Training for Transition - Coming to Arizona in July!

Transition: another way to say Permaculture. The focus on the Transition Initiative is dealing with Peak Oil, Climate Change, and the Economic Crisis. This involves getting the tools needed for creating food, fuel, water, and job security within our own amazing communities. This class is a must do for anyone who wants to make a serious change in our communities and our lives.

Workshop: Designed to provide a detailed introduction to the skills necessary to successfully set up, develop, and run a Transition project in any locality. Designed for people who are already in a group that is working to achieve this or who are thinking of creating such a group.

The training comes out of the community experience of Totnes, England, a town leading an expanding worldwide network of communities desiring to lessen their dependence on fossil fuels create more resiliency to withstand the economic and ecological shocks coming from our industrial-growth economic system.

The Transition Town organization just recently merged with the Post Carbon Institute and thus is one of the most important sources of education and guidance for communities worldwide preparing to transition to more localized and sustainable economies.

At the end of the course, participants will:
◆ Have a clear understanding of the current global context for transition arising from climate change and peak oil and gas
◆ Understand the Transition Town model
◆ Have experiences of joint visioning, using Open Space, and organizing effective meetings
◆ Understand the purpose and principles of an Energy Descent Plan
◆ Have the outline of an effective and inspiring talk on Transition Towns
◆ Have an initial plan of action for themselves and their community

Who should attend: Those wanting to take on leadership roles within their communities, and other sustainability projects-students, educators, activists, planners, community organizers, concerned citizens, permaculture and sustainability practitioners, green economy activists, etc.

T4T will be held at the Sonoran Institute

Sign in 8:30am
Workshop: 9:00am to 5:00pm

Cost: $200.00, after July 1, $225.00

Space is limited, so sign up today!

Please contact Terri Larsen at 480-671-8216 for more information, or RSVP here on this page. You have to sign in to be able to see the RSVP option. All you need to do is put in your name and email address in, they will not use it for anything else.

Sarah Edwards and Bill Aal will be facilitating, Sarah Edwards, LCSW, PhD is an Ecopsychologist. US Transition Trainer, Director of Let's Live Local, a non-profit organization working to build local community resilience, and Co-author of Middle-Class Lifeboat.

Subscribe to her free newsletter - Natural Wisdom - at sedwards@frazmtn.com
Visit her web sites: www.PineMountainInstitute.com and
Check out our Eco-Anxiety blog - http://eco-anxiety.blogspot.com/

About Bill: "I have been working on TT related ideas and projects for a long while, especially promoting local food production, facing the global climate change/resource overshoot and social justice issues of Seattle and the NorthWest.

I do both political and spiritual work around these issues as part of my "day job" with Tools for Change and my partner Margo Adair. We work with many tools including the Work that Reconnects, inspired by Joanna Macy.

Also working on developing courses in social permaculture - certification in permaculture with additional training that includes social justice and spiritual components."

Sarah's husband, Paul, will be presenting: Overcoming Institution Barriers to Community Sustainability after Thursday's class.

More information on Transition: http://transitionus.org/

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Comment by TERRI LARSEN on June 8, 2009 at 8:03pm

Special Treat: A free lecture by Paul Edwards on
Overcoming Institutional Barriers to Sustainability: Four Steps to Restoring
Local Community Resilience

Overcoming Institutional Barriers to Sustainability is an inspiring and informative presentation by best-selling author and public affairs consultant Paul Edwards on how local communities can change laws and ordinances so they don’t hinder but ease and encourage the shift to a sustainable, resilient, locally-based way of life.

Paul’s presentation covers four steps local communities need to make to recast local policy towards sustainability. The steps are:

1. Step One: What’s in the Way of Transition?

2. Step Two: Where to Start: Deciding What to Focus On

3. Step Three: Choosing How to Invest Your Energy

4. Step Four: What Methods Do You Use?

Paul identifies the major targets for reform and discuss underlying strategic approaches and key resistances to overcome. He describes tools such as strategic social marketing, lobbying, ballot initiatives, and campaigns to elect slates of local officials.

Paul has worked with a wide range of corporate, governmental and non-profit organizations throughout his career. During the past four years, he has been instrumental in organizing and launching Let’s Live Local, a Transition Initiative in Pine Mountain Club, CA, now the 11th official US Transition Initiative. He has also completed Training for Transitions workshops as well as other sustainability training programs.

Paul’s consulting includes assistance with ballot initiatives and campaigns for electing slates of local officials with the vision to lead their community into a sustainable future. You can see a fuller description of his services and background on his web site at www.publicaffairsservices.com He is co-author, with his wife Sarah Edwards, of “Middle Class Lifeboat.”

Comment by TERRI LARSEN on May 28, 2009 at 11:44pm

We have confirmed July 16 and 17th, due to popular vote. Thanks! Now let's get the word out. We need 10 people to break even, if we get 20 people we can offer a couple of scholarships, or discounts to everyone, or both. Lets get some more people on board!

Comment by Nayeema Eusuf on May 25, 2009 at 3:34pm

I can attend the july 16-17 session. thanks.

Comment by TERRI LARSEN on May 21, 2009 at 12:01am

Problem, gang: at least 4 people who need to go to training are not able to make the date. Would you be willing to change the date to July 17 and 18? Please let me know, as, if we can move the date we can also get Bill All to be one of the teachers, he is really good.