Activating Your Purpose
Accelerating Social Transformation (AST) is a professional development program that catalyzes and amplifies your potential to drive transformational social impact.
Innovation focused expert lectures and virtual site visits will provide you with new insights and knowledge. Through Appreciative Inquiry and Design Thinking frameworks, you will
discover new perspectives and create approaches to develop an action plan that expands your impact and reach. Together with diverse colleagues committed to social impact, you will co-learn, connect and create human-centered solutions.
We invite you to be a part of this novel approach to professional development training and join a global network of social impact leaders from across the non-profit, foundation, development and business communities.
If you are looking for change in your life, come join our 2023 cohort! Register now!
AST postponed, new dates to be announced soon
Program cost: $750
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, our program will continue to be offered virtually to provide accessible remote learning.
Please review your inbox for a follow up email from Evans Digital Initiative to complete payment for registration. If you have any questions or concerns, please email Akhtar Badshah (akhtarb@uw.edu) and Dylan Feldhaus (dhaus@uw.edu).
Approach
AST’s approach is rooted in the values of promoting social justice, embracing vulnerability, igniting purpose, celebrating creativity, and prioritizing rest. With these values at the forefront, we work with an iterative three-phase process:
Week 1: Discovery of Self
Participants will learn about the importance of purpose and why it is critical to move from the growth mindset to a purpose mindset. Also, participants will go through an interactive exercise to articulate their strengths, values and craft their individual purpose statement. In small groups participants will
discuss their strengths, values and purpose to gain deeper insights of self and participating cohort.
Week 2: Exploring the Territory of Innovation
Exposure to innovative thinkers and practitioners doing work within the intersecting spaces of funding, technology, policy, and design to generate high-impact social change.
Week 3: Design & Apply
Co-creation with your cohort to develop personalized action plan to accelerate social impact, based on insights and learnings from the Purpose Discovery session and exposure to innovators. We will utilize Appreciative Inquiry and Design Thinking framework for developing the action plans.
A key component of the AST is that you will be paired with another participant with whom you will interact over the 3 weeks around your purpose, innovative ideas and action plan.