The Core of the Programme
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What ways of thinking, skills, and attributes will enable this generation of students to flourish?
Cambridge students already get an exceptional and deep education, kindled by some of the world's best minds. Skills and mindsets outside their academic subject deserve the same puposefulness and attention.
Changemakers fosters four essential qualities: Responsibility, Resilience, Action & Enterprise, and Leadership.
Cambridge Colleges - intimate multidisciplinary communities of talented and committed learners - are the perfect setting to develop these qualities, through a deliberate, structured programme alongside a student's degree.
Resilience
Building confidence.
Reflective practice.
Prioritising.
Managing stress.
Understanding who we are, what has shaped us, and the values we hold.
Vision-casting.
Strengths and drivers analysis.
Self-efficacy.
Action and Enterprise
Creativity.
Application.
Problem-solving.
Decision-making.
Assessing risk.
Comfort with failure and not-knowing.
Networking.
Pitching.
Financial awareness.
Persistence.
Emotional intelligence.
Empathy.
Compassion.
Getting to true collaboration.
Responsibility
Inter-cultural understanding.
The roots, effects and management of prejudice.
The ambitions, limits and principles of changemaking.
Macro-system of power, influence, and change.
Difference, diversity, equality.
Social awareness
Global sustainability.
Leadership
The ability to get things done, alongside and with others.
Team skills (listening, effective communication, interdependence).
Team types.
Individual profiles.
Vision developement.
What leaders are, know, and do.
Adapting to environment.
Community and social challenge.
Encountering and welcoming difference.