- Date: September 16-19
- Time: Thursday, 7 pm-Sunday, 4 pm
- Cost: $285. Meals: $60 (3 lunches, 2 dinners). Limited lodging available; $50/night, includes breakfast.
The Transition movement has emerged over the last five years with both practical and principled responses to these questions. A network of imaginative and locally-focused Initiatives, the Transition movement supports local leadership efforts to engage people to take the far-reaching actions that are required to mitigate the effects of peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis and to build community resilience. Furthermore, these relocalization efforts are designed to result in a life with greater social connections, vibrancy, equity and fulfillment. This community-wide process for creating ‘energy descent pathways’ has spread around the world. Almost 300 officially designated Transition Initiatives now exist in 15 countries; there are more than 60 in the U.S. Hundreds of others are exploring how to begin working with the Transition model.
We are fortunate that Michael Brownlee and Lynette Marie Hanthorn, co-founders of Transition Boulder/Colorado – the first official Transition Initiative in North America, will again be leading this weekend, joining Genesis Farm staff member Seanna Ashburn. All three are certified by the international Transition Network as Transition trainers. The Transition movement makes “no claim to have all the answers,” states Lynette Marie, “but by building on the wisdom of the past and accessing the pool of ingenuity, skills, and determination in our communities, the next steps can readily emerge.”The program will provide:
- Information about our 'predicament' of peak oil, climate change, and economic instability, and the emergence of the Transition movement in response to this predicament
- Experience with and information about the Transition model and process
- A perspective on the larger context of Transition in the unfolding of life
- A sense of the sacredness of this work
- A compelling invitation to become engaged with Transition.
Comments from participants in the program this past year include:
"I've never been in such an intense learning experience...It inspired me and changed me."
"Didn't expect this to hit below the head...Think it changed my life."
"I leave renewed, invigorated, with a sense of excitement and purpose and the feeling of support."
"To fellow seekers of a sustainable and fulfilling future:
This Transition training workshop with these specific leaders is the best thing I've experienced, even if I had no interest in the Transition Town movement. It is about people and community, about commitment and love, about vision and wholeness. If you can possibly spare the time and scrape up the funds, go. It will be hard work and you will leave tired, but you will never regret it."
We strongly encourage you to bring a friend or colleague to support each other in applying your learning in your community.
It is important to read The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins prior to the program.
We’re in for enormous disruption, no matter what.
The question is how we deal with it and ameliorate its worst effects.
David Korten
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
and Agenda for a New Economy
Lynette Marie Hanthorn co-founded and is now executive director of Transition Boulder County (CO), a non-profit that embraces the ethics and principles of the global Transition Movement to localize and regenerate community. With over 20 years’ experience in justice and mediation work, Lynette Marie is a certified Transition trainer and also holds a Permaculture design certification.
Michael Brownlee is co-founder of Transi-tion Color-ado, the first officially-recognized Transition initiative in North America (now a regional Transition Hub). He is a certified trainer for the international Transition Network, a founding initiator and board member of Transition U.S., and a frequent speaker on issues of community resilience. Michael is also publisher of Transition Times and the Boulder County EAT LOCAL! Resource Guide. Locally, he is a founding member of the Boulder County Food & Agriculture Policy Council.
Seanna Ashburn’s primary role on the Genesis Farm staff is to help bring the ideas and practices of the Transition movement to the region and to encourage the integration of the science-based New Cosmology understandings into the movement. A certified trainer for the international Transition Network, she has a Ph.D. in educational psychology and 30 years' experience as an educator – in teaching, curriculum design, research management, and project administration. Seanna is committed to facilitating collaboration for innovation and to fostering collective movement beyond our habitual patterns of thinking and behaving, to live in a mutually-enhancing relationship with the community of all life.