Transforming Identity
31 August 2025
11 AUGUST – 21 AUGUST
The vision of the UWC Short Course: Transforming Identity is to create an online community to explore questions of identity. In doing so, we aim to approach our differences with mutual respect, reflection, and recognition.
More specifically, exploring identity means grappling with questions of:
...The personal: “Who/What am I?”
...The interpersonal: “How should I treat others?”,
...The social: “How should we organise ourselves?”
The course emphasises the collective creation of ideas and will, to this end, encompass workshops, Umbrella groups and Games as its programme. Workshops will be delivered through various methods, including interactive activities, and open contemplative discussions with more or less direction from facilitators.
At the end of each day of the course, participants will regroup into small tight-knit communities: Umbrella Groups. These are dedicated spaces for peer sharing, reflexion and bonding. Each umbrella group will have two facilitators and small subgroups of participants. To ensure sustained engagement and connection, games will be used during transitions and breaks.
The objective of Transforming Identity is to prompt and support critical thought and development of our individual participants’ visions of personal identity, which have implications for how they relate to others, which in turn has implications for their view of organising and leading to social change.
DETAILS:
Dates: 11 August – 21 August, UTC 13:00-15:00, Mondays to Thursdays.
Location: Online
Participant age requirement: 15 – 18-year-olds
Language of course facilitation: English
Participant Application information: Find the application form here.
Facilitator Application Information: Find the application form here.
Application deadline: rolling basis
Course fee: $200
Scholarships are available and can be requested through the application form. Scholarships will be distributed on the basis of merit, gender balance, socioeconomic diversity and geographical location.