Events

NEXT MEETING:

The Transition Sebastopol Energy Group Invites you to a…

Sebastopol Community Clean Energy Solutions Tour 

Come tour the Allen raHUS, a multi-energy-feature, carbon neutral, net zero energy, fossil gas-free, all electric house. (Note: “ra” is the Egyptian Sun God, “hus” is Norwegian for “house”) 

When: Saturday, May 11, 3-5pm

Where: At the home of Tor and Dena Allen: The raHUS in Sebastopol, CA (address will be provided to those who RSVP)

Admission: FREE

To RSVP PLEASE CLICK HERE.


Space for the tour and parking is limited. Please walk, ride a bike or carpool if you can. Sign up early and if your plans change please let us know. 

What you will learn about:

· Net zero energy buildings

· Passive solar design

· Thin film laminate “peel & stick-on” solar photovoltaics

· Ground source heat pumps

· Radiant floor heating

· Adjustable solar gain

· The joys of sun oven cooking

· Info about the Solar Schoolhouse program

The 2013 Energy Solutions Tours are a series of visits to local residences, businesses, and farms in and near Sebastopol where energy efficiency and clean energy solutions have been implemented. The event format is usually one to three hours on a weekend day where people will converge on the selected location for a tour of the site, a brief talk, Q&A, and hands-on activity if applicable. The purpose is to educate, share knowledge and skills, engage, interact, inspire, build community, and strengthen local resilience. Mark your calendars for the next tour on June 15th, 3-5pm.

For more info: 707-829-3460

YOU’RE INVITED TO JOIN IN CO-CREATING COMMUNITY …
The world is changing. Any move that responds to the changing conditions of a world in transition calls for
a similar internal shift. People who are committed to Transition are of necessity making this kind of shift. Sustainability depends upon it. Being in the vanguard means learning new ways of being together. We need to try things out to develop the internal skills that accompany these colossal changes.

COMMUNITY RESILIENCE is an organic form of growth. It requires the hearts and minds of the most committed to create a new response to the challenges we face. This will be a facilitated learning community with the intention of discovering the forms of consciousness that best serve our times, allowing us to become more effective.

• Meets twice a month, no fees charged
• Learn together
• Form bonds that make community resilience a living thing
• Focus is more upon growth than on psychological issues

Facilitated by Sandra “Sandy” Scotchler and David “Lucky” Goff for the Transition Sebastopol Community

About the Facilitators:

In 2003 Lucky Goff, Ph.D., M.F.T., had a brain aneurism. As a result of his stroke and the onset of a rare brain syndrome, he nearly died and ended up permanently disabled. This experience had a transformational effect on David, which cued him into how radically connected all things are. 
Contact: dg1140@sonic.net, (707) 291-0438, and

Sandy Scotchler M.F.T. —Drawn to the healing arts from childhood, she has learned to walk the path of a wounded healer. Becoming an elder at this time calls her
to join with others who care deeply about the earth and want to ollaborate in bringing the needed transformation. 
Contact: jimsand@sonic.net, (707)  829-4729

A venue for psycho-spiritual change designed to cultivate community and inner development.

Becoming Change, beginning June 12, 2012 will meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday evenings of each month from 7 – 9 pm.
at the Sequoia Village Commonhouse
(459 Sequoia Lane, just two driveways east of Pleasant Hill, off Covert).

Please park on the street. 

Next monthly Energy Group planning meeting will be on May 16 at 6:30pm at SolarWorks, 400 Morris Street #C. All are welcome.

 When: Friday afternoons, 3:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Where: Coffee Catz, 6761 Sebastopol Avenue, Sebastopol

Friday afternoons at 3:30 at Coffee Catz. Our informal gathering is usually indoors now, in the back room when we can get it. Our numbers have grown and we can hear one another better inside, though a hot day may put us back outdoors. We encourage you to try it some week.

Drop in-arrival and departure times are loose. We no longer use a sign to identify ourselves, so if you see a gathering of gray heads, just inquire.

-- Alexandra, Lucky, and the Transition Elders

Get ready to inspire and be inspired! Spend the day up in beautiful Sonoma to help us launch the NorCal Transition Network. Come for part of the day or stay for the entire time... you can even spend the night!

