How is ChangeMakers different from other groups?

• it is mainly built on pre-existing relationships

• it is not project specific but is working on a diversity of interests

• it has a co-operative design and the curriculum is developed by the group

• it is not hierarchical

• it is capacity building on the level of the individual

• listening and learning are key features

• we have shared responsibility for processes and are constantly questioning our processes and willing to alter them

• it is open to experimentation

• has no focus on fundraising outside of the group

• it is completely voluntary

• people can use it as a report-back place, to act an a place for accountability for their own actions

• it’s like driving together on a roundabout: making eye contact, connecting what we are each doing, seeing what’s coming and what’s been, letting people in, moving out of the way, getting a feel that for the short time we are on the roundabout together we are all on a larger journey.