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25.01.2022 Want to find out more about our Social Innovation Program, The Good People? We're running a FREE 1-hour webinar to give you a taste of 'The Good People' as a learning experience and answer any questions. You'll also have a chance to meet some of the awesome changemakers you could be learning with, while getting your hands dirty with some social impact activities! Sign up with the link below, and we'll see you online https://events.humanitix.com/webinar-learn-more-about-the...-g #onlinewebinar #freewebinar #learning #futureofwork #futureskills #innovation #socialimpact #socialchange #socialinnovators #changemakers #designforchange

24.01.2022 Last week we had a fantastic group of like-minded changemakers from all over the world, join us for a free webinar to learn more about our Social Impact Program - The Good People If you missed out, we've condensed all the key info you need know into this 5 min video! Time is running out to join our next amazing group of like-minded learners on Thur 5th Nov, for an immersive 5-week, online blended learning journey Pick up your ticket today: https://events.humanitix.com/the-good-people-designing-for- #socialimpact #socialchange #socialinnovation #innovationmatters #designthinking #innovation #systemsthinking #designforchange #changemakers

22.01.2022 A very cool share by our friends at Idea! Make sure you follow them on their journey as they shake-up the secondary education systems in Western Australia and beyond!

22.01.2022 In times as complex and fast-changing as these, the ability to facilitate a group process to get results is more important than ever. Join us at our Facilitating Innovation bootcamp to learn how you can become a better leader of meetings, projects, design sprints and innovation efforts of all kinds. With tickets starting at just $150, this fully accessible online workshop is not to be missed!

22.01.2022 We’ve got a fantastic group from the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety today working on design challenges around customer experience, automation and more. We love working online too, but we’re excited to be offering our workshops in person again

22.01.2022 Join us this time tomorrow for a fast-paced and free hour of learning at SkillGym: Adapting to Blended Working! We'll be exploring the benefits of online vs offline working in a world where much more of our work is happening at home and via screens - how should we design our workdays, and what questions do we need to be asking? Hit the link above to sign up for your free place!

19.01.2022 Our Social Impact Skill Kit is full of almost 50 tools, resources and readings on designing for social impact. Understand problems better with systems thinking, build an impact strategy with levers for change, or get to know yourself as a changemaker, there's something for you, and all for free We'll be putting this Skill Kit to use throughout The Good People workshop, our 5-week journey for impact-driven innovators kicking off on 5th Nov Explore our free toolkit https://app.skill.social/skill-kits/DrieefGCryuTYQwiL/view #socialchange #socialimpact #changemakers #systemsthinking #innovationmatters

19.01.2022 We're looking forward to working with Avivo: live life at our upcoming Design Jam: 2-day Design Skills Bootcamp! Check out the design challenge they've put forward below, and make sure you grab your ticket to join us for two fast-paced days of hands-on design learning. #designthinking #socialimpact #innovation

18.01.2022 Don't miss our free webinar this Thurs 2nd July where you can learn more about The Good People: Designing for Social Impact, meet some of your fellow changemakers, and try out some hands-on social impact activities! Sign up here: bit.ly/TGPwebinar

18.01.2022 "All questions are the frame into which the answers fall. By changing the frame, you dramatically change the range of possible solutions." There are still plenty of spaces left in tomorrow's free online workshop, SkillGym: How to Frame a Design Challenge! Check out the article below to learn more about the power of (re)framing, and join us tomorrow to start building your own framing skills

17.01.2022 Want to find out more about our social innovation program, The Good People? Next week we're running a free 1-hour webinar to answer all of your questions about the program, and to give you a taste of The Good People as a learning experience. You'll have a chance to meet some of the awesome changemakers you could be learning with, and to get your hands dirty with some social impact activities!... Sign up at the link below, and we'll see you online

17.01.2022 From all of us at the SOMA team we hope you have an awesome Christmas and a well deserved break!

17.01.2022 At our Design Jam: 2-day Design Skills Bootcamp, we'll be joined by five amazing social impact partners who've offered up real-world design challenges for our participants to work on. We can't wait to get stuck into this challenge from the team at Dismantle - if you think you could help, make sure you grab your ticket today!

