Changemakers Certificate
If you want to build the skills to enact social change, this certificate is for you!!
The Changemakers Certificate gives you an opportunity to explore social change, critique current power structures and systems, and learn how to use practical tools to engage in changemaking in ways that are personally meaningful. Combining workshops, on the ground experience and reflective learning, this Certificate will help you define your own changemaking style and prepare you to take action.
With a flexible schedule, there is lots of opportunity for you to get involved.
Open to all U of T students at the St. George campus.
Email Janet Fitzsimmons at janet.fitzsimmons@utoronto.ca with questions.
How to complete the Changemakers Certificate
The Changemakers Certificate has three components:
- Workshops
- Experience
- Reflection
Workshops
Complete 4 out of 5 workshops:
- When Engagement Becomes Activism
- Understanding Government Systems
- Systemic Leverage: Using the Tools of the System for Change
- Grassroots Dynamism: How Movements Move
- Scaling Your Impact: Local and Global
- Building Influence: Systems Change from Within
Experiential Learning
Complete one of the following experiential activities:
- Attend a self-chosen social change activity (e.g., Every Child Matters rally), and identify two changemaking tactics being used.
- Engage with peers to create an opportunity for the student community to learn about a social issue (e.g., you could organize through an existing student group or by outreaching through existing channels).
- Organize a cohort meeting for those working toward the Certificate to share ideas and experience in changemaking.
After completing their experiential activity, students must post photos or narrative reflections of their experiences on the Quercus page.
Reflection
Participate in one of the following reflection activities:
- One in-person or online Story Gathering event (Fall or Winter term)
- Online questionnaire
