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Transition Culture has moved
I no longer blog on this site. You can now find me, my general blogs, and the work I am doing researching my forthcoming book on imagination, on my new blog.
Had a great time yesterday on the webinar call thing to Transition US. It lasted about 75 minutes and we covered lots of things. We’ll be doing it again in September but for now, click here to hear the recording of the event. The very end is especially good, when you can hear lots of the callers saying goodbye… lovely that was… Thanks to everyone who organised it, especially Carl, Carolyne and Richard.
Fujino in Japan was the 100th formal Transition initiative. Here is a great short film where the wonderful Hide Enomoto gives an update as to what has happened there since then…
At my workshop at the Transition Network conference I tried out a new teaching tool for Transition initiatives, a deck of cards designed around the ‘Ingredients of Transition’, as set out in the forthcoming ‘The Transition Companion’. On one side of the cards is a photo that captures the spirit of the ingredient and its name, and on the other side is the problem the ingredient is a response to and the solution it represents.
We had a great few days at Hope University in Liverpool. This will not be an attempt at a complete document of that event, you will find the most comprehensive record over at the Transition Network’s conference feed. What I am going to share, with links to some of the key pieces of media from that feed, is some of the notes of my reflections at the end of the conference. As the event drew to a close, I went around and asked people for their brief reflections on what they saw as the character unique to this conference in comparison to others. Three words came up again and again, deepening, focus and maturity.
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