological tools and strategies to overcome those reasons and facilitate green development.
What you get:
four in depth workshop sessions
recordings of all sessions (minus the group work)
continuing access to the Miro board
downloads of curated documents (slides, PDFs, etc.)
official training certificate at end of masterclass
hints and links to further readings
We created this masterclass for freelance sustainability consultants, sustainability managers in companies as well as anybody interested into how to make change work.
Safe your seat for our Masterclass starting in February 2025!
Our Workshop-Sessions from 8.30 – 13 o’clock (CET) each: 10.02., 12.02., 17.02., 19.02.2025
Get 10% Discount as an Early-Bird or apply for a scholarschip now!
what can you expect?
The Masterclass sessions in detail
Session 1 – Why we do not act
Climate change, loss of biodiversity, water stress and plastic islands …
We can see the crisis. But we don´t act on it. Are we are hardwired to ignore, talk down or even fight the perception of living in a threatened world?
In this first of four session, you learn about psychological barriers of us as indiviuals, and how they make us act pretty unlogical when it comes to sustainability.
That knowledge alone will immediately help you to increase the impact of your pitches or arguments that you make with your clients, collegues or superiors.
As a side effect, it makes you a more understanding and empathic person.
Session 2 – Fifty shades of refusal
As homo sapiens, we don´t like change. We got that.
In the first workshop, we learned about many of the psychological reasons WHY we don´t like it. Now we need to understand and appreciate them in depth, because this understanding is the key to overcome them.
So, in this second workshop, we take a a deeper look at those psychological biases that prevent us from embracing change. And what is more, we learn to identify them to be able to analyse the barriers you are confronted with. This will enable you to develop your own way of addressing them.
Session 3 – Understanding the big picture
While we all share a certain set of psychological biases (we learned about them in the previous workshops), we all live different lifes and hence internalised different sets of those mechanisms. They come in all shapes and colours, and what they actually look like is influenced by many factores like our culture or chacracter, our social or political environment, or the maturity of our economy – and vice versa.
While this initially seems like an academic approach, in this third session you will learn how this knowledge is important to get even more insightfull and differentiated access to clients – regarding hierarchy, disciplin or sector.
In the practical examples and exercises, we are working deeply with sustainability approaches, and during this session, you can see the improved impact in action.
Session 4 – Connecting the dots
By now you have learned why you kept hitting walls all the time. But how does this knowledge help you to actually initiate change?
In this final workshop, we put it all together for your daily, practical work. We have a look at all stages of implementing change in a company. You will learn how to develop strategies and also how you put your new shiny tools to work.
With this workshop, you will increase your impact. Either as a sustainability consultant or sustainability manager in your company.
How our clients experienced MAKECHANGEWORK
Excellent workshop with a good mix of knowledge sharing and in-depth work in small groups. Very interesting participants and valuable knowledge about biases (including my own!).
The thing I appreciate the most about the workshop is the connection it made between theory and practice.
Firstly, we have been provided with the structured insight into possible reasons for inactivity. We then worked in sub-groups and matched this theoretical framework with our own real-life case studies. Lastly, we discussed how this deeper understanding can help us in dealing with inactivity in the future.
The workshop improved my understanding of why companies may try to avoid/postpone taking sustainability measures. It also provided me with knowledge on how to overcome these in real-life situations.
Thanks to the ‘Make Change Work’ series, I was able to overcome resistance to change in some of my projects. It is innovative, interdisciplinary and hands-on. Susanne and Laura are knowledgeable, experienced, and entertaining practitioners and trainers. I also enjoyed the exchange with many peers about our challenges and ideas during the series – overall a great opportunity to unlock future impact.
The Masterclass in February 2025
Dates
The Masterclass takes place online including four Workshop-Sessions:
- Mon, 10. Feb 2025
- Wed, 12. Feb 2025
- Mon, 17. Feb 2025
- Wed, 19. Feb 2025
each 8.30 – 13 o’clock CET
100% online via Zoom
Course-Fee
Our course fee is
1.200 ,- € per Seat + VAT
We are aware about the economic divide between countries. If you have any troubles paying that fee, get in touch with us – we will find a way. Also, see our section about the scholarship.
Scholarship
We are giving away two masterclass seats as scholarships for students or anyone who is interested in participating but currently not able to afford the fee.
Therefore, please apply for a scholarship via Mail explaining your current situation and reasoning why we should select you as a scholar. We’d like to understand, what benefit you expect from participating and how you plan to apply your new learnings.
Deadline: 19. Jan 2025
Book your seat for the Masterclass:
You want to participate in the Masterclass ? Great!
Just throw us a message and we will arrange the rest for you.
Excited to meet you there.
your clients gain is your value added
What your clients get
Companies need to become sustainable or the future market will reject them. You know that, otherwise you would not already provide such high-level sustainability services, no? Your client might also know that, but somehow they do not yet act on it.
Helping your client embrace the change and thereby accelerate the transformation increases the value you provide for your clients.
Make your work count even more. Increase your impact.
Make sustainability a priority
Integrating sustainability is core to be competitive in future markets.
Work on the right issues
Working on the right issues helps to transform companies efficiently and effectively and without wasting human and financial resources.
Embrace change
Embracing transformation makes change a resource and not a burden. That puts the company ahead of the competition.
Frequently asked questions
Whom is this training designed for? Is it for me?
We designed this training for people who provide sustainability services for companies and who perceive kinds of psychological barriers against the implementation of changes. For us, consultants come to mind here. However, if you are not a consultant and the content speaks to you, please visit the workshop anyway. Also, let us know about you. We like to broaden the scope.
Starting next year, we will expand our offer for companies directly. As inter-company dynamics are different from consultant-company dynamics, we need some time for exploration and solution development first. If you are interested already, throw us a message and we put you on the co-creation or waiting list.
Do you provide workshops and services also for companies?
We are working on that and we hope we can offer something in the beginning of 2023. We will provide open workshops and also custom made services for individual companies.
Will you also include content on sustainability services?
Not particularly. We trust you to be a knowledgeable sustainability professional. However, in order to show processes step by step, we provide some deep examples.
For example, how to narrate climate knowledge for a meeting in a way that appreciates and overcomes cognitive barriers.
I can ´ t make the offered date(s). Do you provide other workshop dates?
Right now we are in the pilot phase. We will do a first (and free) session in the early summer. After that, we will implement the learnings and will come up with an improved – and paid – version in late autumn.
In the long run we plan to host the workshop session two or three times a year. At the current state of planning, we believe that one workshop session will contain three workshops that build on each other (see our current workshop offer).