Background information on Groups
There is plenty of support and help on Groups. Here are some things to get you started.
- The Aims and Principles of TTL.
- Click here for info about the TTL Forum, the monthly meeting of people in the groups.
- Here's a simple description of TTL's networked organisational structure.
- The Groups are supported and facilitated. We all help with this but there is also a Project Facilitator - see more about this here.
- Here's an introduction to how communication works inside TTL.
How to start a group
- guidelines for starting and running a group
- this is how the TTL Business Group started their group
- this is a link to the Transition Network's primer on setting up transition towns: the link is to the fourth step (of 12) forming groups - you can go from there through the other steps
Some resources for groups
- how to have successful meetings
- potential venues for meetings
- how to plan an event
- Click here for the calendar of group meetings
- how to edit the wiki
Some inspiration
- What is an energy descent plan?
- The Transition Town movement was born from permaculture, click here to see notes from a permaculture training event for TTL with Pippa Johns
- Click here to see the results of a day of visioning 2025 in January 2008 by TTLers
- Click here for video clips of an interview with Rob Hopkins by Adrienne Campbell in Lewes. This was a very comprehensive interview on many aspects of transition towns.
- here are links to Transition Network's guidelines on setting up transition towns:
- Click here to go to the Transition Network's primer for Transition Towns including a good section on energy descent plans
- video of Rob Hopkins introducing the first six steps
- Rob's talk continued, the second six steps
Get involved: contact one of the Group contacts on the Groups page
