The next stages of transition

the journey to transition

Central group deepens

Build partnerships

Reskilling events and workshops

Projects

Form initiating group

Initiator

Working groups

Awareness raising events, widen participation

Open space, form working groups

Unleash!

Working groups

Initiating group

“Core” group forms & steers

Awareness raising

Hand over to new group

Energy descent

Supporting projects

• Building a compost loo• Business Resource Exchange

(Swapshop) • Energy Descent Pathways (EDP) • Energy Efficient Lighting for

Business • Garden Share • Green Energy for Business• Community Health & Wellbeing

Garden• Home Groups (Transition

Teams) • Local Complementary Health

Directory• Local Food Guide • More allotments

• Nut Trees• Oil Vulnerability Audits• Resource Efficiency for

Business• Seed & Plant Swap • Solar Thermal Challenge • Sustainable Fish • Totnes & Dartington DPD

Response• Totnes Cycling Group • Totnes Pound • Totnes Rickshaw Company• Transition Tales

Some TTT projects

Build bridges and partnershipslocal government and MPs

experts

voluntary sector and community groups

local businesses, chamber of commerce

Support and deepen the centre

Training

Celebration

Deepening

Balance give & take

Initiating groupstart to 1st programme

Communication & Information

Organise & facilitate group

Networking & partnerships

Finance

Events management

Publicity

Group forming & relationships

Public speaking

Initiating Group

Core group1st programme to + 1 year

FoodEnergy

Heart & Soul

Local govt

CeremonyTRESCO

Publicity

Network

Events

Communicn & IT

Solar WH challenge

Events

Local food directory Nut trees

Arts

Transport

Housing

TTT Group Focalisers Group

Central functions

Organise

+ 1 year to now

ITAdmin + fin

Housing

Energy

Arts

Transport

Publicity

Project support for TTT

TTT Ltd

Heart & Soul

Publicity

Fundraise

Food

Proj support

home groups

events

ceremonies

TRESOC

Solar challenge

Retrofit Core group

IT

Training

EDAP

TT national network

Other TTs

Vols Reprs, forum

EDAP/ timeline

Training

Outreach

Local govt

Education

Resourcing TTT

Sep 06 – March 07

Money from events raises £5k. Very loose financial control

March 07 Need for funding identified

April 07 £15k from local donor; recruited admin / coordinator in June

Sept 07 Office opens. EDAP funding grant

Autumn 07

Prioritise projects for funding

£4k donation for funding work

Spring 08 Funding received for project support, core costs, T teams

Supporting and enabling

Supporting creative force in the field – “popping”

Current issues – enabling

• New website launched March 08• Funding applications for projects and to support

the centre• TTT Ltd at the centre, leave the rest of the field

flexible (admin, publicity, communication etc)• Supporters and participation – evolving

structures, feedback mechanisms • Project support – advice, training, models, inter-

relationship

Strategic and focusing

Set a direction

Steer towards the goal

Current issues - strategy

• Energy Descent pathways – scenarios, – visioning, – Transition tales

• Evolving structure and decision making – Sociocracy and Viable systems models? Public

meetings• Timeline project • Metrics

– what does the community value & want to measure?– measuring well being, resilience as well as carbon.

Inner worlds

• Events that integrate inner and outer aspects– Fishbowl events e.g. To Fly or Not to Fly?– The Great Energy Debate

• Mentoring for key activists

• Conflict resolution support

Transition network

• Website platform being developed• Monthly newsletter • Transition universities• Transition consultancy• New interface to automatically sign up for

information• Transition chat on line discussion forums –

Monday afternoons autumn 2008

www.transitiontowns.org/network

Transition Training

• New pool of trainers delivering training from October 2008

• Network training forum developing new training initiatives and offerings

• Local authorities training pilot Nov 2008

• World tour.. winter 2008/09

Also Transition consultancy forming