The next stages of transition

the journey to transition Central group deepens Build partnerships Reskilling events and workshops Projects Form initiating group Initiator Working groups Awareness raising events, widen participation Open space, form working groups Unleash! Working groups Initiating group “Core” group forms & steers Awareness raising Hand over to new group Energy descent

Supporting projects

Building a compost loo Business Resource Exchange (Swapshop) Energy Descent Pathways (EDP) Energy Efficient Lighting for Business Garden Share Green Energy for Business Community Health & Wellbeing Garden Home Groups (Transition Teams) Local Complementary Health Directory Local Food Guide More allotments Nut Trees Oil Vulnerability Audits Resource Efficiency for Business Seed & Plant Swap Solar Thermal Challenge Sustainable Fish Totnes & Dartington DPD Response Totnes Cycling Group Totnes Pound Totnes Rickshaw Company Transition Tales Some TTT projects

Build bridges and partnerships local government and MPs experts voluntary sector and community groups local businesses, chamber of commerce

Support and deepen the centre Training Celebration Deepening Balance give & take

Facilitate the Great Re-Skilling

Lewes reskilling programme Reskilling this month bookings at Gossypium On your bike! Basic bicycle maintenance Thursday October 4 and 11, 6 - 9pm, Lewes New School, also with Danny Harling, bring your bike and tools Basket making with Jackie Sweet, includes materials Saturday 6th October, 10am - 4pm, Lewes New School, £40 Grow your own food winter vegetables, protected cropping and composting with Nir Halfon, permaculturalist and biodynamic gardener Saturday 13th October, 10am - 4pm, Lewes New School, £25 Hand quilting demonstration Saturday 13th October, 10am - 2pm, Gossypium, just pop in Foraging for food (morning) & Fire making and wild cooking with Thomas Schorr-Kon Saturday 20th October, 10am - 12pm & 12.30pm pm, meet outside Nutty Wizard, £15 for morning or £25 for both

Initiating group start to 1 st programme Communication & Information Organise & facilitate group Networking & partnerships Finance Events management Publicity Group forming & relationships Public speaking Initiating Group

Core group 1 st programme to + 1 year Food Energy Heart & Soul Local govt Ceremony TRESCO Publicity Network Events Communicn & IT Solar WH challenge Events Local food directory Nut trees Arts Transport Housing TTT Group Focalisers Group Central functions Organise

+ 1 year to now IT Admin + fin Housing Energy Arts Transport Publicity Project support for TTT TTT Ltd Heart & Soul Publicity Fundraise Food Proj support home groups events ceremonies TRESOC Solar challenge Retrofit Core group IT Training EDAP TT national network Other TTs Vols Reprs, forum EDAP/ timeline Training Outreach Local govt Education

Resourcing TTT Sep 06 – March 07 Money from events raises £5k. Very loose financial control March 07Need for funding identified April 07£15k from local donor; recruited admin / coordinator in June Sept 07Office opens. EDAP funding grant Autumn 07 Prioritise projects for funding £4k donation for funding work Spring 08Funding received for project support, core costs, T teams

Participation

Home Groups – maintaining and sustaining Transition Training 2007

Supporting and enabling Supporting creative force in the field – “popping”

Current issues – enabling New website launched March 08 Funding applications for projects and to support the centre TTT Ltd at the centre, leave the rest of the field flexible (admin, publicity, communication etc) Supporters and participation – evolving structures, feedback mechanisms Project support – advice, training, models, inter- relationship

Strategic and focusing Set a direction Steer towards the goal

Current issues - strategy Energy Descent pathways –scenarios, –visioning, –Transition tales Evolving structure and decision making –Sociocracy and Viable systems models? Public meetings Timeline project Metrics –what does the community value & want to measure? –measuring well being, resilience as well as carbon.

Inner worlds Events that integrate inner and outer aspects –Fishbowl events e.g. To Fly or Not to Fly? –The Great Energy Debate Mentoring for key activists Conflict resolution support

Transition network Website platform being developed Monthly newsletter Transition universities Transition consultancy New interface to automatically sign up for information Transition chat on line discussion forums – Monday afternoons autumn

Transition Training New pool of trainers delivering training from October 2008 Network training forum developing new training initiatives and offerings Local authorities training pilot Nov 2008 World tour.. winter 2008/09 Also Transition consultancy forming