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Transition Training Courses

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Training for Transition (T4T)

The T4T course is designed to give a detailed introduction to the most important skills necessary to successfully set up, develop, and run a Transition project in your locality. It is designed for people who are already in a group working to achieve this, or are thinking of creating such a group. The full curriculum for the T4T can be found here.

At the end of the course participants will:

  • Have a clear understanding of the context for Transition Initiatives, the current global situation and the transformational possibilities that arise from climate change, peak oil and the economic crisis.
  • Know what the Transition model is – including an in-depth look at the 12 steps, from inspiration, setting up the initiating group, all the way to having active and effective working groups.
  • Have experienced a joint visioning process.
  • Understand how to organize effective meetings such as public talks, open space days, and small theme working groups.
  • Understand the purpose and principles of an Energy Descent Action Plan.
  • Have the outline of an effective and inspiring talk on the Transition movement.
  • Have formed useful contacts with other Transition Initiatives and individuals interested in the Transition model.
  • Have a plan of action for themselves and their locality.

This training will follow the Transition model in paying attention to both the outer work and the inner work necessary for a successful transition process. The course is participatory, action-learning-based and fun, with participants invited to share their own experience and learn from the many different transition projects represented in the group.

Costs

Between $200 - $250. Scholarships are sometimes available. Contact the organizers for more details.

Trainers

The US Transition Trainers are all trained by Naresh Giangrande and Sophy Banks, both long-term contributors to Transition Town Totnes and founders of Transition Training. Biographies of the US Transition Trainers can be found here

Organizing a Training for Transition

If you would like to organize the 2-day Training for Transition for groups near you please contact us. You will need to refer to the list of guidelines and responsibilities.

Training the Trainers

In October 2007 the UK Transition Network training team launched a two-day course aimed at helping new Transition Initiatives to create dynamic and effective projects. As this course has proved popular around the country and beyond, the training team was expanded to include a larger number of people skilled in delivering this training. The course originators, Naresh Giangrande and Sophy Banks, created a 4-day in-depth Training for Trainers course for those who would like to join this team.

Just to give some scope to this training need, in the US alone there are over 10,016 cities, 8,201 towns and villages and innumerable smaller settlements. Every single one of them will undergo some type of energy descent in the near future. The smart ones will be doing it proactively, perhaps trained by you.

Course content

  • An in-depth examination of the main underlying principles of Transition including systems approach, vision, resilience, why transition is both inner and outer – and viral, and the importance of inclusion and awareness-raising.
  • The early Transition process; from initiation to working groups
  • Structuring a 2 day Training for Transition course including facilitation styles, aims and outcomes
  • Background material: peak oil, climate change, organizational structure, change models
  • Joining the Network pool of trainers - structure, agreements, support, etc.

Participants will be encouraged to share their own ideas and experience both in training methodology and in their Transition Initiatives or related projects. We expect that the “Training for Transition” course will itself evolve further during this event.

Becoming a Transition Trainer

If you want to join the US Transition Training Pool you will need to show that you have considerable experience in:

  • Creating and delivering training to high standards to a range of audiences
  • Working in a Transition project
  • Understanding and commitment to the principles and practice of Transition

Transition Talk Training

This is a one day course in how to give an effective talk on Transition, aimed at people in a Transition Initiative to help them raise awareness and draw other groups into the process. It covers Peak Oil, Climate Change and the mechanics of Transition, along with the subtler subject of the inner transition we all need to go through if we're going to re-establish a harmonious relationship with the planet.

By the end of the training day, you'll be armed with a solid presentation that you can adopt to your own style, a set of facts and figures to underpin your talk, an understanding of some of the deeper aspects of Transition, and a new level of confidence to deliver the presentation with flair, authority and maybe a bit of humor too.

If you would like to request this training in your part of the country please contact us to discuss how we can make this happen.

Leadership in Transition

With so many communities embarking on the transition journey, now is the time to launch a training event that targets individuals who are stepping into leadership roles within transition initiatives throughout the network.

This is a 2-day Transition Training course, exploring leadership within a Transition perspective. This course will provide a facilitated space for you to deepen your learning of how best to build momentum and achieve the two key goals of transition - dramatically lower carbon emissions and significantly increase community resilience. You'll be sharing lessons and insights with your fellow travelers, learning from the collective wealth of experience in the group how to develop your own skills of leadership, and also to nurture those same aptitudes in individuals within your own transition team back home.

The 2 days will provide a chance to act, as well as to be still. It will be a gently guided and facilitated experience where conversations will ebb and flow and where the process will be one of emergence. There will be opportunities to do such things as go for hikes, work in the garden, help with a building project, prepare food, sit around a campfire, tell stories, or learn bush-crafts. Most of all, it will be a time to draw inspiration from each other.

Who's it for?
Those who have been active in their own community's Transition Initiative and who recognize, or are curious about, the informal or formal leadership role that they and others might play at the local level. It is also for those that want to exchange ideas about community, change, and transformation from a systemic perspective.

We're expecting, as with all trainings, that insights will emerge during the course that help shape the way the Transition movement develops in the widest sense.

Who it's NOT for: The event is not designed for those who are new to Transition activity, or who are looking to start a Transition Initiative. The training most suitable for this purpose is the Training for Transition.

The cost/dates/location of the course is being finalized - check back soon.

To find out more, please contact us.