Find your footing.
Begin with three months of foundations in practice. Explore your strengths, investigate real questions and test small ideas while building research, collaboration and AI literacy.
SHARED FOUNDATIONA SCHOOL OF EXPERIMENTATION FOR LIFE AND WORK
Explore what
you could
become.
Six- and twelve-month programmes for recent graduates to explore interests, build experience and shape their next step.
Guided projects, practical learning and a community to learn with. Start from your interests and build a pathway across disciplines.
Less guessing.
More trying things.
A little structure. A lot of possibility.More trying things.
FOLLOW A QUESTIONMAKE SOMETHING REALFIND YOUR PEOPLECHOOSE WHAT’S NEXT
01 / THE IDEA
You don’t need your whole life figured out to take a meaningful next step.
Some things you can
only learn by trying.
You’ve studied. You have interests. Maybe a few possible futures. Now you need the space, support and experience to discover what fits.
At Refuture School, you learn by investigating questions, making things and working with others. Build a practical foundation, then shape your journey through substantial project immersions. Develop your own idea, investigate a Refuture challenge or take on an available partner brief, with a guide to help you reflect and choose what follows.
Our approach: futures thinking to explore possibilities, systems thinking to understand connections, human-centred design to learn from people, and experiments to test ideas in practice.
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Your path is individual. Your learning doesn’t have to be.
Work on your own, with peers and across disciplines.
02 / THE EXPERIENCES
Different ways
to get out there.
Real questions. Real contexts. Room to discover an interest you didn’t know you had.
PERSONAL PROJECTMake the idea real.
The business you keep thinking about. A creative practice. A research question. Agree a manageable scope with your guide, test it with real people and build something you can share.
- WHAT YOU COULD BUILD
- A tested concept, prototype or body of work
- HOW YOU COULD WORK
- Independent work, with guidance and peer feedback
Personal projects and Refuture-designed challenges form the starting catalogue. Community and company experiences depend on confirmed briefs and collaboration.
03 / A LITTLE STRUCTURE
Freedom to explore.
Support to follow through.
The journey has a clear shape. What you build inside it becomes your own.
Choose. Make. Try.
Agree each three-month immersion with your guide. Work to a clear scope and milestones, with practical learning, peer collaboration and feedback throughout.
ONE OR THREE IMMERSIONSShow what changed.
Review your progress at each stage. Document your contribution, strengthen your portfolio and decide what to pursue, change or explore next.
REVIEW & NEXT STEPSSomeone to think with.
Regular check-ins to shape your pathway, review progress and work through questions.
Learn it. Then use it.
Practical clinics and practitioner feedback connected to the work you are doing.
Different minds. Shared momentum.
Peer reviews, collaboration across disciplines and room to learn from one another.
ALONG THE WAY
Choose learning that stretches you: business, leadership, AI literacy, storytelling, research and collaboration. An engineering graduate might test a business idea; a nutrition graduate might explore communication.
04 / MAKE IT YOURS
There is more
than one way forward.
Start with a curiosity. See one way your journey could take shape.
Choose from available experiences and agree an achievable plan with your guide. Review your direction between immersions.
YOUR EXAMPLE PATHWAY06MONTHS
- MONTHS 01—03 · FOUNDATION
Begin with possibility.
Explore your interests through research and small experiments. Build practical skills with your learning community.
- MONTHS 04—06 · IMMERSION 1
Follow a question
Develop a personal question into a substantial project. Test your interests through real work.
Portfolio reviews throughout.
A clearer next step at the end.This feels like a start
A clearer next step at the end.This feels like a start
This is an example pathway. Your guide helps you agree each immersion around your interests, readiness and available experiences. Partner briefs require confirmed arrangements.
05 / SOMETHING TO SHOW
Leave with work
you can point to.
Your portfolio records the questions you investigated, the work you produced and your individual contribution. Each review helps you recognise strengths and decide what to develop next.
- 01Reviewed work that makes your capabilities visible
- 02Evidence of your contribution and learning
- 03Feedback and relationships built through practice
- 04A next-step plan grounded in experience
Paid internships may become a later step where a suitable employer opportunity and selection process are in place.
FIELD NOTES / 001ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE
COMMUNITY PROJECT · CASE STUDYA better route from
A better route from
garden to market.
