Give participants a deep insight into why transformation of individuals doesn’t work that well if you want to change a larger organisation or community. Get an understanding of what it means that “The Whole is more than the Sum of its Parts” and what that means for designing strategies of change. Get a first understanding of how participatory processes need to be designed to foster the kind of community that can both create and contain substantial change.

Mushin is Chief Community Host and Web 2.0 developer for Gaiasoft/Gaiaspace. He is a passionate community and collaboration ecologist, creating off-line and online environments that foster conversations and engagement. Mushin understands both the technology and human behaviour in groups and communities, and seeing that complex challenges need equally complex answers, and that multi-disciplinary, cross-silo stakeholder groups can provide these. He translates this understanding into processes that are effective to help the necessary transformation to emerge.