Whose lives, families and ways of taking part does your ordinary teaching treat as normal?
Five days using art, images and found materials to read the assumptions inside your own resources and routines, alongside teachers from across Europe.
Think about the books, images, examples and routines pupils encounter every day. Who is assumed to belong? Whose lives are visible, and who may be left at the edges without anyone intending it?
This course uses creative, reflective work to help teachers notice those assumptions and make practical changes that give more pupils room to recognise themselves, participate and contribute.
Notice what is missing or assumed, and make more room for every pupil to belong and contribute.
Starts 30 March 2027
In person · Stockholm, Sweden · Venue to be confirmed
Starts 13 April 2027
In person · Stockholm, Sweden · Venue to be confirmed
Registering interest is free. A course run is confirmed once at least six participants have registered their interest. Until then, neither a place nor a course run is guaranteed. Booking terms →
Run the course with your own staff, on your own dates.
Day 1
Examining familiar materials, images, routines and the assumptions inside them.
Day 2
Identity, family, gender and culture through art, objects and stories.
Day 3
Participation, expression and the different ways learners respond to ideas.
Day 4
Reworking a lesson, resource or routine from your own practice.
Day 5
Sharing redesigned work and planning how belonging grows beyond your classroom.
Every course we run is built on what research says makes professional learning change practice. Here is what that looks like in this one.
Research and theory introduced through short provocations.
You bring one ordinary piece of your teaching and work on it throughout the five days.
Creative experiments: dissect a resource, make an identity map, rework a lesson.
An optional online follow-up lets you report back on what you changed at school and refine your next step.
EUR 500 per participant, incl. VAT
Facilitation and all course materials, a certificate of attendance, a selection of cultural activities in Stockholm, and fika every day: tea, coffee, something baked and something healthy.
Meals, travel and accommodation.
Most courses run at our base in Vasastan, a few minutes' walk from Odenplan, with cafés and a park close by. We confirm the venue with each group before the course. Arlanda is about 40 minutes away by commuter train or airport coach, with no change needed. Between sessions there is time to walk by the water and reflect. We find people learn better that way.
Getting here and where we work →Marius Ketels is co-founder of The Nordic Learning Company, where he leads much of our work with companies and organisations, designing and facilitating programmes around leadership, teams and human performance.
View profile →Nick Praulins is co-founder of The Nordic Learning Company, where he leads our work with schools and educators, shaping the learning philosophy, pedagogy and programme design behind its education practice.
View profile →Erasmus+ KA1 teacher mobility. Your organisation confirms eligibility and funding with its National Agency. We complete the Europass Mobility document for participants who request it.
You can move to another date or send a colleague at no cost. If you cancel more than four weeks before the start, we keep 30% of the fee; inside four weeks, we keep the full fee. If we cancel, you choose a full refund or another date.
What you’ll leave with
Creative methods to adapt across subjects, and one piece of your teaching rebuilt.
Pairs well with
Helping mentors have better conversations with students
Build a student-leadership programme that helps your school create meaningful routes for students to contribute.
Practical AI fluency and the professional judgement to decide where AI belongs in teaching and learning.
Erasmus+ is the European Union’s programme for education, training, youth and sport. The Nordic Learning Company AB is an independent course provider, not endorsed by the European Commission or any National Agency. Member of the EU Pact for Skills. Based in Stockholm.
EUR 500 per participant, incl. VAT
Starts 30 March 2027
