Tohidu Transition Center in Portland Maine

Note: Over the course of the next few months, we will be converting from a Meetup website to a Ning network where much of our work is out of state now.

Train-the Trainers Course
Last month we announced that Tohidu Transition will release an application and criteria for people actively interested in becoming Transition Trainers in regions not served at this time. In the interim, Transition US has signed a memorandum of understanding with the UK to be the National Hub, and the community of 22 Trainers is currently developing a decision-making process. So a Train-the- Trainers course will be delayed until it can be approved formally by these organizations. In the meantime, plesae feel free to register your interest in such a course as below.

Completion of a Training for Transition course, and commitment to participation in a Transition Initiative will be required. We are committed to bringing Transition to all people, and will be actively seeking people who can carry the model to a variety of social groups (ethnicity, economic, educational, rural/urban, political and faith).

If you would like to receive a notice of course details and application forms, when they become available,
please send an email to tohidutransition@gmail.com.
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The Tohidu Transition Center seeks to change in a positive way, the dream which we in the modern world are living by. For this purpose, we provide training in the Transition Model, which empowers people to unleash the collective genius of their community to directly tackle the dual issues of Climate Change and Peak Oil. In addition, we present the Awakening the Dreamer Symposium to raise awareness of our need to change as a society. Ultimately, we are seeking to encourage a more resilient, environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually fulfilling human presence on the planet.

For more information on the Transition Model, visit: http://www.transitiontowns.org, or
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/09/11/comm...

To preview the Awakening the Dreamer Symposium, visit http://awakeningthedreamer.org/content/view/115/135/

News:
In October, Alastair Lough co-instructed a Training for Transition event with Richard Kuhnel of Transition Sandpoint, at Spirit Hollow in North Bennington VT. This event was well received, and included participants from VT, NY and MA.

Also in October, Brenda Cartwright of Transition Ellsworth, Bill LaBerge and Theo Talcott of Transition Town Manchester VT, and Amory Weld of Transition Town Brunswick gave a Transition Workshop at the Maine Bioneers in Portland.

The following week, Alastair and Pat held a workshop at Bioneers, by the Bay 2009 in New Bedford MA.

In mid-September, Alastair Lough co-instructed a Training for Transition event with Michelle Collussi of the Canadian Centre for Community Renewal, at the Huron County Provincial offices in Clinton, Ontario, Canada. Forty two people from as far away as Alberta, participated in the two day program. This event was unique and refreshing in that many of the participants came from rural areas, where a strong sense of community still exists. The participants left, inspired and enthused by the Transition model.
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In July, Alastair and Tina Clarke co-facilitated a very successful Training for Transition event for 34 participants Montpelier, VT. Participants came from Montreal and 7 states. As a side note, Transition Montpelier is very active and creative. One of their more unique projects was the construction of a permaculture garden on the state house lawn.
http://transitionus.org/stories/transition-montpelier-sta...
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In June, Alastair co-instructed a Training for Transition event in June with Maggie Seeley (UNM Professor of Environmental Studies) and Zaida Amaral (member of Findhorn's initiative: Global Ecovillage Educators for Sustainable Earth). The training was held in the Hubble house, a 150 year-old adobe hacienda located in the Hispanic South Valley of Albuquerque. The hacienda had served as a trading in the mid 1800's, and has now been renovated to serve as meeting center, living history museum, and model site for sustainable farming. 36 people, representing 7 states, participated in the 2-day training, and left motivated and inspired to bring the Transition model to their areas.