17.01.2022 It's your last chance to join us on Thursday for our Design Dash series - three workshops for only $39 each or just $99 for all three! Design Dash: Creative Experimentation explores how robust, structured experiments are the key missing piece in many organisations' innovation efforts. Design Dash: Creative Collaboration equips you with the skills to guide diverse teams through complex processes to get results.... And finally, Design Dash: Creative Leadership will help you to set a clear vision for your organisation and create the right conditions for innovation. We can't wait to see you there - follow one of the links above to grab your ticket today!

16.01.2022 Looking for some great free design learning? Check out our weekly online SkillGym sessions! At SkillGym: Designing for Behaviour Change (Wed 27th May, 11am AWST), we'll be diving into the science of behaviour and how our designs can nudge people in the right direction. And at SkillGym: How to Frame a Design Challenge (Wed 3rd June, 11am AWST), we'll explore the crucial problem definition aspect of the design process, and learn how to open ourselves up to better solutions!... Join us for 90 minutes of hands-on SkillGym learning to keep yourself future fit

16.01.2022 Becoming a social innovator doesn’t have to require the huge leap we often think it does. Social innovators exist in all kinds of organisations, from governments and big corporations through to small businesses and freelancers. It’s not about a job title so much as a commitment to making a bigger positive impact in whatever work you do Read our latest blog article and find out how you can prototype your career as a social innovator https://medium.com//how-to-prototype-yo...ur-career-as-a-soci #socialimpact #socialinnovation #socialinnovators #innovationculture #changemaker #socialchange #innovationsystems #innovators

15.01.2022 We're thrilled to share another of our social impact partners for the Design Jam: 2-day Design Skills Bootcamp! Cystic Fibrosis WA need your help to make sure young people with CF stay connected across distance. Think you can help design a solution? Sign up today, and we'll see you at the Design Jam!

15.01.2022 Systems thinking is a problem-solving approach that invites us to treat every problem as a system, made up of elements and the relationships between them. While you might not have experience managing snake populations in India, parts of this story will be familiar to most of us: the idea that problems are often more complex than they seem, and that well-intentioned ‘solutions’ can have unintended consequences. Learn more about the benefits of Systems Thinking and how it complements and enriches tools like Design Thinking.

15.01.2022 Grab your ticket to the Core Female Founders Virtual Pitch Night, and get to know the next generation of energy & resources sector start-ups! Spacecubed and Plus Eight have been working with CORE Innovation Hub - WA to deliver a pre-accelerator program to female founders in the energy and resources sector and now its time for them to share their brilliant ideas to a virtual audience. Check out the evening line-up and don't miss out on the chance to support these incredible... founders. Get your free ticket here https://events.humanitix.com/female-founders-virtual-pitch- See more

14.01.2022 IDEA: Innovation Design Entrepreneurship Academy have just launched their Future Ready program to help prepare students for the world beyond school They're leading the way for the #futureofeducation, where co-design and personalised pathways are the norm. Hit the link to check it out

13.01.2022 We can't wait to kick off our Design Jam: 2-day Design Skills Bootcamp on Wed 30th Sept, and work with some great partners like Propel Youth Arts WA to help solve real-world problems Come along and master the skills of design thinking and creative collaboration while developing real solutions to real problems like these #designthinking #socialimpact #innovation https://skillsofthemodernage.com.au/sk/bootcamps/design-jam

13.01.2022 Learn how to eliminate customer pain points, streamline their experience and create moments of surprise and delight on our 3-hour online Service & Experience Design bootcamp Hit the link to pick up your ticket https://skillsofthemodernage.com.au//service-and-experien/

12.01.2022 Celebrate International Coworking Day at Spacecubed with this event featuring our Founder and Managing Director, Nate Sturcke! Kicking off at 9am this Wednesday, enjoy access to free coffee, unlimited wifi, and the chance to work from FLUX (191 St Georges Terrace) for the day alongside an incredible community of innovators and change-makers - then hang around for a great panel discussion and some Happy Hour drinks!

