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2008, Living Mandala
creative services by: 360 Degrees

Local Agriculture • Local Economies  Neighborhood Revival • Social Justice

Green Jobs • Collaborative Visioning


In Association With

The Share Exchange

Transition US

Arlene Francis Center


Instructors & Facilitators

Kat Steele

Scott McKeown


Background & Purpose

As we face the challenges of peak oil, climate change, and economic contraction, the Transition movement (Transition initiatives) is a positive approach that focuses on local solutions and building community resilience. Training for Transition is the popular, in-depth experiential workshop created by the global Transition Network. The course describes how to set up, run, and maintain a successful Transition initiative. It is packed with imaginative and inspiring ways to engage your community, and delves into both the theory and practice of Transition that has worked so well in hundreds of communities around the world. It meets the training criteria recommended for local initiating groups to become an internationally recognized Transition initiative.


Why Transition?

We are living in an age of unprecedented change, with a number of crises converging. Climate change, global economic instability, overpopulation, erosion of community, declining biodiversity, and resource wars, have all stemmed from the availability of cheap, non-renewable fossil fuels. Global oil, gas and coal production is predicted to irreversibly decline in the next 10 to 20 years, and severe climate changes are already taking effect around the world. The coming shocks are likely to be catastrophic.




Course Curriculum

The course describes how to catalyze, build and facilitate a successful Transition initiative. It is packed with imaginative and inspiring ways to engage your community, and delves into both the theory and practice of Transition that has worked so well in hundreds of communities around the world.


This training will be a mix of presentation and visual media, participatory discussions, small group work, and practical planning that you can take home and use. Participants are invited to share their experience and learn from others in the course.




Through This Course Participants Will:

  1. •Discuss the context for Transition Initiatives -- the current global situation that includes climate change, peak oil, resource depletion, and economic contraction;

  2. •Understand and be able to use the Transition model – including the ingredients of Transition, the seven principles, and the larger Transition process that engages many community members in addressing the critical issues affecting our communities to build local resilience;

  3. •Learn how to inspire positive action, facilitate collaboration, set up a successful initiating group, reach diverse sectors of your community, and unleash an exciting and inspired expansion of transformational work in your community;

  4. •Facilitate a visioning process;

  5. •Know how to organize effective Transition meetings and gatherings;

  6. •Learn tools for supporting both the outer work of transforming your community’s dependence on oil, coal and other fossil fuels, and the inner and interpersonal work that is essential to resilience and collaboration;

  7. •Understand the purpose and components of an Energy Descent Action Plan;

  8. •Be able to give an effective and inspiring description of the Transition movement;

  9. •Network with other people interested in Transition in your area;

  10. •Develop initial action steps for yourself and your locality; and

  11. •Connect to others in this rapidly growing, positive, global movement! 


Who Should Attend

People interested in learning about the Transition movement in greater depth, leaders who are already creating a Transition Initiative in their community, and leaders of community groups who wish to be resources for the Transition movement in their locale.


Recommended Reading

  1. •The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience, by Rob Hopkins

  2. •Transition Primer (free click link to view or download).


Recommended Videos

In Transition (watch below).

More Videos on Transition Town Initiatives can be found at: http://vimeo.com/album/1784760



















Space is Limited. To Register for Training for Transition Click Here.

 

Training for Transition

Building Resilient Communities for a Post-Carbon World

February 17-19, 2012

Share Exchange & the Arlene Francis Center for Spirit, Art & Politics

Santa Rosa, California




Workshop Dates, Times, & Details

Dates: Friday, 2/17/11, 7:00 pm - Sunday 2/19/11 5:30 pm


Times & Locations

  1. *Friday evening: - 7:00 - 9:30 pm: at the Share Exchange, located at  531 5th Street, Santa Rosa, CA. For directions to the Share Exchange click here.

  2. *Saturday - 9:00 am - 6:00 pm: (Arlene Francis Center)

  3. *Sunday - 9:00 am - 5:30 pm: (Arlene Francis Center). The Arlene Francis Center is located at 99 Sixth Street, Santa Rosa CA. For directions to the Arlene Francis Center click here.


Workshop Cost - Sliding Scale

We are offering this workshop at sliding scale pricing, and are asking those who can afford more to to help make this training available to as many people as we can. The workshop includes lunch on Saturday & Sunday, as well as light snacks, teas, coffee, and beverages during the training.


Living in Abundance: $225 - (for those making more than $50 k per year who wish to help make this workshop more successful and contribute towards scholarships for others. This is actually the true workshop cost recommended by Transition US.)


Standard: $195 - (still below the recommended cost for this workshop by Transition US!)


Supplemented Tuition: $175 -  (for those making less than $50 k per year.)


Scraping By: $150 - (for those who really want to attend and cannot afford any more.)


Couple’s or Group Discount Discount:  $150 per person - (for couples or groups from the same business, organization, or  project initiative).


Space is Limited. Register for the Workshop Click Here.


Scholarships & Worktrade

Beyond the above sliding scale pricing we are offering some limited scholarship and worktrade opportunities. To inquire email: education@livingmandala.com. Please tell us a bit about yourself, why you wish to take the training, what you can afford to pay, and any skills you may be able to offer in exchange.


Meals

The workshop includes lunch on Saturday & Sunday, as well as light snacks, teas, coffee, and beverages during the training.


Lodging & Transportation

Participants are responsible for their lodging and travel arrangements. If you would like support in arranging local accommodation please contact us.


