This book offers a practical guide for those seeking to design and deliver a strategic transformational change process. The vehicle for the change management is a collective learning spiral which has been trialed in a wide range of situations. These situations include people who wish to develop their own thinking, work on teambuilding, initiate whole-of-community change, restructure an organization, offer professional development, or take part in policy development.

"I love this concept of celebration of collective learning" - Jackie Ohlin, Foreword of the Guide, p. V.

"Social learning is a slippery subject. It is by nature an open (hard to delimit) process. The authors navigate these complexities wisely using the compass of experience. The Guide is practice-oriented both in its origin and perspective. The conceptual piece of the Guide supports the methodology, illuminates the reasoning behind the method, and helps the reader to understand what social learning is about. A groundbreaking reference for those interested in working with social learning." - Sebastião Ferreira

Part 1: Instructions: Collective Learning for Transformational Change 1. The Theory: Collective Social Learning 2. The Practice: Party Time 3. Following the Collective Learning Spiral 4. Step 1. Setting the Scene: Who to Invite? 5. Step 2. Collective Ideals: What should be? 6. Step 3. Collective Facts: What is? 7. Step 4. Collective Ideas: What could be? 8. Step 5. Collective Action: What can be? 9. Step 6. Following on 10. Guiding Transformational Change Part 2: Case Studies: Celebrations of Collective Learning 11. Holding the Party 12. Managing Whole-of-Community Change: Bon Voyage 13. Introducing New Ideas: Cocktail Party 14. Initiating Long-Term Change: Opening Night 15. Changing Problem Communities: Housewarming 16. Achieving Collective Thinking: Coming of Age 17. Monitoring and Evaluation: Street Party 18. Teamwork: Bring a Plate 19. Working from the Guidebook: Going it Alone 20. Summing Up Part 3: Resources: The A-Z of Collective Learning

Valerie A. Brown is Director of the Local Sustainability Project, Human Ecology Program, Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University.

Judith A. Lambert is Director of Community Solutions, and works in the interface between the social and environmental aspects of sustainable living.