The day's events will include:

MORNING WORK PARTY: 
9-noon (or get there whenever you can):

Participate in the 350 Home and Garden Challenge! Grab your work gloves and head to the Sonoma Garden Park, where we will participate in helping to beautify the community garden. You will be helping beautify the garden, so please wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty and bring garden gloves if you have them. We will provide gloves if you don’t.

Work Party Location: Sonoma Garden Park, 19996 7th Street East in Sonoma 

LUNCH:
noon-1 pm
Bring some food for potluck lunch at the park, or head on over to the Community Cafe for lunch. 

AFTERNOON MEETING:
1:30-4:30 pm
 We'll gather at the Sonoma Community Center for some lively networking, capacity building and concrete steps to move the NorCal Transition Network forward. Breakout sessions will include:

• What's going on with Transition groups
• Introduction to some exciting and successful projects. Project Coordinators will discuss the project details and how Transition Initiatives can participate and/or replicate them. The projects will include :
• Marco Vangelista's Alternative Economics curriculum
• Bay Bucks
• Research about Solar Options
• Empathic Listening from the Connection Action Project and
• Crop Swaps.
• Brainstorming session about the nexus with permaculture and the Transition Movement; how can permaculture and Transition Initiatives be more closely aligned and partnering? How can we collaborate to work on some tangible projects?
• Interactive discussion about the Transition NorCal Steering Committee and proposed Fall Conference

Meeting Location:
276 East Napa Street Sonoma

DINNER:
5:30-9 pm
Come join us for dinner at a beautiful house in the hills of Sonoma!

If you are interested in spending the night, homestays will be available.

For more information please contact:

Susan Silber (susansilber07@gmail.com); 415-806-8955

If you're ready to RSVP with EVENTBRITE.

 A Wisdom Council Discussion Group of Transition Sebastopol 

Calling All Elders, Earth Elders, Wannabe Elders, Soon-to-become Elders, or Interested Baby Boomers on up! 


The Elder Salon is a nonhierarchical circle of peers. We’ll introduce the discussion with some thoughts from an elder voice or thought-provoking instigator to kick off our own discovery of what it is WE think and believe about the topic; what WE want and need now and in our future; what WE think should be the course of action and attitudes as we progress into and through our older years

WHY: There are a lot of new ideas about aging, staying youthful in body and spirit, and our role in society and local life. What have our generational contributions been and what is left undone? What are our mistakes and triumphs?

The Elder Salon is a nonhierarchical circle of peers. We’ll introduce the discussion with some thoughts from an elder voice or thought-provoking instigator to kick off our own discovery of what it is WE think and believe about the topic; what WE want and need now and in our future; what WE think should be the course of action and attitudes as we progress into and through our older years

Reminder to all: the Elders Salon is regular and ongoing on the fourth Thursday of each month.

Location:

see more about this group here: http://transitionsebastopol.org/aboutelderssalon 

 When: Friday afternoons, 3:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Where: Coffee Catz, 6761 Sebastopol Avenue, Sebastopol

Friday afternoons at 3:30 at Coffee Catz. Our informal gathering is usually indoors now, in the back room when we can get it. Our numbers have grown and we can hear one another better inside, though a hot day may put us back outdoors. We encourage you to try it some week.

Drop in-arrival and departure times are loose. We no longer use a sign to identify ourselves, so if you see a gathering of gray heads, just inquire.

-- Alexandra, Lucky, and the Transition Elders

PLEASE NOTE:
Due to the importance of this international event we are cancelling the West County Community Seed Exchange's class at 11 to encourage people to join with people all over the world to protest Monsanto's take over of our food and demand labeling of GMO's.

Saturday May 25th
Gather at Julliard Park in Santa Rosa at 11am
Permitted March from Julliard Park to Courthouse Square for a rally and speakers.

There are hundreds of protests happening around the world on this day at the same time.

You can also protest GMO's and Monsanto by getting involved with us- we are creating the alternative and protecting our seed- join us Saturday morning in the seed garden for our work party from 9 to 10:30 then head over to Santa Rosa to stand against Monsanto.
 

