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Meetings need to balance having fun and feeling good about working together with getting things done. It can be done!

Transition Training offers an immersion in the early stages of Transition, providing the basics for setting up, running and maintaining a Transition initiative.

Permaculture is a design ‘glue’ to stick together all the elements for a sustainable and resilient culture.

It will help your initiative greatly if there are a number of people involved who feel confident in delivering talks about what the group is doing. Public speaking, like riding a bicycle, is a learnable skill.

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Transition initiatives are largely driven by volunteers. It is important that they feel held, supported and well-managed.

There are many ways you can finance your initiative, from formal funding applications to thinking like an enterprise, building a base of local supporters, or just doing things that don’t need any money!

The legal structure of a group affects its behaviour and how it is seen by others. Flexibility and informality is fine for a young initiative, but as you grow and take on more responsibilities you will need more structure and allocation of responsibility.

It is vital from an early stage to get your local media on your side, and this can be done in a number of ways.

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Transition can be exhausting, stressful or exhilarating. It will be far more effective if we are able to offer each other support, thereby reducing levels of burn-out.

An Unleashing is your launch event, a community celebration, the event that in 10 years a blue plaque will be put up to celebrate the start of that process that led to so much change.

Conflict, left unaddressed or unresolved, can tear a group apart. Practicing a number of relevant skills will help us forge strong and flexible relationships that can deal with challenges that lie ahead.

A number of tools (‘Transition Streets’, ‘Transition Circles’, ‘Carbon Conversations’ and so on) now focus on the idea of enabling change from the bottom up, one street at a time. They are very powerful approaches.



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A wide range of media can help a Transition initiative communicate, both internally and externally, what it does.

An ERA is a powerful tool for allowing organisations to see where they, or one of their products, are vulnerable to volatile energy prices, focusing thinking about how to make them more resilient.

Maps, in a range of formats, can be great tools for helping people to understand the place they live and to vision its future.

Belief in external experts and our dependence on their telling us what to do next has become commonplace. However, much of what we need is around us. We need ways to unlock the knowledge and ideas of our community.

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If Transition is to revitalise local economies, we need to develop strategies and models that support and strengthen them, and which enable as much wealth to circulate locally as possible.

The Community Supported Agriculture model ensures a secure market for farmers, who feel supported by those around them. The consumer has fresh local food, the opportunity to learn new skills, and a say in where his or her food comes from. It is a fundamental way to build local food resilience.



Getting local ‘movers and shakers’ to come to one of your key events and to talk about their enthusiasm for Transition can have many benefits.



How possible is it that a community could own and manage significant local energy generation? A few years ago, the answer would have been “not very”, but now many successful projects are emerging.



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If Transition is to revitalise local economies, we need to develop strategies and models that support and strengthen them, and which enable as much wealth to circulate locally as possible.

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