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!