What's cool in the GTIA Portfolio...
- MIMIC THIS! When you get invited to events 3000 miles away (or 20 of them just across town), use COPY & PASTE with the really interesting events to seed your own community's plans for similar events. Why start from scratch.... Beg, borrow and mimic! More....
- Welcome recently added members. Check periodically to see if friends you have invited have joined.
- Find others members in your hometown, region, state, country. (E.g., Country=Austria or City, State = Vashon, WA)
- Produce a list of members who use keywords similar to your inerests when describing theirs (E.g.,Permaculture, intentional community).
- See LATEST ACTIVITY on GTIA for results of comprehensive scans of Transition activities around the globe.
- New links to Twitter via GTIA -- Twitter via #TransitionTowns. Twitter now displayed on GTIA Latest Activity.
- Experiment by clicking on TOP NEWS vs ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO SHARE in the center column -- two types of Latest Activity.
Welcome Members and Welcome Groups
WELCOME MEMBERS AND WELCOME GROUPS
The purpose of this page is to provide a repository where 1) members can express and gain support for their specific interests and skills and 2) existing groups can declare and gain support for their particular visioning of the future. As espoused by David Cooperrider’s Appreciative Inquiry technique, we set out to discover, dream, design and deliver.
Individual Members. Newcomers, feel free to use our new Member and Group Welcomes list to invite our Transition membership to interact with you. You may feel that you're new and just formulating your responses to issues of rebuilding community resilience and self-reliance -- no problem! We'll be honored to help you build something from scratch. Or you may have been professionally involved for many years with peak oil, zero waste, permaculture, financial security, localization, post carbon, local resilience, local trading -- no problem! We'll be delighted to build on something that's already working for you. Make it work for us too! Post your elevator pitch on Member and Group Welcomes. Be specific and as focused as you can be at this point. What do you have to teach us? If we handed you the microphone and made it so our whole membership would heed your message, what would you wish to say? Feel free to paste your key interest from your profile and spell out more fully what you would like to offer.
Supporting Your Skills and Interests. Use this page to engage members in your thing -- starting a new business with you, for example, or visiting your locality, providing training for your group, writing a curriculum for school children, engaging in research projects, studying a book with your immediate friends, sharing a ride to the next local training, organizing some aspect of your local community. Whatever it is that grabs your attention, awakens you periodically in the middle of the night, and demands that you DO SOMETHING! Please don't be bashful -- bashfulness is highly overrated and probably doesn't do a whit in addressing peak oil!
Existing Groups. You're a member of an existing Group that has been promoting your best global and local practices for 30 or 40 years already -- no problem! Join in! Describe here what your group has to teach all of us. How can we benefit from getting to know you... Knowing your group's gift is a prerequisite to streamlining and building on our collective efforts.
Building Our Respective Groups Social networking is past the point of it's early mantra of "friends meeting friends" -- it's time to promote "groups collaborating with groups." The primary benefit of Member and Group Welcomes is that you can invite others in this collaborative to work with you and your group -- for example, two localities in Illinois combine their group efforts in a joint meeting, city hall meets county transitioners, the Kenai Resilience group joins forces in a special project with Transition Town Montpelier Vermont, and so forth. The goal in groups meeting groups is to enhance the respective groups' reach and effectiveness, increaseing intra-group trust. Post your creative group-level suggestions on Member and Group Welcomes -- whatever it is that grabs your group's attention and demands that it DOES SOMETHING!
Feel free to lift some of the nuggets you have already included in your Profile. Different from the Profile, items you add to Member and Group Welcomes are interactive. The goal is to get other members to respond to and build on your best hopes for the future, thereby enriching all of us.
Add Yourself. Add Your Group.
Les Squires
LSquiresSkype
The purpose of this page is to provide a repository where 1) members can express and gain support for their specific interests and skills and 2) existing groups can declare and gain support for their particular visioning of the future. As espoused by David Cooperrider’s Appreciative Inquiry technique, we set out to discover, dream, design and deliver.
Individual Members. Newcomers, feel free to use our new Member and Group Welcomes list to invite our Transition membership to interact with you. You may feel that you're new and just formulating your responses to issues of rebuilding community resilience and self-reliance -- no problem! We'll be honored to help you build something from scratch. Or you may have been professionally involved for many years with peak oil, zero waste, permaculture, financial security, localization, post carbon, local resilience, local trading -- no problem! We'll be delighted to build on something that's already working for you. Make it work for us too! Post your elevator pitch on Member and Group Welcomes. Be specific and as focused as you can be at this point. What do you have to teach us? If we handed you the microphone and made it so our whole membership would heed your message, what would you wish to say? Feel free to paste your key interest from your profile and spell out more fully what you would like to offer.
