Inner Transition - connecting and healing
Coming together to take action, support each other, share skills, knowledge and resources is fundamental to Transition. Inner Transition offers tools to help us work together, bridge differences and depend on each other more as we shift from resource intensive systems to more local lives and a greater potential to share what we have. This is an aspect that makes Transition different from many other sustainability projects and something you may want to bring in a potential collaboration with already existing projects.
Because let’s face it, it can be very scary, challenging, and difficult to let go of the paradigm we were brought up in, in which growth and affluence are seen as the good life, and progress (individual and societal) is considered in materialistic terms. We are talking about re-examining the fundamental assumptions of our society - for example, it is not only about reducing air miles, but also questioning what function travelling plays in our identity and relationship with the planet. After all, sustained behaviour change happens when it is motivated by a strong inner belief, rather than a slightly altered habit.
Transition Network Resources
On the Transition Network website there are some great
Inner Transition resources:
Group and personal sustainability
Inner Transition activities for meetings
A number of short films about different aspects of Inner Transition can be seen on YouTube.