Civic Leadership and Design Thinking Workshop

Want to change the world around you and develop design thinking skills? Sign up and learn how you can action social change! (Sessions on 7 September in person and 19 October online)

An interactive virtual session with live discussions. This workshop will gain BUILD members 10 elective points.

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Making a difference in the lives of our local community and the world beyond is easier with a toolkit of appropriate skills. Join this exciting online Civic Leadership Workshop and combine your passion to change your world with these new skills, networking with other like-minded students in the process.

The Civic Leadership Workshop will enable you to explore social issues you care about from the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. You will have the chance to inform yourself about inspiring social enterprises and be able to identify for yourself what type of ‘Changemaker’ you are.

In this workshop, you will work in groups to learn design thinking skills which help you action your social change ideas and develop and practice key employability skills like creativity, communication and teamwork skills.

This workshop will conclude with your team sharing a pitch about your social change idea.

BUILD members are HIGHLY encouraged to attend this workshop as a complimentary aspect to their leadership development after attending the Core "Introduction to Leadership" workshop.


About your facilitator: FRANK Team

The FRANK Team is an education company that truly cares about the world and are passionate enough to make a positive difference by working with you to help you create an amazing life (and career!). Franked.io delivers face-to-face and virtual training in leadership, employability and entrepreneurship around Australia and internationally. The FRANK Team has been recognised by the Australian Financial Review's Excellence in Higher Education Award for Employability and the PIEoneer Awards as a finalise for the Employability International Impact Award.
 

About your host: UTS BUILD

  • This event is hosted by UTS BUILD (Beyond UTS International Leadership Development). BUILD is an extra-curricular global leadership program with a mission to develop self-aware, informed and active global citizens and leaders in service to deliver positive social impact in the world.
  • this event supports BUILD Values of Leadership, Global citizenship, Empowerment, and Social and Environmental Sustainability.
  • This elective session is open to all UTS students.
  • Find out more about UTS BUILD and consider joining - http://bit.ly/JoinUTSBUILD. If you are a Study Abroad and exchange Student you can also join BUILD by clicking - https://bit.ly/BUILDSAEX
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UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.