In this course award-winning documentary filmmaker and social entrepreneur, Marco Ríos Bollinger, takes you on a journey to meet inspiring change-makers around the globe and guides you through a step-by-step process to find your own path toward building a better world.

You will take virtual field trips to Nepal and Costa Rica to learn the stories of inspiring community leaders and learn lessons about the personal attributes, actions and support systems they needed to affect change. Marco will also share lessons from his own life and walk you through a series of exercises to understand pathways to getting involved in social impact work and how to align your passions and inner purpose to fuel your efforts.

WHAT YOU’LL GET OUT OF THIS COURSE

By the end of this course you’ll have a strong understanding of how to translate your personal passions and skills into a tangible action plan for getting started on your next social impact project or career.

WHAT YOU WILL DO AND LEARN

• Meet Inspiring Community Leaders via Documentary-style Virtual Field Trips - through professionally produced virtual field trips to Nepal and Costa Rica you will not only witness and learn from real live impact projects and community leaders, but you will also learn to identify the common story arc in each change-maker’s journey: The Problem, The Idea, The Opportunity, and The Action, so that you can apply the same principles to your own journey.

• Uncover your Passion & Purpose - only when your passion and purpose are integrated into your project, work, or effort, will you be able to access the tenacity, personal resilience, and long term sustainability needed to successfully lead your efforts to the finish line.

• Apply Your Strengths & Weaknesses - next Marco will help you take an honest look at your strengths and weaknesses to understand what kind of team and support you will need to build around your efforts. As Marco explains, true honesty with yourself about what you’re not good at is critical to the execution process.

• Identify Your North Star - we will research others who have blazed your trail before you to help give you a roadmap for success. Learn how to identify your North Star to keep you on track as you dive into the challenges of your impact work.

• Take Action - The final step in this course is taking your first action to connect with the colleagues, community, and professionals in the impact space you want to join. Learn how to take this outreach action step with confidence as it is the beginning of your new project or career.

WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE

Whether you're just starting out on your path, looking to engage in CSR (corporate social responsibility), contemplating a career change with meaning, or just want to start a side project in the impact space, this course will help you align your values with your work, identify your strengths and weakness, and get started.

MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Peruvian-American Marco Riós Bollinger has directed projects for the UN Refugee Agency, worked with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and photographed Beyoncé and Barack Obama. He’s produced award-winning social issue documentaries on subjects ranging from the plight of refugee kids (SAFE ZONE), the healing power of dance (Dance Is My Gun) to the impacts of tourism (2.5%). More recently he has moved to scale his empathy-building advocacy work by co-founding social enterprises Lokal Travel and Uprise.

NEED A SCHOLARSHIP?

We believe that everyone has the capacity to lead change and that price should never be a barrier to participating in this course. If you can’t afford the price, simply reach out to us and we’ll send you a discount/access code with no questions asked.

LET’S GET STARTED!

We can’t wait to learn alongside and take action together toward building a better world. Let’s go!