Upcoming Events
Transition Sebastopol Communications Group
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Sebastopol's mission is to promote and inspire an abundant, local and
resilient community.~
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In this issue:
Transition Sebastopol Events & Workshops
THIS WEEKEND!
May 26 – West County Community Seed Exchange May Gathering
May 27 – Transition Sebastopol at the Farmers Market: Toothpaste Making Demo and Instruction (Reskilling)
May 30 – Transition Sebastopol Movie Night: Save the Farm
June 5 – HeartSing: “The Return of the Feminine” (Heart and Soul)
June 11 – Resilient Living Circle: A Caring Economy! (Heart and Soul)
June 12 – Becoming Change in a Changing World (Elders Salon)
June 14 – Growing an Elder Culture (Live on KOWS radio)
June 19 – Skill Share and Marketplace, plus Make Your Own Laundry Detergent with Angel Rodriguez (Reskilling)
June 28 – Elders Salon
Transition Sebastopol Weekly Events
Fridays - Insurgent Elders
Gatherings
Other Community Events
June 6 – The Natural Intimacy of Words
June 11 – Heart of Resilience: Cultivating Inner Strength and Purpose
June 19, July 7, August 14 – “Map Your Neighborhood” Training
June 23 – Ceremony Offering Acts of Beauty to the Wounded Waters of Our World
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Transition Sebastopol Events and Workshops
West County Community Seed Exchange May Gathering
When:
Saturday, May 26, 9 a.m.-noon
Where: St. Stephens Church, 500 Robinson Road, Sebastopol
FREE
Join us this Saturday May 26th for a big spring planting at the West County Community Seed Exchange.
We hope to spend a good amount of the morning in the Seed Garden, from 9 to 11 we will be working in the garden- prepping beds, harvesting mustard and clover seed, planting and weeding. Then we will talk about what we are growing in the Seed Garden- why we are growing it, how we are saving seed, and what are the varieties and history of some of the crops. It will be a great day to really help us move towards another year of seed work and building our local resiliency!!
9 to 11 am - Work Party in the garden
11 to 12- Walk and talk in the Seed Garden- a tour of what we are growing
Bring gloves, shovels, forks, hoes! Gopher trappers are strongly encouraged to come!
Our seed library will be open the whole time for you to get seed or donate seed. Come check out our incredible inventory of locally grown seed.
For more information go to: westcountyseedbank.blogspot.com or email westcount...@gmail.com
Toothpaste Making Demo at the Farmers Market! (Reskilling)
When:
Sunday, May 27, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Where: Sebastopol Plaza—the
Farmers Market
Transition Sebastopol will have a booth at
the Sebastopol Farmers Market this Sunday (5/27) from 10am-2pm. The Reskilling
Group will be there doing toothpaste making demos. Please come out to say
hello, learn how to make toothpaste, and bring a jar to take some home!
PS - If anyone has an overabundance of little baby food sized jars, we would be
happy to take those off of your hands :)
Transition Sebastopol Movie Night: Save the Farm
When: Wednesday, May 30—Potluck at 6:30 p.m., Movie at 7:15 p.m.
Where: The Sebastopol Grange- 6000 Sebastopol Rd (Hwy 12)
FREE/Donations accepted
May Movie and Potluck at the Grange!
Transition Sebastopol
and the Sebastopol Grange cordially invite you to join us for the screening of Save the Farm Wednesday May 30th.
Potluck at 6:30, movie at 7:15. Please stay with us for
our discussion following the movie!
"Save the Farm tells the story of the largest urban farm in the United States,
14 acres sitting right in the middle of South Central Los
Angeles. For 14 years over 350 families had cultivated this farm, feeding
themselves and thousands in their community local organic
food. When the city sells it in a closed-door meeting, activists and
celebreties stage an 11th hour tree sit to save the farm. As the five-
year anniversary of the eviction approaches, director MIchael Kuehnert
demonstrates how a local community can come together to save a farm
that they have come to depend on for their survival."
Please bring something yummy to share for the potluck, and please stay for the
conversation following! Our conversations are always lively
and informative!
Looking forward to seeing you there!
HeartSing! “The Return of The Feminine” (Heart and Soul)
When:
Tuesday, June 5, Gather at 7:30 p.m.;
Circle starts at 8 p.m.
Where: Stay tuned!
Save the date!
a very special Heart Sing!
"The Return of the Feminine"
Tues June 5th, gather with us to witness the transit of venus across the sun,
then stay for a wonderful gathering with music, storytelling and poetry on the
theme of the Feminine.
Please stay tuned for the location and more details!
Contact: jul...@yahoo.com
Resilient Living
Circle: A Caring Economy! (Heart and Soul)
When:
Monday, June 11, 7:30-9 p.m.
