22 Feb 2007
We haven’t done this before, but I thought you might be interested to see the Transition Town Totnes Bulletin that was sent out this morning. It gives a pretty good picture as to all that is happening in the project at the moment. Each Bulletin gets longer and longer as more and more initiatives spring up. It is produced roughly every month, but generally only when there is enough interesting stuff to say. As you will see below, it is a process starting to move in some intriguing directions…
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20 Feb 2007
One of the insights from John Croft’s Dragon Dreaming workshop which he recently ran in Totnes was that, as the person who dreamt of and instigated the TTT project, one of my first duties is to design my own obsolescence in the project at an early stage. According to John, each project, and also each stage *within* the project, has four stages, Dreaming, Planning, Doing and Celebrating. According to John, all projects start as the dream of one person, but 90% of projects get stuck in their inability to communicate that dream. Transition Town Totnes, for example, has to stop being just my dream in order to be able to grow. The way John put it was that as the dreamer/instigator, you need to die within the project in order that the project might be reborn, to have your own ‘Easter’.
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19 Feb 2007
We were delighted at Transition Town Totnes recently to be able to host a one-day workshop for our group facilitators with John Croft from the Gaia Foundation of Western Australia on his model for the structure for the design of “outrageously successful projects
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16 Feb 2007
I did an interview yesterday with Trenna Cormack, who is writing a book called ‘Be The Change’, and one of the questions she asked me was “what gives you hope?” Tricky one to put your finger on…. I blathered something about seeing people engaged in designing their future, or somesuch, but then last night as I checked out what Transition Town Lewes are up to, I found something I could put my finger on.
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14 Feb 2007
An excellent programme was broadcast on Monday on BBC Radio Wales as part of a series called **’Wales@Work’**. It explored the idea of Lampeter becoming a Transition Town, and was part of the lead-in to a talk I will be giving there soon. Entitled The Oil-Free Revolution?, it features a number of people, including Patrick Holden of the Soil Association, discussing how peak oil might affect the fabric of rural Wales, and how a Transition Town initiative could be the solution for that. You can hear the programme at the website for the next few days. Very much recommended listening.
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We haven’t done this before, but I thought you might be interested to see the Transition Town Totnes Bulletin that was sent out this morning. It gives a pretty good picture as to all that is happening in the project at the moment. Each Bulletin gets longer and longer as more and more initiatives spring up. It is produced roughly every month, but generally only when there is enough interesting stuff to say. As you will see below, it is a process starting to move in some intriguing directions…