Where: St. Stephens Church, 500 Robinson Way, Sebastopol 

Schedule: 
9:00-10:30: Work party in the Community Seed Garden

9:00- 11:00: Seed Exchange: Free seeds to share. (Seeds and resources are available the whole time.) 

11:00 - 12 noon: Class

You are invited to get FREE SEED from the 200+ varieties ofvegetables, flowers, herbs, and grains in our Seed Library. All seeds were grown out in our Seed Garden or in other parts of Sonoma County. We hope you will grow some of this stock out to seed and return it to us next year. If you are already a seed saver, please consider donating some of your seeds to us. 

Come by and check out our seeds or stay for the whole time!.

All classes and seeds are free to the community! 

YOU’RE INVITED TO JOIN IN CO-CREATING COMMUNITY …
The world is changing. Any move that responds to the changing conditions of a world in transition calls for
a similar internal shift. People who are committed to Transition are of necessity making this kind of shift. Sustainability depends upon it. Being in the vanguard means learning new ways of being together. We need to try things out to develop the internal skills that accompany these colossal changes.

COMMUNITY RESILIENCE is an organic form of growth. It requires the hearts and minds of the most committed to create a new response to the challenges we face. This will be a facilitated learning community with the intention of discovering the forms of consciousness that best serve our times, allowing us to become more effective.

• Meets twice a month, no fees charged
• Learn together
• Form bonds that make community resilience a living thing
• Focus is more upon growth than on psychological issues

Facilitated by Sandra “Sandy” Scotchler and David “Lucky” Goff for the Transition Sebastopol Community

About the Facilitators:

In 2003 Lucky Goff, Ph.D., M.F.T., had a brain aneurism. As a result of his stroke and the onset of a rare brain syndrome, he nearly died and ended up permanently disabled. This experience had a transformational effect on David, which cued him into how radically connected all things are. 
Contact: dg1140@sonic.net, (707) 291-0438, and

Sandy Scotchler M.F.T. —Drawn to the healing arts from childhood, she has learned to walk the path of a wounded healer. Becoming an elder at this time calls her
to join with others who care deeply about the earth and want to ollaborate in bringing the needed transformation. 
Contact: jimsand@sonic.net, (707)  829-4729

A venue for psycho-spiritual change designed to cultivate community and inner development.

Becoming Change, beginning June 12, 2012 will meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday evenings of each month from 7 – 9 pm.
at the Sequoia Village Commonhouse
(459 Sequoia Lane, just two driveways east of Pleasant Hill, off Covert).

Please park on the street. 

 When: Friday afternoons, 3:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Where: Coffee Catz, 6761 Sebastopol Avenue, Sebastopol

Friday afternoons at 3:30 at Coffee Catz. Our informal gathering is usually indoors now, in the back room when we can get it. Our numbers have grown and we can hear one another better inside, though a hot day may put us back outdoors. We encourage you to try it some week.

Drop in-arrival and departure times are loose. We no longer use a sign to identify ourselves, so if you see a gathering of gray heads, just inquire.

-- Alexandra, Lucky, and the Transition Elders

When: Saturday, June 8, - Monday June 10

Where: Petaluma Community Center, Petaluma, CA

Contact: Carolyne Stayton at Transition US (carolyne@transitionus.org, 707-824-1554)

This is a special opportunity for Transition leaders brought to you by Transition US and the talented facilitators at the Art of Hosting. This training will be incredibly useful to Transitioners starting new groups or wanting to perfect their ability to navigate group dynamics. Regular cost is $850, but we have been able to bring the cost down to $450 for Transition leaders. We want to make sure all interested Transition leaders are able to attend, so please contact Carolyne if you'd like to discuss creative options to fund your participation.

Event Description:

The Art of Participatory Leadership is an intensive 3-day event where you will experience and practice a set of simple yet powerful processes for building community, facilitating powerful conversations, building strong partnerships and leading change. Come explore how to unleash our collective genius and build adaptive and leader-full communities.

We invite those engaged and committed to the many aspects of resilience to come together from Transition Towns, sustainability initiatives, local economy, permaculture communities, sustainable business, local food, healthy families, and more.

Our hope is to create powerful ways to learn together, build effective teams and partnerships that help us work better in our own communities, as well as invite others to build resilient communities. There’s an incredible amount of work going on in many different networks. We are thrilled to bring these powerful networks together..

