New Thinking Required for Church Involvement - Adaptive versus Technical Change and Triple Loop Learning

The inexorable decline in Australians’ affiliation with Christianity (down to 5% church attendance on Sunday in 2024) is clear evidence of the continuing urgency for new thinking… which requires the asking of fresh questions.

Reflections on Action Learning - what it is, and and how it can be used - by Dean Phelan following an international gathering with Prof Reg Revans in 1995, and updated in 2018. Dean attended with his great friend and mentor Dr John Enderby (centre, with Reg Revans on right).

In 1995 Dean was privileged to be invited to a gathering in London of 40 practitioners who had published Organisational interventions using Action Learning. The international gathering was convened by the “Father” of Action Learning Prof Reg Revans and sponsored by Lord Butterfield.

Landmark studies change our understanding of a topic and form the canon of works important to that topic. We believe there are at least five landmark studies over the past 25 years that are pivotal to an understanding and effective practise of Leadership.