Transformational Process

[1] Adapted from Delaney et al.
"The Transformational process, includes building human, cultural, and social capital through strategies devolving around the elements of transformation viz., gender role transformation, transformation of groups with specific vulnerabilities, social and economic empowerment, environmental management, and local capacity building. With this approach development will be sustainable especially when all players (including the state, private enterprise, non-governmental organisations, and community based organisations) come together for a public-private participation."


[2] "Transformational learning is defined as learning that induces more far-reaching change in the learner than other kinds of learning, especially learning experiences which shape the learner and produce a significant impact, or paradigm shift, which affects the learner's subsequent experiences."

"Transformational learning often includes new realizations pertaining to one's belief and value system and shifts in meaning of experiences. It can be personal, deep and enduring. Frequently [people] encounter new concepts and behaviors which render obsolete their old ways of thinking and doing. For example, many people regard illness, pain, or disease as simply a problem to be conquered, defeated, and vanquished from their life. Transformation of that belief may lead to a new view of illness and symptoms as information from the body, as a "wake-up" call to instigate healthy lifestyle changes; as a signal that they are undergoing emotional, physical or spiritual drains on their life force, or that their own negativity, stress and absorption in their personal problems may be contributors to the development of disease and the perpetuation of symptoms. Another example would be the realization that past traumas or other disadvantageous or dysfunctional experiences can be interpreted as learning experiences, removing the individual from the privilege of being a victim and launching him into a new identity of self-empowerment and personal responsibility."