Change is a Slow Dance
The monograph, “Change is like a slow dance” – integrates the reflections of three organizations which participated in a fourteen month Action-Learning Programme facilitated by Gender at Work in South Africa during 2004 and early 2005. The main objective of the programme was to catalyse and assist in facilitating a change process in three social change and human rights based organizations to deepen their own capacity for improving gender relationships and power inequalities both internally and in their programmatic work. The bulk of the monograph consists of chapters two, three and four, the three case study chapters that share the reflections of the participating organizations in the programme. The first and fifth chapters (ie. The introduction and conclusion) are written by two Gender at Work team members, the South African programme manager and facilitator with one of the organisations and the team’s documentalist. Chapter one, introduces the change process, its assumptions as well as the three organizations. Chapter five concludes the monograph by highlighting key lessons and insights that emerge from the process.
