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The objective of this Master’s thesis is to depict the expansive learning actions found in a change laboratory intervention process. The intervention method was based on developmental work research and the activity theory and these are also the premise of this study. The objective in the change laboratory is a comprehensive understanding of activity and collaborative redesign of activity. In expansive learning participants collectively create something for which there are no pre-existing models and the process of expansive learning is supposed to start in the change laboratory. The methodical selections for the study where qualitative research setting and abductive content analysis. The study material was a complete set of material consisting of conversation transcripts of change laboratory sessions executed in a hospital. Nine meetings where held and each had a varying number of participants. Hospital staff extensively from several specialties participated in the change laboratory process. Developmental intervention corresponded to the need for reorganizing activities in connection with a hospital fusion. Nearly all kinds of expansive learning actions where observed in the change laboratory process, except the last one about consolidating and generalizing the new practice. Several objects of development where worked on and they progressed at different paces. Therefore in the material a variation of progress of learning activities was observed. In the beginning of the process participants quickly got to the point of analyzing the activities and at the end of the process almost all kinds of learning activities where observed. It was interesting how the diversity of the participants from different units of the hospital could have affected the progress of development targets identified in the process and how they progressed in different paces. In terms of expansive learning activities this presented itself as multiple expansive learning cycles simultaneously progressing at different paces.