Transition Montclair: Intro talk, one-day workshop 2/27-8

[Sarah Klepner]

A great opportunity to get on the same page with other transition-minded folks around the state and strengthen a network which mutually supports the efforts of all to build resilient communities.  We may be able to charter the Bus for Progress, for one or both events. This requires a minimum of 20 people.  And the more people, the less per person..

Please RSVP to sarah....@gmail.com or call/text 312-388-2011. If you would like to go but the expense is an issue, please let me know.  Thanks!

"Introduction to Transition", Feb. 27   7 - 9 pm

"Transition Neighborhoods Intensive Workshop", 

Feb. 28   9 am - 5 pm (pls arrive by 8:45 am)

With Pamela Boyce Simms, certified Transition Trainer

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair 

67 Church Street, Montclair, NJ 07042 

Peierls Room 

What's Transition about? 

In more than a thousand communities around the world, people are planting, organizing, cycling, playing, and collaborating their way towards sustainability. 

They’re part of the world-wide Transition movement, a grassroots response to climate change and energy scarcity that recognizes the need to act rapidly and cooperatively to reduce carbon emissions and restore resilience to local economies.  

We need our food, energy, and economy to be local.  In our world of great change, localization is a key step to real stability, both economic and environmental.  

The one-day workshop provides an in-depth exploration of the Transition movement’s emergence, worldview and development, as well as how to become involved. Using a variety of exercises, workshop participants will discover how engaging with the Transition-style approach to nurturing human eco-systems can deepen their lives and enhance their community work.

The introductory talk Friday evening is an overview, for those who can't make Saturday's workshop or would like to know more before committing a whole day..

About Pamela: Pamela Boyce Simms, a change agent and public speaker for over 25 years, offers Transition Initiatives an experiential understanding of how groups can work when at their best. She invites people to listen deeply to each other, and to discern what is emerging in the group field. A veteran of organizational development and team building, Pamela helps initiatives work toward a progressive mastery of group dynamics that is essential to the long term traction, momentum and success of Transition towns. She adapts her expertise with a suite of facilitation tools, consensus building, systems development, and change management technologies to the needs of specific groups and organizations.

Pamela is a proponent of group work that transforms anger and despair into compassion toward neighbors, communities and the environment. She seeks to cultivate a felt sense of interconnectedness that can see communities through the challenges ahead. Her intent is to affirm how working with the pain of the world can be a vehicle for self and community transformation.

One of seven original initiators of Woodstock Transition in Ulster County, New York, Pamela now convenes the Mid-Atlantic Transition Hub (MATH), a six-state consortium of Transitioners that facilitates the collaboration of Transition initiatives throughout the region. She also directs the Woodstock Timebank and serves on the Board of the Hudson Valley Current, both alternative local currencies.

Boyce Simms holds a BSFS from Georgetown University's Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service, a Maîtrise de Lettres (MA) de l'Université de Dakar, Senegal, West Africa, is a Certified NLP Master Practitioner, and does Post Graduate work at the C.G. Jung Institute, NY.

Payment options:

          Friday evening intro talk is free.

• Workshop: $50 including morning and afternoon snacks ($45 if register by February 18)

• ­  $65 (the extra money will help support others to attend who don’t have the financial means)

• ­  a limited number of reduced cost registrations are available upon request

  Registration can be done in advance in person or email but must be paid by February 23.

•  For more info: transition...@gmail.com 

• Azizi Birkeland: azi...@gmail.com 

[Pamela Boyce Simms]

FABULOUS Sarah...

i'm really looking forward to seeing you again...  soon !

Yours, perpetually in Transition~

Pamela

Pamela Boyce Simms, Certified Transition Trainer, KD2GUF
Mid-Atlantic Regional Transition Hub, of Transition US
230 Kings Mall Court #108
Kingston, New York 12401
transitionmidatlantic.org
(646) 241-8386

"You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place." -Gurdjief- 
"Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen." -Gloria Steinem- 
"They tried to bury us but they didn't know we were seeds."  -Mexican Proverb-