Education for crisis and change
Helping organisations deliver learning and education in the context of emergency, crisis, and system-change.
“We were simply trying to change the way we went about our everyday lives so that our values and habits of being would reflect our commitment to freedom.”
bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress
We believe in interconnected liberation
Our work is rooted in interconnected liberation: the freedom and wellbeing of all people and nature.
We believe:
- Learning is fundamental to change. Education can help us understand the world as it is, imagine how it could be, and develop the capacity to change it.
- How we learn matters. Every learning experience has a philosophy and a design, whether explicit or not. This shapes what happens during and after learning.
- Education is more than knowledge transfer. It is about understanding the systems we are part of, drawing on lived experience, learning with others, imagining alternatives, and building the collective capacity for action.
We help organisations deliver learning and education
We bring together over a decade of expertise in learning design and programme delivery with crisis management, to help organisations deliver learning and education in response to complex social and environmental challenges, in contexts that are volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous.
Whether navigating crisis or working towards a different future, we help organisations become more intentional about how they use learning and education.
Our work is bespoke, agile, highly contextualised, and liberatory. We draw on evidence about how people learn, and the experiences of learners themselves, to design learning that helps people build their capacity for meaningful, sustainable change.
What role does learning play in the change you want to see in the world?
Our journey
LearnJam started a new journey in 2023, with a renewed commitment to using our learning design skills for positive change. We want to resist the dominant capitalist systems and wriggle out of being part of the problem.
We are unlearning and learning all the time, embracing new stories, building new connections, and taking actions that bring joy and hope for a regenerative, liberated future.
We want to acknowledge some of the many thinkers, writers and doers who have influenced us on this journey: Bayo Akomolafe, Adrienne Maree Brown, Dan Burgess (and Becoming Crew), Zahra Davidson (and Huddlecraft), Paolo Freire, Helene Gerin and Frederic Laloux (and The Week), Dougald Hine, bell hooks, Mikaela Loach, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, Kate Raworth, Lucy Williams (and The Slow Work Garden). We are grateful for and appreciate all of your offerings.
More about LearnJam
We are sustaining and letting go
We are bringing with us all the valuable skills and experience we have from 10+ years of the old LearnJam, but are leaving behind the things we no longer want or need.
We work a 4-day week
We are learning how to rest and look after ourselves properly; nurturing deeper connections with friends, family and nature.
We see working fewer hours as part of de-growth and redefining success beyond traditional metrics of productivity and material wealth.
We seek sustainable impact
LearnJam is now established as a Community Interest Company (CIC).
Our challenge is to find ways to provide meaningful support to organisations that could benefit most from our work, including those with limited financial resources, while maintaining the financial sustainability needed to continue our mission.
