Kaospilot Melbourne Masterclass: The Art and Craft of Designing and Facilitating Learning Spaces

The highly acclaimed 3-day Masterclass, The Art and Craft of Designing and Facilitating Learning Spaces, is an opportunity to start an "education and learning reboot". It invites participants to explore, experience and be trained in the KAOSPILOT approach to designing and facilitating learning that inspires and promotes creativity, engagement, innovation and risk-taking in learning spaces. 

Kaospilot is an alternative business, design and leadership school in Denmark. BusinessWeek has recognized The Kaospilots as "one of the best design schools in the world", and Fast Company has named it in its Startup League's Big 10, "preparing you for the fast moving startup economy".

More than 2500 educators, program directors, learning designers and consultants, trainers, facilitators and edu-preneurs have participated in this Masterclass across 40 countries, and in 2018 it arrived in Australia.

During the Masterclass, participants will be introduced to the unique ‘opportunity based pedagogy’ and competency model of the Kaospilots, which has been developed over 25 years from working with young dynamic learners and leaders and by exploring the potential in transformational education.

Participants will have the opportunity not only to talk about their ideas for pedagogical and methodological change, but also practice and develop them! Through imaginative interpretation, “hacking” and creative application of your curriculum, new pedagogical and methodological processes will be explored which will challenge and "reboot" approaches to learning and content delivery. You can read the full description and agenda overview below.

Bring your real projects and program challenges, your openness to unlearn and learn, your questions and imagination, your experience and your beginner's mindset, your curiosity to connect and learn with others also seeking to transform education.

MASTERCLASS FEES

(include lunches & refreshments) - the course is 3 full days (9am - 5pm) and allows for a maximum of 24 participants.

$950 (+GST) as part of our ed2ed, public and not 4 profit EDUCATION SERIES

$1950 (+GST) for private (non-ed2ed*) participants, consultants or trainers.

If you are eligible for the ed2ed discount, or have questions please contact Ramon Marmolejos at ramon@alkimialearning.com for more information.

FACILITATOR

Our Facilitator Team consists of Ramon Marmolejos, Zoe Fitzgerald and Boris Kelly. If you would like to know more click here.

The Facilitator for this event is RAMON MARMOLEJOS. 

I am a learning designer, facilitator and strategy consultant with a passion for developing people and organizations. My purpose is to help people, teams, and organisations build the capability to become fuller and more vibrant versions of themselves—so they can constantly transform, and have a positive impact in the world.

For over 15 years, I have worked with executive teams and leaders at multinational companies, global third sector organizations and top universities around the world. My focus has been on delivering transformational human capital strategy, leadership development, organisational change, diverse and inclusive workplaces and design thinking alongside leaders tackling the toughest issues of our time—education, diversity, health care, energy, and environmental sustainability.

Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in the USA, I graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and completed an International MBA at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. I trained in Design Thinking at the University of Virginia and I am a certified Kaospilot Learning Design Agency facilitator. In 2010, I co-founded Emzingo​, which is a Certified B-Corporation working with purpose-driven leaders, teams and organizations to drive innovation, inspire responsible leadership, and connect business performance to social and environmental impact. 

After living and working in North America, Europe, Africa and South America, I moved to Melbourne in August, 2017, where I co-founded Alkimia. If you'd like to know more, please see my LinkedIn profile and reach out.

MASTERCLASS AGENDA OVERVIEW

Below is a video showing a recent Masterclass experience (from a recent workshop in Sydney with Simon Kavanagh from the Kaospilot Education Design Agency).

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LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Learn about team-based pedagogy, group dynamics and team building methods to establish strong peer-to-peer, shared learning environments and to increase student engagement.

• Learn how to design, lead and facilitate transformational programs, learning spaces, learning experiences and strategies and how to establish the correct frames that promote “multiple pathways to learning so that all students are engaged and successful”.

• Learn how to run creative processes, exploring ideas and innovation using effective and fun brainstorming techniques, rapid prototyping and working with problem solving through design thinking practices.

• Learn about the hidden potential in practical and class-team work for the development of intra & interpersonal student skills such as personal expression and values, leadership, collaboration etc. and how to integrate them into curriculum design, daily lesson plans, and a classroom environment which promotes stretch zones, risk taking, creativity and reflection.

• Learn the importance of open dialogue with your students around transparent and proactive planning and learning agreements, supporting personal educational commitment.

Each participant will receive an invite to the A&CFLS Alumni network on LinkedIn. You will also receive a link to the 'NO EXCUSES FOR NOT APPLYING THIS' dropbox that has the following in it!

• The slide deck with all the posters and tools used (and more!)
• The full 1st day schedule, step by step so that you can repeat this day with your colleagues or students, invite them into an experiment and then ask what did we like form this way of working.
• A 20 page workbook with all the exercises that you have experienced with facilitator notes and some extra ones that we use to promote innovation, creativity & leadership.
• Further reading & reference. 50 very well chosen articles to deepen your practice and theory from the masterclass
• 20 handpicked online videos, again to deepen your practice and theory from the masterclass and support anchoring and communication of this methodology
• The Kaospilot presentation that you didn’t see during the master class
• And over 50 tools explained in detail, processes, energizers, interventions and exercises that you can use to SET : HOLD & LAND learning arches.
• Access to the 3m long vision backcasting method and learning arch grids

TESTIMONIALS

The Masterclass was amazing. Loved Ramon’s facilitation and the Kaospilot way. Drop PowerPoint, embrace flow and fluidity. Let learners own their experience.

Nicole Lee, Consultant and Coach, Transformational Change

The experience was wholly engaging, exhilarating and exhausting - and I didn't want it to end. It was a massive injection of creativity and positivity meshed into a brilliant opportunity to meet and work with a fun bunch of like minded individuals. Moving back from overseas, it was also nice to meet local people interested in the same innovative learning space as I'd met in Europe. However, the biggest continued takeaway is the daily doses of 'ah ha' moments that I'm immediately putting into practice. Like simple changes to the way I facilitate and use a space, to sharing my learnings with the team I work in to change their practice.

Leona Norris, Educational Designer, Monash