Authors are leaders in community social change and sustainability Fay Weller is a sustainability expert with an interdisciplinary PhD from the University of Victoria. She studied the 'how' of transformative change using the Gulf Islands, B.C. as her research area. Mary Wilson has a PhD in curriculum theory and a MA in educational studies A practical guide to social change and transformative learning Uses storytelling as the key tool for social change and education Real life stories of how ordinary people work together to change the world Stories of despair, economic decline, globalization, corporate control and climate change are transformed into new stories of success through small actions, community development and local economic growth Allows readers to see themselves as transformers Guides the reader through personal transformation that leads to societal change Organized into three sections: what is transformative change, examples of projects, and a mini-workshop guide Audience Social change activists, community builders, educators, economic development programs, sustainability leaders, transition town groups, faith-based groups engage in social change International Market Authors have helped create a land ownership structure, the first of its kind in Canada, that designates a body of land as a «commons» based on the UK historical commons
