The Nature of Transformation -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION -- KNOWING WHERE WE STAND -- STANDING WHERE WE KNOW -- PROCESS, CONTEXT AND PARTICIPANTS -- CONTENT OF THIS BOOK -- A FEW MORE THINGS -- WHO WE ARE -- CHAPTER 2: THE SEEDS: EDUCATION THEORIES ANDPRINCIPLES FROM WHICH WE WORK -- ADULT EDUCATION -- Liberal Adult Education -- Critical/Progressive Adult Education -- GENDER DIFFERENCE AND FEMINIST ADULT EDUCATION -- ARTS-BASED ADULT EDUCATION: THE CREATIVE TURN -- The Arts, Society and Knowledge -- The Arts, Adult Education and Learning -- ANTI-RACIST ADULT EDUCATION: GREENING JUSTICE -- EXPERIENTIAL OUTDOOR LEARNING: INTO THE FOREST ANDUP THE TREES -- ENVIRONMENTAL ADULT EDUCATION: TRANSFORMINGHUMAN-EARTH RELATIONS -- CHAPTER 3: INSCAPE, LANDSCAPE, LEARNING AND LIFE:ENVIRONMENTAL WORKSHOPS AT WORK -- TYPES AND AIMS OF COMMUNITY-BASED WORKSHOPS -- Issue-Based Workshops -- Process-Based workshops -- EDUCATION, LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE -- CREATING THE LEARNING/TEACHING MILIEU -- Conveying the Purpose -- Building in Theory -- Knowing Your 'Audience' -- Our Story of Racism -- The Potential of Humour -- Art and Creativity -- A Story of the Arts -- Valuing Emotion -- Time, Timing and Group Size -- Valuing Small Group Process -- Balancing the Individual and the Collective -- ECOLOGICAL CONTEXT AND FRAMEWORK -- The Ecological Agenda -- THE CHECKLIST -- CHAPTER 4: THE PRAXIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ADULTEDUCATION -- INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITIES: WEAVING NATURAL AND SOCIAL WORLDS -- Green Activist's Calisthenics -- Opening with Nature -- Tell us a Story -- Connecting to the Earth -- Environmental Buses: Travelling Together -- Artistic Introduction -- Learning our Nature -- The Tree of Education and Learning Practices -- RE-CONNECTING ACTIVITIES -- Re-connecting through Nature and Song -- Refreshing our Memories -- Looking Back.

BROADENING THE ANALYSIS OF OPPRESSION: WEAVING INTHE REST OF NATURE -- The Discourse Tree -- The River of Learning and Transformation -- Exclusion and Inclusion -- Inscape and Landscape -- Living Gender -- Reconceptualising Work -- Ecological Media Literacy -- LEARNING THROUGH OUR HISTORICAL ROOTS: WEAVING OURLANDSCAPES FROM MEMORY -- The Historical Environmental Learning Stream -- Personal Environmental Historical Stream -- Ecological Storytelling -- Variation: Nature as Foe -- Women's Ways of Knowing and Being with Nature -- Are They Just Words? -- Words and Ideas -- Altering the Environment by the Book -- THEORY MATTERS -- Fishpond: Facilitator/Organiser Presentation -- Moving Forward: Understanding Past Learning -- Environmental Buses: Travelling Together -- Artistic Introduction -- Learning our Nature -- The Tree of Education and Learning Practices -- RE-CONNECTING ACTIVITIES -- Re-connecting through Nature and Song -- Refreshing our Memories -- Looking Back -- BROADENING THE ANALYSIS OF OPPRESSION: WEAVING INTHE REST OF NATURE -- The Discourse Tree -- The River of Learning and Transformation -- Exclusion and Inclusion -- Building a More Healthy Community Network: The Sun at the Centre -- Inscape and Landscape -- Living Gender -- Reconceptualising Work -- Ecological Media Literacy -- LEARNING THROUGH OUR HISTORICAL ROOTS: WEAVING OURLANDSCAPES FROM MEMORY -- The Historical Environmental Learning Stream -- Personal Environmental Historical Stream -- Ecological Storytelling -- Variation: Nature as Foe -- Women's Ways of Knowing and Being with Nature -- Are They Just Words? -- Words and Ideas -- Altering the Environment by the Book -- THEORY MATTERS -- Fishpond: Facilitator/Organiser Presentation -- Moving Forward: Understanding Past Learning -- The River of Theory for Transformation -- The Art and Challenge of Critical Thinking.

