A few places still available.

Training for Transition Times
in collaboration with
the NYC Awakening the Dreamer Community
and the Sustainable Ridge and Valley Alliance

We live in a time of transition – movement into the Ecozoic Era, as Thomas Berry has called it. Signs are increasingly apparent:

• Peak oil, climate unpredictability, and ecological and economic instability.
• How are we to live into such a moment with intention and hope?
• How can we act on our commitment to life and the common good?

Out of Kinsale, Ireland, comes extraordinary possibility. Four years ago, permaculture teacher Rob Hopkins challenged his students to design a plan for moving from oil dependence to local resilience and community self-reliance. Kinsale town leaders ultimately adopted the students’ Energy Descent Plan, and since 2006, with Rob’s leadership, a community-based process for any locality to create such a plan has been spreading around the world. Over 130 officially designated Transition initiatives now exist. The first in North America was designated last year in Colorado – Transition Boulder County co-founded by Michael Brownlee and Lynette Marie Hanthorn.

Michael says the Transition movement “may be the most important, most inspirational movement in the world.” 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 solutions can readily emerge.”

This is the second Transition training weekend that Michael and Lynette Marie have led here at Genesis Farm. Their re-localization experience in Boulder and knowledge of transition work in the U.K., as well as their deep understanding of personal and social transformation, provide an energizing and hopeful learning experience.

On Friday evening, Genesis Farm founder and director Miriam MacGillis will speak on the cosmological context for transition, and Michael and Lynette Marie will respond to further connect this context to key Transition concepts. Saturday’s focus includes working with information about peak oil and climate change, visioning a future world, raising awareness, and understanding stages of transition. The inner world of transition and the psychology of change are addressed on Sunday, along with using group ‘technol-ogies’ such as open space. Throughout the two days, Miriam will connect our learning to the cosmological perspective.