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9 Feb 2009
Aotearoa‘s Transition
Manawatu Gorge Windfarm with Naresh and interested looking sheep
We are staying up the Pohangina river valley with my sister and family. They live in the rich, rural heartland of the North Island of New Zealand. They have a small holding; 5 acres and run a few lambs and a couple of beef cattle and have a small vege garden and horses for the kids. It’s potentially very resilient and has the makings of a sustainable lifestyle if the rest of their lives weren’t so resource hungry. Like most Kiwis they live a normal unsustainable life amidst a potentially easily sustainable and resilient land, a real contradiction to my eyes.
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27 Jan 2009
The most controversial part of the course remains the inner worlds talk – linking the personal psyche with the shape of the society we have created and naming some of the patterns that arise from what is generally unconscious for people in Industrial Growth cultures. We use a model adapted from psychosynthesis, which describes both painful wounding experiences and the healthy potential states whose loss the wounds relate to as being kept out of consciousness to some extent for most individuals in our culture. The place we operate from is a place of learnt adaptation to the world around us – particularly the world of our early childhood where our first experiences of the world, of other, and of life create lasting impressions and shape our worldview.
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26 Jan 2009
California Dreaming
We are about to leave the States, having done our last training in Los Angeles. It felt like a different thing to SF and the other American trainings. There feels like there is an added degree of difficulty to Transition in LA. But maybe this is not real maybe the scale of things in the US is hitting me, I don’t know. Having been built with the car as an integral part of the system, car and freeways and wide boulevards scream out at me, and seem to have a life of their own.
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14 Jan 2009
Vancouver – Victoria Island
We landed in Vancouver in pouring rain, reflecting on the new meanness of air carriers, having been transported from New York to the west coast in a journey of 6 hours starting at 7am with nothing but poor bagels you have to pay for as breakfast. A wonderful sign of the effects of oil prices, and a bit hard on the stomach. The bus and ferry ride over to Victoria Island were grey, still, foggy. We got one view of the snowy mountains by Seattle from the southern coast before the mist settled in, to remain for the duration despite promises that bad weather never lasts.
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20 Dec 2008
A Tale of Two Cities… well three actually….
The first was NYC. We had a quiet night at The Bridge Winery in Brooklyn. Several people turned up, young mostly, and turned on -a good group. We had a small conversation about TTs; they listened and asked good questions and we had a dialogue. Two things struck me. Firstly the audience was young. That’s unusual, and that probably reflects my daughter, who organised the evening. The other was that of the 7-8 million people in NYC only 8 could be bothered to show up.
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