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Table 1.

Mezirow’s 10 Steps for Transformative Learning

No.	Step Description
1.	A disorienting dilemma about actions or social roles^a^,^b
2.	Self-examination with feelings of guilt or shame
3.	Recognition that one’s discontent and the process of transformation are shared and that others have negotiated a similar change
4.	Exploration of options of new roles, relationships, and actions
5.	A critical assessment of assumptions^b
6.	Provisional trying of new roles^a^,^b
7.	Planning of a course of action
8.	Acquisition of knowledge and skills for implementing one’s plans
9.	Building of competence and self-competence in new roles and relationships^a
10.	Outcome: Reintegration into one’s life on the basis of conditions dictated by one’s new perspective

Note. From Mezirow (1991).

^{^a}

Bodily–experiential step.

^{^b}

Step is empirically correlated with transformational learning (N = 255; Brock, 2009).