The Theoretical Tree: From Roots to Leaves -- LEARNING AND/THROUGH LANDSCAPE -- Sense Mapping -- Variation: Bio-Regional Community Walk-A-Bout -- The Wise Soil -- Knowing and Nature -- Nature in Mind -- Sound Mapping -- Sculpturing a Tree -- Exploring the Night -- THE POLITICS OF CONSUMPTION -- Zen of Consumerism: "Waste R Us"? -- Globalisation and Socialisation "R Us?" -- Corporations "R Us"? -- HUMAN AND ECOSYSTEM HEALTH: FOOD FOR THOUGHT -- The Chemical Stew -- Preparing Our Future -- The Shopping Cart Survey -- Food Fortune Hunting -- Cooking or Ready Made -- To Weed or Not to Weed -- FROM WORDS TO ACTION -- Open-Air Environmental Adult Education Market -- Variation: The Environmental Adult Education Market -- The Art of Educative Action -- Variation: Learning for Change -- From Discourse to Action -- Creativity in Action -- Re-Energising the Practitioner: The Mountain of Passion, Power and Purpose -- Who is the Expert? -- EVALUATIONS AND CLOSURE -- Coalition Building Through Song, Theatre and Poetry -- Final Reflections -- Accomplishments and Challenges -- One Word Circle Evaluation -- Stringing Ourselves Together -- Nature Circle Evaluation -- 'Post-it' Evaluations -- Written Evaluations -- Head, Hands, and Heart -- Meditational Closing -- Tree of Expectations -- Forest of Accomplishments -- Part A: Tree of Expectations -- Part B: Forest of Accomplishments -- CHAPTER 5: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL ADULT EDUCATIONPRAXIS AND STORIES -- MATERIAL MATTERS -- Women Expressing Needs and Ideas Through Banner Painting -- The Positive Energy Quilts: The Story of a Visual Protest -- ECOLOGIAL STUDY CIRLCES AND MAPPING -- Environmental Adult Education Study Circles -- Green Community Mapping -- EXPERIMENTAL LEARNING IN THE OUTDOORS -- Experiencing Place -- Debriefing the Activity -- Experiencing -- Observing -- Interpreting -- Transferring.

THE ECOLOGICAL ART OF TECHNOLOGY -- A Moving Lens on the Environment -- Participatory Video for Empowerment -- ART OF/AND COMMUNICATION -- Communications Activity: Poster Drawing -- A Story of the Developers' Feast -- Shadow Puppetry for Environmental Adult Education -- Puppetry and the People's Court: A Story From Australia -- The Age of Beauty: A Story of Consciousness -- Bigfoot Comes in From the Cold: A Story -- THE ART OF WASTE -- Community and Household Waste Workshops -- Workshop Session I -- Workshop Session II -- Workshop Session III -- Workshop Session IV -- Workshop Session V -- Workshop Session VI -- The Garbage Collection: A Labour and Environment Story -- A Show of Hands -- CHAPTER 6: POSTSCRIPT -- RESISTANCE AND FEAR -- SILENCED VOICES: WOMEN AND THE REST OF NATURE -- LEARNING EXPERIENCE: THE POSITIVE, NEGATIVE, AND UNEXPECTED -- KEEPING ON TRACK -- FOLLOW NATURE'S LEAD: THE VIRTUE AND CHALLENGES OF DIVERSITY -- NOT EVERYONE THINKS YOUR WORKSHOP IS GREAT -- WORKING AS A TEAM -- FURTHER LESSONS LEARNED -- EASY ANSWERS?: YOU MAKE THE ROAD BY WALKING -- CHAPTER 7: REFERENCES AND FURTHER RESOURCES -- ADULT EDUCATION -- ENVIRONMENTAL ADULT EDUCATION AND OUTDOOR EDUCATIONAND LEARNING -- FEMINIST ADULT EDUCATION AND GENDER -- ANTI-RACIST AND ABORIGINAL EDUCATION -- THE ARTS, ADULT EDUCATION AND THE MEDIA.