News & Events

The Center for Creative Change promotes leadership in positive, sustainable change wherever you are — in a community, business or nonprofit organization. The many programs and events sponsored by the Center are united in a commitment to creating a better world for everyone. News and events featured here focus on activities of faculty, students, alumni and friends of the Center.

Global Issues & Perspectives

This free lecture/discussion series sponsored by the Center for Creative Change (C3) addresses the question: What do we need to know to become effective global citizens? The series is an enriching opportunity to hear, learn from and be inspired by individuals — many of whom are from other cultures and countries — who are invited to Antioch to share their values and vision. Free and open to the public. To view the schedule of events, click here.


Who Has The Right? Expanding the Rights of Individuals, Communities and Nature as a Key Strategy for Sustainability

October 4, Town Hall
Kate Davies, D.Phil., Core Faculty, Center for Creative Change
Kate Davies is the featured speaker as part of the 2011 Sustainable Path Seminar Series. For more information, visit their website.


C3 Faculty Updates

  • B.J. Bullert, Ph.D., C3 core faculty, attended the National Conference on Media Reform in Boston in April where the use of Twitter and Facebook by activists was discussed extensively. She has written a grant for a film on the Space Needle, and she is writing the script for a film about social partner dancing in Seattle with the working title “Seattle Waltz.”
  • Kate Davies, D.Phil., C3 core faculty, published several articles: “We All Live Downstream,” a book review of the second edition of Living Downstream by Sandra Steingraber; New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy 21(1): 149-153 (March 2011). ”Toxic Whoodunit,” a book review of Living Downstream, Alternatives Journal 37(3), April 2011. “Ten Lessons from Previous Social Movements and Their Leaders,” an article commissioned by Alternatives Journal, August 2011. “Why Sustainability Education Needs Pedagogies of Reflection and Contemplation,” a paper presented with others at the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education Conference in July at Whidbey Institute. She is teaching systems and critical thinking at University of Washington (July 2011 – June 2012) in the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice’s certificate programs in management and leadership.
  • Shana Hormann, Ph.D., C3 faculty and Associate Academic Dean and Dean of Students, presented on Organizational Trauma and Healing in May as part of the AUS Faculty Scholarship Series. In June, she presented on Organizational Trauma in Higher Education at the Washington Educator’s Leadership Academy. Under her direction, Facebook pages were launched for AUS Student Life and AU students, alumni and friends of color. Student Life also initiated AUS Classifieds on Google.
  • Mark Hower, Ph.D., C3 core faculty, received his Ph.D. in Leadership and Change from Antioch University in August.
  • Jonathan Scherch, M.S.W., Ph.D., C3 core faculty, had his paper, “There’s Something in the Air: Amateur Radio and Its Contributions to International Sustainable Community Development,” accepted for the 8th International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, at Vancouver, CA, in January 2012. Preview the documentary film “Sustainability in Exile: Tibetan Refugees Pioneering Food and Farming Futures” on www.sustainabilityinexile.org. The film is scheduled for release this fall.
  • Farouk Seif, Ph.D., C3 whole systems design professor emeritus, delivered a heartrending lecture “Dialogue with Kishtta: A Semiotic Revelation of the Paradox of Life and Death” at the International Conference: Zoosemiotics and Animal Representations in Tartu, Estonia, in April 2011. The lecture draws on his experience with his Golden Retriever, making a connection between human systems and the animal world. In April 2011, Farouk was the keynote speaker at the International Conference: Visuality 2011: Interactions of Creativity and Image in Vilnius, Lithuania. His paper “From Visual Representation to Visceral Experience: The Role of Notating Imagination in Transforming Reality” capitalized on his work on advance design communication and social change.
  • Britt Yamamoto, Ph.D., C3 core faculty and executive director of iLEAP, traveled to Japan in May and met with the U.S. Ambassador to Japan and visited areas devastated by the tsunami. This summer, he spent three weeks in Africa meeting with social innovators in Zambia, Kenya and Uganda.

Where in the World is C3?

Over the past 10 years, countries of origin for C3 students and faculty have included:
Bermuda; Cameroon; Canada; Congo; England; Egypt; Ethiopia; Germany; Guam; Iceland; India; Indonesia; Israel; Jordan; Korea; Mexico; Native Sovereign Nations, including: Muckleshoot, Lummi, Suquamish, Inupiat, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois); Nigeria; People’s Republic of China; Republic of China (Taiwan); Russia; Tanzania; The Netherlands; The Philippines; The Ukraine; U.S.A.; and Zanzibar.