Inspire

Gain the inspiration and tools to transform your learning community.

May 2025
  Learnlife Barcelona

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Transforming education is challenging, but you're not alone!

Inspire offers you a powerful blend of proven education innovation, expert-led workshops, and practical tools to empower you to enact change within your learning community.

Join us to see progressive education in practice and connect with a tribe of forward-thinking educators and innovators committed to reshaping their learning environments.

Are you ready to embark on your journey of transformation?

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Why attend Inspire?

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Be inspired

Experience education innovation first-hand, explore new creative ideas & approaches and gain inspiration to deliver change.
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Spark new ideas

Network, ask questions, exchange ideas and get feedback. Benefit from diverse perspectives to find solutions to your challenges.
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Turn vision into action

Leave Inspire with the tools, advice and strategies to turn your inspiration into purposeful action.

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Example Schedule

Experience two action-packed days of inspirational tours, expert workshops and building meaningful connections. You can find the full schedule below, but here's what you can expect:
 
  • Inspirational tours of our two Learn Hubs - Tour our lighthouses of learning innovation, learn about our approach and ask questions of our learners and team
  • Expert workshop series - Participate in interactive workshops designed to stretch your mind, challenge your perceptions and equip you with the tools to deliver change
  • Making meaningful connections - Connect and reflect with others and find your tribe among a diverse group of global educators and innovators committed to delivering positive change

Day 1
Day 2 
  • Welcome coffee: Presentations of the team and participants
  • Visit 1: Our primary years hub (Eco Hub in Castelldefels)
  • Visit 2: Our secondary years hub (Urban Hub in Barcelona)
  • Lunch: Gather at a local restaurant 
  • Workshop 1: Developing a strategic Roadmap (more info)
  • Workshop 2: Competency Framework (more info)
  • Visit 3: A local partner school
  • Observation: Passion Projects
  • Lunch: Gather at a local restaurant 
  • Meet and greet: Talk with the Learning Guides and Hub Leads
  • Debriefing Circle: Share your experiences
  • Networking: An opportunity to socialise with attendees and team

Tickets

Tickets for the May 2025 edition will be on sale soon. Please register your interest now to secure your place at the front of the line for our limited spots and be the first to know about our newest discounts!

Tickets include the full two-day schedule plus:

  • Lunch and refreshments
  • Travel between our Hubs
  • Pre and post-event resources

For large group booking discounts or if you want to talk before purchasing a ticket, please contact us.

Your expert facilitators

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Dr Stephen Harris
Co-founder & Chief Learning Officer

For the last 4 decades, Stephen has been involved in virtually every aspect of the learning ecosystem: primary, secondary, online learning, principal for two decades, inspector of schools & co-founder of Learnlife.

Stephen also founded the Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning (SCIL). His vision is to embed innovation into schools, drawing from the passion and expertise of the teams that worked alongside him. He has deep insights into leadership, innovation and culture.

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Joan Urgell Farran
Trainer & Consultant

Joan is a Trainer and Learning Guide with a background in Product Design. He joined Learnlife’s learning team in 2019, and has 8+ years of experience working with schools and maker spaces; in this journey, he has collaborated on multiple educational projects and supported many educators and learning communities to adopt innovative practices. 

Georgi

Georgi Panayotov
Trainer & Consultant

Georgi was one of the founding Learning Guides at Learnlife and is now a trainer & coach for a variety of internal and external educators. Over the last decade, he has facilitated innovation workshops for learners from preschool to senior managers in large companies. Georgi has worked in multiple cultural environments and knows how to address different needs in terms of content & structure depending on the culture.

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Mar Cano Mesa
Trainer & Consultant

Mar is an experienced trainer with a holistic approach to learning. She has 20+ years of experience working with learners of all ages and is passionate about exploring diverse learning ecosystems around the world. For her, magic starts with a mindshift, one sparkle at a time.

Oriol

Oriol Codina
Trainer & Consultant

Oriol is a passionate creator with 8+ years of experience managing educational programmes for underserved communities in San Francisco and Spain. He believes in the power of maker education to create opportunities and drive positive impact and is dedicated to promoting access to quality education for all.

Leticia Lipp

Leticia Lipp
Recruitment Lead

Leticia is one of the founding team members of Learnlife. Her mission was to build the Learnlife team from 9 to 50+ people in two years and she has been the people & culture lead for the organization ever since. She is now focused on helping Learnlife partner schools find crucial talent such as principals, CEOs, pedagogical leaders, teachers & learning experience designers.

Workshops

Example Workshop 1: From Inspiration to Action: Developing a strategic roadmap

This workshop will be helping participants articulate a clear vision for their community and then following some practical steps to create an action plan - strategic roadmap.

Takeaways:

  • Understand clearly what a collective envisioning process involves
  • Learn why a collective envisioning process is more powerful than traditional vision statements
  • Start to develop their own plan and strategy
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Example Workshop 2: From Subject to skills - Competency Framework in action

65% of primary school children will have jobs that don't yet exist (World Economic Forum). Shifting to a competency model that develops real-world skills is critical for learners to thrive in a world of constant change. This workshop aims to give participants a clear view on how competencies connect with subjects and the inspiration to create their own competency framework.

Takeaways:

  • Get to know Learnlife's competency framework and how it works.
  • Explore examples of schools we've helped implement competency frameworks.
  • Learn how to develop a competency framework tailored to your Organisation
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