Archive for “Self Congratulation” category
Showing results 6 - 10 of 39 for the category: Self Congratulation.
7 Jan 2011
This month we’re starting off with Brazil and some very exciting news for the New Year, because, as reported here at Transition Culture yesterday, the first ever Transition favela initiative has just held it’s Unleashing!… Wonderful news indeed! Here are some great pics of the event. The community has been very busy indeed. 85 community members have participated in Transition Training and they’ve implemented all sorts of wonderful activities. Community gardens are being created in seven abandoned spaces, and a ‘Become our own Media’ team has been created which has registered all their events and has just completed a film aimed at reviving the region’s oral tradition, which was screened at the Unleashing.
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3 Dec 2010
Following the feedback on the ‘Transition Cakes’ pattern, I am attempting here to weave some of that material instead into this one about ‘Celebrating’…
Context:
Celebration is a great way of overcoming POST PETROLEUM STRESS DISORDER, for building PERSONAL RESILIENCE and providing EMOTIONAL SUPPORT/AVOIDING BURNOUT. It really should be considered a key feature of BECOMING A FORMAL ORGANISATION, key to maintaining the health and MOMENTUM of your work.
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2 Dec 2010
Members of Transition Town Barcelona head off on their 'Caminata'
In Europe, exciting news from Ferney-Voltaire, which has decided to become a Transition Town and they’ve just started their awareness raising activities, so welcome to them. SQYenTransition in France have this great project with the lovely name of verger dans ma ville…an orchard in my city. And for an idea worth sharing, have a look at Transition Town Barcelona’s La Caminata, or Transition Walkabout…a nice idea that helps you get to know your town and community more, and helps them to get to know about you too.
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23 Nov 2010
Transition Town Totnes has been running now for just over 4 years, and recently a group of us sat down to try and capture what has actually been achieved by the process. It has been a very illuminating process, one that is very useful to do in terms of being able to get a sense of what has actually been achieved on the ground (I highly recommend it). The name of the report, ‘So, what does Transition Town Totnes actually do?‘, comes from the question often asked by visitors to the town who come to see a Transition town, wander round the High Street and wonder why there are still cars and not windmills everywhere. This report is designed to explain all that is going on below the surface (as well as on top of it…).
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11 Nov 2010
Transition Cakes (clockwise from top left): Kingston, Brixton, Bro Ddyfi, Totnes.
Context
At key points of your AWARENESS RAISING (2.9) programme, such as your UNLEASHING (3.14) or times especially worthy of CELEBRATING (3.4), someone often makes an amazing cake…
(We are collecting and discussing these Transition ingredients on Transition Network’s website to keep all comments in one place. Please leave feedback and comments, suggestions for alternative pictures, anecdotes, stories and projects for this ingredient here).
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