IT’S TIME TO RADICALLY REIMAGINE HOW YOU WORK.

Groundswell’s students are community organizers, non-profit leaders, social entrepreneurs, and intrapreneurs who are creating alternative futures of work that are rooted in care. Our programs support you to make real social change, by honouring our relationships with ourselves, the land, and others, and practicing together.

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It’s Personal

We’ll meet you where you’re at and invite you to bring the parts of you that are traditionally shut off at work: your lived experience, your values, your visions. You’ll tune into these and define success and contribution on your own terms. You’ll learn to build your agency to create the conditions in which you thrive.

It’s Systemic

Together we’ll uncover and confront the narratives rooted in colonialism, capitalism, and supremacism that are harmful and disconnected from what’s important to you. You’ll challenge these narratives and widen your perspective on the nature of work beyond the grind and to a system that serves you.

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It’s Collective

You’re not meant to do this work on your own. The way forward is in cultivating collective and relational ways of leading that honour your own and each other’s wholeness and humanity. When we recognize our interdependence, we can relearn what resilience really means and advocate for those we care about.

Everything you have lived has value.

JOIN THE NEXT GROUNDSWELL SCHOOL COHORT TO BUILD YOUR LEADERSHIP FROM THE INSIDE OUT.

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Leadership for Social Change Course

AN 8-WEEK COHORT-BASED EXPERIENCE

Re-imagine leadership, challenge harmful systems, build practices of care for yourself and your community, and express yourself through your values, strengths, and what matters to you.

What Groundswell students have to say

Community Events and Gatherings

JOIN US IN CULTIVATING ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF WORKING

Groundswell hosts a series of multi-sensory conversations with special guests who share how they are putting their values to work: what it feels, tastes, smells, sounds, and looks like! We invite you to bring all of your senses to explore alternative futures of work with us.

VIEW EVENTS

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Ideas and happenings in our community.

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COMMUNITY

Leadership Transition at Groundswell Alternative Business School

If you follow us on social media, you may have noticed our latest post about the leadership transition we’ve been going through over the last few months.

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LEADERSHIP

Groundswell heads to BC Legislature

Last month Janet Routledge, MLA for Burnaby North, gave a speech about Groundswell at the BC Legislature.

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COMMUNITY

Cohort 10 Ventures

Check out our latest cohort’s ventures!

Connect to a community of people who are radically reimagining how they work.

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We’ll keep you posted on events, new program dates, resources, and ways of putting your values to work.