Supporting Your Skills and Interests. Use this page to engage members in your thing -- starting a new business with you, for example, or visiting your locality, providing training for your group, writing a curriculum for school children, engaging in research projects, studying a book with your immediate friends, sharing a ride to the next local training, organizing some aspect of your local community. Whatever it is that grabs your attention, awakens you periodically in the middle of the night, and demands that you DO SOMETHING! Please don't be bashful -- bashfulness is highly overrated and probably doesn't do a whit in addressing peak oil!
Existing Groups. You're a member of an existing Group that has been promoting your best global and local practices for 30 or 40 years already -- no problem! Join in! Describe here what your group has to teach all of us. How can we benefit from getting to know you... Knowing your group's gift is a prerequisite to streamlining and building on our collective efforts.
Building Our Respective Groups Social networking is past the point of it's early mantra of "friends meeting friends" -- it's time to promote "groups collaborating with groups." The primary benefit of Member and Group Welcomes is that you can invite others in this collaborative to work with you and your group -- for example, two localities in Illinois combine their group efforts in a joint meeting, city hall meets county transitioners, the Kenai Resilience group joins forces in a special project with Transition Town Montpelier Vermont, and so forth. The goal in groups meeting groups is to enhance the respective groups' reach and effectiveness, increaseing intra-group trust. Post your creative group-level suggestions on Member and Group Welcomes -- whatever it is that grabs your group's attention and demands that it DOES SOMETHING!
Feel free to lift some of the nuggets you have already included in your Profile. Different from the Profile, items you add to Member and Group Welcomes are interactive. The goal is to get other members to respond to and build on your best hopes for the future, thereby enriching all of us.
Add Yourself. Add Your Group.Les Squires
LSquiresSkype
Tags: appreciative inquiry, cooperrider, group welcomes, member welcomes, new members
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Permalink Reply by Michael Horvath on
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Hi Everyone,
I'm so inspired by Transition's message and want to get involved. I live in NYC and am wondering if there is a NYC Transition Initiative? If not, I would love to touch base with other interested folks.
Cheers,
Michael
horvathmj@yahoo.com
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Permalink Reply by Cindee Karns on
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Hello from Anchorage, Alaska. We are just forming our initiative and understand that it will be an uphill battle with a state who's senator says, "We're all in the oil business." And a former governor who says, "Drill, baby, drill." It's so frustrating because we are at ground zero for climate change---oceans are rising, ice is melting, but few can see the need to change. But we are optimistic in our endeavor as we begin the education phase.
Personally I'm starting an Educational Center at my house, which is Alaska's only bioshelter, in the heart of the Chugach State Park, hoping to combine conferences with a connection to nature. My website is: http://sites.google.com/site/alaskanecoescapeedu/ Especially for kids who want to learn more about the bioshelter I live in, I do Virtual Skype Tours for classes: a water tour and a worm/composting tour. It's really fun to get kids to understand that they can make a difference even where they live.
I'm a teacher first and foremost and would love to share/swap knowledge with everyone else here.
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Permalink Reply by David Eggleton on -
The uphill battle paradigm is optional. If few can see the need to change, make attractions. It's much more fun! And you're doing it. Paint and, especially, welcome/celebrate pictures of new dimensions people might add to the area for the sake of adding new dimensions to the area.
The only change you must see is away from complacency about all eggs in one basket. When many agree that multiple baskets with eggs better serve the community, you've got the necessary likemindedness.
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Permalink Reply by Kate Veh on -
Hi All;
My name is Kate. We had a transition group here on the Kenai in the past year, although we didn't actually call ourselves a transition group. We called ourselves a sustainability group and gave ourselves the name "Kenai Resilience". The word "resilience" was adopted from The Transition Handbook. I'm a great fan of Rob Hopkins. He's like a rock star to me.
I'm still trying to figure out this site. I'd like to add the group Kenai Resilience. Or perhaps it's already been added somewhere around here?!?! I'll have to take a look around & find out. Take care!
Kate
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Permalink Reply by Jackson Davis on -
I'm new to Transition in Action and I'm very happy to see all the different features that you have incorporated into the website, enabling me to search and navigate with ease. However, I have one minor complaint. Why is it necessary to have the "What's cool in the GTIA Portfolio..." section displayed at the top when trying to see the results of a search. Once you've looked at it upon formulating the search, it shouldn't be necessary to have to scroll through it to get to the results. Just a suggestion.
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