Designing Learning for Systems Change
Helping educators and mission-driven organizations design learning experiences that move people from awareness to action.
Is your education creating the change you're after?
You're committed to environmental and social change. But turning that commitment into learning that actually shifts behavior — and systems — is hard.
The world's biggest challenges are systemic. Learning that focuses on reacting to isolated topics rarely leads to lasting change. Education designed around systems thinking helps learners develop the tools and confidence to act.
Gitanjali Learning Design Can Help
We partner with nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven organizations to design learning experiences that empower people to understand and influence the systems shaping their communities.
Our work weaves together systems thinking, sustainability education, curriculum design, facilitation, and capacity building, grounded in over a decade of experience reaching 5,000+ educators and 1 million students across 130+ countries.
Ways We Can Work Together
Together, we can….
Spread Ideas
Workshops, keynotes, and content that spread systems-change ideas into the channels your audience already follows
Facilitate Learning
Hands-on facilitation embedded in your programs — Learning Grove Trainings and the SUSTAIN Incubator — building trust through real work together
A Seed Sprint or Growth Partnership that builds your team's own capacity to design and run transformative education — long after our work together ends.
Not sure where to start?
Most organizations start building their education programs before they've answered the most important questions. The S.U.S.T.A.I.N. Model is a seven-stage framework that changes that — grounding every learning design decision in systems thinking, a clear theory of change, and the capacity to sustain impact over time.
Rooted in the S.U.S.T.A.I.N. Learning Design Model
A Look at What’s Blooming
Curious what this looks like on the ground? A five-lesson unit that helped students understand and advocate for the U.S. electrical grid. An online course training educators around the world how to use systems thinking to educate and act for sustainability. A hand-drawn animation on systems thinking and how to innovate to create ethical, humane change. Every engagement starts with your context and grows into something built to outlast our work together.
Trusted by Mission-Driven Organizations
“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
— Rabindranath Tagore