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Especially for those interested in the Transition Town movement. Please pass along to others in your group or area.<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Claire Gelinas <<a href="mailto:singearth@ymail.com">singearth@ymail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">April 3, 2011 1:36:26 PM EDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>Transition Training announcement</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "></span></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">Can you pass this on to as many people as possible, and ask them to pass it on to others?</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><div><br><h3 style="background-color: rgb(191, 255, 255);"><font size="5"><strong><em><strong>Training</strong> for Transition</em></strong></font></h3><h3 style="background-color: transparent;"><font size="4"><strong>is coming to Norway, Maine.</strong></font></h3><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="5"><span style="background-color: rgb(191, 255, 255);">JOIN US!</span> </font><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica-Bold","serif"; color: black;">April 30 – May 1, First Universalist Church, Norway, Maine</span></b><br><br><br style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">This training is provided by Transition U.S. trainers & hosted by Transition Oxford Hills</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">. We've got sliding scale registration, local community housing, and we are SO EXCITED to be doing this!</span><br><br><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; color: black;">The <b style="">two day workshop</b> will introduce and practice skills from the successful “Transition Town” model of local response to global challenges. Learn how to start a transition group in your community; how to build awareness of peak oil and climate change; and how to engage people from all walks of life in neighborhood or community projects.</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; color: black;">This is a very full two days of learning. From the practical (organizing Open Space sessions and planning awareness activities) to the theoretical (principles of resilience and theories of change), you will leave the session better equipped to offer leadership in the place you call home.</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica-Bold","serif"; color: black;">Who Should Attend:<span style=""> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; color: black;">The workshop is for anyone interested in strengthening a community wide response to fossil fuel dependence, climate change and a faltering economy. This includes the leaders of formal transition initiatives, and people who are just starting to think about these issues.<span style=""> </span>The Transition philosophy is to begin where you are as a community, encourage a positive vision for the future, build on your assets and resources, and let it go where it wants!</span><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica-Bold","serif"; color: black;"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica-Bold","serif"; color: black;">The Transition Movement </span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; color: black;">began in 2005 in Totnes, U.K. The movement has spread very quickly around the globe.<span style=""> </span>Learn about the global Transition Town movement at the <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127);" href="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/">Transition Network</a></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; color: black;"> or visit <a href="http://www.transitionus.org/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127);">Transition US</span></a> </span><a href="http://www.transitionus.org/"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";"></span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; color: black;"> to find out what is happening in the United States.</span><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica-Bold","serif"; color: black;"></span></b></p><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">This is a great opportunity to get in-depth training to help out your community, whether that is in Western Maine or elsewhere in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont or Massachusetts.</span> For more information, read the <span style="background-color: rgb(191, 255, 255);">attached registration form</span> or contact <a class="external-link" href="mailto:transitionoxfordhills@yahoo.com">transitionoxford<span class="highlightedSearchTerm">hills</span>@yahoo.com</a>.<br><font size="3"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"></span></font><br style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;"><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="callout"><em>"The energy climax [is] a spectacular but dangerous mountain peak that we have succeeded in climbing ... The climb involved heroic effort, great sacrifice, but also exhilaration and new views and possibilities at every step. </em></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="callout"><em>The descent will be more hazardous than the climb, and we may have to camp on a series of plateaus to rest and sit out storms. Having been on the mountain so long, we can barely remember the home in a far-off valley that we fled as it was progressively destroyed by forces we did not understand. But we know that each step brings us closer to a sheltered valley where we can make a new home."</em><font size="2"> - David Holmgren (2002) </font><font style="text-decoration: underline;" size="2">Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability</font><br></p><em></em></div> </div><br> </blockquote></div></body></html>