RE-AMP Systems Thinking Academy
November 18 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Deepen Your Systems Practice – In Community with the RE-AMP Network
Are you an impact network practitioner — a leader, catalyst, consultant, or funder — looking to deepen your capacity to help others think and act systemically? Have you also been curious to learn more about the frequently cited RE-AMP Network?
This year’s RE-AMP Systems Thinking Academy offers a rare opportunity to do both.
The Academy is designed primarily for RE-AMP members — a long-standing, multi-sector climate equity network working in the Upper Midwest. These members may not be fluent in systems language yet, but they’ve been doing system-change work for years. Many are the very kinds of people, in the kinds of networks, you serve.
This isn’t about teaching systems thinking — it’s about practicing the relational art of holding it steady when complexity gets uncomfortable. How do you help others connect the dots without losing the thread yourself? How do you notice when a group’s direction might quietly undermine their systemic goals — and find a way to name that relationally, without shutting down the field?
You’ll sit alongside RE-AMP members as they explore foundational systems thinking concepts interactively. Your role isn’t to lead, but to accompany — to support their learning while practicing your own. And yes, you’ll get an inside look at how RE-AMP thinks together, structures itself, and adapts — insights you can’t get from case studies alone.
Consider bringing a colleague or collaborator. The concepts we’ll explore are meant to be practiced relationally, and you’ll get more value from the Academy if you attend with someone you already work with. Whether it’s a co-facilitator, project partner, or team member, learning these approaches together means you can continue practicing and refining them when you return to your shared work
Because that’s often where our practice is most tested. It’s one thing to understand systems ideas in theory — it’s another to stay with them in the moment. To help others navigate complexity without losing your own footing. To be the kind of systems thinker who doesn’t just know the map, but can walk others through the terrain.
The Academy runs November 18th-20th at Loyola University Retreat and Ecology Campus (LUREC) | 2710 S Country Club Rd, Woodstock, IL 60098
Space is intentionally limited to maintain the intimate, relational learning environment that makes this work possible. Registration is first come first served.