Courses
These are courses and providers which different members of the Lankelly team have used and found to be helpful. Obviously discernment is needed to determine if they are right for you. Some of them are free (noted in the text) but others are quite expensive.
We had systems coaching as a team and some colleagues went on to train in it. It centres relationships and systems rather than individuals.
https://www.crruk.com/what-is-organisational-relationship-systems-coaching/
Management Futures coaching programmes
There are plenty of coaching training providers around but we used Management Futures (and specifically Phil Hayes) for whole-team training in coaching. Several colleagues also did their intensive coaching course.
methods for dialogue
Deep Democracy (Lewis Method)
Influential for Lankelly and used as the basis for internal decision-making for several years.
https://www.lewisdeepdemocracy.com/
Huddlecraft
Non-Violent Communication
https://www.cnvc.org/learn/intensive-trainings
Process Work
Leadership development programmes for working parents. Recommended by colleagues for anyone juggling professional ambitions and family life.
https://www.leadersplus.org/fellowship/
King’s Fund Circles programme
Women’s leadership development programme – mainly aimed at those working in statutory health and care systems, but open to third sector leaders too.
https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/leadership-development/courses/circles-leadership-programme-for-women
https://www.stacihaines.com/self-paced
Strozzi Institute
Described by a colleagues as “an enlightening course which has impacted the way I see, feel and act in my life and work. Great to have a more holistic whole body approach to exploring our wisdom and developing ourselves in what are really challenging times“.
https://strozziinstitute.org/embodied-leadership/
Money & Life workshop, Timothy Malnick
Some of the local groups stewarding Lankelly resources in our place-based work did this workshop together and found it emotionally challenging, eye-opening and ultimately really helpful.
https://timothymalnick.com/workshops/money-life-workshop/
systems change,
complexity
Academic courses in systems thinking in practice.
https://www.open.ac.uk/courses/choose/systemsthinking
School for Systems Change
Lots of Lankelly colleagues and grantees did the Basecamp course as a foundation in systems thinking.
https://schoolofsystemchange.org/courses
Theory U
Free online programme available in this methodology to support systems change work.
https://www.u-school.org/programs
The Cynefin Co.
Training based around the useful Cynefin Framework which helps “leaders cultivate an awareness of what is really complex and what is not and respond accordingly, so that no energy is wasted in overthinking the routine but they also never try to make the complex fit into standard solutions”.
We worked with IDS in Gateshead and Greater Manchester where they led large-scale participatory action research projects. They run a range of short courses in participatory research methods.
https://www.ids.ac.uk/learn-at-ids/learning-for-development/
They also host a useful online library of participatory research methods: https://www.participatorymethods.org/
CECAN (Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity across the Nexus)
CECAN runs various courses and seminars about evaluation methodologies suitable for complex environments.
https://margaretwheatley.com/warrior-training-level1-2024/
Facing Human Wrongs
https://facinghumanwrongs.net/
Schumacher Wild
Transdisciplinary learning between ecology and poetry, economics and phenomenology, design and mythology and between soil science and contemplative practice.
https://www.schumacherwild.org/
Culture Hack Labs
Free resources and self-directed courses around narratives and how to change them.
https://www.culturehack.io/curriculum/curriculum/
Lumos Transforms
Climate + Philanthropy: A Compact Learning Journey
Lankelly’s investment director Dominic Burke features in this course.
https://learn.activephilanthropy.org/
