Learning from one’s own experience is often viewed as very difficult, and learning from others’ experience as more or less impossible. Instead, as repositories for experience, we build databases of best practice, which, paradoxically, tend to keep us where we are by focussing mostly on the superficial, successful specifics of particular projects. The generalised or generic learnings, usable for others, are seldom extracted, neither from the ongoing process nor from the final results.
Learning for Change was developed to take up the challenge of making learning from experience easily accessible to both individuals and groups, initially within the arena of sustainable development. The 'Internal' format is designed for a group of people who are or will be working together with a common focus.