Capabilities for Life Framework
A framework to nurture life-centric capabilities
Capabilities for
Life
Faculty Members
The Capabilities for Life faculty group is comprised of dedicated learning facilitators and visionaries from around the world.
The mission of both the faculty and the RSA is to transform the way capabilities (skills, behaviours, mindsets and values) are nurtured, focusing on connecting people’s needs with those of the planet.
Over the summer of 2024, they will be working with our Design and Innovation team to co-produce engaging and inclusive learning experiences that will support learners of all ages to nurture the capabilities, capacity and collaborations needed to affect deep and impactful change to people, place and planet.
Tariq Al-Olaimy
Job title
Co-Founder, Recipes for Wellbeing
Areas of expertise
- Learning and content design advice
- Framing of our worldview shift in the curriculum
- Multicultural language and framing
- Business model framing
Professor Ruth Crick
Job title
Founder, WILD Ltd and WILD Learning Sciences CIC and Visiting Professor of Learning Analytics, Connected Intelligence Centre at UTS, Sydney.
Areas of expertise
- Digital platforms
- Learner-centred assessment
- Bringing learnings from RSA Opening Minds Curriculum
- Mentor platforms
- Impact network to TES and communicating our work
Faye Ellis
Job title
Digital Coach and EdTech Consultant
Areas of expertise
- Framing for secondary learners and educators
- Inclusive learning design principles and content
- Translating content to digital platform
Michael Gernon
Job title
Education consultant and advisor (former CEO and Principal)
Areas of expertise
- Bringing in learnings from RSA Academies
- Framing and value prop for secondary learners and educators
- Capability accreditation
Sawsan Khuri
Job title
Director of Collaborative Capacities and Volt Entrepreneurs Limited
Areas of expertise
- Framing for entrepreneurs
- Peer learning journey for entrepreneurs
- Mentorship platform support
- Multicultural language and needs
Naomi Lord
Job title
Director of Creative Learning, Specialist Leader of Cultural Learning
Areas of expertise
- Language of secondary learners
- Learning assessment and accreditation (badge mapping)
- In-school testing
- Translate of learning content for online platforms
Dr Richard Owens
Job title
Director, Woodleigh Institute
Areas of expertise
- Life-centric pedagogical principles and framing
- Material and framing for educators and facilitators
- Nurturing life-centric capabilities in an asynchronous/online setting
- Multicultural framing and testing
Paul Pivcevic
Job title
Regenerative Systems Designer, Regenerative Partners
Areas of expertise
- Life-centric framing (pushing others and our own boundaries)
- Framing for entrepreneurs and secondary learners
- Connecting outcomes to businesses
Pooja Sharma
Job title
Founder, Inclusive Duniya
Areas of expertise
- Inclusive language and framing
- Aligning sprint learning journeys for global audiences
- Multicultural framing
- Testing in international school settings
Sarah Spencer
Job title
Chief Ecosystem Officer, Think like a Tree
Areas of expertise
- Learning and mentorship for the facilitation of a life-centric mindset shift
- Connection to business framing
- Entrepreneur language and framing for young learners, parents and out of school learners
Discover more about our Capabilities for Life intervention
Capabilities for Life
Design for Life supports people to learn and lead. We’re unlocking the confidence, capabilities and connections of children, learners and entrepreneurs of all ages.
Design for Life
Design for Life enables people, places, and the planet to flourish in harmony. We do this by uniting people and ideas in collective action to unlock opportunities to regenerate our world.
