An integrated approach to social change can be seen as a collective learning model of sorts. And when societies learn and grow, their/our cultures evolve! Culture is not static or stagnant; personal identities evolve and change over time, and so do cultures. 

Experiential learning at the individual level is about starting from what we (think we) know, make sense of that information for ourselves in our specific context, in all its complexity, and then having that assessment inform what we do with that information out in the real world, where we apply it. This active experimentation informs how we see the world, and the learning process continues.

Can we apply this (adapted) model of individual, experiential learning to better understand how collective learning and change might be occurring? 

An integrated approach to social change includes how we think or believe change happens (theories of change), all the ways we engage with that information as individuals that also changes us (personal change), and what we choose to do with that information out in the world that holds the potential all different kinds of change, including changes in our politics.

I like thinking about this as a collective learning process because this integrated approach to social changes holds the potential for breaking through personal, interpersonal and cultural barriers - together. This work is personal and it's political. And it requires us to become more effective change makers. These are collective processes in which we are each learning to participate more effectively in the cultural transformations upon which our collective survival and well-being depend.