Join our Leading Transformative Change Action Learning Set
Are you leading an ambitious change agenda, as a campaigner or researcher, or for a change focused organisation or coalition?
Leaders in this space face challenges not addressed in typical learning and development programmes. Whether that is the efforts to bring into being something that does not yet exist, building the personal resources for persistance, or the particular challenges of creating effective strategic leverage that shifts a resistant status-quo.
Joining an Action Learning Set (ALS) creates space for you to step back and explore the system, strategies and your delivery, alongside a group of trusted peers who understand your context deeply. Apply below.
What is an Action Learning Set?
ALS are a simple and powerful way for people to learn from each other in community.
This ALS will bring together peers from across the change-making sector in a confidential space. You will meet regularly (online) and be guided by a skilled facilitator through a process to explore your challenges and hear reflections from people you trust. You’ll build your capability to ask powerful questions and gain fresh insights to bring to any challenge.
This set will run from June - December, 2025, with eight online sessions of 90 mins each.
What a past participant had to say
“Wow, what a powerful framework for learning - being in the hot seat was like nothing I've experienced before.
It was so incredibly useful to have the group mind supporting to help move the thinking and reflections forward - not to mention the concrete actions I started to take literally the same afternoon and the motivational boost from having support and more clarity on the issue.
All in all, it was very useful as a process and empowering for me as a social enterprise leader to drive forward change and begin to unstick a major issue.”
- Kate Clugston, Partnership Manager, Centre for Australian Progress
What You'll Gain
By joining this ALS, you'll benefit from:
Small group, trusted peer support where deep relationships form—consistently highlighted as a key benefit by past participants
Evidenced-based expert facilitation helping you explore challenges in new ways, and guidance to step back and consider systems dynamics and the big picture
Fresh, actionable insights to apply to your most pressing challenges
Enhanced capability to ask powerful questions that unlock new perspectives
Confidential, open sharing environment where you can speak freely and learn from others' experiences
Meet your facilitator
May Miller-Dawkins - PRISM Founder
May has over 20 years experience working with community groups, social enterprises, for-purpose organisations, coalitions and social movements to support and understand effective and long-term social change efforts and build collective leadership capability. She is a highly skilled facilitator of catalytic discussions that identify pathways to impact and of action learning amongst leaders within or across sectors.
May has led learning and impact development processes for Open Government Partnership (Washington DC), Transparency International (Berlin), Yuwaya Ngarra-li partnership between the Dharriwaa Elders Group and UNSW (Walgett & Sydney), The B Team (New York), WEDO (New York), Toitū Tahua (Tamaki Makarau/Auckland), White Box Enterprises (Brisbane) and many more.
May is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the UNSW and a Fellow of the Centre for Policy Development. She holds a BA (Hons – Politics and International Relations) and LLB from UNSW and an LLM (Legal Theory) from NYU.
May lives in Whakatū (Nelson), Aotearoa (New Zealand) with her partner, two sons and dog.
Apply now
There are 8 spaces available in this set.
The investment is $2500 AUD or NZD. We have scholarships available, particularly for those joining without organisational finance, or from historically excluded groups.
Please contact us to find out more.
The set will run from June - December with eight 90min online sessions.