Since I really can't do the details justice I just wanted to communicate just how powerful shared vision can truly be. Doing this course with a group of similarly passionate people who, although they may have a different core motivation, believe that the future can be something wonderful and bright was just amazing.
So many of us in the environmental area are plugging away. We know that there are others out there doing good work but if it's not in our direct area of interest we tend to be so busy trying to get stuff done that we miss it. We miss the chance to support them when a decision goes against them and they need a lift. Not only do we miss the down times we also tend to miss the good. We often put aside the chance to celebrate successes with them so they feel re-energised and supported to move on. Through a deluge of work sometimes we loose our connection to the most important part of the process.. the people.
That support, that connectedness and the momentum to push the boulder off precipice and onto the cliff face is what Transition Towns Training works to provide. Along with a great amount of hard information about the inner workings of topic such as behavioural change, addiction, group dynamics and formation it is a very emotionally stirring experience for most people.
To manage to pull together a group of comparative strangers within two day into a positive, melded team you need to break down barriers. Some of this is done through ensuring that people are truly heard, sometimes it is done by pushing people to break social taboo's that tend to hold us apart from each other. Everything is done with permission for the person to choose their own level of engagement with each activity but it is done in a spirit of support and sharing to make the experience of stretching and risk just that little bit easier to make.
No matter what happens in the future this experience was something I will choose not to forget.
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