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Preliminary Material -- The case for synthesis -- Utopia revisited -- Parallel worlds -- Collective decisions -- Thinking for oneself -- Community engagement -- Commonsense inquiry -- Integrative management -- A holistic focus -- A Just, secure and sustainable future -- Bibliography -- List of boxes -- Index -- Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education Series.

Pressures for transformational change have become a regular feature of most fields of human endeavour. Master-thinkers and visionaries alike have reframed existing divisions as connecting relationships, bringing together as dynamic systems the supposed opposites of parts and wholes, stability and change, individuals and society, and rational and creative thinking. This reframing of opposites as interconnected wholes has led to realisation of the power of a collective mind.This book offers ways and means of creating the synergies that are crucial in influencing a desired transformational change

Pressures for transformational change have become a regular feature of most fields of human endeavour. Master-thinkers and visionaries alike have reframed existing divisions as connecting relationships, bringing together as dynamic systems the supposed opposites of parts and wholes, stability and change, individuals and society, and rational and creative thinking. This reframing of opposites as interconnected wholes has led to realisation of the power of a collective mind. This book offers ways and means of creating the synergies that are crucial in influencing a desired transformati.

This step by step guide is for those seeking to undertake a transformational change process based on strong collaboration among diverse interests. Guiding transformational change goes beyond small changes to an existing system. It leads to lasting change in the system itself. The collective learning process achieves a systems change through a continuous learning spiral based on open learning among diverse interests. The sixteen case studies cover guided transformational change in personal learning, team-building, community development, organizational change, monitoring and evaluation, and cros.

This toolkit is designed to help anyone who wants to develop, design or conduct community engagement processes, or to be part of them. It has a particular focus on engaging communities in natural resource management issues in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin, but much of the material is applicable to almost any kind of community engagement, anywhere.The toolkit has been written for the Murray-Darling Basin Commission, but we hope it will help a range of stakeholders – in fact all those people who have an interest in a more sustainable future. It is particularly relevant to you if you are responsible for making decisions about community engagement processes.You could be a staff member or volunteer from a government, nongovernment, industry or private sector organisation.You could be a member of a catchment management organisation or other regional group involved in natural resource management.

ISSUE ADDRESSED: Reports of the degeneration of Earth's natural life-support systems have focused the minds of those in the scientific, political and general communities on how to avert a collapse. For many health promotion practitioners the effective unit of social change is the community, the interconnected web of people and place that makes up a human living system. The challenge lies in determining just what makes up a sustainable community under 21st Century conditions. METHOD: This paper reviews major national and international programs working towards sustainable communities, in order to arrive at strategies that establish the necessary interconnectedness and collective action within each individual community. RESULTS: Moving to a sustainable community under these conditions appears to meet the conditions of a 'wicked problem', that is, one that lies outside the present capacity of the society to resolve it. The move therefore calls for guided social change. CONCLUSION: The priorities for guiding the change to a sustainable community involve collective thinking and action as a mutual learning process among the affected individuals, communities, experts, and organisations, towards a holistic sustainability goal.

ISSUE ADDRESSED: Reports of the degeneration of Earth's natural life-support systems have focused the minds of those in the scientific, political and general communities on how to avert a collapse. For many health promotion practitioners the effective unit of social change is the community, the interconnected web of people and place that makes up a human living system. The challenge lies in determining just what makes up a sustainable community under 21st Century conditions. METHOD: This paper reviews major national and international programs working towards sustainable communities, in order to arrive at strategies that establish the necessary interconnectedness and collective action within each individual community. RESULTS: Moving to a sustainable community under these conditions appears to meet the conditions of a 'wicked problem', that is, one that lies outside the present capacity of the society to resolve it. The move therefore calls for guided social change. CONCLUSION: The priorities for guiding the change to a sustainable community involve collective thinking and action as a mutual learning process among the affected individuals, communities, experts, and organisations, towards a holistic sustainability goal.

Thinking for oneself : outside the square / Valerie A. Brown -- Collective learning : joining the dots / Valerie A. Brown, Judith A. Lambert & John A. Harris -- Multiple dimensions of mind : parts and wholes / Valerie A. Brown -- Celebrating difference : on not losing one's mind / David Waltner-Toews & Ellen Wall -- Multiple minds : the more we are together / John A. Harris -- Multiple voices : so say all of us / Valerie A. Brown & John A. Harris -- Post-normal reconciliation : reframing the agenda / Kerry A. Arabena -- Sophia in the anthropocene : towards an environmental ethic / Dianne E. Dibley -- The organic, the mechanical and the emergent mind / Charles J. Massy -- Escaping the "circular conundrum" : cropping and learning in Northern Australia / Kathryn E. Andrews -- Epidemiological regeneration in a complex world / David Waltner-Toews -- Landscape management and landscape regeneration in Australia / Richard M. Thackway & Mark W. Gardner -- Transcoherence : labels and wicked problems / Craig A. Ashurst -- Re-imagining person-centred practice in a person-first organisation / Julia H. Wolfson -- Engaging creatively with tension in collaborative research / Elizabeth A Clarke, Rebecca Freeth, and Dena Fam -- Life and change for a regenerative farmer / David S. Marsh -- That's how the light gets in / David Waltner-Toews -- Knowing our own minds / David Waltner-Teows, Valerie A. Brown & John A. Harris.