Transformative Change Needs Direction

Sustaining a Focus on Transformative Change.

As I reviewed Bev Simpson’s remarks for this focus on the Dorothy Wylie Health Leaders Institute, I was struck by how similar the current environment is to that which birthed the Institute in 2000. Sixteen years later, we are still trying to achieve transformative change in the healthcare system and leadership still needs our focused attention (Naylor 2016). To complicate the current picture, h...

Transformative Learning: promoting change across cultural worlds

This paper explores the transformative potential of cultural change in one locale for other cultural worlds, examining how participants in a particular cultural transformation may become influential when positioned as strategic agents in other contexts. A collaborative action research study in teacher education is described, in which mature-age trainee teachers of technology studies (who had pr...

Incentives Matter: Successfully executing transformative change within General Practice Teams

Framing Innovation Policy for Transformative Change: Innovation Policy 3.0

Transformative art: art as means for long-term neurocognitive change

Every artwork leads to a unique experience by the observer or participant, may it be sensory, emotional, cognitive, interactive, or spiritual experience. At the neurobiological level, such experiences are manifested as activation of the corresponding neural networks. Neuroscience has demonstrated that experience, in particular repeated experience, can cause a long-term change in the involved br...