Welcome to Compass, an online learning journey to foster peer-learning and group coaching applied in practice.
With COP26 fast approaching, building our collective capabilities to communicate the value of the ocean and foster systemic change in the coastal and marine sectors is crucial.
At the Marine CoLAB, we have been using systems change approaches such as facilitating collaborative processes, systems mapping, action-learning, horizon scanning and applying a values-based approach to communications, to help our work and experiments be effective and impactful.
Supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, we share the approaches we've been developing and testing over the past six year with the wider community of professionals across the marine and coastal space.
...Equipped with a toolkit of values and systems based methods and approaches to apply in your own workÂ
...Equipped with approaches to design and deploy values based communications for wider changeÂ
...Having integrated your learning back into your day-to-day work
...Linked to a wider community of people and support in the run up to and during COP26
This 3-month online learning programme will be delivered through:
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...Peer-learning with a diverse cohort of marine and coastal professionalsÂ
...Facilitated online sessions via video call and applied learning timeÂ
...Applying your learning to your own programmatic work and reflecting back in facilitated group sessionsÂ
...Readings, exercises and reflection to be completed in your own time
We are also offering a follow-up expedition building on these dives to support people and organisations looking to initiate a #OneLess journey to eradicating single-use plastic water bottles and encouraging a transition to water refilling in their town/city. If you’re interested in this deeper dive, please indicate this in the application form.Â
The programme runs from September to November 2021, and is structured as follows (all sessions will take place in GMT working time zone).
This programme is designed for a cross-section of professionals who can influence marine and coastal issues at a local, regional, or national level. We expect that our participants will have varied backgrounds and contexts and this is fine (and in fact desired!).
We aim for diversity across the cohort to include a variety of perspectives across the marine and coastal sectors - from multiple types of organisation, contexts, and experiences.
We’ll be looking for a mix of marine-related expertise to form a strong cohort of around 25-30 participants, from organisations such as civil society, philanthropy, policy, and academia.Â
You might be a researcher, a local campaigner trying to eradicate plastic from your town/city, a project or comms officer working in conservation, a journalist or grant manager, or you might be working in business or policy making on a variety of issues such as fisheries.Â
We expect you will have a strategic role and aspire to spark transformational change across diverse coastal and marine issues. Last but not least, participants must commit to participating in all of the online sessions and contributing constructively to peer group learning.Â
The fees for this course are subsidised thanks to the contribution of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. While the true cost of running this programme is £2,200 per participant, we are able to offer the following discounted rates:Â
Dives 1 and 2 – £650Â
Dive 3 – £800
We're dedicated to creating a diverse cohort, so we have a number of full bursaries available - just tick a box in the application form.Â
Equally, if you/your organisation can afford to, we are offering the opportunity to help subsidise others to ensure diversity in the cohort. We welcome gift contributions to our bursary pot of £50-£200.Â
Applications closed on the 19th July 2021, but we still have a small number of places remaining (6) so we encourage you to join us. We will confirm participation on a rolling basis, so please apply at your earliest convenience. Â
If you've got any questions, drop us a line at marinecolaboration@gmail.comÂ
