It is our distinct pleasure to announce that we are hosting the first North American delivered two-day session on the Transition community economic development model, as pioneered in the UK. The session will take place at our Abbotsford office on March 20 and 21.

Join us for a two-day workshop delivered by two North American instructors who have been trained directly by the founders of Transition in the UK. The session will provide you with the knowledge, tools, and skills to move your community to Transition thinking. And doing!

The cost is $240 per person for the two-day session, including lunch, refreshments, and course materials. There are only 24 seats, with the session now half full.

And outline of the course can be viewed here.

Email Stacey Corriveau for registration information.
stacey@centreforsocialenterprise.com

To register or for more information contact Stacey Corriveau - stacey@centreforsocialenterprise.com
B.C. Centre for Social Enterprise.

“We are an exceptional model of the human race. We no longer know how to produce food. We no longer can heal ourselves. We no longer raise our young. We have forgotten the names of the stars, fail to notice the phases of the moon. We do not know the plants and they no longer protect us. We tell ourselves we are the most powerful specimens of our kind who have ever lived. But when the lights are off we are helpless. We cannot move without traffic signals. We must attend classes in order to learn by rote numbered steps toward love or how to breast-feed our baby. We justify anything, anything at all by the need to maintain our way of life. And then we go to the doctor and tell the professionals we have no life. We have a simple test for making decisions: our way of life, which we cleverly call our standard of living, must not change except to grow yet more grand. We have a simple reality we live with each and every day: our way of life is killing us.”

published Feb. 2002

You are invited to join us for a weekend with Sophie Banks and Naresh Giangrande, founders of Transition Training in the UK.

Learn how to set up and successfully run a Transition Town initiative in your community.

When: November 29th & 30th in Victoria, B.C.

This invitation is being extended to those who are already, or who could be, catalysts for transition initiatives in their own communities. We hope that participants will leave the workshop willing and able to give leadership in some form. Please share this with others you know who fit this description.

We encourage at least two participants from any given community, and have offered a reduced rate for those from outside of Victoria, and where there is more than one attending from the same community.

Seats are limited and on a first come first served basis, up to three/community or neighbourhood.

Please don’t hesitate to contact mcolussi@telus.net if you have any questions

The workshop is presented by the Transition Network of the UK: http://transitiontowns.org. Details here: http://transitiontowns.org/TransitionNetwork/TransitionTraining

Hosted by the Centre for Community Enterprise: www.cedworks.com

With support from the office of Community Based Research, University of Victoria.