Learning Journeys

Background & Purpose

1. To better understand a social issue, empathise with the problems faced by a community, or appreciate the work of organisations engaged in positive social change.
2. These will be conducted via experiential learning, via interaction with communities or immersion in a locality; and there should be opportunities for reflections and mutual sharing among participants.
3. Non-profit organisations, civic groups, ground up initiatives, government agencies and corporations can host learning journeys as long as it achieves the above objectives.

Pipeline of Learning Journeys

IPS and ToteBoard will support non-profit organisations, community groups or ground-up initiatives conceptualize and host experiential learning journeys for leaders across the people, public and private sector. If you are interested, please contact: justin.lee@nus.edu.sg or fill in this Form.

Confirmed Learning Journeys

To sign up, please click on the links.

April 2020

May 2020

June 2020

July 2020

Aug 2020

Sep 2020

Oct 2020

Learning Journeys being conceptualized

[This currently is my personal wishlist, and I hope the respective organisations will collaborate will sign up to host, possibly in collaboration with others]

Building Community in Rental Flat Neighbourhoods - South Central Community FSC. AMKFSC, Beyond (?)

Invisible Communities in Singapore (?)

Resettling Seniors - Cassia Resettlement Team (?)

Pulau Ubin Community Trail (?)

Millennial Social Movements - FriendZone, OpenJio, BeKindSG (?)

Socially Engaged Arts - ArtsWok, Artsolute, Brack

Tech for Good - civic.sg, better.sg

Other Learning Journeys Organisers in Singapore

Singapore Business Federation Foundation's Empathy Series.

Targeted at SMEs.

Singapore Pools Learning Festival.

Started in 2015. In 2019, they included social organisations. See press release here.

"The two-day festival which runs from 5 to 6 May, consist of 18 parallel sessions held at Singapore Pools, with a carefully-curated list of topics spanning business operating models, design thinking, effective communications, digital transformation and more to lend relevancy to the current learning needs in the job markets."

Included "key community partners with participation from Beyond Social Services, Bone Marrow Donor Programme (Singapore), Very Special Arts Singapore Ltd, Metta Welfare Association, National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre and TOUCH Community Services, amongst others."

Guiding Sensibilities and Community Feedback on Learning Journeys

This is a compilation of (non-binding) feedback and guiding sensibilities on what the learning journeys should be about:

• Consider surfacing parts of this country that is hidden, e.g. the ‘transient’ workers that have been here for years.
• Inter-sectoral collaboration, eg combine with environmental causes.
• Focus on the joy of just learning about one another., and the uniqueness of each community.
• We should showcase communities themselves rather than the organised groups who work with communities. Sometimes the voice of the community is not strong enough because organisations orchestrate and force that community to 'perform'.