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How can you use the content on PurposePhil to support action learning? Download practical resources to bring a narrative change approach to your context.

Reflection is a meaning-making process that moves a learner from one experience into the next with deeper understanding of its relationships with and connections to other experiences and ideas...It is a means to essentially moral ends.

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Introduction to Learning Stories

Philanthropy offers a feel-good story about improving quality of life. But, to what extent is that intention ever realized? PurposePhil helps us learn within complex systems.

Two people stand in front of a fireplace with bunting-like string hanging from one side of the mantel to the other, and use clothes pegs to hang note cards with their hand written ideas about barriers to and enablers of learning.

Theme: Learning Type: Generative

Leveraging PurposePhil for Organizational Learning

Get an overview of all PurposePhil resources and make your own action learning plan!

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Theme: Learning Type: Core concepts

Learning in Complex Systems

Understand what it means to be working in the realm of complexity. Learn about collaborative inquiry, a process that can help us build alternative perspectives on systems that we are part of.

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Vancouver Foundation's PurposePhil Journey

Learn about Vancouver Foundation's PurposePhil journey. From surfacing values logics to grappling with purpose. Come along on VF's very own learning journey.

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