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Start: Mar 20 2011 1:00 pm
End: Mar 20 2011 6:00 pm

A Collaborative Day of Co-Creating the New Leadership and Organizational Structure of Transition Sebastopol

When: Sunday, March 20, 1 to 6 p.m.
Where: St. Stephens Church, 500 Robinson Way, Sebastopol
Suggested Donation: $10 to $20--No one turned away for lack of funds! 
 
Designing and launching Transition Sebastopol 2.0
 
This event is open to the participants of all Transition Sebastopol working groups. Please register for this important, not-to-be-missed event through the working group leaders. 
 
If you do not belong to a working group, but feel you should be at the event, please contact Wendy Taylor at 824-8989.
 
Transition Sebastopol is entering its cocoon. On this day TS participants will create the butterfly that will emerge.

Start: Mar 20 2011 7:00 pm

When: Sunday, March 20, 7:00 p.m. (Circle at 7:30)
Where: St. Stephens Church, 500 Robinson Way, Sebastopol
 
Come nourish and rejuvenate your Heart and Soul in an atmosphere of singing, sharing, poetry and meditation. We will sing songs from across the devotional landscape, and bask in the joy, love and community of being together in a heart space. 
This month’s theme is "Equinox: Death and Rebirth"!
This monthly event is specifically intended as a way to come together with our hearts. As we share in this way, we stabilize and grow our love in these times of greater concerns.

Bring your instruments, songs, poems and heartfelt expressions as you feel inspired, or just come and follow along. This is a sacred space event, facilitated to hold a deep and loving space for us to share.

Socializing will be before and after the event.

Bring snacks or drinks to share, firewood for the fire and cushions/blankets to sit on.

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Start: Mar 21 2011 6:00 pm

Sebastopol Collective Meditation
A casual community supported program for all Sebastasouls, willing to connect in silence, contemplation, and stillness.

Every Monday
6:00-6:45pm

6:00 - 1/2hr silent meditation
6:30- inspirational reading/ Sharing

Meditation is a resource for inner strength and resilience to enable us to respond wisely to challenges in our lives. This non-sectarian collective meditation will draw on the insights and inspiration from various spiritual traditions to support personal meditation practice and sacred space within our community.

ALL ARE WELCOME

St. Stephens Church
500 Robinson Way
Sebastopol

for information:
karmendraji@yahoo.com

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Start: Mar 24 2011 6:30 pm

A Wisdom Council Discussion Group of Transition Sebastopol 

Calling All Elders, Earth Elders, Wannabe Elders, Soon-to-become Elders, or Interested Baby Boomers on up! 


The Elder Salon is a nonhierarchical circle of peers. We’ll introduce the discussion with some thoughts from an elder voice or thought-provoking instigator to kick off our own discovery of what it is WE think and believe about the topic; what WE want and need now and in our future; what WE think should be the course of action and attitudes as we progress into and through our older years

WHY: There are a lot of new ideas about aging, staying youthful in body and spirit, and our role in society and local life. What have our generational contributions been and what is left undone? What are our mistakes and triumphs?

If we don’t want others to determine what becomes of us in very old age, we need to be proactive and begin making conscious, thoughtful choices about our future, how we want to live and be regarded. What role do elders want to play in the coming changes; what wisdom can we offer?

Reminder to all: the Elders Salon is regular and ongoing.

When:
Usually the fourth Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m.

Location:
Sequoia Village Cohousing Common House
459 Sequoia Lane, Sebastopol —
(off Covert Lane, opposite Pacific Market (Fiesta) and west a little, before Pleasant Hill Rd.)
Please PARK ON THE STREET!

see more about this group here: http://transitionsebastopol.org/aboutelderssalon

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Start: Mar 25 2011 7:00 pm
End: Mar 25 2011 9:30 pm

evening talk
with Carolyn Baker, PhD
March 25th 7:00 to 9:30pm
Center for the Arts, 6780 Depot Street, Sebastopol
$15 ($5 if you sign up for her workshop on the 26th)

As we awaken to the convergence of crises in which we live and will be living for many years, the most challenging and sometimes painful issue for people is not how to learn to grow gardens, store food, or re-skill for the future, but rather a very personal one regarding communicating with their loved ones about the future they envision. In this introductory talk, Carolyn will lay out some of the pertinent issues and some helpful tools for how to approach this charged and emotional area of our life.
She draws from her extensive experience coaching people on this issue and is also available for private sessions.

For more info on Carolyn, go to:
<http://carolynbaker.net/2011/01/05/relationships-in-the-long-emergency/>

email Julia at julfire@yahoo.com for more info

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Start: Mar 26 2011 9:00 am
End: Mar 26 2011 1:00 pm

West County Community Seed Bank meets monthly on the last Saturday of the month to share seeds, plants, resources and local gardening and food information.

Our vision is to create a network of seed savers that build a repository of locally grown seed for Sonoma County gardeners. The seed is offered free to anyone who will use it, and the goal is to have it be an exchange where people take seed and they bring seed to share.  In order to build the network of seed savers, we offer classes in seed saving and other food gardening skills.

The Community Seed Garden is a new project of the WCCSB, located at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Sebastopol.  We are caretaking a 1/2 acre garden the main purpose of which is to grow seed for the seed bank.  The seed garden allows us to grow more seed than many of our home gardens allow.  The garden will be used as an educational tool to teach about the seed saving process.

Creating a local source of seed is an important part of creating a healthy and resilient local food system. Seed is the beginning of the food cycle.
 

Start: Mar 26 2011 10:00 am
End: Mar 26 2011 6:00 pm

A day-long workshop with Carolyn Baker, Ph.D., author of Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization’s Collapse and the newly released Navigating the Chaos, exploring the great unraveling of civilization, what it means in our lives and how to best navigate it.

In this workshop we will explore:
The power of myth, story, drumming, and ritual to move us beyond the head & hand aspects of Transition to the deeper story it calls us to enter.
Moments of community which erupt out of collective opening to the evolutionary threshold which lies at the core of Transition.
Who we truly want to be in the face of a collapsing fossil fuel-based civilization and what this collapse may be calling us to do.
An opportunity to begin the journey of emotional and spiritual preparation for Transition, the Great Turning and the next culture beyond industrial civilization.
 
In this workshop, we will descend into the territory of the soul where the deeper story of transition may be lived and utilized to give the gifts that the earth is now asking for.

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