This program provides a comprehensive overview of the Transition model for decreasing oil dependency and building local resilience - its premises and practices, along with an experiential introduction to the "head, heart, and hands" of Transition. We are fortunate that Michael Brownlee and Lynette Marie Hanthorn, co-founders of Transition Boulder/Colorado – the first official Transition Initiative in North America, will again be leading this weekend, joining Genesis Farm staff member Seanna Ashburn. All three are certified by the international Transition Network as Transition trainers. The Transition movement makes “no claim to have all the answers,” states Lynette Marie, “but by building on the wisdom of the past and accessing the pool of ingenuity, skills, and determination in our communities, the next steps can readily emerge.”

The program will provide:

• Information about our 'predicament' of peak oil, climate change, and economic instability, and the emergence of the Transition movement in response to this predicament
• Experience with and information about the Transition model and process
• A perspective on the larger context of Transition in the unfolding of life
• A sense of the sacredness of this work
• A compelling invitation to become engaged with Transition.

Comments from participants in the program this past year include:

"I've never been in such an intense learning experience...It inspired me and changed me."

"Didn't expect this to hit below the head...Think it changed my life."

"I leave renewed, invigorated, with a sense of excitement and purpose and the feeling of support."

"To fellow seekers of a sustainable and fulfilling future:
This Transition training workshop with these specific leaders is the best thing I've experienced, even if I had no interest in the Transition Town movement. It is about people and community, about commitment and love, about vision and wholeness. If you can possibly spare the time and scrape up the funds, go. It will be hard work and you will leave tired, but you will never regret it."

We strongly encourage you to bring a friend or colleague to support each other in applying your learning in your community.

It is important to read The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins prior to the program.

We’re in for enormous disruption, no matter what.
The question is how we deal with it and ameliorate its worst effects.

David Korten
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
and Agenda for a New Economy