This might be a useful contact for you and Naresh
http://www.repoweramerica.org/
part of wecansolveitorg

Wishing you every success,
Mike

I’m not sure about your thesis here. Having the vision of a garden with fewer laurels and more fruit trees and veg was a doddle, I was ready to fully embrace this change; hand winching stonking great stumps out with neighbours was a different matter. I had to internalize several pints of Timoth Taylors which thankfully is Keighley’s very own fully localised (but not yet socialised) brewery (well the water at least is local). The whole day, however, did result in great feelings of inner well-being, until Rachel got knocked out of X factor that is – no justice.

I don’t think the training is essential, you can indeed just get on with it, but just like the Permaculture Design Course, its very helpful and gives whole other dimensions to the awareness around Transition, especillay the second day which focuses more on the ‘inner’ aspects of Transition. As i’ve frequently argued, the physical aspects of transitioning to a low energy/low carbon culture is p*ss easy, its the psychological/head stuff around embracing change that is going to be the challenge, and the course does get into this territory, for which alone I’d highly recommend it.

Hopefully at some point there will be whole online video howto put together.

I’m heartened to see the good work you’re doing and that you have a busy workshop shedule travelling worldwide. Wondering if you can squeeze in an extra workshop (or even 2) for Easter next year in Lewes.

I’m co-ordinating a “Transition Arts” festival from Fri 10th – Tues 14th April. Ideally I’d like to include your 2 day workshop on training for transition (open to all) and also the one day workshop for transition activists on giving talks.

The optimum dates would be Sat 11th + Sun 12th April for the training and Mon 13th for “giving talks”. But the dates are flexible within the period of the festival.

The festival will include info and displays about energy and the environment, participatory workshops (art, dance, voice, personal myth, compassionate touch etc) and evening entertainments on a human scale (contact and networking rather than a huge anonymous audience).

If you’re potentially interested I need to know, please:

What is your fee?
What do participants normally pay?
What is your optimum and maximum number of people?

Looking forward to hearing back from you,

Stefan Freedman
Co-ordinator for Transition Arts Festival, Lewes.

See you in San Francisco!!!!

Cheers, I’ll get in touch with Leeds. Two of us are going to Transition Cities also.

Having read the book when it first came out and having also done the training, I think that that the experience of meeting other TTers and of being able to address your own concerns is invaluable.

On the other hand, just grabbing it and getting going is better than sitting waiting for a training to come up.

And it is only suggested that two or three people in the group do a training and pass it on. I think Leeds are trying to set something up, so you would be close enough to that if anyone is interested.

After your Training in October in Monteveglio we have 4 new communities starting the Transition process.

I hope to see you soon again.
Thanks for all you did here in Italy.