Our intention is to work together to build capacity for the next evolution of work in the North Bay, San Francisco Bay Area, and Northern California. We also invite passionate friends from other areas who want to learn with us and create transformative change.

Rooted in the Four Fold practice of the Art of Hosting, this event teaches a participative approach for leading, convening, and engaging groups. The practice begins with being present and hosting one’s self, from there we participate in learning conversations, hosting and convening conversations, and co-creating (initiatives, change, teams, etc).

Please see our Art of Hosting for Transition page for all the details on this exciting opportunity and to register!

When: Saturday, June 8, - Monday June 10

Where: Petaluma Community Center, Petaluma, CA

Contact: Carolyne Stayton at Transition US (carolyne@transitionus.org, 707-824-1554)

This is a special opportunity for Transition leaders brought to you by Transition US and the talented facilitators at the Art of Hosting. This training will be incredibly useful to Transitioners starting new groups or wanting to perfect their ability to navigate group dynamics. Regular cost is $850, but we have been able to bring the cost down to $450 for Transition leaders. We want to make sure all interested Transition leaders are able to attend, so please contact Carolyne if you'd like to discuss creative options to fund your participation.

Event Description:

The Art of Participatory Leadership is an intensive 3-day event where you will experience and practice a set of simple yet powerful processes for building community, facilitating powerful conversations, building strong partnerships and leading change. Come explore how to unleash our collective genius and build adaptive and leader-full communities.

We invite those engaged and committed to the many aspects of resilience to come together from Transition Towns, sustainability initiatives, local economy, permaculture communities, sustainable business, local food, healthy families, and more.

Our hope is to create powerful ways to learn together, build effective teams and partnerships that help us work better in our own communities, as well as invite others to build resilient communities. There’s an incredible amount of work going on in many different networks. We are thrilled to bring these powerful networks together..

Our intention is to work together to build capacity for the next evolution of work in the North Bay, San Francisco Bay Area, and Northern California. We also invite passionate friends from other areas who want to learn with us and create transformative change.

Rooted in the Four Fold practice of the Art of Hosting, this event teaches a participative approach for leading, convening, and engaging groups. The practice begins with being present and hosting one’s self, from there we participate in learning conversations, hosting and convening conversations, and co-creating (initiatives, change, teams, etc).

Please see our Art of Hosting for Transition page for all the details on this exciting opportunity and to register!

When: Saturday, June 8, - Monday June 10

Where: Petaluma Community Center, Petaluma, CA

Contact: Carolyne Stayton at Transition US (carolyne@transitionus.org, 707-824-1554)

This is a special opportunity for Transition leaders brought to you by Transition US and the talented facilitators at the Art of Hosting. This training will be incredibly useful to Transitioners starting new groups or wanting to perfect their ability to navigate group dynamics. Regular cost is $850, but we have been able to bring the cost down to $450 for Transition leaders. We want to make sure all interested Transition leaders are able to attend, so please contact Carolyne if you'd like to discuss creative options to fund your participation.

Event Description:

The Art of Participatory Leadership is an intensive 3-day event where you will experience and practice a set of simple yet powerful processes for building community, facilitating powerful conversations, building strong partnerships and leading change. Come explore how to unleash our collective genius and build adaptive and leader-full communities.

We invite those engaged and committed to the many aspects of resilience to come together from Transition Towns, sustainability initiatives, local economy, permaculture communities, sustainable business, local food, healthy families, and more.

Our hope is to create powerful ways to learn together, build effective teams and partnerships that help us work better in our own communities, as well as invite others to build resilient communities. There’s an incredible amount of work going on in many different networks. We are thrilled to bring these powerful networks together..

Our intention is to work together to build capacity for the next evolution of work in the North Bay, San Francisco Bay Area, and Northern California. We also invite passionate friends from other areas who want to learn with us and create transformative change.

Rooted in the Four Fold practice of the Art of Hosting, this event teaches a participative approach for leading, convening, and engaging groups. The practice begins with being present and hosting one’s self, from there we participate in learning conversations, hosting and convening conversations, and co-creating (initiatives, change, teams, etc).

Please see our Art of Hosting for Transition page for all the details on this exciting opportunity and to register!