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The next day began with a great exercise, mapping the Transition movement physically in the hall. Firstly people were asked to arrange themselves geographically as a huge physical map of the world. Sophy and I then walked among the assembled throng, stopping in various places to ask how their Transition initiative is going, and so on.
200 people from across the UK, as well as from Australia, the US, Sweden, Japan, Ireland and France gathered together near Cirencester for the second Transition Network conference, an uplifting and inspiring day bringing together of the experience and stories of those catalysing Transition projects in their very diverse cultures and settings.
“When the World Runs Out of Oil”. Swansea Evening Post. 5th April 2008.
(Interesting to see how the End of Suburbia is still, a few years after its release, acting as an inspiration to groups at the early stages of Transition processes, as the article below attests. Wales has become a real hotbed of Transition activity, good luck to Swansea on their Transition journey, they clearly have some good sympathetic local media, which is a good starting place…)
Use this tool when you want to have a deep exploration of an issue. It allows an open forum while keeping a focused discussion. Use this for groups of minimum 10 – maybe 100, perhaps even more. The question is important – keep it open, non-judgemental and non-directive. Set a time limit – about 1.5 hours is usually plenty. Set up five or six chairs in the centre of the room in a circle, facing inwards towards each other. Arrange further seating around this central circle, also facing inwards. Everyone starts sitting on the outer chairs.
I realise I am proving a fairly hopeless Positive Energy blogger, as I am already a day behind with my blogging duties (Rowan is being far more productive than I!), so I will try and catch up. On arriving at Findhorn it was suggested to me by Jonathan Dawson that I might in fact tear up the presentation that I had brought with me and instead do something which reflected the journey that the event took me on. It turned out to be a great suggestion, but it did mean that most of yesterday afternoon, the Open Space sessions, I missed, as I was working out my presentation. The morning, however, featured two wonderful presentations, by Megan Quinn (left) and Jonathan Dawson.
