Transition is a global movement that started in Totnes, UK by Rob Hopkins author of The Transition Handbook (2008). The handbook offers concrete strategies for engaging with one’s local community and building resilience against possible threats including climate instability, resource depletion, financial downsizing and fresh food scarcity providing a positive vision for turning our global predicament into an opportunity. Transition initiatives are based on the “creative genius” of the community.
See what we are up to at www.transitionwoodinville.ning.com and join in the Transition.
Following the orientation are six discussions (one per week) that include:
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- Getting acquainted with each other
- Examining issues of peak oil and climate change
- Engaging the community
- Exploring possible outcomes of energy descent, climate change and economic instability
- Understanding resilience and how we can contribute to it locally
- Discussing what re-localization might look like in Woodinville
- Considering feelings and talking about them in regards to peak oil
- Considering our attitudes about change and our resistance to it
- Engaging in a Visioning process as it relates to Transition
- Creating positive visions of the future that inspire positive action
- Inquiring what sets of skills are held by members of the group
- Examining the principles of Transition
- Linking personal passions to activities that can build local resilience
- Mapping resources and promoting resilience
For additional information please contact Trish at sammamishvalley.trish@gmail.com.