👨‍🏫 Steward Scout Classes

This is an evolving list of classes that may be offered within the Steward Scouts Learning Tracks: Explorers, Builders, Pathfinders, and Mentors. These tracks support the phased development of Scout members—starting from foundational literacy and moving toward deeper collaboration, leadership, and cultural stewardship.  

While this list may be useful, it is only a starting point.  AI technology in 2025 is more than good enough to provide you with both outlines and materials for new classes .  So whatever you want to learn, or whatever your needs are, you can build a solid foundation for learning for yourself, on demand.  It is likely that we have barely begun to scratch the surface of what this alone can do for humanity (inside the Steward Network or otherwise).

Under ideal circumstances, each class is designed for local adaptation, self-paced learning, and community integration. They reflect the core aims of Chapter 9: fostering decentralized resilience, principled coordination, and long-term stewardship through experiential education and emergent legitimacy.

Note: Classes are tagged by their primary Foundational Factors (🧬) and/or Steward Network principles. Scout groups are encouraged to remix and redesign content based on cultural, linguistic, ecological, and strategic context.

🎓 Explorers Track — Orientation & Foundations

• 1. Our Principles in Action
  Explore the 13 Guiding Principles with real-world case studies. Practice applying them to group decisions, dilemmas, and design challenges. (🧬: 🧠, 🤝, =, 🔎)
• 2. Compassionate Communication Basics
  Learn the foundations of CCC (❤️💬): deep listening, needs-based expression, and transforming conflict through empathy and presence. (🧬: 🧠, 🤝)
• 3. Everyday Personal Resilience
  Develop habits and routines that strengthen calm, clarity, adaptability, and nervous system regulation. (🧬: 🧠, 🔌)
• 4. Shared Futures: Why You Matter
  Build narrative agency and personal alignment by connecting individual purpose to collective resilience. (🧬: 🧠, 🤝)
• 5. Introduction to Existential Risk
  Survey key risk domains (AI, climate, bio, nuclear, societal collapse). Learn the basics of foresight and foundational risk literacy. (🧬: 📀, 🔎)
• 6. Everyday Local Resilience
  Use simple tools like asset mapping and participatory surveys to identify local strengths and gaps. Create starter projects that boost community readiness. (🧬: 📀, 🔌, 🧠)

🔧 Builders Track — Skills & Systems

• 7. Group Decision-Making Tools
  Practice decentralized governance, facilitation styles, consent-based decisions, and distributed leadership. (🧬: 🏛️, 🤝, 📀)
• 8. Mapping Systems & Leverage Points
  Learn systems mapping, root cause analysis, and intervention design grounded in leverage thinking. (🧬: 🔎, =, 🌍)
• 9. Navigating Complexity & Uncertainty
  Apply heuristics for decision-making under uncertainty. Understand chaos, feedback loops, and thresholds. (🧬: 🔎, 🧠)
• 10. Participatory Research & Knowledge Justice
  Explore methods for co-creating knowledge across lived experience, indigenous wisdom, and science. (🧬: 📀, =, 🧐)
• 11. Crisis Readiness & Mutual Aid
  Develop low-cost action plans and coordination methods for community-based response during shocks. (🧬: 🔌, 🤝, 🧠)
• 12. Regenerative Economies
  Explore local exchange systems, solidarity economics, and rebalancing wealth flows toward resilience. (🧬: =, 🔌, 🌍)

🧭 Pathfinders Track — Collaboration & Foresight

• 13. Foresight & Scenario Planning
  Conduct horizon scanning and create scenario matrices. Test strategies against systemic stress and cascading risks. (🧬: 🔎, 📀, 🏛️)
• 14. Equity-Centered Design
  Learn anti-oppression, inclusive co-design, and participatory evaluation methods. Align outcomes with lived experience. (🧬: =, 🤝)
• 15. Facilitating Difficult Conversations
  Develop confidence in holding space for disagreement, emotional expression, and power dynamics. Use circle practices, restorative models. (🧬: ❤️💬, 🤝)
• 16. Ecological Regeneration Practices
  Hands-on skills for soil health, water restoration, and biodiversity care tailored to local biomes. (🧬: 🌍, 🔌)
• 17. Guiding with Integrity
  Explore non-authoritarian leadership, values-based influence, and humility in mentorship. (🧬: 🤝, 🧠)

🌱 Guide Track — Stewardship & Culture-Building

• 18. Onboarding & Welcoming New Members
  Create welcoming spaces and psychological safety. Use storytelling, rituals, and mentoring to build belonging. (🧬: 🤝, 🧠)
• 19. Holding Healthy Group Culture
  Design and maintain shared norms. Practice repair, apology, and intentional evolution of group habits. (🧬: ❤️💬, =, 🧠)
• 20. Intergenerational Learning Circles
  Facilitate reciprocal wisdom-sharing across age, identity, and worldview. Honor elders and uplift youth voices. (🧬: 🤝, =, 🧠)
• 21. Guidance Forum Facilitation
  Support Scouts in discerning fit, motivation, and trajectory across the Network. Help redirect and reorient with grace. (🧬: 🧠, 🔎)

22. Stewardship as Lifelong Practice
Frame resilience-building as a lifelong journey. Explore legacy, meaning, and adaptive evolution over decades. (🧬: 🧠, 🤝)