Building Resilient Communities for a Post-Carbon World

February 17-19, 2012
Santa Rosa, California
Training starts Friday evening and runs all day Saturday and Sunday

Training Locations:
Share Exchange & the Arlene Francis Center for Spirit, Art & Politics

For More Information & To Register Click Here

You may also visit the page about this training on the Transition US website.

Why Transition? Background & Purpose

As we face the challenges of peak oil, climate change, and economic contraction, the Transition Movement is a positive approach that focuses on local solutions and building community resilience. Training for Transition is the popular, in-depth experiential workshop created by the global Transition Network. The course describes how to set up, run, and maintain a successful Transition initiative. It is packed with imaginative and inspiring ways to engage your community, and delves into both the theory and practice of Transition that has worked so well in hundreds of communities around the world. It meets the training criteria recommended for local initiating groups to become an internationally recognized Transition initiative.

Course Curriculum - What is It?

The course describes how to catalyze, build and facilitate a successful Transition initiative. It is packed with imaginative and inspiring ways to engage your community, and delves into both the theory and practice of Transition that has worked so well in hundreds of communities around the world. This training will be a mix of presentation and visual media, participatory discussions, small group work, and practical planning that you can take home and use. Participants are invited to share their experience and learn from others in the course.

Through This Course Participants Will:

• Discuss the context for Transition Initiatives -- the current global situation that includes climate change, peak oil, resource depletion, and economic contraction;
• Understand and be able to use the Transition model – including the ingredients of Transition, the seven principles, and the larger Transition process that engages many community members in addressing the critical issues affecting our communities to build local resilience;
• Learn how to inspire positive action, facilitate collaboration, set up a successful initiating group, reach diverse sectors of your community, and unleash an exciting and inspired expansion of transformational work in your community;
• Facilitate a visioning process;
• Know how to organize effective Transition meetings and gatherings;
• Learn tools for supporting both the outer work of transforming your community’s dependence on oil, coal and other fossil fuels, and the inner and interpersonal work that is essential to resilience and collaboration;
• Understand the purpose and components of an Energy Descent Action Plan;
• Be able to give an effective and inspiring description of the Transition movement;
• Network with other people interested in Transition in your area;
• Develop initial action steps for yourself and your locality; and
• Connect to others in this rapidly growing, positive, global movement!

Sliding Scale Pricing

We are offering this workshop at sliding scale pricing from $150 - $225 below the amount recommended by Transition US, and are asking those who can afford more to to help make this training available to as many people as we can. The workshop includes lunch on Saturday & Sunday, as well as light snacks, teas, coffee, and beverages during the training. Limited scholarships may be available.

The Transition Town Movement

The Transition Movement is comprised of vibrant, grassroots community initiatives that seek to build community resilience in the face of such challenges as peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis. Transition Initiatives differentiate themselves from other sustainability and "environmental" groups by seeking to mitigate these converging global crises by engaging their communities in home-grown, citizen-led education, action, and multi-stakeholder planning to increase local self reliance and resilience.

For More Information & To Register Click Here

You may also contact Jay Ma at education@livingmandala.com
Phone: (707) 634-1461
or also Scott McKeown at scott@transitionus.org

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Living Mandala
Organizing Education, Events & Initiatives for Personal & Planetary Transformation
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