Learning & Workshops

We offer practical learning experiences and workshops to help communities and organisations build capital for lasting impact

About our Courses & Workshops

We offer practical, engaging learning experiences that help communities, organisations, and partners understand and activate the power of capital to create lasting wellbeing for people and place.

Our sessions combine real-world examples, interactive discussion, and practical tools — giving participants the knowledge and confidence to turn ideas into action.

Three Ways to Learn

1. Public Learning Series

Our flagship Community Capital Learning Series introduces the essentials of community and place-based capital — what it is, why it matters, and how to make it work for local wellbeing and resilience. This series is run online and available to all interested parties. The 2025 Series has concluded. 2026 sessions will be announced in December — register your interest to be notified. See below for more information on our learning areas.

2. Tailored Learning Sessions

We deliver customised workshops and training designed for your community, organisation, or network. Each session is practical, engaging, and grounded in real-world examples, focusing on Place-Based & Community Capital and Natural Capital & Environmental Markets.
Whether you’re starting out or deepening your practice, we’ll work with you to build capability and confidence to apply these ideas where they matter most — in your place or organisation. See below for more information on our learning areas.

3. Online Self-Paced Courses

Learn anywhere, anytime. Our self-paced online courses provide a flexible way to build understanding and capability in Natural Capital & Environmental Markets. Designed for both landholders and practitioners, these courses simplify complex concepts and offer clear, practical steps to apply them in your context. Start learning → Introduction to Natural Capital & Environmental Markers for Landholders & Farmers

Our Learning Areas

Our learning is built around the essential functions of Community Capital. Each area is explored through a dedicated module, blending foundational theory with applied practice and real examples.

Modules Include:

The Fundamentals of Community Capital

Start here. This session introduces the foundations of community and place-based capital — what it is, why it matters, and how it underpins local wellbeing. Participants will learn how capital shapes local prosperity. Communities learn to see and strengthen their own capital systems; enablers learn how to design policies, programs, and partnerships that support them.

Generating Community Capital

Explore how communities can create new sources of funding, assets, and value to support local priorities — through enterprises, infrastructure, partnerships, and innovation. Communities learn practical ways to generate capital locally; enablers learn how to create environments, incentives, and investment structures that make local generation possible and sustainable.

Accessing Community Capital

This session explores how to make capital more accessible and better aligned with community priorities. Communities learn to identify and connect with local and external sources of funding, assets, and investment. Enablers learn how to open pathways, reduce barriers, and design funding mechanisms that reach and empower communities.

Owning Community Capital

Ownership determines who benefits from assets and development. Communities explore how to acquire and own key assets — such as land, enterprises, housing, and infrastructure — to retain value and control locally. Enablers learn how to design supportive frameworks, financing models, and partnerships that help communities build and sustain ownership.

Governing Community Capital

Good governance ensures that capital serves shared purpose. Communities learn inclusive, transparent, and collaborative ways to govern and manage resources. Enablers explore how to strengthen community decision-making through policy, capacity-building, and co-governance arrangements that ensure accountability and shared benefit.

Pooling Community Capital

Pooling brings people, organisations, and resources together for collective impact. It’s about combining what already exists within a community to create greater shared capacity and strength. Through pooling, communities can coordinate effort, share responsibility, and mobilise capital for shared priorities. Enablers play a vital role in helping these efforts take shape by creating the conditions, structures, and support that make collaboration and shared investment possible.

Investing Community Capital

Investment turns resources into progress. Communities learn how to direct local and shared capital into projects that deliver social, environmental, and economic returns. Enablers learn how to design co-investment models, impact funds, and procurement frameworks that strengthen community-led investment and long-term prosperity.

Managing Community Capital Risk

Every capital system carries risk — financial, environmental, operational, and governance-related. Communities learn to identify, manage, and mitigate risks that could threaten assets or initiatives. Enablers explore how to share and reduce risk through supportive policy, underwriting, insurance, and joint accountability frameworks.

Exchanging Community Capital

Communities and collaborators learn how to trade, share, and exchange assets, ideas, and resources to strengthen local systems. Communities explore collaboration, resource sharing, and trading mechanisms. Enablers learn to design fair markets, partnerships, and exchange platforms that connect local strengths with broader opportunities.

Redistributing Community Capital

Redistribution ensures value flows back into communities. Communities learn how to reinvest profits, surpluses, and social value in ways that sustain long-term prosperity. Enablers learn to design benefit-sharing frameworks, reinvestment mechanisms, and funding policies that embed fairness and equity across systems.

Collaborating on Community Capital

Partnerships between communities and external actors can amplify impact when based on shared purpose and mutual respect. Communities learn how to co-design, co-invest, and co-own initiatives with partners. Enablers explore how to structure collaborations that align their capital, expertise, and influence with local leadership and community wellbeing.

Natural Capital & Environmental Markets

We bring natural capital and environmental markets back to basics — making these ideas clear, practical, and relevant for both those managing land and those shaping policy or programs.

This learning experience helps you truly understand what natural capital is, why it matters, and how it can be applied to create environmental, social, and economic value. It’s not about selling credits or fitting into existing schemes — it’s about understanding the foundations so you can shape and use these systems in ways that work for you and your context.

Whether you’re a landholder or farmer exploring opportunities on your land, or a policy-maker, advisor, or organisation designing frameworks and support systems, you’ll gain the clarity and confidence to engage with natural capital and emerging markets meaningfully and effectively.

Learning options:

  1. Face-to-face workshops and training — tailored programs for your organisation or region. Contact us for more information.

  2. Self-paced online course for Landholders & Farmers — practical guidance for exploring opportunities on your land.

    Start learning → Introduction to Natural Capital & Environmental Markers for Landholders & Farmers

  3. Self-paced online course for Advisors, Policy and Program Professionals — practical guidance to help you to design support and programs.

    Start learning → Introduction to Natural Capital & Environmental Markers for Advisors, Policy and Program Professionsals