Transition Indiana

Transition Indiana

Time: April 18, 2009 to April 19, 2009
Location: City Hall Council Chambers, Bloomington, Indiana
Organized By: Keith Johnson


Event Description:
Training for Transition ~ Bloomington, Indiana

Cosponsors: Permaculture Activist magazine, the Bloomington Peak Oil Task Force, Bloomington Permaculture Guild, Indiana Forest Alliance, Transition Bloomington, Transition Indiana

What: a two-day "Training for Transition" workshop, based on the work of Naresh Giangrande and Sophy Banks of Transition Totnes (UK)

Who should attend: All those considering bringing Transition to their community. (NOTE: This workshop fulfills the training requirement for initiating local Transition groups.)

Curriculum: Participants will learn the "fundamentals" of setting up, running and maintaining a successful Transition Initiative, with specific techniques for

* raising public awareness around peak oil and climate change

* connecting with existing community groups and local government

* launching projects aimed at building people's understanding of resilience and carbon issues and community engagement

* forming groups to look at all the key areas of life (food, energy, transport, health, heart & soul, economics & livelihoods, etc) in order to create an "Energy Descent Action Plan" for the community

When: Saturday, April 18th and Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Where: City Hall Council Chambers, Bloomington City Hall, Bloomington, Indiana

Schedule: Saturday, 8:30 a.m. registration; workshop runs from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., with breaks for lunch and dinner, optional Transition Clinic at 7:00 p.m. Sunday workshop runs from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., with lunch break.

Instructors: Michael Brownlee and Lynette Marie Hanthorn, certified Transition Trainers and co-founders of Transition Boulder County (the first official Transition Initiative in North America). They each bring more than three years of on-the-ground relocalization experience to the Transition Training, as well as a in-depth practice in organizational development, group process technologies, and psychospiritual processes.

Price: $225. Food and lodging not included. Some partial scholarships may be available.

Deadline to register: Monday, April 6th, 2009. Space is limited, so please register early!

To reserve your space, contact Keith Johnson or Zach Mermel (transitiontraining@permacultureactivist.net, 812-335-0383) or send payment to the following address: 5421 E. Kings Road, Bloomington, IN 47408. Make checks payable to Keith Johnson (and be sure to write "Transition Training @ Bloomington" in the memo line).

Prerequisites

Reading
The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience (Rob Hopkins)
Transition Primer
The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century (Kunstler) or Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (Heinberg)

Viewing
"Crude Impact" or "A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash"
"The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil"
"Sustainability 101" (Dr. Albert Bartlett)



See more details and RSVP on Transition Indiana:
http://transitionindiana.ning.com/events/event/show?id=2552370%3AEvent%3A1062&xgi=0ABcsyy