You can now enroll to u.lab 1x: Leading from the Emerging Future.

 

Watch the introduction to u.lab 1x in the video below. 

 

Save the Date: Live Sessions

In addition to pre-recorded course material and bi-weekly Office Hours videos from faculty responding to participants' questions, there will also be four Live Sessions to connect the global u.lab 1x classroom. The dates of the live sessions are (all start at 10 am EDT):

• September 24th
• October 22nd
• November 19th
• December 10th

 

Hub Host Support

For those of you preparing your Hubs and inviting your community in for co-learning during u.lab 1x, Hub Host support will be available throughout the 14 weeks of the course and in the period leading up to the kick-off. In order to sign up for the Hub Host updates, please tick Hub Host Newsletter on this sign-up form. Also, the u.lab Hub Host Guide will soon be updated, but already contains helpful tips and resources for hub hosting. 

The Hub Host calls, to support organizing hubs and peer learning experiences during u.lab 1x, will take place on the following dates at 1 pm E(D)T / 7 pm CE(S)T (1 hour)  (convert to your timezone here) at the Zoom-link https://presencing.zoom.us/j/95615003315:

• July 22
• August 5
• September 2
• September 16
• September 30
• October 14
• October 28
• November 11
• November 25
• December 9

 

In the video below, Julie Arts explains what a hub is within the context of u.lab 1x.

 

 

More Information on the u.lab 1x Course

All modules will be made available on September 8th. While you can complete the course at your own pace, the instructors will facilitate Live Sessions on a monthly basis -- as indicated below.

Orientation Module:

In this Introduction to u.lab, you will learn how to use and navigate the social and community elements of the course, and you will find some guidelines to get familiar with the edX platform.

Module 1: Co-Initiating:

This module is the actual start of the course, and it consists of an introduction to the deeper sources of our current global challenges. You will learn about the art and practice of deep listening, and set your intention for the journey ahead. There will be a Live Session on September 24th that corresponds to Module 1.

Module 2: Co-Sensing

To sense into your current context, in this module you will learn how to gather data by suspending and listening through practices such as learning journeys and stakeholder interviews. The second half of this module will teach you how to make sense of the data you generate using Social Presencing Theater.

Module 3: Presencing

At the bottom of the U, you will be guided to retreat and reflect, allowing deeper sources of knowledge to emerge by connecting with a future possibility that is in need of us. There will be a Live Session on October 22nd that corresponds to Module 3.

Module 4: Co-Creating

To move upwards after the profound phase of Presencing, in this module you will learn how to stay connected to your deeper sources of inspiration and pay attention in a way that will enable you to move from idea to action -- learning by doing. This module also describes practices to engage in prototyping activities to generate feedback that will help you evolve your inspiration / idea. In a nutshell, this module contains principles to support the evolution from an idea, to a prototype, to an initiative with the potential to scale.

Module 5: Co-Evolving

We all know about many episodes and stories of great transformational change and breakthrough. But at the end of the day they remain merely that: episodes. Sooner or later the larger system snaps back into the old way of operating. Unless the deeper root issues are addressed, transformational episodes may lack the conditions to spread across the remaining system. How to attend to these root issues while prototyping is the question we will explore in this Module. There will be a Live Session on November 19th that corresponds to Module 5.

Module 6: The Journey Ahead

What is emerging globally from u.lab 1x and what is needed to carry momentum forward? What are the next steps in the u.lab journey? There will be a final Live Session on December 10th addressing these questions.