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FAQ's

What is collaborative transformative learning and change?
From pilot GB sessions and participant reflection on these we have observed that collaborative transformative learning space can be created by:

allowing and facilitating people to 'arrive' and prepare for the process of coming together as collaborative transformative learners;
ctively recognising and valuing one another to build trust and connection, sharing eventfulness and playfulness to foster creativity and energy;
constructing together shared purpose and clearer objectives;
allowing ourselves to become open to ideas and approaches beyond our preconceptions;
recognising that our learning and change is not entirely logical, and allowing [inviting] intellectual, emotional and personal elements of PL to interweave; and
trusting that positive intention, once created in a group, will result in effective and efficient change, even though how this will occur might not be immediately evident.

What collaborative transformative learning and change?
While the GB approach moves beyond an over-emphasis on transmission of content, it is also more than an emphasis on process only - it is easy to become awash in process, and expect focussed outcomes to somehow fall out of the soup.

Content is very important, but the relationship of the content that is important to you to that of your participants, is more important. We need to avoid the tempting notion that there is a pre-determined content level that we assume can be magically transmitted to others, through a well designed powerpoint, or a series of presentations interspersed with discussion.

The GB approach is not getting rid of 'presentation' mode, but rather ensuring there is a genuine re-balancing between learning modes:

Educating	Enabling Involving	Exploring
Informing	Involving	Empowering
Learning About Sustainability	Learning For Sustainability	Learning As Sustainability
More transmissive processes	More adaptive processes	More transformative processes

Table: Three roles of the sustainability facilitator - adapted from S. Stirling 2001 Sustainable Education: Revisioning Learning and Change. Green Books for Schumacher Society, Devon).

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