This self-paced course enables individuals and businesses to build capability and start designing circular solutions — right at the intersection of sustainability, science and technology.
Register for more informationCreated by real-world Circularity practitioners, XLabs LEARN is a comprehensive course in understanding the circular economy in the context of your business and environmental impacts.
Build capability, reimagine the possibilities, and start designing circular solutions to the challenges of our current ‘take-make-waste’ linear economy.
Register today for XLabs LEARN.
Note: Learn is required training for all teams attending the full XLabs programme.
XLabs LEARN can be completed as a standalone introduction to designing for the circular economy, or as a prerequisite to our in-person LIVE design sprint.
This online course is self-directed and can be progressed at your own pace. For best results, we recommend working through it alongside others from your team, business, or industry.
Enough time for you to schedule work around the program, but also allow for ebb and flow to naturally occur between your day job and the future you are creating. With an agenda and digital support that moves you between indoor, outdoor and online spaces to optimise energy flows.
While you are part of the program you will tackle a challenge for your business. This means it has more chance of being implemented. For many individuals or teams, working alongside other businesses to gain perspective and find new solutions is one of the most rewarding experiences of XLabs.
The Circular by Design methods form the basis of the XLabs program and will help you explore and unlock the circular economy advantage for your business. We start by 'Loving the Problem' in which we will help you build a system map for your business to close the loop. From there, we explore how you might grow your world, influence regenerative behaviours, use network participation to unlock new business models and embed new technologies.
Using our circular idea canvas you will explore new ideas and how to make them likely to succeed. You will become clearer on how you might solve your challenge, and might be surprised to discover that many solutions already exist. Sharing journeys and stories generously, to inspire others to rise to the challenge.
The kind of cross industry collaboration that our future needs is both rare and crucial. That's why we recommend businesses take part in the full XLabs training program — to advance your ideas and potential impact to the next level. At XLabs LIVE in 2020 we saw a wide range of businesses and industries come together to work on their solutions alongside experts and collaborators such as Scion, Granta, Exeter University, Milk, Osynlig, Blender, Akina, Te Aroha Grace of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, Nuu, and Dan Hikuroa. The relationships you form at XLabs LIVE will not only enhance your solutions — they will become your allies in redesigning the future of Aotearoa.
came away from the programme with a better understanding of the circular economy and why it is important for their business.
agreed that they felt excited about taking action at the end of the programme, and 78% agreed that they came away from their XLabs experience with at least one thing they/ their business could change or start doing in the next 6-12 months.
WHAT YOU WILL COVER:
LEARN INCLUDES:
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XLabs LEARN: An online course created by real-world practitioners - where you and your team explore how the circular economy can be practically applied to your business and environmental challenges.
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XLabs LIVE: Up to 20 teams progress from LEARN to attend the XLabs 2022 in-person design sprint — advancing their circular concepts into validated solutions alongside Circularity and expert collaborators.
23rd – 27th May 2022
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XLabs COACH: a wrap-around, ongoing coaching service from Circularity and expert collaborators to help your business advance these circular solutions into reality and create valuable progress.
On completion of LIVE.
Register now if you'd like to bring a team from your business, industry or region to take part in the full XLabs training program in 2022 — from creating a circular solution in LEARN, to advancing this solution alongside a collective of like-minded businesses and experts at our LIVE in-person design sprint, and through to receiving our COACH service to ensure your ongoing progress.
Find out about the full programIndividuals and business teams who are looking to build their capability and take full advantage of the circular economy opportunity. It doesn’t really matter what discipline or department you work in, we cater for all levels of expertise. You might be a Sustainability Director, a Designer, an Engineer, an Entrepreneur, or work in Marketing. Making the shift from linear to circular can benefit all areas of your business from procurement, supply chains, innovation, meeting new customer needs and designing closed-loop systems for waste streams. You are welcome to join as an individual but as previous XLabs participants have discovered - your impact will be exponential if you bring a team! Join us and start your journey today.
This depends on you and your team. Modules 1-2 consist of reading materials and short exercises. These can be completed in a few hours and will provide you with a grounding in the theory and to start thinking about what shifts you can make. Module three is where it all comes together. If you are working as a team or individual we suggest you set aside a between 2-4 90min power sessions to complete each exercise or even 1-2 days. Planning ahead of these sessions is key, making sure everyone has done the pre-reading etc. You will then need a bit more time to research and validate your insights with your wider business. The more engagement with these exercises from your stakeholders, the better you can understand what the key focus areas and shifts you can make to become circular.
Yes, you are able to complete our online programme XLabs LEARN as an individual – however it has been designed to work best for teams and businesses to collaborate, share and receive feedback, ideate solutions to the challenges they face. You can continue on to do the FULL PROGRAMME by registering a team of between 3-6 people from within your business – this includes joining us, other businesses and experts at an in-person design sprint and receiving ongoing coaching support for your circular solution. If you are attending the full programme, your team will all need to have completed the LEARN online course prior to the design sprint.
We recommend that you bring a range of people from across your business who are motivated to make a change. Where possible, it would help to have the key decision makers and those with valuable knowledge of your wider system. If you attend LIVE you will get 4x guest passes to bring key stakeholders, external partners and funders into the sessions as well. Your team will be supported by a range of experts, bringing diversity of thinking to your problem-solving.
Yes, each member of your core team – between 3-6 people need to complete the LEARN programme in order to attend the XLabs LIVE design sprint and receive ongoing circular economy coaching support.
The circular economy is the new narrative for innovation and progress that has been identified to be worth up to $4.5 trillion dollars globally and up to $8.8 billion in Tāmaki Makaurau alone.
Our XLabs program will enable you to -
*Course completion of the LEARN program is required to progress into the LIVE design sprint. A select number of places are available in LIVE and requires approval by Circularity and Partners.
If you are purchasing just LEARN at this stage, you can choose the number of participants at checkout. If you’re taking up our offer of the “Full Package” of LEARN+LIVE you are securing a place for a team of up to 6 people across the entire XLabs Programme. Once registered we will email you with confirmation and a request to reply with the names and contact details for each of your team members. After that we will grant access to LEARN for each team member and they will receive their own confirmation as well.
Our LEARN course is self-paced and is available to access for three months from the date of purchase. If you’re participating in XLabs LIVE, you’ll need to complete LEARN before then. We recommend you set aside with your team to collaborate with each other to get the most out of it, and this can be done however you wish - small bites each week, or larger working sessions.
Yes. We will invoice you upon approval of your registration. Email us at xlabs@circularity.co.nz to get this process underway.
We have the opportunity to offer a few places at a discounted rate to achieve the outcomes we seek. Email us at xlabs@circularity.co.nz with the subject line REQUEST A SPOT, letting us know what audacious challenge you would like to tackle.
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