The Barefoot Guide 2:  ​Learning Practices in Organisations and Social Change

The Barefoot Guide 2 is a free, downloadable and practical resource for leaders, facilitators and practitioners involved in social change who want to improve and enrich their learning processes. But this is not just another book on organisational learning and social change. It is different in many ways. It is different in that it was not written by one person. Neither is it a collection of essays written by different people. 

This book is the joint effort of a group of development practitioners from across the globe. We have created something that will help us and others to start, and continue, the journey towards learning and social change. We (the writers) are all passionate about learning and have brought our different experience and expertise to the book. It includes topics as diverse as community mobilising and development, adult learning, funding, evaluation, facilitation, and creative writing.

You can download this
​Companion Booklet:

"Designing and  Facilitating Creative Conversations & Learning Activities"

A practical support guide for facilitators for designing and facilitating a wide range of conversational and learning social processes.  Full of creative ideas and approaches.

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You can also download this
​Companion Booklet:

"The Heart of Organisational Learning - findings of an action research on organisational learning practices"

Having consolidated what we already knew about learning practices in the process of writing the Guide during the course of 2009/2010, the group turned its attention to new experience and new knowledge. We wanted to know how other practitioners in a wider circle of civil society organisations learn; we wanted to encourage our organisations to keep learning; we wanted to apply our own ‘advice’ – and see what
happened. Would a book such as the BFG2 make a difference to organisations, including our own, wanting to improve their learning practices so that they could be more effective in their social change work? Herein lay the ‘map’ for the next year of
working together: In 2011, the group, having said goodbye to some members and welcomed a few new ones, entered a clearly defined phase of action research.

This document shares our questions, and our key findings. It also gives an accountof the action research process we followed, for action research itself, we discovered,is a remarkable learning process.

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