Our Core Approach


Become part of a global community of learners and practitioners applying Impact Experience Design (IXD) to shape mission-driven work that responds to today’s most urgent social and environmental challenges.


Core methods and real-world case studies, forged through practice, heart, and joy.


#NON-PROFIT #FOR IMPACT

IXD Cohort

(incl. 10 Hour Self-Paced Course)

Learn, reflect, and apply IXD directly to your mission alongside a global peer network.

Event Designer, Multi-Disciplinary Artist and Impact Experience Designer

Aly's work rests on the simple truth that live art methodologies hold the seed for radical transformation and public intimacy.


A Vermont-based multidisciplinary artist, she builds worlds where creative practice meets philanthropic strategy — designing brain-trust events, boutique workshops, and exclusive dinners that supported a $650M campaign. Her site-specific, participatory works (like Tarot Taxi, Crowded Table, and seasonal salons) span forests, secret fields, canoes, and stages, using radical hospitality to bridge the private heart and public self to spark shared thriving between strangers.

Strategic Consultant, Advisor, Facilitator, and Impact Experience Designer

Nicole’s work is based on the simple truth that human and planetary flourishing are inseparable.


With over 15 years of facilitation experience, she has designed and led more than 100 workshops, retreats, gatherings, and learning journeys — from conservation teams and community groups to global think tanks and philanthropic organizations. Her facilitation style is warm, creative, and deeply attentive to both human and ecological systems.

Co-Founder of Order of the Wild & Innovation Lead @WWF, Impact Experience Designer

Anne facilitates transformation in global organizations by weaving innovation, community building, and impact experience design.


She leads WWF’s Global Innovation Team, co-founded the Order of the Wild where her passion for wildlife tracking and deep nature connection comes alive, and founded the Innovation for Impact Network connecting 30+ INGOs and UN Agencies.

IXD Self-Paced: 10-Hour

Learn IXD at your own rhythm, free of fixed commitments, through a self-paced journey grounded in rich, real-world case studies.


Curriculum


Get an overview of the course modules below. We combined video lectures, reads, exercises and audio. You hear various perspectives on the topic of Impact Experience Design, real-world cases from various disciplines and get tools that you can use to design your own impact experience. Through-out the learning journey we invite you to reflect and test some small exercises yourself.




  Course orientation
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  Module 1) Foundations: The what & why of impact experience design
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  Module 2) Framework: Building the core pillars of an impact experience
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  Module 3) Tools: Bringing an impact experience to life
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  Module 4) Qualities & mindsets: Becoming an impact experience designer
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  Module 5) Application: Co-creating with the global IXD community
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This IXD Course is for you if…


• You sense that traditional change models no longer move people at a deeper level.

• You want to apply Impact Experience Design (IXD) to real social and environmental challenges in your field.

 • You feel called to turn your work into mission and contribute to a movement reconnecting people, community, and the living world.

What You Will Learn

This course is your first step into Impact Experience Design (IXD):
 A practical entry point.
 A mindset shift.
 A new design lens.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Inspire & Expand
Develop curiosity and confidence to explore the role of Impact Experience Design in planetary & social change. Recognize how intentional experiences deepen engagement, empathy, and impact.

Understand & Analyze
Explain the foundations of IXD, including its key principles, frameworks, and tools. Analyze real world case studies across social and ecological contexts.

Apply & Experiment
Identify opportunities to integrate IXD into your personal and professional work. Design more intentional, meaningful, and transformative experiences across both small and large scale touchpoints, from subtle moments of interaction to fully immersive journeys.

Learning Investement & Impact

We are a non profit initiative. Your contribution sustains the core operations of the Order and enables us to refine and scale the learning ecosystem & wild mission.

We offer three contribution tiers for the Self Paced Course, designed to make participation accessible across different financial situations. The lowest tier starts at 99€ excluding tax. The IXD Cohort is a live facilitated module and has a separate participation fee.

Scholarship Options
There are two separate scholarship forms:
• One for the Self Paced Course: Click Here
• One for the IXD Cohort: Click Here

All fees cover the operational costs of running Order of the Wild, including facilitators, community management, Learning Management System, digital infrastructure, and coordination.

In addition, contributions support WeWilder. One of the impact experiences that shaped this course has been an important stepping stone for several contributors and is currently facing financial challenges. Their work combines nature based experiences, community development and European bison rewilding in rural Romania.



Frameworks & Tools



Frameworks & tools from diverse practitioners who have experimented across disciplines to bring to life powerful experiences for social impact.



Real-World Cases


An exciting roster of real-world cases that demonstrate how impact experience design has been used to create relational to systems change.

Experiential Nudges



A series of micro practices and longer challenges to help you test out your new toolkit in the context of your own life and work.

The humans
behind the course

This course brings together passionate multidisciplinary practitioners with hands-on expertise in leveraging experience design for impact - from filmmakers, sound artists, game designers, breath workers, systems consultants, wilderness guides, conservation activists and more.


Speakers & Practitioners:

Abraham Burickson | Adah Parris | Anne Merkle | Alexander Gierholz | Andy Sontag | Benjamin von Wong | Christa Coccoile | Christian Graham | Daniel Hires | David Bassuk | Eleonora Lombriser | Ian Glenn | Isabella Nardini | Jerica Cleland | Lori Cilliers | Oana Mondoc | Paul Bulncea | Pim Schachtschabel | Sam Lee | Katja Wallisch | Neo Satyam Moreton I Katharina V. Sohlern

Course Design Team:

Anne Merkle | Da Sanchez | Seongkyul Park | Faiza Koumina | Sophie Stender | Ben Donaldson

The community

The Order of the Wild is a think & do tank exploring how to leverage experience design for positive change - producing resources, convening practitioners, creating visibility for existing initiatives.