Changing our perspectives on learning to manage change

![CDATA[This paper makes an attempt at depicting ‘deep transformation’ – a change in the nature of change and uses a project with subsistence farmers in Mozambique as an illustration in the type of change sort. Using a philosophical and auto-ethnographic approach the first author focuses on the dialect arising between self and culture as he pursues a career in development that addresses the problem of hunger and starvation. Tools of analysis and practice (theory and methodology) are themselves analysed. The implications of this analysis are brought to bear at the site of interaction with subsistent farmers and how this influences the nature and focus of projects is discussed. ‘True’ coherence between the differing worlds of the participants and the environment is sort with the guidance of a self-reflexive ethic of the value of others that is founded in the value of self. The purpose of the paper is not intended as a guide for others but an invitation for the reader to enter with the authors in the challenge of deep transformation as a means to provide for a better present and future for us all.]]