Interests represented: - Transition Wigdby, WA -we underway 3 years - Transition PDX - underway 1 year - 4 from Ashland Community
- Transition Ashland movement - passion for food security/localization - How can we get the farmers to cooperate to get the food needs met for their communities?
- Sustainable Community Leaders Dialogue – Time frames are shorter than I thought trying to collaborate
How can I collaborate?
- Organizing people in crisis – battered women’s movement – people need safety and getting needs met
- Gaia University – Lover of Whole systems design - - giving talks on TT – founder of Transition Ashland
What happens with cooptation and competition in this space of organizing?
- Co-intellegent process community, wanting to help bring process to TT
- TT as Carrier wave – bonding and bridging capacities
- New to the concept of TT – the ripe territory for change to happen
- The heart and soul of the movement – eco-psychology - connections
- Wall Street - Local currency movements – Ecolocity DC – interested in new emergent economic structures
- Scott Peck’s community development – shadowwork -
- How do we be authentic and stay in community?
- What is the new DNA?
- Grand Junction, CO Transition movement– growth management, social justice, environmental protection
- What is the narrative of the collective across the geography?
- New – know nothing about TT
- New – curious interesting in community groups and relationships – “bridging and bonding”
– Dynamic facilitation and wisdom councils – peripherally involved in Sustainability groups in Seattle – process interest – collaborative learning
- Involved in parallel interests for 20 years.
- Researcher -What are some of the practices in these round processes.
- Holistic practitioner in Seattle – this is the time.
- The idea of transition – How does it fit in with micro and macro systems
- Mission in TT, Bay Area – diversity issues in the TT movement – it is irrelevant in my area – not the demographic but the use of the movement is important enough - Marginalized communities have the capacities
Transition Whidbey Isle. - Started in Aug 2007 - Unleashed early – 3 monthly meetings of 100ppl – stopped and restarted the monthly community meetings “Pot lucks with a Purpose” There was a hunger for people to get into the room and talk about peak oil.
o 5:30 -8:30 for parents and kids
o People bring food – 45min convivial time
o “Celebrations, Announcements, Offers, Gives and Asks”
Catalyze the community to work together with resource limits upon us
Members of the community have a space
Members bring Needs and Surpluses
o Program presenters bring something to the community that is actionable and leaders try to press people against edges
o Every third meeting is Open Space
o 30 minutes for action groups to form and organize
·Inviting other groups in is a place that has not been as successful
·What has happened with the action groups? These are action groups
o Mapping the assets of the island
-Soil
- Who is growing what?
o Local economy action group, 1 yr to develop, will launch soon
Studied complementary currencies
o Systems of health on the Island
What is the governance like? - The governance model is the purpose statement to set the container. - Hired a coordinator - a weaver - Self organizing – teams and facilitators
What is the population of Whidbey? - 8,000 people south Whidbey - Sustainable Whidbey - Council of governments for three towns – mayors - Education extension units
What are the edges? - It is an open system – How cooperatively and collaboratively do you do TT? - There is an ecology of stuff related to TT that will be TT - Seeing government as an ‘open door’ is being reflected anywhere – government is resource limited.
Bay Area – Food and water security - Living room salons for dialogue
o Share food
o Celebrate food, farm workers and earth
o Motif for each night – movie with a message
Catalyze the community to work together with resource limits upon us
Members of the community have a space
Members bring Needs and Surpluse
Ning site
Garden mapping project
- Challenges are inconsistent groups - web-like network not community – diversity issues
- There is a lot of completion in farming – farming politics legacy – and gardening groups – whole
What is the governance like? - There is a collaborative commitment and time is an issue - Scalability- Starting with a neighborhood with a container - can you say more than that.
Ashland, OR Transition - We are all part of a bioregion – scalability makes sense on that level. - We killed the concept of community around the automobile - New development using the model that all your needs can be met in a quarter mile
o We are looking at retrofitting out neighborhoods
o Why don’t we have wells sunk all over the area?
Scribing: Rachel Lyn