The need for transformation in addressing today’s global environmental issues is clear (IPBES, 2019; IPCC, 2018). Sustainability requires transformative change, defined as “fundamental, system-wide reorganization across technological, economic and social factors, including paradigms, goals and values” (IPBES, 2019, p. 14). Despite these clarion calls for what is needed, actual transformative action lags far behind. In part, that is because critical questions remain on: how to facilitate transformative change (Fazey et al., 2018; O’Brien, 2018) as well as how to assess for whether and to what extent transformation has occurred (Salomaa & Juhola, 2020). These two questions operate synergistically: as we seek to assess transformation, we also require learning about how to facilitate it more broadly. In this presentation, we draw on innovative examples to explore the broad contours of an integral assessment for sustainability transformations across four dimensions (experience, behaviour, culture and systems) using their own paradigms and validity claims. Participants will leave with a transformation assessment template for their own lives, as well as for that of this planet.
Integral
