Our Journey Together
This document outlines our purpose, our work, and ways to join us in shaping the future of learning.
The Invitation
Why We Do What We Do
The Roots
Who We Are & How We Work
The Evolving Ecosystem
What We're Up To
Your Role in The Story
How to Get Engaged
We are in a time between worlds. Education must evolve.
Traditional models of knowledge transmission, segregated by age and discipline, are insufficient for an increasingly complex world. Envisioning, reaching, and securing a protopian future requires a dynamic, interconnected educational ecosystem where knowledge flows freely, and learners and educators co-create valuable insights.
Our Purpose, Vision, and Mission
The chosen direction, the orienting destination, and the engine to get there.
Purpose
To contribute to a sustainable and thriving society by realizing the future of learning.
Vision
Relevant knowledge is within everyone's reach, co-created by a community stewarding the art, craft, and science of learning.
Mission
Fostering the evolution of an educational ecosystem, bridging learners and learning providers, promoting learning literacy, and generating learning opportunities.
From a Single Spark to a Global Ecosystem.
Trainers' Forum was not born from a top-down blueprint but from a genuine set of needs within intersecting communities. It began as an international and interdisciplinary gathering of young educators and has since grown organically into a global, self-organised, for-purpose enterprise dedicated to advancing the art and science of learning.
Our Compass: The Values We Live By
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Connecting Prosocially
To operate ethically and responsibly, aspiring to influence our social and natural environments in beneficial ways.
Creating Sustainably
To operate ethically and responsibly, in a way that is sustainable from a natural & human perspective.
Engaging Purposefully
To have a meaningful impact on how people learn & educate through purposeful innovation and optimisation.
Showing up Authentically
To connect with sincerity and integrity, while allowing ourselves and others to stay playful and creative.
Exploring Curiously
To champion lifelong learning, embracing experimentation, and systematically deepening and broadening understanding.
Connecting Prosocially
To operate ethically and responsibly, aspiring to influence our social and natural environments in beneficial ways.
Creating Sustainably
To operate ethically and responsibly, in a way that is sustainable from a natural & human perspective.
Engaging Purposefully
To have a meaningful impact on how people learn & educate through purposeful innovation and optimisation.
Showing up Authentically
To connect with sincerity and integrity, while allowing ourselves and others to stay playful and creative.
Exploring Curiously
To champion lifelong learning, embracing experimentation, and systematically deepening and broadening understanding.
Our Methodological Foundations
Evidence-Based
To realize our mission, we are constantly synthesizing approaches to support learning & development, both from modern, evidence-based practices and literature reviews, as well as informed by ancient, time-tested wisdom and rituals.
Human-Centered
We place the learner at the heart of the learning experience, helping them develop ideas, skills, mindsets, and roles during the session, as well as supporting development, connection, and personally relevant goals after the session.
Systems-Inspired
We recognize that education is not an isolated experience but happnes best as part of a complex system. We draw on systems and network thinking to help design interventions and contexts, that generate lasting, positive, and prosocial change.
Let's Talk.
The journey to realize the future of learning is already well underway. If this is something you care about and are willing to contribute to, we already consider you a part of our tribe.
Welcome.
