This is a self-led, self-paced, inquiry-based course on the historic and contemporary mechanisms of colonisation and imperialism, with a focus on how industry continues to create and perpetuate a colonial world order.
This course makes explicit strategies undertaken by contemporary processes of colonisation.
One example of this is in Sustainability, Inc., wherein the industry’s performance of “saving the world” with its “good intentions” continues to perpetuate polycrises of colonial origins, through employing colonial systems and fostering coloniality.
Leaving coloniality unchecked and allowing it to proliferate, the industry stays firmly on course on the white supremacist road to hell.
Participants are invited to explore the inquiries offered and conduct their own research, which may be explored linearly or non-linearly. In responding to inquiries, participants naturally reflect their own contexts and perspectives, in a manner that relates to their local and global roles in colonial hegemony.
The primary learning objective of this course is to provide clear perspectives of colonisation as a system and coloniality as a culture. This understanding supports participants in better identifying colonial perspectives and tools in themselves, their work, and their societies.
Explorations nudged by this course assists participants in developing decolonial and other accountability strategies, e.g. implementing anti-colonial governance structures in project management, internal coloniality assessments as part of harm reduction in direct relationality and collaborative engagements, and aligning advocacy and activism in seeking decolonial justice and reparations.
Designed around a suggested three-month period of exploration, this course looks at three aspects of colonisation as an introductory interrogation, with the flexibility to deepen and broaden with further inquiry:
An exploration of colonial harms and traumas, systemic profiteering and hoarding, and reparative justice and decolonial sustainability
An interrogation of how narratives, behaviours, systems and cultures have been - and are - managed and controlled by white supremacist power structures in our colonial world order
A study of the development of mechanisms used to advance colonisation in different arenas, driving academic research, technological innovation, mass communication, and organisational governance.
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Developing an awareness of the extent and scale of systems of coloniality, especially in the contexts participants themselves apply
Practicing assessing patterns of coloniality within ourselves that we are taught and incentivised to externalise, observing what triggers discomfort, protectionism, defensiveness, and why
Building familiarity with decolonial topics such as hegemonic power structures, incentivisation mechanisms, and institutional narratives
Connecting dots between individual and collective, local and global, trauma and profits, and oppression and privilege at a practical level
Engaging in a different mode of learning, one that is expansive rather than prescriptive, as a rejection of indoctrinated learning
this course is for you if...
this course is not for you if...
This course is created in a self-led learning style that might feel at first detached and uncomfortable for those who are conditioned into a prescriptive educational approach, e.g. spoonfed reductionist frameworks for the sake of shallow solutionism in order to seek peer validation or reassurance.
By registering for this course, you are agreeing to train for critical thinking while addressing willful blindness, manufactured ignorance, and exploitation complicity; and to reflect on and question your reactions, opinions, and attachments.
You are ready to decenter yourself and question what you once considered certain or right.
You want to intentionally create space in your life for understanding systemic privilege and systemic oppression.
You seek an understanding of how ongoing mechanisms of colonisation are still happening even in well-meaning intentions.
You are ready to confront your fears, hopes, intentions, emotions, insecurities, unexamined desires and unprocessed traumas, and question exactly what drives them.
You are not prepared to question the dominant models of business we operate within today.
You don't feel there is anything deeply wrong with your life or its place in global systems of politics or resource governance.
You wholeheartedly subscribe to dominant or mainstream narratives and don’t wish to critique them.
You’re uncomfortable with discomfort, and feel challenged by challenge.
You expect to learn in a passive and prescriptive way.
Your main motivation for doing this course is coming from desires of claiming innocence or benevolence, finding quick fixes or adding to your CV.
Students at Bachelor's level or prior are eligible for a 50% discount.
Global South folk involved in the Global South indigenous and/or peasant rights movement through local or international organisations are eligible to join the course for free.
Please be aware that this course is designed for industry professionals. Students and indigenous and peasant rights activists are to be mindful of contextual power dynamics.
Obtain discount codes via the button below. You will be asked to submit proof of study or proof of involvement.
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Our pilot cohort is ongoing. This is the final stage of our design process in preparing for full launch on 6th July 2025. Registration is now open for the launch at a 5% earlybird discount using the code "wormbrekkie" (available until 6th May 2025). Please note that course materials will only become available to participants upon launch.
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