Where: Sebastopol
Center for the Arts, 6780 Depot Street, Sebastopol
Imagine an economy where getting what you need
comes out of the simple (but not always easy!) act of asking. And imagine
feeling a deeper sense of fulfillment and satisfaction in being able to offer
what you have to those who truly need it.
This is what we do, and more...come join us--it's fun!
In our giving circle, we hold a place for you to give, receive and discuss what
this alternative, caring economy can really be.
Contact: jul...@yahoo.com
Becoming Change in a Changing World (Sponsored by Elders Salon)
When: June 12, and THE 2nd AND 4th TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH FROM THEN ON
Where: The Common House of Sequoia Village, 429 Sequoia Lane, Sebastopol (Please park on the street)
FREE
"To be sane in a mad world
is bad for the brain,
even worse for the heart.
The world is a holy vision,
had we the clarity to see it,
a clarity that humans depend on other humans to make."
- Wendell Berry
A new group for psycho-spiritual change, a project of the Elders Salon for
adults of any age
2nd and 4th Tues. evenings of the month, 6-9 pm, beginning June 12, '12
Contact persons: Lucky Goff, dg1...@sonic.net,
291-0438, or Sandy Scotchler, jim...@sonic.net,
829-4729
Growing an Elder Culture: Live on KOWS Radio
When: Thursday June 14, 2 to 4 p.m. (2nd Thursday each month)
Where: KOWS-FM: http://kows.fm or 107.3 on the FM dial
Listen to a discussion about the Transition Sebastopol Elders Salon and Elder Culture
live on Occidental’s community radio station, KOWS!
Since the KOWS signal is not strong, most listeners will have to stream the show from the KOWS website: www.kows.fm
Hit the "CLICK HERE TO LISTEN" button on the website.
Skill Share and Marketplace, including Make Your Own Laundry Detergent! With Angel Rodriguez
When: Tuesday, June 19, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Where: The Grange Hall, 6000 Sebastopol Avenue/Highway 12
The Sebastopol Grange in partnership with Transition Sebastopol Reskilling Working Group
presents:
Skill Share and Marketplace at The Grange Hall
Skill Share with Angel Rodriguez: Make Your
Own Laundry Detergent
Please bring a jug or 2 to take home your suds!
Trade Fair: All are welcome to bring their handmade items to sell or barter.
Set up between 6-6:30 pm.
$10-$20 donation requested for admission
For more information visit our website www.transitionsebastopol.org
or email Rachel Adair Dawson at radian...@gmail.com
Elders
Salon
When: Thursday, June 28,
6:30 p.m. and the fourth Thursday of each month.
Where: Sequoia Village Cohousing Common House, 459 Sequoia Lane, Sebastopol— off Covert Lane, opposite to the south of Pacific Market (Fiesta) and west a little, before Pleasant Hill. Look for the sequoia trees beyond the church. PARK ON THE STREET!
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?
If we don’t want others to determine what becomes of us in very old age, we
need to be proactive and begin making conscious, thoughtful choices about our
future, how we want to live and be regarded. What role do elders want to play
in the coming changes; what wisdom can we offer?
Reminder to all: the Elders Salon is regular and ongoing.
Transition Sebastopol Weekly Events
Insurgent
Elders Gatherings
When:
Friday afternoons, 3:30 p.m.
Where: Coffee Catz, 6761
Sebastopol Avenue, Sebastopol
Friday afternoons at 3:30 at Coffee Catz, an informal gathering, usually
outdoors, weather permitting. There has been a different assortment of folks at
each one, usually 4 to 5 of us. We encourage you to try it some week.
Drop in—arrival and departure times are loose.
First person there asks at the counter for the “Insurgent Elders” sign to put on the chosen table area so others can find you. You might check the far back room if the weather’s cold or wet and choose some shade if it’s warm outside. It’s possible no one would show up, but it hasn’t happened yet!
-- Alexandra & Lucky
Other Community Events
The Natural Intimacy of Words
When:
Wednesday, June 6, 7 p.m.
Where: Share Exchange 531 Fifth Street, Santa Rosa
Cost: $5 for the space . . . no one turned away for lack of funds
Lest we inadvertently displace our life from our soul, it is
important that we not say a word until we know what words actually are and how
they live in Nature.
In this, the Egoic Age, the age of wounds, our private and collective (group) wounds are maintained in the common language…in our lingual patterns and lingual behaviors.
As language tunes the energy field of our body, illnesses that grow in the energetic ground of wounds are maintained the same way.
In the Egoic Age, civilization is itself a post-traumatic-stress-disorder rooted in a wounded relationship with words.
Shifting over to a new relationship with words, standing clear of the woundedness, a great healing ensues. Explore with me a new idea of conversation and a new relationship with words. Meeting privately and with groups. Free. Call. Let's talk.
