Future Learning Design Podcast

Young People Are Tackling Systems Change! A Conversation with Nolita Mvunelo, Matías Lara and Vanessa Terschluse

Apr 5, 2025

Join Vanessa Terschluse, a sustainability advocate, Nolita Mvunelo, a champion for youth empowerment, and Matías Lara, a systems change expert from Argentina, as they dive into the vital role of young people in driving systemic change. They discuss the power of community collaboration and the necessity of educational reform to equip youth for today's challenges. The trio also highlights storytelling's impact in connecting individuals to urgent issues, and they inspire a collective youth movement toward meaningful transformation.

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Matías Lara

Nolita Mvunelo

Vanessa Terschluse

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Empowering young people is crucial as they represent over half the global population and seek to engage in systemic issues.

The Young Person's Guide to Systems Change highlights the necessity for youth to understand systems dynamics and foster local community engagement.

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Empowering Young Voices

A significant focus of the discussion highlights the importance of empowering young people, who represent over half of the global population. The organization aims to enable this demographic to be actively involved in addressing systemic issues that affect their futures. Despite their potential and education, many young people feel disconnected from political and business processes that appear unresponsive to their concerns. This gap underscores the necessity for platforms like the 50%, which not only empower youth but also help them articulate their observations and contributions towards meaningful societal change.

Intro

2min

Empowering the Voices of the Young Generation

2min

Empowering Youth Through Education Reform

22min

Embracing Community for Systemic Change

11min

The Power of Storytelling in Systems Change

4min

Mobilizing Young People for Systems Change

4min

As I often say we radically underestimate young people and what they are capable of. They are asking to be involved in the critical conversations about systems change. And not only that they are also building their own capabilities for and with each other about how to engage with it's systemic issues. So it's a huge pleasure this week to be speaking with Nolita Mvunelo, Matías Lara and Vanessa Terschluse who have taken it upon themselves, as The 50 Percent, to gather a collection of insights to enhance young people's understanding of systems and how they move and change. They have published the amazing 'Young Person's Guide to Systems Change'.

Nolita Mvunelo is Co-Director of The 50 Percent and Club of Rome Youth Program Manager: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nolita-thina-mvunelo/

Matías Lara is Director of The 50 Percent: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milara14/

Vanessa Terschluse is Chief Editor of The 50 Percent: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessa-terschluse-915a5b171/

Other links:

https://the50percent.org/

The Young Person's Guide to Systems Change: https://the50percent.org/young-persons-guide/

https://youth-talks.org/

https://www.clubofrome.org/

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Future Learning Design Podcast

Young People Are Tackling Systems Change! A Conversation with Nolita Mvunelo, Matías Lara and Vanessa Terschluse

Episode guests

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

Empowering Young Voices

Understanding Systems Change

Challenges in Formal Education

The Power of Community and Storytelling

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts