Transition Glastonbury's 'Heart and Soul' Group This group is looking at the 'inner transitions' that are part of the journey as we move from this 'industrial growth society' towards creating a more sustainable way of life. So far we have been drawing on the 'Work That Re-connects' (group-work resources based on the work of Joanna Macy, John Seed and many others in the deep ecology movement). We are offering monthly evening workshops with a variety of themes. We plan to expand the heart and soul aspect of TG by looking at how we can include the arts more- poetry- visual arts-film making as a means of raising awareness and evoking our connection to the earth. The other aspect of this group's role is to look around at what else is going on that can feed into this area, so get in touch if you are offering anything which fits into this area 2009 Workshop ProgrammeOctoberStarting October 21st Handling Conflict Creatively Venue: United Reform Church Wednesdays 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. starting 21st October (21, 28 Oct, 4, 11, 18, 25th Nov) Cost £60 ‘To work deeply with the dynamics of community, we must build the skills necessary to recognise and process conflict and violence’Alastair McIntosh ‘Rekindling Community The skilful handling of conflict is key to the success of the Transition movement. This six week course is an opportunity to begin building our skills in this area. Rather than being a formulaic or prescriptive approach to handling conflict, I intend to create a safe circle where we can reflect honestly on our experience of conflict in a spirit of gentle enquiry and explore together the insights and understandings that emerge. We’ll be experimenting with some of the available ‘tools’ for working with conflict and participants need to be prepared to work on appropriate ‘live issues’ in order to benefit fully from the course. Dearbhaile trained in a variety of approaches to conflict resolution with Derry City Council Peace and Reconciliation Department and first presented a version of this course though the Extra-Mural Department of the University of Ulster. If interested, please contact Dearbhaile on 01458 832044 or dearbhaile@goodwillpatterns.co.uk Saturday October 24th OPEN SPACE MEETING: Where do we go from here? Venue: The United Reform Church Time: 10 am - 4.30 pm Bring food to share for lunch An all day 'think tank' aiming to move Transition Glastonbury on to the next stage of its development.The way we see it, there's no way of opting out of transition - its happening whether we like it or not and whether we want to align ourselves with 'Transition Glastonbury' or not. It's down to everyone to make things happen now, and that includes you if you want to! We'd like to invite everyone however tentative their engagement so far, to come along and help us make the next steps. We will be using 'Open Space' which is a dynamic, 'self organising' meeting format and great fun. You might have specific suggestions, thoughts of where we have been going wrong (we'd like the feedback) or where we have done really well and what we could do more of, thoughts of what could really get this project going or just curiosity and a willingness to come along and participate. Either way we would love you to come. If you can donate towards room costs that would be great but if you can't you are welcome anyway. We don't just want this to be a talking shop, we'd love to create real support for current projects and hopefully ground new visions in practical ways. For more info: Jane Sanders: 01458 833382 email link More info about OPEN SPACE TECHNOLOGY NovemberWednesday 11th November Weaving Magic: how to create & sustain healthy & successful groups for transition With Nick Osbourne Weaving Magic is a 1-day course in the groups skills of how to set up and run effective transition groups. Very often the extent to which social change groups can be effective is limited by poor group dynamics and processes. This course will help your transition group become more effective by working with the essential areas of collaborative communication, group purpose, roles, looking after ourselves, power, leadership, decision-making, conflict and running effective meetings. These courses are primarily for people in Somerset and surrounding areas, to build local relationships, networks and aspirations for Transition. download flyer & booking form here |
Resources/links Articles Inner transition:outer transition Meditation as community action Anima Mundi- Invoking the world soul- by LLEWELLYN VAUGHAN-LEE Poetry Link here to a collection of poems, quotes and articles. poemsarticles Poetry on video: Drew-Dellinger Websites Transition Culture Check out the report on the Findhorn 'Positive energy' conference and the news that 'Transition Towns' are featuring on the archers- Transition Ambridge! The Great Turning Global Mind Shift The Great Turning Times Has a quarterly newsletter which you can receive by email or see online Great Turning times links page Their links page is well worth a vist! Chris Johnstone- Author of 'Find your Power' Anima Mundi- The world soul Elizabeth Sahtouris- Living Systems On-line films When the world is burning- what is being born?- Trailer for the Global oneness project Global oneness projects films about Permaculture Big Picture TV- Talking heads - talking sense Audio The Shambala Prophecy- told by Joanna Macy This is a prophecy from 12th century Tibet which relates to this time. |
