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a human-centered design studio.

We help people-first organizations see what’s here, learn what’s coming, and build what’s next, through strategic facilitation, service design, and change leadership.

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Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation: Co-creating the strategy
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Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation: Co-creating the strategy

How collaboration brought grassroots ownership of the strategic plan The Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation had just created a new strategic plan — but as they shared with us, “A plan is just a bunch of lofty objectives if it doesn’t have well-articulated actions, to see those objectives fulfilled."
Kevan Gilbert
2 min read
BC Disability Collaborative: Co-creating a new organization
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BC Disability Collaborative: Co-creating a new organization

Helping advocate for disability rights in BC When the BC government made a decision that would negatively affect families who receive autism funding, the autism community moved quickly to advocate for change. Assembling a rough coalition that went beyond only Autism-related organizations — reaching out to friends and colleagues and orgs
Kevan Gilbert
2 min read
Vancouver Foundation: Learning design thinking & co-creation
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Vancouver Foundation: Learning design thinking & co-creation

Applied, project-based, hybrid learning with a cross-disciplinary team The team at Vancouver Foundation were exploring a key question: how might we design more equitably and inclusively with your community? To explore this, they asked Co.school to design and deliver a custom program to help upskill their capacity to co-create.
Kevan Gilbert
1 min read

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Design thinking training for educators
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Design thinking training for educators

Design and technology is a key skill area for our students’ futures: are you ready as an educator to lead? Get familiar with the full flow of applied design — from ideating, to creating and sharing products, to extending human capabilities through technology – so you can lead classrooms more confidently through
Kevan Gilbert
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Retreats & Offsites
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Retreats & Offsites

For better company offsites and team-building retreats. Find your facilitator and host Kelowna, BC, throughout the Okanagan Valley, and in Metro Vancouver, with Co.school.
Kevan Gilbert
5 min read
Systems Change Leadership
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Systems Change Leadership

Systems change for social innovation in Canada. Let's co-design and facilitate a new path forward for your purpose-led initiative.
Kevan Gilbert
6 min read
Service Design
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Service Design

Service design for social innovation in Canada. Through interviews, research, surveys and collaborative design, map out your current systems flow, to find the opportunities for change.
Kevan Gilbert
2 min read
Facilitation Services
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Facilitation Services

Facilitation services: design better meetings, movements and moments, marked by dialogue, hosting and participation. Offered in BC, Canada, and remotely.
Kevan Gilbert
4 min read
AIDE Canada: Designing the "Impossible Conference"
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AIDE Canada: Designing the "Impossible Conference"

How a two-day conference helped explore solutions for longstanding challenges in the autism community As a convener and knowledge mobilizer in the space of autism support networks, AIDE Canada wanted to design and host a conference that brought contributors from all across Canada to tackle long-standing challenges in the autism
Kevan Gilbert
2 min read
Anglican Church of Canada: A collaborative design summit
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Anglican Church of Canada: A collaborative design summit

People-centered innovation with an evolving organization On the lands now known as British Columbia, the Anglican Church of Canada has been operating for more than 100 years. And over these years, the organization has come face-to-face with the need for change, on more than one occasion. Often, these crossroads moments
Kevan Gilbert
3 min read
FoundryBC: A nation-wide leadership development program for youth
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FoundryBC: A nation-wide leadership development program for youth

Mobilizing the next generation of leaders, with Foundry BC For two years running, Foundry BC (supported by Health Canada) kickstarted an initiative called the Youth & Family Ambassadors Program. A year-long, cohort-based leadership development program, the experience was designed to help young people gain literacy in topics such as cultural
Kevan Gilbert
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