Beyond this process, ten of the participants (six from the Samoan community, three
from Griffith University and one action learning/research consultant) also completed
the leadership development program, which consisted of ten workshops and regular
meetings with coaches and mentors over an eight-month period. Participants
undertook a learning journey that was meaningful for them personally and for the
Samoan community. Their journeys used self-directed action learning as a vehicle to
question, plan, reflect and act on experiences that occurred in the context of the wider
Community Partnership Project. In late October 2010, at a celebration of the “Actioning
Change Project”, the ten participants in the leadership development program presented
and celebrated personal and collective outcomes of the program, as we explain later in
this paper.