Training Opportunity

TRAINING for

TRANSITION in OMAHA

October 22-24, 2010

“For all those aspects of life that our community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (in response to peak oil), drastically reduce carbon emissions (in response to climate change) and greatly strengthen our local economy (in response to economic instability)?”

As a response to this question, the Transition Omaha initiating group invites you to attend the second Training for Transition opportunity with certified Transition trainers Michael Brownlee and Lynette Marie Hanthorn, Co-founders of Transition Colorado.

October 22, 23, 24

Friday 6:30--9:00pm,

Saturday/Sunday 8:30 am--5:30 pm

Columbans Retreat Center,1902 Calhoun Street, Bellevue, NE

$195, lunches included

info and registration at www.transitionomaha.org

questions contact info@transitionomaha.org

Lynette Marie Hanthorn

Lynette Marie Hanthorn co-founded and is now executive director of Transition Colorado, a non-profit that embraces the ethics and principles of the global Transition Movement to localize and regenerate community. With over 20 years’ experience in justice and mediation work, Lynette Marie is a certified Transition trainer and also holds a Permaculture design certification.

Michael Brownlee

Michael Brownlee is co-founder of Transition Colorado, the first officially-recognized Transition initiative in North America (now a regional Transition Hub). He is a certified trainer for the international Transition Network, a board member of Transition U.S., and a frequent speaker on issues of community resilience. Michael is also publisher of Transition Times and the Boulder County EAT LOCAL! Resource Guide. Locally, he is a founding member of the Boulder County Food & Agriculture Policy Council.

Thoughts from the trainers:
“Having worked for the last two years with the training program developed by Sophy Banks and Naresh Giangrande in Totnes, England, we have developed a uniquely American approach to Transition, one that more fully takes into account our cultural context, as well as our current predicament in this country.

Our workshops are focused on ensuring the resilience and long-term success of local Transition Initiatives in implementing the Transition process. This workshop is a good opportunity to learn about the Transition model and to gain from the experience of Transition Initiatives around the nation. We provide a greater emphasis on the Heart & Soul piece and an exploration of the evolutionary process of Emergence. These are the first steps towards what we call “Deep Transition”-a deeper, more intense, and hopefully more sustainable experience of the essence of Transition.”