For several years Partners Training for Transformation has been gathering and developing resources, and engaging in intercultural work and training with communities, organisations and groups in Ireland and elsewhere. This book is the fruit of our work and we are happy to offer it as a resource to others engaged in similar work.

It is a compilation of the exercises, processes resources and reflections designed, developed or adapted and used by facilitators over several years and draws mainly from the experience of PARTNERS' work in Ireland, Wales, England, Scotland and in a European Grundtvig Learning experience. It also draws on the experience of PARTNERS' facilitators who have been associated with Training for Transformation programmes in several African and Asian countries and with Concern America, who promote and are associated with Training for Transformation in Central and North America.

This publication has its origins in a series of conversations about economics between Partners and Community Action Network. Our collective experience was that while community development and community education helped people to become politically, socially and culturally aware and active, engagement with the subject of economics seemed to leave people feeling mystified and powerless.

We initiated a cooperative inquiry called Reclaiming Economics with the aim of creating processes and resources which would enable individuals, groups and communities to explore their own experience of, reflect on and creatively engage with the economic realities which are central to their own lives.

PHOTOSPEAK – designed and produced by Partners in Faith. A pack of 74 black and white photographs for use with Community groups, youth groups, literacy groups, development groups, Senior citizens, parish groups, faith sharing groups, newly-formed groups, management training, personal development, counselling, story-telling…

"A Tinderbox of the imagination" - Frank Naughton, Partners Training for Transformation

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