12.01.2022 The future of work has been talked about for a long time, but after remote working skyrocketed throughout 2020 due to Covid-19, the next stage of the future of work has been accelerated massively and upskilling will become more essential than ever! What will be the new normal in 2021? #futureofwork https://www.siliconrepublic.com//pwc-ger-twomey-future-of-

12.01.2022 Back in Sept we ran a Teach by Design pilot bootcamp with 30 passionate teachers and educators, helping them harness the power of #designthinking for impactful curriculum design and lesson planning! We've now just delivered our second Teach by Design bootcamp, taking the program into Yule Brook College, helping embed #designthinking into their teaching and learning. Watch this space for an upcoming showcase of how Teach by Design is driving innovation in schools ... https://medium.com//how-might-we-teach-by-design-fb6ff0436

11.01.2022 It's about time to start pumping yourself up for Techstars Startup Weekend Perth, a 54-hour whirlwind event where you get to be part of building a business in a weekend, Silicon Valley-style. You don't need an existing start-up or even an idea - anyone is welcome to sign up and learn more about pitching, business model creation, prototyping, designing and market validation all in a friendly and supportive team environment! Save your spot at the link below

11.01.2022 A huge shout-out to this brilliant team of #designers and #innovators who came together to start co-creating a vision for the #futureofwork in WA. Together we identified trends, mapped scenarios, and discussed the actions we can take now to create thriving economies and ecosystems down the track. Stay tuned for our Future of Work report coming soon!

10.01.2022 That's a wrap on The Good People for 2020! We had the pleasure of being joined by a group of keen changemakers from all over Australia and Singapore, over 5 evening workshops to learn all about the world of #socialinnovation We challenged preconceived beliefs and the wicked problems that plague our world, while learning new ways to tackle complex issues. If you'd like to join the next cohort of The Good People, keep an eye out for our program dates for 2021

10.01.2022 It's your last chance to join us for tomorrow's huge community event, The Other Side: What will learning look like post-pandemic? Kicking off tomorrow at 12pm Perth time, we'll be joined by some awesome speakers from UWA Innovation Quarter, All Saints' College and Journey One to talk about the future of learning, and you don't want to miss out. Tickets are free but quickly running out, so make sure you grab yours today! Follow the link above

09.01.2022 The Good People: Designing for Social Impact is kicking off next week, and time is running out to join our amazing cohort! We've updated the workshop times to make the program fit around your schedule, and we've got an exciting 5-week blended learning journey planned to help your become the changemaker you want to be. Hit the link above to pick up your ticket today!

08.01.2022 Our Skills Program Manager, Matt Norman, pulled together this list of over 15 simple tips for facilitating better meetings, workshops and design processes online! Take 5 minutes to boost your facilitation skills this morning

08.01.2022 COVID-19 has shocked the very systems on which we rely. Come 2030, will we find ourselves in a just, resilient and sustainable world? Or one in which we witness ever more destabilising shocks? Moments of disruption like this, force us to revisit what we value and to explore how we might reimagine the future. Read the Future of Sustainability report produced by Forum for the Future, which identifies the key dynamics that help us to plan for the future and to understand our roles in driving greater sustainability. From System Shock to System Change, it's time to transform! https://www.thefuturescentre.org/fos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clAn365omIM

06.01.2022 Understanding your customers and their needs doesn't have to be hard This is an empathy map which we use in our programs like Service & Experience Design | Online Bootcamp and 'The Good People'. You can find free access to these in our skills toolkithttps://app.skill.social/skill-kits/DrieefGCryuTYQwiL/view #designthinking #creatingpersonas #empathymap

05.01.2022 The Good People - Designing for Social Impact is launching this Thursday 4pm (AWST) and time is running out to join our amazing cohort of learners We've got an exciting 5-week blended learning journey planned to help your become the changemaker you want to be. Hit the link to pick up your ticket today! https://events.humanitix.com/the-good-people-designing-for-

