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TRANSITION E-news: MAY 12, 2013
Programs & Schedules: Transition Service Retreat @ OMEGA
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TRAINING FOR TRANSITION @ THE OMEGA INSTITUTE
May 20 -21, 2013 ~ 9:00 AM - 4:45 PM
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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 an in-depth experiential workshop created by the global Transition Network. The course ![Transition Circle]() describes how to set up, run, and maintain a successful Transition initiative. It is packed with inspiring ways to engage your community, and delves into both the theory and practice of Transition that has worked well in hundreds of communities around the world. It meets the training criteria recommended for local groups to become internationally recognized Transition initiatives.
Through this course participants will:
- Discuss the context for Transition: climate change, peak oil, resource depletion, and economic contraction;
- Understand and be able to use the Transition model: The ingredients of Transition, the Seven Principles, and the larger Transition process that engages communities in building local resilience.
- Learn how to inspire positive action, facilitate collaboration, set up a successful initiating group, reach diverse sectors of communities, and unleash an inspired expansion of transformational work;
- Facilitate a visioning process;
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Know how to organize effective Transition meetings and gatherings;
- Learn how to support both the outer work of transforming your community's dependence on 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;
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Develop initial action steps for yourself and your locality; and
- Connect to others in this rapidly growing, positive, global movement!
This training will be a mix of presentation and visual media, participatory discussions, small group work, and practical planning. Participants are invited to share their experience and learn from others in the course.
Register for lodging at OMEGA ( $50/day for Transition Training participants) 877.944.2002
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Transition
Regional Summit
Sustainable Living Systems
OMEGA Institute, May 22, 2013
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
- Regional Transition Towns News
- Tama Jackson, Appleseed Permaculture, Introduction to, Living Systems - Regional Food & Watersheds
- Linda Lauretta, Seed Preservation Movement, Intersection of Transition initiatives and the Work of Dr. Vandana Shiva, Right Relationship to the Earth
- Gregg Swanzey, Director of Economic Development and Strategic Partnerships, Kingston. Accelerated Climate Change & Flood Management: What Has the Region Learned from Irene & Sandy? What is Possible? Transition Towns and Proactive Water Stewardship.
- T-Town Q & A
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM - LUNCH
1:15 PM - 4:45 PM
- Tama Jackson, Systems Ecology: Regional Food & Watersheds, The Synergy Between Permaculture and Transition Initiatives, T-town Q & A
- Transition Town Best Practices, Victories, Challenges, Strategies, Solutions
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Eco-Spirit ~ Inner Worlds Transition Day
May 23, 2013
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Transition is a revolution from the heart, and of the mind that translates into concrete, deliberate, sustained action.
The May 23 Inner Worlds Transition Day includes:
Joanna Macy's Council of All Beings, Irene Miller & Pamela Boyce Simms
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Inner Transition Workshop, Jan. 2013
All photos-Jim Peppler
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Sound and Silence, Spirit and the Human Voice: An Exploration, Robert Esformes
Sufi Dance and Breathing Exercises, Karuna Foudriat
The Eco-spirit Network informs the Transitioning process, recognizes, honors, and celebrates the interconnectedness of all living beings with each other, and with the Earth.
Linda Lauretta, Shubraji, Robert Esformes, Steve Derrickson, Pamela Boyce Simms, Dennis Yerry, Eco-spirit Earth Day Celebration, April 22, 2013, Sky Lake Shambhala Center.
Program & Lodging at OMEGA - FREE
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Resilience & Renewal:
Collaboration for a Sustainable Region
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Conference
May 20, 2013 - 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
H.A. Wallace Center @ FDR Library, Hyde Park
As the region completes its "Cleaner, Greener Communities" plan for sustainable development, it is timely for all interested parties to gather for a fresh look at ways to work together. Facing climate change and other "black swan" stresses, we must access new creativity to meet our challenges and bounce back better together.
Keynote speakers: Anders Ferguson, The Oberlin Project; Randall Solomon, Sustainable Jersey.
Registration: $35 until May 1, then $40/ person. Table of 8: $240 if paid by May 10, then $275. Sponsor at $100 and have your materials in the take-home distribution. Register via:
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