Michael Bridge
cell: 707-540-1289
see: www.co-intelligence.org/P-gestures.html
Heart of Resilience:
A Monthly Gathering Where We Cultivate Inner
Strength and Purpose
When:
Monday, June 11, 7-9 p.m. and the SECOND MONDAY OF EACH MONTH
Where: St. Stephens Church, 500
Robinson Way, Sebastopol
Cost: $10
With Jerry Allen and Suzie Gruber
As our outside world becomes increasingly unpredictable, we are inspired to
cultivate deeper inner strength to ride this winding, sometimes rough river
with grace & ease. As things move faster & faster out there, within us
we have the capacity to ground & orient, listen to the wisdom of our
bodies, reset our nervous system, reach out to each other, & feel the
beauty of the natural world. We can nurture that innate resilience inside ourselves
& in each other.
Suzie Gruber & Jerry Allen host this monthly gathering where we practice tools designed to foster our ability to respond rather than react, learning to stay present in the face of difficulty. We offer a safe place to express feelings, settle & share in community. Using guided somatic exercises, spoken word, & live music, we deepen our sense of confidence, choice & presence, preparing us to engage with whatever the future brings.
“Resilience is the capacity we all possess to rebound from stress & feelings of fear, helplessness & overwhelm.” - Peter Levine
Jerry Allen, MFT, MPH is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a master’s degree in public health education. He has spent the past 22 years in public child protective services helping families undergoing abuse, stress, violence and addiction. He holds three black belts in Aikido, and has a lifelong interest in the peaceful resolution of stress and confl ict and the development of healthy families and communities.
Suzie Gruber M.A., SEP. spent 15 years working in the biotechnology industry before waking up to the reality of peak oil, climate change and economic instability. In response she completely rebuilt her career, becoming an energetic herbalist, a Somatic Experiencing® practitioner and a 5Rhythms® moving meditation teacher.
For questions about this gathering, please call (707) 888-9646 or e-mail su...@suziegruber.com.
“Map Your Neighborhood” Training
When:
Tuesday, June 19, 7 p.m.; Saturday, July 7, 1 p.m.; Tuesday, August 14, 7 p.m.
Where: Sebastopol Fire Station, 7 p.m.
In a major disaster like an earthquake, Police, Fire, Utilities, and Emergency services will be overwhelmed,
so it
will be up to each neighborhood to deal with injuries, property damage,
communication, and mutual assistance.
By organizing ourselves now, we will learn how
prepare ourselves and our homes as well as discover what skills,
resources, and needs are present in our neighborhoods...The folks who went
through the Oakland
fires have said they wished they had the conversations that were held after the
fires, before the fires.
The Map Your Neighborhood process is simple:
- Select a time and place to have your meeting(s).
- Determine the boundaries of your neighborhood
- Use the flyer we'll provide to publicize your meeting.
During the actual Map Your Neighborhood meeting that you hold, you & your neighbors will watch a DVD about disaster preparedness, collect information, and organize your neighborhood so you can help each other in the event of a disaster.
You need only attend one training. There is no fee for this training; participants will receive pamphlets, manuals, & DVDs.
Dates:
June 19 7 pm (Tuesday evening)
July 7 1 pm (Saturday afternoon)
August 14 7 pm (Tuesday evening)
All meetings will be held at the Sebastopol Fire Department.
To register, email Tui Wilschinsky (is...@sbcglobal.net) or Denise Meier (admi...@sonic.net)
For more info contact Tui at 829-8212 or by email.
Ceremony Offering Acts of Beauty to the Wounded Waters of our World
When:
Saturday, June 23, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Where Laguna de Santa Rosa
Join in co-creating a Ceremony Offering Acts of
Beauty to the Wounded Waters of our World, part of the Third Annual Global
Earth Exchange, offered by Radical Joy for Hard Times (www.radicaljoyforhardtimes.org),
a worldwide community of people founded on the belief that creating a
sustainable, thriving future on Earth depends upon opening our hearts to the
natural world in its brokenness as well as its splendor.
On June 23, 2012, as in previous years, people from all 7 continents will offer
acts of beauty to wounded places, from Pigeon Square in Sarajevo
to Tamblang Sacred
Mountain in Bali to a nuclear power
plant in North Carolina to our Laguna here in Sebastopol.
From radiation released into the Pacific Ocean by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, to industrial and
agricultural run-off in local well water, increasingly the waters of our world
are endangered by our way of life.
We will gather at the Laguna – damaged, degraded and now partially restored
through the work of the Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation (http://www.lagunadesantarosa.org)
and others.
Bring a gift to the wounded waters closest to your heart or home - a song,
poem, heartfelt words, or some small offering created from natural materials.
Walking Directions to the Ceremony site:
Start at the entrance to the wetlands preserve, at the South end of the
community center parking lot. Walk a short distance down the trial to site #10,
across from the playground.
For questions, more information or to let us know you are coming
Contact:
Dianne Monroe
dia...@diannemonroe.com
www.diannemonroe.com