Transition Woodinville Orientation

Transition Woodinville

Rising gas and food prices, increased unemployment and extreme weather patterns can create feelings of despair and hopelessness.  There is a "new kid in town" that wants to turn these challenges into opportunities and feelings into hope. That "kid" is Transition Woodinville.

Transition Woodinville will offer an orientation on Thursday, January 20, 7:30-9 pm at the Sammamish Valley Grange.

Transition is a global movement that was started in Totnes, UK by Rob Hopkins author of The Transition Handbook (2008). The handbook offers concrete strategies for engaging with one's local community and building resilience against possible threats including climate instability, resource depletion, financial downsizing and fresh food scarcity providing a positive vision for turning our global predicament into an opportunity. Transition initiatives are based on the "creative genius" of the community.

Following the orientation are six discussions (one per week) that include:

• Getting acquainted with each other
• Examining issues of peak oil and climate change
• Engaging the community
• Exploring possible outcomes of energy descent, climate change and economic instability
• Understanding resilience and how we can contribute to it locally
• Discussing what re-localization might look like in Woodinville
• Considering feelings and talking about them in regards to peak oil
• Considering our own attitudes about change and our resistance to it
• Engaging in a Visioning process as it relates to Transition
• Creating positive visions of the future that inspire positive action
• Inquiring what sets of skills are held by members of the group
• Examining the principles of Transition
• Linking personal passions to activities that can build local resilience
• Mapping resources and promoting resilience

For additional information please contact Trish at sammamishvalley.trish@gmail.com.