Training for Transition (Transition LAUNCH Workshop)

Invitation

Join Tina Clarke & TransitionBay.ca to explore and co-create ways to move from concern into creative and strategic community action. In this weekend workshop you will grow your network of local relationships, explore ideas with friends new and old, and learn about innovative models to advance change. You can use this two-day workshop to explore new ways to help your community be more proactive, increase community engagement and accelerate more rapid innovation for resilience and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

Transition Bay Margarets will share information and support resources gathered in service to our region.

Building on the existing accomplishments and creative projects in Halifax and the region, we’ll create more ways of working together to build community resilience. Through cooperation, collective genius, and strategic action, we can transition together from damaging and dangerous forms of energy and consumption to a healthier, brighter future.

Background

The first official Transition Town was created by a small group of citizens in a small town in the U.K. in 2004. The idea quickly grew into a massive, global movement of thousands of communities in over 50 countries around the world. The Transition Network continues to catalyze local action and to inspire communities with resources and support.

Training for Transition (LAUNCH Workshop) was created to provide a summary of key methods, concepts, principles, tools, group processes, and practical models for supporting a local transition from oil dependency to community resilience.

Workshop Content

Training for Transition is packed with imaginative ways to delve into the practice of Transition, showing you how to set up, support, and grow a community Transition Initiative. This networking and co-creative weekend increases everyone’s awareness of the good work already underway, and also supports the creation of new collaboration and projects. The conversations and resources are useful for people who are curious, as well as for leaders already actively helping to advance environmental, community-building, climate, and resilience work in the community. Reviews of past workshops have shown that the structure and content of the weekend “retreat” is pragmatically useful both to those who want to develop essential skills and those looking for new insights to help their local initiatives become a greater success.

Transition Training has been delivered hundreds of times in over 35 countries worldwide, gathering and sharing the emerging, collective wisdom of the Transition movement. This is our third time hosting this event and the host committee hopes to help others across the Maritimes to build skills towards successful Transition Towns – or similar groups.

This training is ideal for you if are new to Transition and want to explore the model.  It’s also perfect if you are a member of a Transition group and want additional skills or abilities in the fundamentals of Transition.  You will learn:

• Tools for community engagement
• How to communicate why we need to transition our communities
• How to set up and run an Open Space event
• Keys for creating and supporting a successful transition/community resilience group
• How to balance daunting information-sharing with organizing positive action
• How to use visioning in practical ways
• Ways to deepen your personal transition and resilience
• Partnerships & Collaboration
• Strategic planning and growth for more rapid transition

Training for Transition will enable you to:

• Gain a good working knowledge of how to apply Transition methods and processes
• Participate in a shared journey of courage and action for transition
• Develop your skills in connecting with diverse members of your community and expanding ways of working together
• Meet other people involved in Transition and similar initiatives to share experiences, difficulties and successes, and mutual support.

Training for Transition will help bring your community together to accelerate the transition from dependency on polluting energy, food, and imported products to greater community resilience and well-being. Invite your neighbors to join you in exploring ways to help your community reduce dangerous climate emissions and transition to greater local, practical resilience.

Register

To secure your place, please go to our Facebook event page at: https://www.facebook.com/events/409677876639797/ and click on the “Ticket” button. From there you can register and pay using Tickets by Eventbrite.

Includes 2 vegan lunches and nutritional breaks. Limited to 45 participants- register now to assure a spot. Pre-registration required. Early registration highly recommended.  This has always sold out.

We aim to offer the workshop at the lowest possible price to make this two-day workshop available to everyone, regardless of your financial means. The more people who register at full price, and who donate to help, the more young people and those with lower incomes can attend. Some free and lower cost places are available as work-study. Please contact us if you can help another person attend.

Our workshop leader, Tina Clarke, is a global educator and community resilience consultant from the Transition Movement who is now working with climate leaders in Denmark, Sweden, and communities across Europe. She will share stories and inspiring models from two of the greenest cities in the world, Copenhagen and Malmo, Sweden, and beyond.

Tina Clarke has been a Transition Towns Trainer (www.TransitionNetwork.org) since 2008, and served over 240 communities worldwide, delivering 65 Transition Training courses and providing over a thousand presentations. Several years ago Transition Network leaders called Tina Clarke the “leading global trainer”. Tina has been a social change leader, consultant, program director, trainer, and facilitator for over 30 years, working in Washington, D.C., Massachusetts, Connecticut, and now Europe. She directed several U.S. national and regional citizen initiatives, facilitated multi-stakeholder coalitions, led educational and training programs on environmental issues, provided strategic planning and organizational development consulting, and directed several grassroots nonprofit organizations. She is currently consulting in Denmark and Sweden, supporting municipalities, NGOs, universities, and local citizen groups in a model collaboration for more rapid transition. In her personal transition journey, Tina did not fly for 15 years, has been over 95% vegetarian and vegan for 35 years, and has lived without her own car for 37 years. She led and organized a team to build the first certified below-net-zero energy house in North America, winning two prestigious awards. The house is Platinum LEED, affordable to families below 50% median income in her diverse, lower income community, and built of local, sustainable wood and insulation, and with mostly non-toxic or recycled materials. Tina can be reached at: TinaClarkeOz@gmail.com.