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Eric Dawson is the CEO of Peace First, an organization he helped launch at 18 which now works in over 135 countries preparing young people (13-25) to lead positive social change through compassion and courage.  Leveraging a digital platform and the world's first $10MM venture philanthropy fund focused exclusively on young people, Peace First has created the largest marketplace of youth-led, youth created social innovation projects.  Eric is a globally recognized expert on youth culture and movement-building but a terrible dancer, OK breadmaker, and decent knitter.  He is an Ashoka, Echoing Green, and Pop!Tech Fellow.  Besides the odd jobs of bartending, electron microscopy, TV commercials, and serving as the driver for the author of Curious George, Eric was trained as a trauma chaplain and is deeply interested in how social entrepreneurs build lives of wholeness.  His book for young readers, Putting Peace First: Seven Commitments to Change the World was recently published by Viking.

The objective of this module is help students imagine, design, research, and launch a social change project that solves a critical issue facing the world.  Whether that critical issue is climate change, education access, economic opportunity, mental health or anything else you dream of, this course will take you, step-by-step, through the design and implementation model.  Through this course students will:


-Learn about the history of social innovation and social change and the unique role younger people have placed in driving critical changes that have made the world a better place;
-Explore their own passions, interests and curiosities through research, interviews, and collaboration;
-Design a project that tackles a critical problem and launch it with others;
-Reflect on their journey and plot a course for moving forward after the course is complete.

SKILLS:

- Social Media 

- Data Analysis

- Product Development

- Research

- Business Strategy

- Entrepreneurship

- Financial Modeling

- Start-ups

DATE: 6 Jul – 24 Jul, 2020

DURATION: 3 Weeks

LECTURES: 3 Hours per day

LANGUAGE: English

LOCATION: Barcelona, Harbour.Space Campus

COURSE TYPE: Offline

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
ABOUT ERIC
BECOMING A
CHANGEMAKER

From Lagos to Liverpool, New York to New Delhi youth are changing the world in powerful ways.  No longer content to remain on the sidelines as their planet warms, demagogues sow divisions, and rising inequality chokes off economic opportunity for millions, every day citizens are rising up, crossing lines of difference, and innovating in powerful and compassionate ways.  This is less of a class than a call to arms: a design studio for the makers, dreamers, and visionaries who want to build a better world and don’t want to wait to do it.

Rather than learn about social change, students will lead it.  Through case studies, innovative design tools, and collaborative exercises, students will learn the building blocks of leading social change and then will apply these principles to designing and launching projects that solve real-world problems.  Students are encouraged to bring existing projects or ideas but they aren’t required.  

It is no longer enough to create a killer app or the next disruptive business to make money.  How are you using your superpowers to improve the world?

ERIC DAWSON
RESERVE MY SPOT

DATE: 6 Jul – 24 Jul, 2020

DURATION:  3 Weeks

LECTURES: 3 Hours per day

LANGUAGE: English

LOCATION: Barcelona, Harbour.Space Campus

COURSE TYPE: Offline

BIBLIOGRAPHY
BECOMING A
CHANGEMAKER

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Session 1

Introduction to Changemaking
Why are you here?
Who is on your team?
Introductions
Daily reflection and homework

Session 4

Step 2: Understand
What is a theory of change
Finding unlikely allies
Draft of a Compassionate Insight
Daily reflection and homework

Session 3

Step 1: Choose an Injustice
Choose a topic
Fast research
Share learning - get feedback
Daily reflection and homework

Session 2

Theory of Changemaking
Introduction to 3 C’s of changemaking
Case studies
Craft our own visions for change
Daily reflection and homework