FYI: Training for Transition
ICSP
TRANSITION TOWNS
A Positive Community-Building Response in a time of Change
Transition Towns is a vibrant, grassroots movement bringing people together to build community resilience. Energy cost increases and climate change, together with economic instability, pose a Triple Challenge that requires bigger, more creative solutions. With change unfolding quickly, local action has become essential.
The Transition movement is a fast-growing, bottom-up response that has taken off in the U.K. and spreading across the world. The Transition approach engages large numbers of community members in increasing local resilience and economic vitality. Hundreds of communities around the world are using and exploring this positive, solutions-focused approach.
The Living Earth Council is offering the two-day Training for Transition course developed by the Transition Network in England. The course is an in-depth experiential introduction to Transition for those considering bringing Transition to their community. It meets the training requirement for local initiating groups to become an internationally-recognized Transition Initiative.
Poster for this training event is attached. A portion of the poster is pasted below:
Transition Towns Movement
Transition Towns began in Totnes, U.K. and has grown to include hundreds of communities in the U.K. The Transition process brings a community together to take action in response to the triple challenges of peak oil, economic instability and climate change. The focus on increasing resilience is broadly appealing, and the positive, creative, participatory and local approach catalyzes fun and creative action. The movement is spreading quickly: Transition Initiatives are now being organized in hundreds of neighbourhoods, cities and towns around the world. In Canada alone there are nine Transition Towns: ON: Peterborough, Guelph, Dundas, London and Ottawa; BC: Victoria, Nelson, Powell River; NB: Cocagne.
Transition Workshop
The two day workshop is intended to introduce and allow for practice of skills required to initiate the very successful Transition Town model of local response to global challenges. Participants will learn how to: initiate a transition group in the community; build awareness of peak oil, climate change and economic instability; and engage citizens from all walks of life in neighbourhood or community projects. From the practical (organizing Open Space sessions and planning awareness activities) to the theoretical (principles of resilience and theories of change), participants will leave the session better equipped to offer transition leadership in their own communities.
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Registration Form
1. First and Last Name: ______________________________________________________________
2. Organization representing: __________________________________________________________
3. Address (own or organization):________________________________________________________
4. Telephone: ______________________________ Cell: ____________________________________
5. E-mail: ___________________________________________________________________________
Registration: Please send your registration form and a cheque for $250, to the Living Earth Council, P.O. Box 1674, Truro, NS B2N 5Z5.
Cheque is payable to Living Earth Council.
Bursary: We have a limited number of $100 bursaries. If you are applying for a bursary, please include a short paragraph explaining how you wish
to facilitate transition town work in your community and what experience you have in this kind of work.
Accommodation: I wish to be billeted ______ / to stay in a hotel/motel ______ .
Please send me hotel/motel information: ______.
I am able to host (billet) a participant _____.
Transportation: My contact information may be passed along to other registrants for car pooling purposes: Y___ N____
Food: (lunch and nutrition breaks on Saturday and Sunday are provided)
Food allergies? If so please give details_________________________________________
Vegetarian ____ or vegan ____ Other needs: ________________________________________
For information, contact Andrea Caven at (902) 895-0422 or by e-mail: amc...@eastlink.ca
Andrea Caven
Program Coordinator
Volunteerism
Department of Health Promotion and Protection
Suite 1, 80 Walker St.
Truro, NS B2N 4A7
(902) 896-7025(tel)
(902) 896-2425 (fax)
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