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Archive for “The ‘Heart’ of Energy Descent” category
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21 Feb 2007
The essence of John Croft’s **Dragon Dreaming** approach is contained in his two powerpoints, one called Successful Projects, an Introduction to Dragon Dreaming: a “Framework for Creating Outrageously Successful Projects”, which sets out the basic model and how it works, and the second, The Next Level, “Adding Complexity to the Basic Dragon Dreaming Model” which adds another layer to the model. Looked at in the right order they give a good sense of what the process is about.
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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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8 Feb 2007
Here is a very lightly edited transcript of the talk I gave to the Soil Association conference on Friday 26th February 2007. You can also download the accompanying Powerpoint presentation of the talk here.
“Good morning and thank you very much. I couldn’t wish for four better preceding speakers (Porritt, Campbell, Leggett & Heinberg) to go before me in this morning session and they were in the main the people who very much inspired and influenced me during the work that I do and this first day of the conference was very much designed to take you on a journey through encountering this issue and what we might do about it. So as a response, as my part of that, I want to take you on the pathway, the journey that I’ve gone through since I was where you are all now, where you’ve just heard about peak oil.
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5 Feb 2007
**Peter Russell** studied mathematics and theoretical physics at Cambridge, and then experimental psychology. He traveled to India to study meditation and eastern philosophy, and on his return took up the first research post ever offered in Britain on the psychology of meditation. His principal interest is the deeper, spiritual significance of the times we are passing through. He has written several books in this area, including *The Consciousness Revolution*, *Waking Up in Time*, and *From Science to God*. He recently spoke to a capacity audience in Totnes, and the next morning I went to Schumacher College to interview him for **Transition Culture**.
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The essence of John Croft’s **Dragon Dreaming** approach is contained in his two powerpoints, one called Successful Projects, an Introduction to Dragon Dreaming: a “Framework for Creating Outrageously Successful Projects”, which sets out the basic model and how it works, and the second, The Next Level, “Adding Complexity to the Basic Dragon Dreaming Model” which adds another layer to the model. Looked at in the right order they give a good sense of what the process is about. 
