Academy modules

Working in complexity

A deeper dive into navigating uncertainty, offering perspectives and tools for acting more effectively in complex systems.

Duration: 21-28 hours
Format: Blended learning – self-paced and group sessions
Price: Please contact for more information

Course overview

This course helps you explore how complexity shows up in your work. Through theory, reflection, and simple practices, you’ll learn to respond more intentionally to complexity and uncertainty. You’ll join a peer group of learners to reflect together and ground your learning in real-world contexts.

What you'll learn

  • Identify where complexity shows up in your work
  • Understand how complex systems behave
  • Use new tools and lenses to work with complexity
  • Start applying simple, practical approaches in your role

Course structure

  1. Feeling lost
  2. Beginning to see differently
  3. Making sense of sense-making
  4. Patterns and boundaries: the centre and the edges
  5. Simple habits for complexity
  6. Rules for engaging in a complex world
  7. Visioning and experimenting your way forward

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