1. The Next Stages of Transition

2. The journey to Transition
Energy descent
Form initiating group
Awareness raising
Working groups
Hand over to new group
Project support
Initiator
Deepening
Initiating group
Unleash!
“Core” group forms & steers
Working
groups
Awareness raising events, widen participation
Build partnerships
Reskilling events and workshops
Open space, form working groups
Projects
Central group deepens

3. Ethos Tools Great Unleashing Community EDAP Initiating Group
Core Group
Energy
Awareness
Raising
Economy
Food
Arts
Community
EDAP
Great Unleashing
Heart and Soul
Lay Foundations
Transport
Health
Buildings
Ethos
Inclusivity
Authenticity
Collaboration
Honor the Elders
Let It Go Where It Wants To
Build Bridge to Local Government
Great Re-skilling
Practical Manifestations
Work With Business
Open Space
Fishbowl
Teleconferences
Tools
Positive Vision and Back-casting
Transition Network

4. Transition Model Integral Model
Individual
Permaculture your life
Energy efficiency in the Home
Sustainable transportation
Personal coaching
Connecting to nature
Joanna Macy work
Inner
Outer
Talks and films
Community Conversations
Heart & Soul home groups
CSA’s
Community Gardens
Food Directory
Collective

5. Transition Town Totnes Initiating Group Start to 1st program
Communication & Information
Organise & facilitate group
Networking & partnerships
Finance
Events management
Publicity
Group forming & relationships
Public speaking
Initiating Group
Evolving diagram of structure of how it happened in totnes
Initially was just Rob & Naresh doing it all until Jan 2007
Then in Jan 2007, then invited coordinators of each of the working groups
Evolution of initiating group into central functions group
Then did review of giving & taking, realised couldn’t keep going without paid worker to take workload off key people, employed administrator to take a lot of the stuff on

6. Transition Town Totnes
Food
Energy
Heart & Soul
Local govt
Ceremony
TRESCO
Publicity
Network
Events
Communication
& IT
Solar WH challenge
Local food directory
Nut trees
Arts
Transport
Housing
TTT Group Focalisers Group
Central functions
Organise
Did run for a long time without being legal, run as community group with bank account
Decided to have small central group as limited company with charitable status, fairly conventional, TTT ltd legally responsible for building, bank accounts, insurance, employment contracts, all that does is provide core services to TTT itself. It’s the funnel through which funding applications can go, its basically a small central support service which provides services to the rest of TTT
This is what the Gaia foundation of Western Australlia do cos they tried to incorporate the whole lot and it didn’t work
But the rest of TTT isn’t incorporated and is separate and independent
Management structure is 4 unpaid key people ensure things happen managerially, this should really get done by TTT ltd as it gets more established. Is there a recommended plan for a management structure which could be modelled by other groups
Transition is not going to happen entirely on voluntary scale
Either the world wakes up enough to pay people enough money to do this stuff, or it may not happen
We don’t dictate anything about how those groups organise themselves. There are some requirements to setting up the working groups, then its up to the group to decide how they get represented. TTT ltd is service support, doesn’t make any decisions for any of the rest of TTT, just provides support services, also, network is trying to sort out its own structure, membership and processes, operating at regional, national and international scales across all themes
This is just totnes, look at other places like lewes, bristol etc. to see how they do it

7. Transition Town Totnes
Admin + fin
Housing
Energy
Arts
Transport
Publicity
Project support
TTT Ltd
Heart & Soul
Fundraise
Food
Proj support
home groups
events
ceremonies
TRESOC
Solar Challenge
Retrofit
Training
EDAP
TT national network
Other TTs
Vols
Reprs, forum?
EDAP/ timeline
Outreach
Local govt
Education

9. Transition Sebastopol
(After 2.5 years)
Ready For Anything
Elders
Salon
Seed Bank
Car-Lite
Food
Health
Care
Initiating
Group
Education
Heart &
Soul
Comm-unications
Collective
Meditation
F.E.A.S.T
Reskilling
Energy

10. Evolving diagram of structure of how it happened in totnes
Initially was just Rob & Naresh doing it all until Jan 2007
Then in Jan 2007, then invited coordinators of each of the working groups
Evolution of initiating group into central functions group
Then did review of giving & taking, realised couldn’t keep going without paid worker to take workload off key people, employed administrator to take a lot of the stuff on

11. Support and deepen the center
Training
Celebration
Deepening
Balance of giving and receiving
Takes out of normal meeting routine and builds capacity of group

12. Core Group Functions: Supporting and enabling
Supporting the creative force in the field.
Website support
Funding applications for projects and Core Group
Evolving structures, feedback mechanisms
Project support: advice, training, models, interrelationships
Volunteer coordination

13. Core Group Functions: Communications
list
E-newsletter
Initiative Website
Logo / graphics
Google Groups
Blogging
Transition in Action NING site
Transition US e-newsletter
TUS discussion listserve
Communicating with other TI’s

