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Design Thinking for Social Change (TEL)

Instructor:  Neil Goldberg | Partner: Pacific School of Religion
Learning Pillar:  Intentional Creation | Rigor Level: Medium

 

Welcome

This course is one part of nine in the Theological Education for Leadership (TEL) Learning Path 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.

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. 
 
 

Meet the Instructor

Neil Goldberg, an Adjunct Professor at Pacific School of Religion, is a designer, entrepreneur, educator, and author with a passion for seeing human centered design applied with artisanal care to every kind of artifact of the human imagination – and to bring forward design as a framework for enlivened leadership. After starting his career with furniture maker Herman Miller, he brought the people centered innovation process he practiced there to Silicon Valley where he founded the design agency Praxis, and led multi-disciplinary teams developing award winning products. As an entrepreneur he founded WorkClub, the first co-working business operating on a subscription business model. He has also created ventures in digital photography, online print fulfillment and solar power.

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