Catalyzing Healthy Cultural Transformation

Course dates:
Tuesdays September 9 – October 28, 2025
@ 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM PDT / 5:00 PM MDT / 6:00 PM CDT / 7:00 PM EDT

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Wednesdays, September 10 - October 29, 2025
@ 9:00 AM AEST

Duration 8 weeks
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Presented by: Catalyzing Healthy Cultural Transformation is being offered through a Charter partnership with Stable Planet Alliance

In a time of growing uncertainty and challenge, this course offers more than insight — it offers community. A place to weather the storms, deepen your thinking, and explore new ways of being.

You won’t just be absorbing new information (you already carry a wealth of knowledge). Instead, you’ll be developing the tools — with others — to become a more effective change agent. Spoiler alert: the heart of this work is helping people think more deeply and holistically. You’ll learn how to guide others in observing their emotions and reactions, and in creating the space needed to process and grow. We call those who do this Evolutionary Catalysts. And we’ll be equipping you with the tools to become one.

You’ll gain strategies to help people move from anxiety about climate change and other pressing issues to a clearer understanding of the underlying systems that drive these crises.

This broader, more nuanced grasp of our interconnected “polycrisis” lays the foundation for bold, compassionate, and transformational leadership.

Along the way, you’ll co-create a caring and resilient learning community — one that can hold space for pain, overwhelm, and anger, and also celebrate growth and breakthroughs.

Together, we will sharpen our collective ability to make sense of a complex world. Even more, you will become a more skillful communicator, equipped to foster transformative change.

Stable Planet Alliance, the sponsor of this course, supports a growing cohort of Evolutionary Catalysts. Our mission is bold: to spark a global commitment to do everything necessary — within the realm of care — to pull out of our ecological nosedive and build a just, compassionate, and sustainable world.

Meet the facilitators

Pam Pence - Chief operations officer

Pam, Stable Planet's focal point in our collaborative leadership team, is a dedicated humanity and Earth Advocate, applying her business, somatic trauma healing, generative discussions facilitator and spiritual guide skills where ever she is led! She’s earned her MBA, CPA, and various certificates as yoga therapist, practitioner of healing modalities and meditation teacher over several careers. Pam awoke to our ecological overshoot after the start of the Covid pandemic, noticing how the sheer number of humans was exacerbating all other issues. With her long-time spiritual perspective she sees that our deeply imbedded belief in separation causes disconnection from ourselves, other humans, non-human beings, ecosystems, and Earth. She is managing the operations of Stable Planet Alliance, acting as focal point for our collaborative leadership team, and managing several of our community projects about the new story we can choose to create.

Andrew Gaines Executive Team - systems

Andrew Gaines is the instigator of Inspiring Transition, a citizen-led educational movement to inspire thoughtful mainstream commitment to doing everything required to transition to a compassionate ecologically sustainable society. His professional background is as a Feldenkrais practitioner, creativity trainer and psychotherapist. He studied philosophy and engineering at Princeton University. He trained in The Natural Step principles of environmental sustainability, and also trained in creative thinking modalities including MG Taylor’s DesignShops, Synectics, and improvisational acting. Andrew has applied insights into the neurology of improving human performance to creativity, personal development, and large-scale social change. Andrew was a principal organizer of the Creative thinking forum on transitioning to a viable society in Sydney (2010) and the National Summit on whole system change in Geelong (2011). Andrew is a Founding Sponsor of The Global Compassion Coalition and a Fellow of the RSA (Royal Society of Arts, Industry and Commerce). His books include Becoming an Evolutionary Catalyst, Creative Conversations, Inner Work and Kitchen Table Conversations.

Upon registration you will receive a separate invitation to the Charter for Compassion platform, Sutra. Please use the link received to access all information about the course.

This course is offered in partnership with Stable Planet Alliance, a global coalition working to build a just, compassionate, and sustainable world. Learn more at stableplanetalliance.org.