We provide community learning opportunities for all ages and abilities that stimulate community empowerment through self-exploration, critical thinking and reflection. This stimulates potential personal growth and psychological resilience toward  greater well-being. 

 

We work with communities to understand their well-being needs by facilitating opportunities to ask meaningful questions about their individual and collective circumstances. 

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Our approach is based on the social pedagogy of Pablo Freire and aims to develop situational awareness through reflection and appraisal of issues, situations and circumstances.

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Freire said “One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions not withstanding” (Freire, 1972). 

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Our Transformational Education involves four main themes for community engagement in the context of wellbeing:

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1.Identifying the generative theme

2.Developing codes

3.Engaging in dialogue

4.Taking and reflecting on actions

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We also work with the community to identify and develop community leaders (connectors) and build individual and collective capacity for action as part of a holistic, integrated learning process. Leadership in this context is not about authority and control, it is about effective liaison, connection and communication between community leaders (connectors) and the community.