Liens

Articles

Catégories

Transition février Transition Network newsletter

Is this email not displaying correctly?
View it in your browser:
http://www.transitionnetwork.org/news/2016-02-04/february-2016-transition-network-newsletter

Transition Network
The Transition Network Newsletter

FEBRUARY 2016
Supporting community-led responses to climate change
and shrinking supplies of cheap energy,
building resilience and happiness.

Our main newsletter feature this month is on Burnout – what it is both individually and for groups, and more importantly, what we can do about it; there are also stories on how making drinks has helped create community and pointers to a local economy; and book reviews including of an acclaimed new book ‘The Urban Farmer’.

 


BURNOUT TALES
‘Burnout Tales’ of those who’ve burn out, and found a way out the other side.

‘Burnout is a Risk Where People Are Passionate About What They Do’
There’s a saying that “in order to burn out, you need to first be on fire ». Burnout is a risk where people have a strong sense of passion behind what they do. In this interview with Chris Johnstone, a resilience specialist and writer, author of ‘Active Hope’ and ‘Find your Power’, he talks about how when we get down, how do we climb back out again?
www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins/2016-01/interview-chris-johnstone-burnout-risk-where-people-are-passionate-about-w

‘My name is Claire and I’m in recovery from addiction to activism’
Transition Network’s new Inner Transition Coordinator shares about her transformational experience of recovering from extreme burn out.
www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins/2016-02/my-name-claire-and-im-recovery-addiction-activism
Chrissie GodfreyThe risks of the ‘Energy of Yes’
Chrissie Godfrey was formerly a co-ordinator of Transition Town Taunton (which she co-founded in 2008), but in 2012 suffered from a serious case of burnout. We asked her to tell her story, and we are deeply grateful for her honesty and for sharing her experience:
www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins/2016-02/burnout-tales-chrissie-godfrey-risks-energy-yes

Transition and Burnout:
the Australian experience

That so many of us in Transition experience burnout suggests we haven’t quite achieved the balance says Clare Power, a Lecturer at Western Sydney University.
www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins/2016-01/transition-and-burnout-australian-experience

wreath making

On Managing Burnout

A Winter Solstice wreath-making party in Albany, CA. was a wild success with 50 adults and children having a whale of a creative time declares Catherine Sutton. « And wasn’t even there! My burnout is officially over. »
www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins/2016-01/catherine-sutton-managing-burnout-albany-ca

 

‘Neighbouring’:
a Burnout and Build Up Again Story

Thriving is about ‘Neighbouring’, a new verb that invented by the Transition Initiative of Linda-a-Velha (in Portugal). They share their story of our particularly unique and mysterious path, one that invites us to reflect deeply on the mysteries of human nature, of relationships and of what really matters, of what is essential in order for us to thrive.
www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins/2016-01/neighbouring-burnout-and-build-again-story-0

Balance or Burnout?
Republishing the Editorial piece from Sophy Banks that focuses on the causes of burnout – the physical, the personal, the cultural and some of the unconscious processes that are much harder to spot.
www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins/2016-01/editorial-sophy-banks-balance-or-burnout

activity logoHow Sustainable Is Your Group?
Here is a set of activities that will help your group to make decisions, perhaps one of the trickiest of things for Transition groups to do! Step-by-step guide here.
www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins/2016-01/activity-fortnight-how-sustainable-your-group


OUT AND ABOUT

The unstoppable rise of ‘Demain’
The film ‘Demain’ (‘Tomorrow’) is proving to be one of the most remarkable catalysts for Transition and other bottom-up approaches that has ever been made. A review in Le Monde described the film as « a phenomenon of society » adding « In a France darkened by crisis and terrorism, this documentary is a ‘breath of hope’.
www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins/2016-02/unstoppable-rise-demain
"To see the world through a glass of beer..." Credit: Arlo Murray Hopkins« To See the New Economy Through a Glass of Beer… »
Rob Hopkins reflects on the explosion of the craft beer movement and how, in many ways, it models the kind of local, appropriate scale economy that Transition seeks to create.
www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins/2016-01/see-new-economy-through-glass-beer

The Story of Unthinkable Drinkable Brent
One day, in the park, Leo Johnson got overtaken by an old Italian man. « Excuse me, » he said to him on impulse, « but do you know how to make wine? » The inspiring story of how making « borderline undrinkable » wine brought a street together.
www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins/2016-02/story-unthinkable-drinkable-brent

Kilburn exhibitionLearning From the Past in Kensal and Kilburn
Transition Town Kensal to Kilburn recently held a celebration of a great oral histories project they had recently completed, ‘Old Stories for New Times: inspiration for sustainable living’.
www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins/2016-01/learning-past-kensal-and-kilburn


BOOK REVIEW

book coverThe Urban Farmer:
growing food for profit on leased and borrowed land.

« Curtis Stone’s brilliant new book ‘The Urban Farmer’, is one of the most important contributions to Transition thinking over the last 10 years » says Rob Hopkins. It sets out in great depth and detail what it could look like if large swathes of land in our towns and cities hosted beautiful, diverse, abundant gardens growing good food and viable incomes.
www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins/2016-01/book-review-urban-farmer-curtis-stone
Transition In Depth

cover and authorsA recently published book ‘The Secure and the Dispossessed: how the military and corporations are shaping a climate-changed world’  asks the question “What if the world’s leaders have decided it’s easier to deal with the impact of climate change than to tackle the underlying causes? It has a chapter about ‘The Transition movement in global perspective’ which you can read here:
www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins/2016-02/transition-movement-global-perspective-thomas-henfrey-justin-kenrick

 


COMING UP

Transition National hub for England and Wales
5 March, London
A group of Transitioners are coming together to develop a Transition National hub for England and Wales, we are meeting to begin to discuss how this development might happen. If you are interested in getting involved and/or coming to this meeting then please sign up here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transition-hub-for-england-and-wales-initiating-meeting-tickets-21340706628

More events
https://www.transitionnetwork.org/events


QUOTE OF THE MONTH

‘Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming’.
Alice Walker


 

Follow Transition Network on Twitter 
twitter.com/#!/transitiontowns

Be a Friend on Facebook
www.facebook.com/transitionnetwork

Film Reviews
www.transitionnetwork.org/films

Transition Youtube Channel
www.youtube.com/transitiontowns

Find previous editions of the newsletter here
transitionnetwork.org/tags/transition-network-newsletter

Subscribe to Transition newsletter:
tinyurl.com/transitionregister

This newsletter is published on the first Friday of each month.

Editor: Mike Grenville

CONNECT WITH US

In Transition Movie

The Transition Companion cover

For COP21, Transition Network produced a beautiful, full-colour 96 page book, ‘21 Stories of Transition‘, telling the stories of 39 Transition groups in 15 countries and the remarkable things Transition groups are doing.  It’s indispensible stuff.  You can read all the stories, and order your copy here.

CONTACT US


Transition Network

43 Fore Street

Totnes, Devon TQ9 5HN

United Kingdom

Add us to your address book

SHARE THIS EMAIL


Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Google Plus Instapaper Digg Delicious Reddit StumbleUpon MySpace Netvouz NewsVine Slashdot Technorati BlinkList Design Float Webnews.de

Copyright © 2016 Transition Network, All rights reserved.
You subscribed to this list through Transition Network
Our mailing address is:

Transition Network

43 Fore Street

Totnes, Devon TQ9 5HN

United Kingdom

Add us to your address book

Les commentaires ne sont pas possibles.