Nurturing future CHANGEMAKERS, changing the world today
Our local walkshops and learning journeys aim to develop youths (and the young-at-heart) into resilient and adaptable changemakers who possess entrepreneurial dare and intercultural fluency. This will help them engage with diversity and enact positive change in their communities and beyond. Our programmes are rooted in the belief that working with our community partners will help our participants to foster a keen awareness of the world around us, better understand pertinent issues that affect this generation (and beyond!), and nurture global active citizenry.
THE SKILLSEED DIFFERENCE
At Skillseed, we are both practitioners and trainers in social innovation and community engagement. This praxis means that all the frameworks we share are grounded in lived experiences, guided by research. For instance, we have learnt that empathy mapping and deeply listening to the needs of marginalised communities precede identifying their assets, before we work together to develop solutions. In our training, we candidly share cases of failures and successes, as well as best practices we have gleaned from our global community partners.
A snapshot of our past and current collaborators who do incredible work in their respective fields!
Our learning journeys and equipping programmes are deeply informed and nuanced by insights gleaned from a decade of field work, consultancies and equipping conducted in collaboration with local and global partners. In short, we share what we have learned from the ground in our equipping programmes; in turn, our work with communities improves through new insights gained through our craft as trainers.
our FRAMEWORK for catalysing change
The 6-stage Skillseed Framework ™
1. community-centric assets & needs assessment
• Via ABCD, Skillseed works with partners on the ground to map the assets and analyse our host community's needs, subsequently synergising these findings with our educational partner's learning objectives
4. DATA ANALYSIS & IMPACT ASSESSMENT
• Outcome-based course evaluation
• Holistic impact assessment via feedback from community partners and related stakeholders
2. SKILLS EQUIPPING
• Connecting students' passions with the purpose of their project in their host country
• Hands-on training and upskilling with the help of experts and/or practitioners
3. EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
Explore and experience the following through borderless learning:
• International Exposure, Cultural Immersion, Responsible Tourism
• Active Global Citizenry
• The Lean Start Up Method - with a social impact angle
• Working in a team on project-based learning
• Applied principles of Design Thinking
5. mentorship & nurturing growth
• Participants are connected to social impact organisations with opportunities for them to contribute their skills and passions
6. outstanding future leaders with ability, grit & heart to catalyze real change in their communities, and beyond
Since 2016, we ran 43 experiential learning programmes for 1416 participants.
Recognizing that our participants have unique interests, capabilities and reasons to embark on an Experiential Learning Programme, this Complement has differentiated into several options over time. They comprise:
Overseas Community Building Courses (only available in Bali)
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