Trans4m Communiversity Associates (TCA) is an innovative new global venture that combines the best of co-creative consultancy, with an analytical edge that will transform your local society. Developed over forty years, through the work of Trans4m, TCA offers tools and techniques for releasing what we call a Communiversity. That is a local learning space for liberating the DNA of your culture, so that people generate new ways of releasing their potential, economically, socially, culturally and communally. Through the remarkable resource of the TCA Online Portal (TOP) – together with our face-to-face workshops – together we will co-create your community, culture and society

TCA is a local-global inter-institutional “worlds-wide” vehicle for socio-economic re-GENE-ration, rooted in a particular world, while reaching out to others. Unlike “development” or “modernisation”, regeneration starts form within. As such our particular Communi-versity, as opposed to a standardised “university”, is Grounded locally in nature and Community; facilitates the Emergence of a particular culture and society,localy-globally, through a consciousness raising Pilgrimium; via a research Academy Navigates a newly global path through social innovation; ultimately, and globally-locally, Effects an integral transformation of self and community, organisation and society, through a socio-economic Laboratory.

Through the work of Trans4M Communiversity Associates (TCA) Communiversities are being established in many parts of the world, especially in Africa and South Asia, but, also, in Europe.  Whilst these are taking many different forms, as befits the enormous diversity of local cultures, they each have a basic structure that is consistent across all institutions.

Our Communiversity has a fourfold structure of:

• Grounding in Community, defined by particular social and economic boundaries
• Emerging Local Core Values and Spirituality (what we term the ‘Pilgrimium’)
• Navigating through a Research Academy, using culturally appropriate Research Methodologies, Systems and Processes
• Effecting a series of Co-Laboratories, with the purpose of GENErating enterprises, in business, arts, science, culture and the social economy, that meet local needs.

This GENEtic approach is designed to foster a spirit of community collaboration, in which local culture is taken seriously.  In such situations, people are able to address their core concerns and the values that motivate their life journeys (pilgrimium) .  They are enabled to employ community-rooted research approaches, in ‘safe space’ academies, such as Co-operative Inquiry, Participative Action Research (PAR), Stakeholder-Controlled Research and a range of service user-centred interpretivist research techniques.  Thence, the research findings are used, in co-laboratory situations, to fashion new enterprises, artistic products, technologies, materials and action frameworks that increase the visibility and performative nature of local community groups and individuals.