Social Change 2.0 Initiatives

What follows are four Empowerment Institute Social Change 2.0 initiatives. Each social innovation is designed to transform a high leverage social or environmental issue and is now scaling up.

Climate: Empower cities and their citizens in high carbon emitting countries with the agency to implement a second order change solution to climate change.
Development: Empower women throughout the developing world with the agency to transform the cycle of poverty and create thriving lives and communities.
Peace: Empower humanity with the agency and second order change tools to create peace on earth by 2030.
Reinventing the Planet: Empower humanity with the agency and a road map, strategies and tools to simultaneously achieve these global sustainable development goals and create our dreams for the world.

Learn How to Change the World

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The Empowerment Institute Certification Program, led by David Gershon and Gail Straub is a school for transformative social change. It provides participants the design knowledge, skills and tools to further second order change at the personal, organizational, community and societal levels. Each participant specializes in one of the six empowerment tracks and is assisted in developing a successful transformational application. Click here for more information on the certification program.

Changing the Game: The Craft of Transformative Leadership

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David Gershon offers participants the knowledge to design a transformative change strategy and the leadership skills to implement it. This training is based on David’s three decades as a social architect and practitioner of transformative change. This is not offered as a public training and is customized to the specific needs of the group or organization. To learn more click here.

Practice of Empowerment

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This training is an introduction to the empowerment methodology taught in the Empowerment Institute Certification Program. It provides the empowerment foundation on which second order change strategies can be built. To learn more click here.

Social Change 2.0 Framework

An introduction to the Social Change 2.0 philosophy and framework.

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Socail Change 2.0 “Social Change 2.0 exhilarates. David Gershon has not just laid out a compelling and coherent blueprint for social change, but the vividly written stories he shares make us realize that what we thought was impossible can actually be achieved. Having been a political leader in Portland for twenty years, where I worked closely with David, I saw firsthand the power of his work to change the lives of thousands of people. He may well be the number one expert on social change in our country.”
– Mike Lindberg, former Commissioner of Public Utilities and city council member, City of Portland, Oregon

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To learn more about the Social Change 2.0 framework, read the free download from the book's introduction, "Reinventing Social Change."

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Social Change 2.0 Testimonials

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“This book is a practical and inspiring roadmap to the future we all know is possible. I know of no one more experienced to create such a roadmap than David Gershon, who has spent the past three decades empowering individuals and communities, as well as business and government leaders. I have looked forward to this book for some time to gain a deeper understanding of how David has initiated so much positive change and created so many innovative strategies to help people achieve their visions for a better world.”
—Hazel Henderson, author of "Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy and Building a Win-Win World