14. Strategy Energy Descent Pathways
Scenarios
Visioning
Transition Tales
Evolving structure and decision-making
Metrics
How do we know we are having an effect?
What does the community value and want to measure?
How do we measure resilience and well-being, as well as carbon?
Next bit about strategic & focussing
One is supporting, need to set a direction and go there

15. Supporting projects Oil Vulnerability Audits Seed & Plant Swap
Solar Thermal Challenge
Sustainable Fish
Garden share
Totnes Cycling Group
Totnes Pound
Transition Tales
TRESOC
Renewable energy events
Transition Streets 19

16. TTT Next Steps

17. Wider community Projects Public Events Working groups Central support
Get involved
Get involved
Inspire & inform
Attend & $
Projects
Autonomous
Doing
Public Events
Project support
Reps attend
Synergy
Working groups
Autonomous
Coordination of area
Ideas & events
Central support
This diagram shows flows as well as structure
The general flow of transition projects goes something like this:
From the centre, with contributions from different working groups & individuals we create a programme of events including films, speakers, workshops, public discussions, visits to gardens / houses, making and doing days, open space
This continues to draw in, deepen & help people move through stages of change
People from wider community come in to projects or working groups
Working groups send reps to core groups which shapes overall direction & shares information & inspiration
The whole process is something I’ve called “centre” but would rather call “support” or something else. In John Croft’s model this is called the Project Support Project.
Share info
Inform decisions
Reps attend
Share info
Sets priorities
Supports meeting
Core group
Strategy
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18. Stages of Transition Initiatives
Starting out (early stage)— wild and brainstorming.
Deepening — Now we are becoming Transition ________
Connecting –  how do we broaden and connect with the community around us
Building — Things start to step up – social enterprise, strategic local infrastructure, community ownership of assets.
Daring to Dream— what would it look like scaled up?
Next bit about strategic & focussing
One is supporting, need to set a direction and go there

19. Stages of Transition Initiatives
Starting Out
Coming together as groups – the importance of getting the group things right. Sometimes we dash in and start without getting the group stuff together.
Measurement — how are we going to document what we are doing is working or not? Keeping an eye on how we are doing. Arts and creativity is in there as well.
Building Partnerships
Doing fishbowl events, nice way of doing deepening enquiry rather than polarising debate,
nice way of getting people to have conversations about charged issues
Have 200 people on mailing lists, counsellors, etc giving mentoring for activists, now giving massages too, also mediation skills
The more we deepen in this work, the more people get attracted to it
Attending to the deepening of the group

20. Stages of Transition Initiatives
Deepening
Local food initiatives — they are usually first.
Personal resilience — Be mindful of how YOU are doing -- creating a balance of doing Transition and taking care of yourself and your family and earning a living.
Reduce burnout.
Unleashing – May not need to be called “unleashing.”
Doing fishbowl events, nice way of doing deepening enquiry rather than polarising debate,
nice way of getting people to have conversations about charged issues
Have 200 people on mailing lists, counsellors, etc giving mentoring for activists, now giving massages too, also mediation skills
The more we deepen in this work, the more people get attracted to it
Attending to the deepening of the group

21. Stages of Transition Initiatives
Connecting
Street by street behavior change — (Transition Streets)
Meaningful Maps — Interesting maps, local food resources, etc.
Storytelling — The power of getting people to share their stories.
Doing fishbowl events, nice way of doing deepening enquiry rather than polarising debate,
nice way of getting people to have conversations about charged issues
Have 200 people on mailing lists, counsellors, etc giving mentoring for activists, now giving massages too, also mediation skills
The more we deepen in this work, the more people get attracted to it
Attending to the deepening of the group

22. Stages of Transition Initiatives
Building
Things start to step up. If we are serious about this, nobody is going to do this on our behalf. There will need to be new businesses, new infrastructure put into place.
Social Enterprise — Transition groups setting up local food businesses, energy, community breweries.
Strategic local infrastructure — what are the viable businesses that the place needs? Food processing?
Community ownership of assets — become our own developers. Allow that money to cycle locally and not go out.
Doing fishbowl events, nice way of doing deepening enquiry rather than polarising debate,
nice way of getting people to have conversations about charged issues
Have 200 people on mailing lists, counsellors, etc giving mentoring for activists, now giving massages too, also mediation skills
The more we deepen in this work, the more people get attracted to it
Attending to the deepening of the group

23. Stages of Transition Initiatives
Daring to Dream
• What would it look like if it all went totally big? Own energy company? Investing in local community rather than large outside banks?
• Investing in Transition — We need some serious investment in this. Loan funds to local resilient infrastructure.
• Policy for Transition — what would it look like? A “Transition Enabling Act”. Try to get a bigger picture of where this would go.
Doing fishbowl events, nice way of doing deepening enquiry rather than polarising debate,
nice way of getting people to have conversations about charged issues
Have 200 people on mailing lists, counsellors, etc giving mentoring for activists, now giving massages too, also mediation skills
The more we deepen in this work, the more people get attracted to it
Attending to the deepening of the group

24. Transition Network www.transitionus.org www.transitionnetwork.org/
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