You are invited to our RCDL Launch Party on the Autumnal Equinox! We have been cultivating and myceliating with an incredible set of partners to elevate the solutions needed for community resilience. Join us on the evening of September 21st for an introduction to our team and the suite of tools we have assembled for incubating bioregional strategies.

From major news sources to local papers, radio, and TV stations across the country and beyond, the sharing economy and community-driven civic engagement (such as Transition Initiatives) is big news. By following these 10 steps, you can join the buzz and capture media attention for your community project or event. Participants will also learn from each other's triumphs, challenges, and lessons learned in this interactive workshop.

As part of international Healthcheck Month, Mike Thomas of the Transition Network will lead a webinar on the Transition Healthcheck, in which he will explain how it works and how it can benefit your group.

In this TeleSeminar Adam will address how relocalization advocates can start to shape local public policy. Join permaculturalist, author, and social entrepreneur Adam Brock in this interactive workshop designed to take our local initiatives to the next level.

Please join us on May 2 for this lively presentation, where you'll be introduced to the principles of good governance and get a taste of the transformative world of Sociocracy. 

Faced with a confluence of crises, how can we truly unleash the power of community to create more just, resilient and thriving people and places? What practices and tools can we employ to inspire volunteers, create effective partnerships and mobilize the physical, financial and emotional resources to transform lives, neighborhoods and communities?

In Part 2 of the Power of Conflict series, we get into a deeper discussion of real-life examples of conflicts that you're currently struggling with. Our three panelists, all experienced with conflict resolution, will help us learn new strategies to move through conflict.

Nonviolence, when properly understood, is the key issue underlying virtually every problem in our present system. In this webinar we will go into the connection between person power, constructive program, and non-violent resistance (the three phases of our Roadmap) with the assistance of two presenters from the Metta Center for Nonviolence Education.

Conflict is one of the most essential sustainability skills, and will serve you in every walk of life. Join three practitioners from the Fellowship for Intentional Community, Gaia Education, and the Rocky Mountain Institute as they relay tips, tools and resources on how to reduce painful conflict and instead use conflict creatively to build connection and community.

People everywhere yearn for a thriving and vibrant community. Most of us recognize that this requires leadership from all of us, not just one or two.

In this lively presentation you'll be introduced to the principles of good governance and get an experiential taste of the transformative Circle Forward system. We’ll talk about forms of governance that can help our life or groups become resilient, moving forward with elegant coordination.

Join Chris Corrigan, Art of Hosting trainer and facilitator extraordinaire, for an important conversation around the art of Working With Core Teams. You will learn about principles and structures for planning inviting and working with core teams who oversee and host larger engagement projects.

It takes a lot of personal mastery and self hosting to stay present, creative, engaged, centered, brilliant and talking during these times. Teresa Posakony will share strategies and techniques that she has learned and developed while working to reduce ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and toxic stress generation to generation in her home state of Washington.

Want to deliver powerful presentations about Transition to groups in your community or region? Wish you had a template that you could personalize and customize? Feel like you could use some good pointers for getting started?

Elders' experience, wisdom, needs and capacities are different from younger folks' and are best identified, in this rapidly changing world, by themselves. Isolation is one of the most damaging potentials for this population and connection is something that helps us and our communities thrive. Many elders have learned how to live inclusively and to embrace difference, qualities that can reach beyond political, gender, and cultural differences.

This free one-hour webinar introduces the core principles, structure and practices used in Holacracy through real-world stories, presentation and interactive Q&A. Join us for a whirlwind tour of this compelling new social technology for organizations, and leave with a new vision for what's possible.

Join us September 10th at 11am Pacific for a webinar to learn from the challenges and successes of two community clean power visionaries: Lynn Benander of Co-op Power and Lyle Estill of Piedmont Biofuels.

The Effective Groups course is Nick's labor of love for Transition Initiatives - helping Transition Initiatives develop facilitation skills and tools to navigate the ups/downs of the various phases of group development - forming, storming, norming & performing.

Join us to explore a couple key models and perspectives from the Art of Hosting participative leadership practice.  Discover how the Art of Hosting practices can help you work more effectively and enjoyably together – in meetings and movements like Transition – to engage teams, organizations, and community stakeholders in meaningful conversations and actionable solutions.

We will cover some theory of complex decisions and explore various forms of leadership needed in different contexts. This will lead us into a discussion of the role of participatory leadership and dialogue based leadership in addressing complex challenges.

A shared story and history that gives a community a sense of itself — its struggles and lineage — can be an important source of resilience. From its own experience, a community can draw examples and role models for bouncing back from hardships. In this tele-seminar, we will explore ways of developing our story as communities in transition, and how important fresh narratives can be for unleashing a coherent transition town initiative.