Catalysts of Social Change: Knowledge, Action, Impact

This course explores the history, theory, and practice of nonviolent social change and community building.

Academic Calendar
Duration
16 weeks
Weekly Study
8.5 HOURS
Dates
Aug 19-Dec 8
Clock Hours
135

This course examines social change through historical analysis in dialogue with a coherent framework for action. Students investigate dimensions of transformation through principles including humanity's collective maturity, universal participation, and coherence between material and spiritual prosperity. Emphasis is placed on articulating how social change is a long-term, collective learning process requiring systematic approaches rather than isolated actions. Students explore how effective changemakers embody social change by aligning vision, strategies, and actions with an evolving, coherent framework. Through analysis of and involvement in nonviolent, grassroots movements, students learn to apply these principles to local efforts to engage in public discourse. 

Who is the course for?
Who is the course for?

Applicants should either have a prior bachelor’s degree, or be a student in an undergraduate program at junior or senior level. The Wilmette Institute will provide support for students who wish to petition their institution of higher education to obtain credit. Space is limited to 25 students per course.

What will you achieve?
You will learn
Develop consciousness about the nature and methods of viable social change.
Analyze and apply a coherent, evolving framework for learning and action.
Recognize the vision, strategies, and actions of effective local and historic changemakers.
Explore how social change is a long-term and collective process of learning that involves all of humanity.
Contribute to public discourse about social change by applying spiritual principles in local and/or global contexts.
Meet Your Faculty
teacher
Ymasumac Marañón Davis, PhD
Educational Consultant/Writer/Intuitive Healing

My name is Ymasumac Marañón Davis, though people call me Yma! Ymasumac is a Quechua Indian name from Bolivia. My father is a Bolivian of Quechua descent, my mother is from New England, and her ancestors, of English and Irish ancestry, came around the same time as the pilgrims. We... See Faculty Bio

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