Want to feel inspired and empowered to create your future?
Want to understand more about Transition Towns ideas, tools and processes?
You will come away from these two days, informed and full of possibility, with a greater understanding of how to support positive changes in your local community.
You will develop a vision and a deeper connection with this work and with others involved in transition town initiatives.
This is an opportunity to boldly step up… what we don’t take responsibility for, someone else will, but who and what vision do they hold . . .
When: Sat 11th and Sun 12th of July 2009
Where: The discreet setting of the Tui Retreat residential retreat venue in Waiatarua, Waitakere City (click for map)
What’s it about
Where are we, how did we get here, what do we want the future to look like, and how can we make it so?
What next?
Register your interest in being part of this event (or future events like it).
And read the outline and details of the event, where you will also find contact details if you need them.
The Facilitators
Gabrielle Young is passionate about community. She lives on Waiheke Island and has been an active member of that community for the last eight years. She has found that by living in a strong community she has discovered a life rich beyond measure.
She became involved in Transition Towns, because she sees it as a movement that will assist us to build community resilience in the face of our current economic and environmental challenges and sees it as a viable alternative to the economic individualism which has ripped the heart out of many communities internationally.
Gabrielle has a background in business and has been a business consultant for over seven years – she is an experienced facilitator, trainer and coach and works internationally in a wide variety of contexts. Gabrielle has completed a permaculture design course and currently has a large and productive vegetable and fruit garden, which feeds her family.
She is an active member of Transition Waiheke and works on several Transition projects there, including a relocalization of food production project and a campaign to retain the waste as well as being a member of the Waiheke core group. She has trained as a Transition Towns trainer and is a core member of both the national Transition Towns leadership and training groups.
She is passionate about assisting and facilitating communities to find local solutions which will increase their resilience and build their local economies.
Ron Sperber is very much at home at Earthsong Eco-neighbourhood in Ranui and in his two years there fWaitakere City has really grown on him. Founder of Earthwhile Ltd, he followed his dream and works in permaculture education and consulting. Earthwhile’s tagline says it all: “developing your good sense of humus“. He is on the steering group or executive for a variety of groups: Transition Ranui-Swanson; Transition Communities Waitakere; Transition Training Aotearoa Group; Transition Aotearoa Core Group; Permaculture in NZ.
The personal transition to permaculture and in late 2007 to Transition Towns followed an increasing concern about and dissatisfaction with the “business as usual” world he found himself in, one where greed, consumption and increasing individualism had replaced values such as sharing, community and resilience. Permaculture and Transition Towns approaches offered a positive path out of this, and Ron embraced this path wholeheartedly.
Ron’s background includes degrees in psychology and international communication, as well as training in permaculture. He has worked with and led many groups, in workshops and meetings as well as through having been a tourguide right around Aotearoa. Ron is passionate about building community through community gardens, earthbuilding and appropriate technology solutions – ways of doing things with tools that we can manufacture and maintain ourselves.
She is an active member of Transition Waiheke and works on several Transition projects there, including a relocalization of food production project and a campaign to retain the waste as well as being a member of the Waiheke core group. She has trained as a Transition Towns trainer and is a core member of both the national Transition Towns leadership and training groups.
She is passionate about assisting and facilitating communities to find local solutions which will increase their resilience and build their local economies.
