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Inner Transition: Truth, Courage, & Unfolding in a Time of Environmental Crisis
November 16, 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
By donation
As we face the severity of the climate crisis, and see devastation of lives, communities, and the environment, powerful feelings arise within us. We want to push away the warning signs and continue to live our lives as if nothing is wrong. We feel fear, worry, anxiety, and many other emotions. We feel powerless and overwhelmed. It is easy to withdraw, deny, and distract ourselves – hoping the dangers will go away, or that some miracle solutions will be discovered and implemented by others.
Yet only by allowing our emotions to come into our minds, and by sharing our thoughts and feelings with others, can we come back into balance and be a part of the growing movement to save, protect, and nurture a resilient and healthy world.
In this evening of reflection, you are invited to explore your own strengths, vision, styles of healthy response, and forms of connections with others. Coming together in our concern we will share in silence and in conversation, as you find meaningful for you. A framework of responses and transformational tools will support you in your own path of courage and unfolding.
Cost: By Donation, $10 or more suggested. Please help support expenses. No one turned away.
Eco-Dharma Action Group is the main organizer. Ummah Mosque is the main co-sponsor. Other groups to be invited to be co-sponsors, particularly faith and environmental groups. Email us at info@transitionbay.ca if your group would like to be involved.
To reserve tickets in advance, please visit our eventbrite listing.
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The most thriving Transition groups are paying as much attention to their culture, processes, structures, and relationships as they are to their practical projects, activities and outputs. And we know that individuals and groups risk burn-out or collapse if they don’t balance action, decision-making, and activity with rest, reflection, connection, and celebration (balancing being and doing).
There is a rich and developing body of knowledge about what we call Inner Transition which can help individuals and groups to look after themselves well and to be much more effective catalysts for change.
Inner Transition resources and teachings figure strongly in the Essential Guide to Doing Transition and are threaded through the seven essential ingredients.
You can find out more about the context and history of Inner Transition here.
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Tina Clarke has a B.A. from Macalester College and an M.A. from the University of Chicago. Tina has been a program director, trainer and facilitator since 1985. She has directed several national and regional citizen initiatives, facilitated multi-stakeholder coalitions, led educational and training programs on environmental issues, and led several grassroots nonprofit organizations. Since 2008, Tina has been a Transition Towns Trainer (www.TransitionNetwork.org) and served over 240 communities worldwide, delivering 65 Transition Training courses and providing hundreds of presentations. She is currently in a four-year consulting contract in Denmark and Sweden, supporting several NGOs, universities, and a collaboration of six networks across Europe. Tina can be reached at: TinaClarkeOz@gmail.com.