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COLLAGES OF BETTERMENT 203Some years ago, civil society organizations in Japan,Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand started to payattention to cultivating transformative leadership as akey factor to foster and strengthen their movements.The learning processes in these four countries could befaster if their civil society leaders had opportunities toshare their working experiences and reflections togetherregularly.Rosa Zubizarreta has manifested this belief inenergetic words:“We need positive leadership of all kinds, beginningwith the ‘creative leadership’ that inspired us to offerthe seed of a compelling vision to the large whole.These visions can serve as ‘organizing principles’ thatdraw others in to work collectively on a commonproject for the benefit of all. Once a group hasconverged around a particular vision, ‘facilitativeleadership’ is needed to ensure that every voice isheard in a way that is not a cacophony of voices.We need to offer simple structures that encouragethe growth and engagement of all participants, sothat each person’s creativity can serve to benefit thewhole. In this manner, we create the conditionswhere a vision can live, grow, and be shared”(Zubizarreta 2007).REFERENCESAtlee, Tom. Democracy and the Evolution of SocietalIntelligence. 10 May 2007 .Burns, James McGregor. Leadership. New York: Harper &Row, 1979.Greenleaf, Robert. Servant Leadership: A Journey into theNature of Legitimate Power and Greatness. 25 th anniversary ed.New Jersey: Paulist Press, 2002.Handy, Charles. “The Search for Meaning: A Conversationwith Charles Handy by Charles Handy.” Leader to Leader 5(Summer 1997): 10.Kaeufer, Katrin and Judith Flick. “Cross-sectoral Leadershipfor Collective Action on HIV and AIDS in Zambia: Applyingfor U-process to Complex Societal Changes.” Reflection 8.2(2007): pp. __.Kofman, Fred and Peter Senge. Communities and Commitment:The Heart of Learning Organizations. Special Issue on theLearning Organization. 14 May 2007 .Jaworski, Joseph. Destiny and Leader. 1998. 3 June 2007.McLeod, Melvin. Changing How We Work Together.Shambhala Sun, January 2001: 29.Parks, Sharon Daloz. Leadership Can Be Taught: A BoldApproach for a Complex World. Boston: Harvard BusinessPress, 2005.Prateepchaikul, Veera. “Thaksin’s Long Shadow.” BangkokPost 23 July 2007. 23 July 2007 .Scharmer, Claus Otto. Illuminating the Blind Spot: Leadershipin Context of Emerging Worlds. With Brian Arthur, JonathanDay, Joseph Jaworski, Michael Jung, Ikujiro Nonaka, andPeter Senge. McKinsey-Society for Organizational Learning(SoL). Leadership Project (1999-2001. 2 May 2007 .Scharmer, Claus Otto. Illuminating the Blind Spot ofLeadership. 3 May 2007 .Scharmer, Claus Otto. Theory-U: Leading From the FutureIt Emerges, the Social Technology of Presencing. 20 July 2007.Senge, Peter M. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice ofthe Learning Organization. New York: Currency, 2006.Senge, Peter M. Leadership in Living Organizations: AnotherInsightful View of Leadership and Its Natural Emergence inCompanies. 28 October 2002. 15 July 2007 .Smith, Mark K. Peter Senge and the Learning Organization..Strang, Johan. Why Nordic Democracy? Positivism and theCrisis of Democracy in 1930s and 40s. October 2006. 30 June2007 .Sullivan, Gordon R. and Michael V. Harper. Hope is Not aMethod: What Business Can Learn from the US Army. NewYork: Broadway, 1997Thirapantu, Chaiwat. The People’s Assembly in Thailand:The Quest for Sustaining Energy for Social Change. Asian Transformations in ActionThe Work of the 2006/2007 API Fellows