Design Thinking for Social Change (TEL - Cohort) FA26

Pacific School of Religion

Group-Based Medium Level Theological Imagination
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Design Thinking for Social Change (TEL - Cohort) FA26

About This Course

This course is one part of nine in the Theological Education for Leadership (TEL) Learning Path for Congregational Renewal offered by PSR.  It is one quarter of the full-term course of the same name and is considered the introduction to the introductory overview of Design Thinking for Social Change. In this course you will be developing the skills needed to discern a need, construct a challenge statement and iterate potential solutions in your respective target population.  You will also develop a proposal to present to the decision makers of your target population.

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📋 7 Lessons
📚 10 Resources
✍️ 0 Quizzes
📖 12 Assignments

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Learning Objectives

In this TEL course, you will learn:

  1. How to perform an Empathic Interview and use the findings to discern a need.
  2. The framing of a challenge and how to formulate this into a challenge statement.
  3. The importance of and need for recursiveness in developing a solution for a discerned need.
  4. Relationship building, through proposing your challenge statement and solution options to stakeholders. 
 
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