Catherine Pineo
Head of Regenerative Learning and Design
Discover your purpose
RSA Spark 25/26: workshop one
12 Mar 2025 | 01:00 pm – 02:00 pm | GMT Standard Time
Online
Education and learning
RSA Spark
Built on the solid foundations of 100 years of the Student Design Awards, RSA Spark has been designed to achieve even greater impact.
Join the RSA for the first in a series of free interactive online learning workshops. In this workshop, you’ll connect with your strengths and your energy for change, as you reflect on the world as it is and the world as it needs to be.
At the end of the workshop, you’ll understand what you care about and connect that to your chosen RSA Spark brief.
What this workshop offers
The workshop will grow your capabilities in care, citizenship and composure:
- Care is about showing empathy and compassion for yourself, others, and the world around you. It’s the foundation of positive relationships and community building.
- Citizenship involves understanding your role in the community and the world. It’s about being an active, responsible, and contributing member of society.
- Composure is about maintaining calm and authenticity in the face of challenges. It helps you stay focused, balanced, and true to your values on your journey.
Growing these capabilities will support you to:
- Explain why you care about yourself, other people and the living world.
- Explain how you can make a difference in your life and the world around you.
- Show confidence in what you are good at and what you can do.
The workshop will also prepare you for the next stage of the creative process: exploring different points of possibility to better understand the context of your chosen brief.
Claim your RSA Spark digital badge
As a reminder, everybody who attends or watches a workshop on playback and completes the two surveys below will get an Explorer digital badge.
You will need to complete both surveys with your name so that we are able to issue the badges.
- At the start of the workshop, you will be invited to fill in the baseline survey. Please complete this when prompted.
- At the end of the workshop, we will also ask you to fill in the end of workshop survey. We will only be issuing badges to participants who complete both surveys.
- Although you only have to participate in one workshop to get an Explorer badge, we ask that you complete surveys for each workshop you participate in, as these surveys are designed to support you in identifying your capabilities and how they grow. The surveys are also an important way to give RSA Spark feedback and help us learn and improve!
Important links and resources
- RSA Spark webpage
- A video introduction to RSA Spark
- RSA Spark briefs
- RSA Capabilities for Life framework
- Workshop one slide deck, activities and resources (template to download and use as you’d like)
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