Experience Social Innovation & HCD!
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM IN SE ASIA | APPLY BY MAY 11
Join us in Asia and online to earn a certificate in Designing for Social Innovation and Leadership (DSIL) from the Centre for Executive Education of the United Nations University for Peace
Meet in Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines and online this fall. Sharpen your field experience, grow your global network, meet with leading organizations and develop transferable skills that matter.
DSIL offers 15 online sessions from August 18th - December 15th & multiple 10 day field-based programs with innovation communities across Thailand, Cambodia and the Philippines.
Scroll below or see the application website.
Apply through May 11th! It begins with You.
AT A GLANCE
The Designing for Social Innovation and Leadership Course (DSIL) is a global executive education course (online + in Southeast Asia) for social impact changemakers and entrepreneurs from around the world. This certificate program is delivered in partnership by the Centre for Executive Education (CEE) of the United Nations Mandated University for Peace (UPEACE) and SE Asia based Sarus.
WHO IS JOINING & WHY?
DSIL is designed for graduate students and early to mid-career professionals from around the world who are interested in creating impact and systems change through social enterprise and human-centered design. By exploring pressing local and global issues, reframing challenges into opportunities and cultivating 21st century leadership skills through experiential education and fieldwork, participants walk away with a sharpened set of transferable skills for immediate application to their own context.
HOW LONG IS THE COURSE?
10 days in the 'field' and 15 online sessions (scroll up to see specific Fall 2015 field immersion dates). Participants will engage in 'Virtual Classroom' online preparation and immersive fieldwork to Southeast Asia- Bangkok, Thailand; Phnom Penh, Cambodia and Manila, Philippines.
WHAT ARE THE KEY THEMES & WHAT ORGANIZATIONS ARE INVOLVED?
⇢ Social (+Personal) Innovation & Entrepreneurship
⇢ Sustainable Development
⇢ Design Thinking
⇢ 21st Century Leadership
⇢ Peacebuilding and Conflict Studies
⇢ Systems Thinking
⇢ Urbanization and Development Issues
⇢ Globalization and Culture
Participants will have the opportunity to meet with thought leaders from institutions in the DSIL network: Ashoka, Acumen Fund/Wedu, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (d.school), ideo.org, THNK School of Creative Leadership, Rotary Peace and Conflict Center, the G Lab at Thammasat University, YMCA, 17 Triggers, Gawad Kalinga, Asian Leadership Academy, Amani Institute, Via Exchange for Social Entrepreneurs and Leaders at Stanford - see our partners and collaborations here.
WHAT ARE THE COURSE DATES & COST?
Select your 'track' above for fall dates and go to apply.dsilglobal.com for program details and costs. The tracks range from $715 (online only) to $3995 (multiple countries, all expenses included).
HOW DO I APPLY?
Apply online here for scholarships and registration.
Official DSIL Site
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Alumni, Team & Partners
More About the Field Based Immersion
Participants will be exposed to several civil society actors in Bangkok, Phnom Penh and Manila (+ surrounding areas) that are actively leading cutting edge change on the ground, especially through the organizational platform of social entrepreneurship. Themes for learning are optimized in the field through workshops and lectures with experts, learning engagements with communities and immersion across various organizations. Participants will be expected to synthesize the contrasts, sharpen micro and macro critical thinking skills and hone their ability to empathize deeply with communities they would like to shape. Participants will also have the opportunity to generate and present personal social action plans to apply upon returning home from the field.
Meet the Partnership Team
Courtney Lawrence, DSIL Course Director and Designer
Courtney is a Southeast Asia based university lecturer and founding director of DSIL 2014, and of the 2012/13 ‘Global Studies, Peace and Leadership Summer Seminar’; including fieldwork with students to India, Thailand, Cambodia, Japan and the Philippines. Her academic research area focuses on sustainable economic development, social enterprise and design thinking. She holds a Master’s in Sustainable Economic Development and Responsible Management from the United Nations Graduate School of Peace and Conflict Studies. Other experiences include co-founding a US based social enterprise in 2011, work with Ashoka, immersion at the Stanford d.school and facilitating various trainings across Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, North and South America.
Mohit Mukerjee, CEE Founding Director
Wesley Hedden, SARUS Founding Director
Wesley is the Founding DIrector of Sarus. He is passionate about all things Cambodian and Vietnamese and built a cultural exchange program that brings young people from both counties into cultural dialogue with each other. Wesley first came to Southeast Asia in 2006 as a PiA Teaching Fellow at Can Tho University in Vietnam, and has spent the last five years in Southeast Asia working in a variety of rural development and education contexts in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Myanmar/Burma. With support from the Carriebright grant, Wes created the Sarus Exchange Program. Named after the endangered Sarus Crane which migrates annually between the wetlands of Cambodia and Vietnam, the Sarus Exchange Program is the first volunteer exchange program for university students in Cambodia and Vietnam.