Inner Transition helps us access these difficult questions and often contradictory answers within ourselves. Understanding the process of change and our responses to it helps us to return to a place where we feel empowered and able to take action. Including Inner Transition within a project usually strengthens and deepens the project. It can be included in different ways:
• A focus on personal resilience could include sharing individual practices for staying energised and supported, offering workshops, signposting to events and groups locally. This might include peer to peer support, mentoring or home groups for Transition activists as well as local people dealing with the impact of a changing world
• Any Transition group will benefit from attention given to good process, taking care of each other, skillful facilitation, and addressing difficult dynamics if or when they happen. Resources for developing your group, and strengthening relationships can be found in the Support Offer
• An Inner Transition group might offer events, workshops, discussions or other activities to the wider community. In different places these have included gift circles, seasonal celebrations, discussions on hot topics, showing and talking about films, book or study groups and many more
• In a Transition University, where people are used to active debate, initiatives such as Carbon Conversations or a Green Film Festival can help open up spaces where people feel safe to move beyond the academic to the personal
• Regular informal gatherings are also
extremely powerful as they foster
a sense of common identity and
shared purpose that is really
important for Inner Transition.
An example of such
gatherings are the Green
Drinks in St Andrews,
where once a month
Transition University
participants meet in the
local pub for drinks and
hanging out
We had a series of weekly
or bi-weekly potlucks,
which built a sense of shared community and allowed us to
debate ideas around how to create change in the world in general and
the university in particular.
Sharing food and building
friendships was key for
recruiting new members
and sustaining
old members.
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