A Brief History
Learning4AChange (L4AC) emerged from a series of events developed and facilitated by the Ethos Foundation in 2006 and 2007. The courageous conversations on “Waging Peace”, "Transforming Energy” and the “Leading for the Future” Roundtable brought leaders and thinkers from the sciences, communities, business, government, education and the arts together.
Through conversations based on catalysing presentations and information these gatherings turned towards the challenging issues of climate change and the need to transition to deep sustainability.
Learning4AChange (L4AC) builds on these earlier programs by offering people in communities, including young people and community and cultural development workers, the learning resources and training in facilitation and leadership to take these learning conversations and deep sustainability thinking and action into the heart of their own communities, for ongoing co-learning through sustainability learning circles/conversations and community arts projects.
The pilot program development to end June 09 was funded by a grant from the Australian Government Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) and substantially supported by the Social Action Office in Queensland. The auspicing organisation for the pilot was the The Ethos Foundation.
L4AC cultivates new thinking and new connections in communities for sustainable futures through unique sustainability learning, leadership and engagement programs. We offer arts based Change workshops and community facilitator/animator training programs with follow up and mentoring support as well as community roundtables and visioning. We also facilitate learning conversations. As fourth sector learning and change program we work collaboratively at the interface of government, community and other sectors to facilitate crucial learning 4a change.
Logan City Council partnered with L4AC in SEQ to pilot the CommunityArtsAChange and L4AC Community Facilitators workshops. A demonstration series of sustainability 'learning conversations' using the free, web based resources of the comprehensive L4AC Sustainability Learning Circle Kit have also been run in Logan City with community based facilitators.
L4AC most recently partnered and collaborated with Gecko, the Gold Coast and Hinterland Environment Council, to design integral learning processes, facilitate L4AC workshops and implement the substantial Youth Earth Symposium (YES!).