05.01.2022 While the temptation might be to hit pause on our innovation efforts at this time of global crisis, it is imperative that we actually do the opposite. Check out ThinkPlace in-depth analysis and hands-on tips from Social Innovation Leaders across government, the private sector and NGOs in their first ever State of Social Innovation Report. https://mailchi.mp/thinkplace/stateofsocialinnovation #innovationforpeople #innovationleadership #innovationmatters #socialinnovation #socialinnovators #innovationmindset #innovation #socialimpact #socialchangemakers #socialchange

05.01.2022 Do you wish your work made more of a difference? In the chaos that has been 2020, many of us are rethinking our priorities and looking for ways to make an impact with our work. If that sounds like you, you're invited to join The Good People! The Good People: Designing for Social Impact is our brand new five-week interactive online program to get you started on your social impact journey. With an awesome like-minded cohort, you'll have the chance to:... Map wicked problems and find ways to make progress Understand your unique skills as a changemaker Expand your network of like-minded innovators Design your own career of impact Whether you're new to the impact space or you want to shift your career in this direction, The Good People is a great first step towards work that makes a difference.

05.01.2022 After a year of bushfires, pandemics, and political turmoil, we’re excited to announce an up-and-coming project that will shed light on the trends we see as playing a major part in the future. Drawing on insights from our awesome innovation community and from the latest data and research, we're putting together a report to help you prepare for and thrive in the future. Watch this space and pencil in the 10th December for the release of our Future of Work Report!

05.01.2022 Want to create sustainable impact? Don't miss the opportunity to join WA’s first ever Global Goals Jam, a 2-day hackathon focusing on co-creating solutions to #climateaction and #lifeonland Grab your ticket for the Perth hackathon kicking of on Sat 28 Nov and help create real impact https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-goals-jam-perth-tickets #letsdesign2030now

05.01.2022 We've partnered with the team Spacecubed to offer you the chance to win access to our Future of Work (FoW) Index, a diagnostic tool that measures your sentiment and readiness for the future of work. Valued at over $2,000, the FoW Index helps individuals, leaders and learning professionals identify opportunities to upskill in the most important emerging skills, technologies and tools of the modern age. Whether you're a leader, innovator or entrepreneur, knowing your capability... strengths and opportunities to improve is critical to your success. To learn more, follow this link and find out how you can go in the draw to access the Future of Work Index for your team! https://bit.ly/3iWnsMl

05.01.2022 Want to be a change agent, but don't know where to start? Join us on Thursday for a free webinar about our upcoming social impact program, The Good People. We'll tell you all about the program and what's involved, and you can meet other changemakers and have all your questions answered!

05.01.2022 Capturing, sharing, and telling stories with data is crucial skill for the future. We were lucky enough to have graphic narrator Nickiy Tennant join us at Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety, Western Australia this week to kick off their thinking on a new #datastrategy to help them keep on delivering better services!

04.01.2022 It's super exciting to see our program The Good People: Designing for Social Impact shared alongside two of Australia's biggest social impact fellowships Thanks so much to the legends at Social Change Central for helping us spread the word. Our first cohort kicks of next Thursday, and there's still room for you!

03.01.2022 At the end of September, our flagship Design Jam bootcamp is back! Across two days of hands-on, interactive design learning, you'll work with a like-minded team to generate insights and solutions to a real social impact design challenge. Best of all, we're excited to be running this one in person, so there's delicious catering included in your ticket! ... Grab your tickets at the link below

02.01.2022 Women in Technology, Western Australia (WITWA) are another of our awesome social impact partners for next week's Design Jam bootcamp. If you'd like to learn human-centred design skills while working on a real-world challenge like this one, pick up a ticket to Design Jam: 2-day Design Skills Bootcamp today! #designthinking #socialimpact #innovation

01.01.2022 Join us next week for a taste of #systemsthinking in our free online workshop, SkillGym: Finding Leverage in Systems Systems thinking is an invaluable methodology for understanding complex problems and finding simple, strategic paths forward. Follow the link above, and make sure you register today to receive the Zoom link!