Refund Policy

If you've organized courses, workshops, and events, then you'll understand the reason for having a clear cancellation and refund policy. We need to know ahead of time if you are coming so we can plan accordingly with our staff, meals, materials, etc. Last minute cancelations - wether by choice or unforeseen circumstances, have an effect us and everybody else participating, and require extra work to adjust accordingly.


For that reason...Cancellations up to 1 week before the course on Feb 10th will be fully refunded; cancellations up to Feb 14 will be refunded minus a $25 processing fee. No refunds will be given after Feb 14th. Refunds minus the $25 processing fee may be applied to a future course with Living Mandala, though not all courses will apply. In the unlikely event that the workshop is canceled, participants are entitled to a full refund.Thanks for the understanding.


Site Details (Fri eve)- The Share Exchange

The Share Exchange Innovation and Incubation Center is Sonoma County’s first coworking space, incubating the new local economy in Sonoma County. The Share Exchange introduces projects and programs that will make a difference in people's lives for a changing world. Collaboration, relationships and long-term vision are several values that guide their work. The Share Exchange is a big proponent of LOCAL and SHARING. In addition to having a physical, affordeable, cowork and event space, the Share Exchange is home to the first Made Local Marketplace representing almost 200 local artisans! where everything in the store is made in Sonoma County. The Share Exchange offers effective resource sharing tools and promotes them locally including:

  1. •Sonoma County Time Exchange -- an hour-for-hour exchange of services

  2. •Rentalic -- peer to peer sharing of goods

  3. •Urban Garden Share -- matching urban farmers with land owners

  4. •Neighborhood Fruit -- helps you find and share fruit locally

  5. •Santa Rosa Tool Library -- a local lending library for all kinds of tools


Site Details (Sat & Sunday)- Arlene Francis Center for Spirit, Art, and Politics

Situated in Santa Rosa’s historic Railroad Square District, Arlene Francis Center for Spirit, Art, and Politics houses educational, cultural, ethical and green business activities united by a common purpose ~ the development of a theory and practice that will foster the creation of a better world, one in which human beings will come to see one another as the source of each other’s completion, as inherently good and caring social and ecological beings who seek to fully recognize each other’s common humanity and interconnectedness with all of life, and to create a world based upon justice, kindness, love, and respect for the Earth. The Center is located in the Foundation’s beautiful 8,000 square-foot, red brick building located at 99 Sixth Street, Santa Rosa, in Sonoma County, California.

The Transition Town Movement

The Transition Movement is comprised of vibrant, grassroots community initiatives that seek to build community resilience in the face of such challenges as peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis. Transition Initiatives differentiate themselves from other sustainability and "environmental" groups by seeking to mitigate these converging global crises by engaging their communities in home-grown, citizen-led education, action, and multi-stakeholder planning to increase local self reliance and resilience.

For More Information

Living Mandala: e-mail: education@livingmandala.com or

phone: (707) 634-1461

Scott McKeown: scott@transitionus.org

 
REGISTER HEREhttp://training-for-transition-santa-rosa-2012.eventbrite.com

Instructors & Facilitators

Kat Steele

Kat Steele is a permaculture activist, designer, educator, transition trainer, manager of sustainability initiatives at Esalen Institute, and founder of the Urban Permaculture Guild in Oakland, CA. She facilitates workshops on ecological design, sustainability and permaculture as well as publicly speaks about eco-social design, city repair and the power of placemaking. Trained in Ecovillage Design with the Findhorn Foundation of Scotland, Natural Building with Kleiwerks International, and Permaculture Design with the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, she also holds an MA in Creative Arts from San Francisco State University. She presently serves on the board of a Bay Area nonprofit organization devoted to peace, justice and sustainablity, the NorCal Chapter of Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR). In 2006 she became one of a 1,000 Climate Project trainees empowered to present a version of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth slide presentation. Kat lives and works in Big Sur, CA leading sustainability initiatives at the Esalen Institute. She is devoted to localization and community resiliency, believing it to be a key strategy towards sustainability and "thriveability.”




Scott McKeown

Scott McKeown is the founder and a continual core team member of Transition Sebastopol which in 2008 became the 9th official Transition initiative in the US and which continues to grow with now twelve active working groups. Scott has been a professional trainer and instructional designer for over fourteen years in both corporate high-tech environments such as Advance Fibre Communications (now Tellabs, Inc.) and also with non-profit organizations such as The Buckminster Fuller Institute. Scott has been a certified Training for Transition instructor since 2008 and has co-taught the "T4T" course in the California communities of San Rafael, Oakland, Los Angeles, Monterey, Willits, Lake County, and Sonoma, all which helped toward the formation of other Transition initiatives in California. For thirty-five years Scott has been deeply involved in movement building and social action issues. Scott founded several social action-focused organizations as diverse as the Mystic Beat Lounge art collective and the Los Angeles Guardian Angels volunteer safety patrol. Scott was Marketing Director for three high-tech companies including Surround Sound Inc. which produced the first Dolby-licensed home Surround Sound decoder. Scott has been an event producer for over three decades and has produced hundreds of events including conferences, speaking tours, eco fairs and festivals. Scott has been a production consultant and technical director for many other events and organizations such as for the last five bi-annual conferences of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. From 2003 through 2007 Scott was the Executive Director and chief executive of the thirty-thousand person attended Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa, California which during Scott's tenure more than doubled its revenue.



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