Hey everyone - Interested in attending a fantastic 6-session discussion course? What if the course was about making a shift from oil dependency to local resilience? Yes? Read below for more information, meeting this Sunday!
I am writing because I want to invite you to join us for a 6-session discussion course based on The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience by the founder of the Transition Movement, Rob Hopkins. Our group will meet twice a month, with participants reading the assigned chapters on their own, then gathering to discuss the questions provided. The course has been designed to stimulate personal examination of our own cultural stories, and how we might collectively rewrite these stories to create a world that's better than the one we have now.
If you'd like, you can watch a video by Rob Hopkins, describing the concepts behind the book. It has been highly recommended to me as a resource for learning how to live more cooperatively, in ways that discourage dependence on oil and encourage a more holistic interdependence on each other and the earth. According to Jerry Mander, founder/director of the International Forum on Globalization and author of In the Absence of the Sacred, "There is no more important book than this one for any community seeking change toward ecological sustainability."
An introductory orientation will be held at my home in the U-District:
4036 7th Ave. NE
Seattle, WA 98105
on Sunday, March 13th
from 6:00pm-8:00pm
At the orientation, participants will receive the complete discussion course booklet, and will decide where and when they wish to meet for the six discussion sessions.
Please feel free to pass this on to other friends, family, etc.! Group size is limited to 12 people, but if enough people attend the orientation meeting, more than one group can form. Participants will need to have access to a copy of the The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins. The course fee is $3 to cover printing cost for the Discussion Course Guide.
As the author, Rob Hopkins, writes: "...if we wait for the government, it'll be too little, too late; if we act as individuals, it'll be too little; but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time."
Please RSVP to me (joanna_8689@yahoo.com or 206-679-9022) if you're interested and plan on joining us on the 13th. Hope we can walk this journey together!
Peace,
Joanna
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