ALARA offers four types of membership: Individual, Organisational, Ex-offico and Life. ALARA's Management Committee approves Ex-offico and Life Memberships. This page describes the Individual and Organisational Memberships.

Individual Membership 

Membership is open to anyone interested or active in applying the practices of action learning and action research within community and organisational contexts. To join ALARA, please go to Contact Us .

Membership benefits include:

• A copy of the ALAR Journal, published twice annually, and ALARA Monograph *;
• Reduced price on other ALARA publications, such as Conference and World Congress Proceedings;
• Opportunity to contribute to ALAR Journal, with mentoring by the publication team available throughout the process; 
• Access to ALAR Journal back issues via the website;
• Quarterly e-newsletter;
• Fortnightly e-news updates;
• Discounts at local ALARA events, conferences and World Congresses;
• Advance notice via email and post of events and items of interest through the newsletter, website, and ALAR Journal;
• Opportunity to be mentored by other members on the submission of a paper at the Conferences or World Congress;
• Access to the ALARA website to participate in online discussions, and access the entire membership;
• Voting rights at the annual AGM or online if unable to attend *;
• Opportunity to nominate for a Management Committee position *;
• Logo for inclusion on own website, with a link to the ALARA website

* These benefits are not available to Reduced-Fee-paying members. Such members belong to an Organisational Member of ALARA and pay a Reduced Fee to join as an Individual member of ALARA.

If this appeals to you, find out how to become a member: Contact Us 

Organisational Membership

ALARA offers five categories of Organisational membership: Corporate, Professional, SME (small to medium enterprise), Sole Operator (10 or less employees), and Affiliate.

• Corporate membership is open to any business or organisation that employs more than 200 staff and has a demonstrated commitment to supporting the development and application of action
  learning, action research, process management and participatory action
  research (AR/PAR/AL) practice.
• Professional membership is open to any allied professional organisation that supports ALARA's objectives without necessarily themselves having comparable objectives e.g. a professional association in a specific discipline or a university department.
• An SME membership is open to any small to medium sized enterprise that employs between 10 and 200 staff and has a demonstrated commitment to supporting the development and application of AR/PAR/AL practice.
• A Sole Operator membership is for small businesses with 10 or less employees, and which has a demonstrated commitment to supporting the development and application of AR/PAR/AL practice.
  
• Affiliate membership is open to peer professional AL and AR networks and associations. Such
  organisations share substantially similar goals and objectives in AR/PAR/AL, and actively promote AR and AL through their missions and
  activities.

• One copy of the ALAR Journal and the ALARA Monograph sent to the nominated representative of the Organisation;
• Reduced price on other ALARA publications, such as Conference and World Congress Proceedings for the nominated representative;
• Access to ALAR Journal back issues via the website;
• Quarterly e-newsletter;
• Fortnightly e-news updates;
• Special member discounts to ALARA events, conferences and World Congresses consistent with individual membership discounts;
• Notifications by email from ALARA about events or activities or resources;
• Opportunities to sponsor ALARA events such as workshops, conferences and Congresses, and special editions of publications, to mentor ALARA members and be mentored by ALARA members, and gain valuable profile in the professional community.
• Online access to ALARA’s considerable professional development resources;
• Access to ALARA’s members for professional development and other delivery of AL and AR services;
• The voting rights of a single member through the nominated representative of the Organisation;
• Opportunities to sponsor ALARA events such as workshops, conferences and Congresses, and special editions of publications, to mentor ALARA members and be mentored by ALARA members, and gain valuable profile in the professional community;
• A web link from the ALARA website <http://www.ALARA.net.au> to the organisation's website if available.  The Organisational member writes their own descriptive paragraph to go with the link on the ALARA website;
• Discounted individual membership of ALARA: Individuals within Organisational members can join as Individual members of ALARA by paying the Reduced Fee (50% of the normal fee). All Individual members who take up this option are entitled to the same benefits as full fee paying individual members, with the exceptions of (a) they do not receive printed copies of ALAR Journal and the ALARA Monograph, (b) the voting rights fall to the nominated individual from the Organisational member, and (c) they cannot nominate to be on the Management Committee.
•  If 15 or more individuals from a Corporate Organisation or 10 or more individuals from any of the other types of Organisations join ALARA at the time of Organisational membership registration, the Organisational membership is free of charge.

If membership of ALARA appeals to you, find out how to become a member: Contact Us