Co-sponsored by the Pachamama Alliance and Transition Sebastopol

"This has given me the purpose and drive to change my life. Everyone working for or wanting a better world must see this."
-- JS, Concord, CA

Creating a bold new future.

The Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium is a profound inquiry into a bold vision: To bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on Earth.

You will gain fresh insight about our world, meet like-minded people, find hope and inspiration and leave with clarity how you can help create a new future. If you are ready to explore what this vision means for you, we invite you to attend.

Through dynamic group interactions, leading edge information, and inspiring multimedia, participants of this half-day event are inspired to reconnect with their deep concern for our world, and are empowered to make a difference.

Designed with the collaboration of some of the finest scientific, indigenous and activist minds in the world, the Symposium explores the current state of our planet from a new perspective, and connects participants with a powerful global movement to reclaim our future.

It is an exploration of four questions:

Where Are We? - an examination of the state of environmental, social and personal well-being
How Did We Get Here? - tracing the root causes that lead to our current imbalance
What's Possible for the Future? - discovering new ways of relating with each other, with the Earth and looking at the emerging Movement for change
Where Do We Go from Here? - considering the stand we want to be in the world and our personal and collective impact

If you are ready to be disturbed, inspired and moved to action, and to be introduced to a thriving community of committed cohorts, then join us in exploring the most critical concerns of our times, and discover new opportunities to make a real difference in accelerating the emergence of an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence on this planet!

The New Dream
The Old Dream is dying. Its demise becomes inevitable as we discover the devastation we’ve caused to our own planet home, as we count the rising cost of our inhumanity to each other and as we see how our current way of living fails to deliver lasting happiness. All of these are the inevitable conclusions of an old dream rooted in acquisition, consumption and putting personal gain above communal good.

The New Dream is emerging! It's community, collaboration; it's life-enhancing and earth-honoring; it's together and for our grand-children, rather than Supersize me Now! So we’re seeing the largest social movement of all time, millions of people and organizations working forenvironmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment, three facets of a new dream for humanity and planet Earth.

For more information, contact Mary O'Connor at oconnmar@gmail.com (415-609-9213), 

Dear Transition Sebastopol allies --

We just completed a successful run of the Transition Movie Series for 2009, working in collaboration with the French Garden Restaurant. The Transition Movie Night is on the the last Wednesday of each month. Given that the last Wednesdays in November and December are just before Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve, we will be resuming the series in January 2010.

Here is a list of the movies that were shown in the series in 2009:

• "The Power of Community -- How Cuba Survived Peak Oil"
  
• "The 11th Hour"
  
• "Crude Awakening"
  
• "The Real Dirt on Farmer John"
  
• "Who Killed the Electric Car"
  
• "An Inconvenient Truth"
  
• "End of Suburbia"
  
• "In Transition"

(read more about each of these past events here)

Most of the movies were well attended and with many engaging discussions with special guests after most of the showings. We will probably be screening "Fresh the Movie" (watch the trailer here) in January. Please feel free to send me any other movie suggestions to scott@transitionsebastopol.org.

Toward Transition,

Scott
Transition Sebastopol initiating team member

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Just in case you were under the impression that Transition is a process defined by people who have all the answers, you need to be aware of a key fact.
We truly don't know if this will work. Transition is a social experiment on a massive scale.
What we are convinced of is this:
* if we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late
* if we act as individuals, it'll be too little
* but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time.
Everything that you read on the transition town http://transitiontowns.org site is the result of real work undertaken in the real world with community engagement at its heart. There's not an ivory tower in sight, no professors in musty oak-panelled studies churning out erudite papers, no slavish adherence to a model carved in stone.
This site, just like the transition model, is brought to you by people who are actively engaged in transition in a community. People who are learning by doing - and learning all the time. People who understand that we can't sit back and wait for someone else to do the work. People like you, perhaps...