Training for Transition in Litchfield, Connecticut

Dear Friends,

This workshop is coming up soon and the price increases on Friday. Please let us know if you will be attending. This is a wonderful opportunity for community building in our extended community. No one will be turned away for financial reasons. Scholarships are available, please phone us to discuss bartering of services. (Registration form at bottom of this email.)

Transition Litchfield is happy to offer a weekend workshop for people interested in becoming leaders and participants in a cooperative, secure, and peaceful transition to the post petroleum era.

TRAINING FOR TRANSITION

Saturday and Sunday, 25 and 26 February 2012, 9am-5:30pm Bantam Borough Hall, 890 Bantam Road, (Rt 202), Bantam, (a village of Litchfield), CT

The Transition Movement addresses the global challenges of peak oil, climate disruption and economic contraction with a positive approach that focuses on local solutions and building community resilience.

Training for Transitionis the in-depth experiential workshop created by the global Transition Network. (www.TransitionNetwork.org) It describes how to set up, run, and maintain a successful localTransition initiative. The15-hour course is packed with imaginative and inspiring ways to engage your community, and delves into both the theory and practice of Transition that has worked in hundreds of communities around the world. This is the training that enableslocal initiating groups to become internationally recognized Transition initiatives.

Who should attend? People interested in learning about the Transition Movement in depth in order to promote it in their communities.

What you can expect:

•You will be part of ahighly interactive event that will connect you to your neighbors who share your concerns for positive, effective action

•You will learn how to describe the triple challenge of peak oil, climate instability, and economic deterioration, and move people to action.

•You will explore ways to create and strengthen your local community.

•You will connect with others who share your concerns and are on a similar path.

•You will become a part of a rapidly growing positive, inspirational, globalmovement.

Instructors:Tina Clarke and Alistair Lough, certified Transition Trainers

Cost: $125 for the weekend before 2/18/2012, $150 thereafter. Refreshments and materials included. Bring a bag lunch or order a box lunch with registration. A limited number of scholarships will be offered. Consider a donation towards scholarships;your generosity will help those with low incomes to attend. No one will be turned away if they are short of funds. Call us about any financial concerns.

Suggested Preparation: The Transition Primer (free pdf), The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience by Rob Hopkins.

the web at www.transitionlitchfield.org

We are on Facebook as Transition Litchfield

For more information about Transition in the US: http://transitionUS.orgThe new sequel to the Transition Handbook, The Transition Companion by Rob Hopkins, will be available for sale for $16 at the training.

In Community,

Transition Litchfield
Building awareness about the long term health of our community with inclusive conversations about moving from energy dependence to local resilience
Kay Carroll, Andy Graves, Lynn Fulkerson, Rosemarie Greco, Barbara Putnam, Joan Spear

Registration: either email registration information to transitionlitchfield@gmail.com. or fill out registration form and mail it with your payment

Payment mail a check made out to Barbara Putnam, to Barbara Putnam, 73 Clark Road, Litchfield, CT 06759

Questions: email to transitionlitchfield@gmail.comor phone: Joan Spear at 860-567-0554, or Barbara Putnam at 860-567-4465

REGISTRATION FORM

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LUNCHES

You may bring a bag lunch or order a lunch that includes vegetarian soup, and a choice of sandwich for an additional $10 per day. Contact Joan or Barbara for lunch choices.