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Workshop/ClassPortland Fruit Tree Project Winter Pruning WorkshopWinter Pruning! (hands-on workshop) Location
Northeast PortlandPortland, OR Living Authentically, Living Simply, Living RichlyWe live in a culture where success is often defined by material wealth, power, and popularity; human connections are increasingly relegated to e-mail, texting, Facebook and Twitter; and the impact of our activities creates undue stress on the ecological fabric of the planet. Location
Taborspace Coffeehouse 5541 SE Belmont Muir Hall
Portland, OR, 97215( categories: )
Training for Transition in Portland April 9-10
Transition PDX will be sponsoring a two-day Training for Transition (T4T) on Friday and Saturday, April 9 and 10. The training will be held in the main hall of Sunnyside Methodist Church, 3520 SE Yamhill Street, Portland.
The T4T course is designed to introduce you to a community engagement model for responding and adapting to the threats of climate change, fossil fuel dependence and economic instability. It will give an introduction to the ideas underpinning the Transition Initiative, and the most important skills needed to get a Transition Initiative off the ground in your locality. The course is designed both for people who are already in a group working to achieve this, and those who are thinking of creating such a group.
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 different Transition projects represented in the group.
The cost of the training is $200, of which a $40 deposit will be due with your registration to hold your place. Registration information will be available in about a week. We hope to offer some partial scholarships, and will do our best to find rooms in members’ homes for visiting participants.
One of the two certified Transition US trainers will be David Johnson. After building an award-winning ecological house in Wales, David explored the overlap of ecology and spirituality through a Masters Degree program in Transpersonal Psychology with a concentration in Ecopsychology at Naropa University. During this time he also trained with Joanna Macy. This training informed his thinking around the inner aspects of Transition work. David was involved in a think tank set up by Rob Hopkins in the early days of Transition Town Totnes in England, and recently moved to Portland where he has been in the central group helping to bring the Transition approach here.
The other trainer, Lena Soots from Vancouver, BC, is a community educator and facilitator with a focus on community sustainability and resilience. With an academic background in Environmental Studies, Lena’s work has involved environmental consulting, community planning, local food system development and facilitation across a wide range of community settings. She is currently an Instructor and Research Associate with the Centre for Sustainable Community Development at Simon Fraser University and a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Education. Lena’s current research is in transformative community learning and exploring the inner and outer dimensions of change. She is also a yoga instructor and tries to spend as much time as possible hiking in the mountains or paddling a canoe.
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