How could a local food project understand its customers and test a simple weekly offer?
RESEARCH NOTESTESTED PROTOTYPEUSER FEEDBACK
What makes this portfolio-ready?
A clear question. Your specific contribution. Evidence of what you tested. Feedback from the people involved. An honest reflection on what worked and what you would change.
06 / CHOOSE YOUR CHAPTER
Six months to explore.
A year to go deeper.
Six or twelve months to discover possibilities and build the experience to pursue them. A named guide supports your journey.
THE SIX-MONTH PATHWAY6months
Explore and establish direction.
Build a practical foundation, then develop one substantial project or immersion. Test a direction and build evidence of what you can do.
- 3-month practical foundation
- One 3-month immersion
- A named guide, peer reviews and learning clinics
- A reviewed portfolio case study and next-step plan
FEES
Explore six months Confirmed before enrolment
THE TWELVE-MONTH PATHWAY12months
Explore, deepen and connect.
Connect several experiences, work across different contexts and develop greater independence and responsibility.
- 3-month practical foundation
- Three 3-month immersions
- A named guide, peer reviews and learning clinics
- A body of reviewed work and a transition plan
FEES
Explore twelve months Confirmed before enrolment
The first pilot is planned for Kenya. Dates, weekly commitment, delivery location, fees and what is included will be confirmed before enrolment. Any accommodation, travel or exchange costs will be stated separately. Registering interest requires no payment.
BUILD THE EXPERIENCE WITH US
Let’s explore a partnership Help create meaningful experiences.
Institutions, businesses and community organisations can commission an experience, contribute a project brief or practitioner expertise, provide facilities, or fund participant places.
Who is this for?
The first programmes are designed for adults who have recently graduated, across disciplines. You might want to explore different interests, test an idea or build practical experience beyond your qualification. You do not need a finished plan to register interest.
How do six and twelve months differ?
Both begin with three months of foundations in practice: research, small experiments and shared learning. The six-month pathway then includes one three-month immersion. The twelve-month pathway includes three, allowing you to explore different contexts or deepen a connected body of work. Guidance, practical learning and portfolio reviews continue throughout.
Is everyone on the same timetable?
You begin with a shared foundation, then follow an individual plan with a guide. Entry dates will be confirmed for the pilot. Shared workshops, peer circles and reviews bring people together; immersions can involve independent work or collaboration across disciplines.
What if I don’t know what I want to do?
That is a useful starting point. The foundation helps you investigate your interests, try small experiments and choose a first substantial project. Your direction can change as you gather experience; each immersion has an agreed scope, milestones and work to show.
What can I work on?
The starting catalogue combines personal projects and Refuture-designed challenges. Your guide helps you agree a suitable scope and a way to test your work with real people. Company and community projects are additional options where a suitable brief and collaboration have been confirmed.
Is an internship or a job included?
Paid internships are a later possibility, once you have work and a portfolio to show. Any placement depends on a suitable employer opportunity, fit and a separate selection process. Enrolment does not guarantee an internship, a job or income.
Where will it take place, and how much time will I need?
The first pilot is planned for Kenya. It combines scheduled learning sessions, project work, check-ins and reviews. The weekly commitment, in-person requirements, delivery location and programme dates will be confirmed before enrolment. Accommodation is only included if explicitly stated in the final offer.
Can I move from six months to twelve?
The design allows you to discuss an extension with your guide after your first immersion, subject to programme capacity, suitable experiences and the additional fee. Extension terms and payment arrangements will be confirmed before enrolment.
Is this an accredited qualification?
Refuture School is being designed as a practical experience programme. It is not an accredited degree or a replacement for a regulated professional qualification. The intended outputs are reviewed work, a portfolio, demonstrated capabilities and a considered next-step plan.
Will there be sponsored places or exchanges?
Institutions and funders can express interest in supporting participant places. Sponsored places, exchanges and programmes outside Kenya will be advertised only when arrangements and funding are confirmed. You can register interest from another country.
FOUNDING PROGRAMME · EARLY INTEREST
Your next chapter
can start with
a little curiosity.
We’re shaping Refuture School’s first six- and twelve-month programmes in Kenya. Share your interests and hear about the experience as details are confirmed.
This is an expression of interest, with no application fee or commitment to enrol.
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