Change Makers

Change Makers

Change Makers empowers a new generation of local leaders. The focus is on growing each emerging leader’s capacity in the critical qualities of compassion, innovation and resilience, as well as building life-long connections, self-awareness and skills for change.

Participants are nominated as a small group ‘pods’ from within their local communities (local ‘seedbeds’) and join with others around Australia to shape their ideas for change in the areas of community building, community organising and community enterprise.  

The Change Makers program is run over 4 months and includes themed intensives, 1:1 coaching sessions, and the chance to pitch an idea for change to a resource panel at the end of the program. 

Change Makers is accessible, designed so participants can join in even if they work or study full time. Participants come in pods together from your community and focus their idea for change within your community. This means that your community benefits from their growth and not just the emerging leaders themselves.

Four cohorts of Change Makers from communities across Australia are already growing into fullness of life in remarkable ways. This growth is both within the emerging leaders who take part – as well via their community-based initiatives (see video clips of recent participants here and latest news on the Seedbeds Global Facebook Page here).

Could your local leaders be next?

Change Makers focuses especially on those who are:

• Local (i.e. from a priority community and willing to join the program in a local ‘pod’ with others from that neighbourhood)
• Emerging (i.e. aged over 18 with high potential to make a difference)
• Raw Talents (i.e. have catalytic potential where traditional education systems will probably not bring out their best)
• Diverse (i.e. not from mainstream backgrounds, paying attention to class, race and gender access and equity challenges)

Nominate a ‘pod’ of leaders or register your own interest here.

Change Makers Townsville 2025:
Orientation via Zoom: June 26 
Module A – Compassion: July 18-19
Module B – Innovation: August 14-15
Module C – Resilience: Sept 19-20
Resource Panel and Graduation: Oct 18                                                

Change Makers Norlane 2025:
Orientation: July 3 
Module A – Compassion: July 31 – August 1
Module B – Innovation: Sept 4-5
Module C – Resilience: Oct 9-10
Resource Panel and Graduation: Nov 7                             

What does Change Makers cost? 

We don’t want finances to be a barrier to any potential Change Maker accessing our programs. It costs around $2,000 per participant for this program, but through sponsorships, grants, time gifting and donations, each successful nominee will be granted a part scholarship. This means each participant needs to invest $500 for access to the whole program including themed intensives, coaching sessions and a resource panel/graduation event.

We ask nominators (and/or their organisation or church) to consider donating toward their nominee’s program if their nominee/s are successful.

Can we bring Change Makers to my neighbourhood?

If you are interested in becoming a ‘local seedbed’ to raise up local leaders and see their God-given dreams for change happen in your neighbourhood, please contact hello@seedbeds.org.au

Photo credit: Claire Carroll