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Dear Transitioneers, September approaches rapidly and next week is the monthly TPDX Heart and Soul meeting (Tuesday the 7th from 6:30-8:30pm in the Che Room at the St. Francis Church, SE 12th and SE Oak across from the Red and Black Cafe, up the stairs to your right, take your first right in the hallway and head back). I would like to offer the agenda here and also request for people to RSVP if they are planning on attending. Also please include any special announcements/topics/questions etc. you have to bring and I will try and include them into the agenda for the evening. I have both attached and pasted below the rough agenda...
~Joy, Abun-dance, Gratitude~
Transition PDX Heart and Soul Mtg. 9-3-10 (6:30-8:30pm Che Room)
Are you interested in learning how you can organize your community and neighborhood to create resiliency in the face of an uncertain future? Come get an introduction to the Transition Town model, which gives a framework to help bring the heads, hearts and hands of a community together to work towards energy descent.
A Pattern Language for Transitioneers - Andrew Langford - 7:00 to 7:50pm
Andrew, 61 and now a seasoned transitioneer, tells contrasting stories of his own and other peoples transitions including 'How I survived the "Hammer of the Universe" and "Kairos moments? - Bring 'em own!" before revealing that transitions, at least for individuals, have patterns. Knowing about these ahead of time (or even in the middle of chaos) allows a person to make some sense of what’s going on when their world is falling apart and, for the bold veteran, opens the possibility of willingly sought, artfully designed, deep and thorough quantum transformations.
Now that’s just what human cultures all over the planet need to do and now! Andrew will propose that the capacity for profound transition in any culture is helped or hindered by the attitudes toward change held by its individual members.
Nurturing the Connective Tissue of Community Resilience: Transition, Collaboration and Emergence - Transition PDX - 8:00-8:50pm
Leaders of Transition PDX will present the seven principles of the Transition Town model which works to bring the heads, hearts and hand of communities together to deal with the challenges of climate change, peak oil and an uncertain future. They will share with you how these principles can be found, applied to and nurtured within Portland metro organizations to create a cohesive connective and collaborative tissue of resilience that can nurture the common shared goals of energy descent, sustainability and self sufficiency within our metro region. How can we honor and share our unique skills and interests while exploring the emergence that takes place when we collectively come together around shared goals? Often in social and natural systems properties emerge from the cooperation of the whole that don’t exist in the individual components.
The mission of TransitionPDX is to inspire, to encourage, to network, to support and train the communities and neighborhoods of the Portland metro area as they consider, adopt, adapt and implement the transition model in order to establish Transition Initiatives.
Music!
Two amazing bands, world twang and eco funk converge for a night that you won’t want to miss! Find full descriptions of all the musicians online at vbc.cityrepair.org
Paul will give an hour long lecture followed by a Q+A session and discussion with the attendees during the second hour. Paul will be discussing how corporations and ‘corporate personhood’ have become a thorn in the heel of those working for social/environmental justice and sustainability both at the local, national and international levels. Americans are strongly in favor of bold legislative responses to the climate crisis and the health care crisis, but our elected officials hem and haw. Why? Because we the people are no longer the primary constituents of the people we elect - corporations are! Why? Because corporate constitutional "rights" trump the rights of people.
Please note this is a donation event. We are asking for $5-10, though no-one will be turned away for lack of funds.
