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Start: Apr 10 2011 12:00 pm
End: Apr 10 2011 5:00 pm
with Trathen Heckman, TransitionUS
and Julia Bystrova, Transition Heart and Soul
How do we look fully into the face of what is going on in the world while staying grounded and centered and finding some peace?
How do we accept these difficult concerns and yet stay in our hearts and choose effective action?
How do we know what is the right direction for us to go, where to invest our time and energy?
How do we live our lives in such a way that it is filled with meaning, purpose and joy in such uncertain times?
More than ever, we need to find and strengthen our inner resources and have effective ways of responding when fear and confusion show up.
This Sunday afternoon workshop will explore these questions and offer some of the most effective techniques, practices and tools for achieving greater inner resiliency, clarity and peace of mind/heart.
Additionally, some of the subjects covered in this series will be:
- Spiritual Emergency: Finding deeper meaning when everything is falling apart
- Voluntary Simplicity: Getting your life back for that which is most important to you
- Emerging Consciousness: What is this “awakening” everyone keeps talking about?
- The Age of Responsibility: How we are growing up as a society and why we need to.
- Personal Ecology: The landscape of your life and how to effectively utilize your gifts
Sunday April 10th 12-5pm $30 suggested donation
Sebastopol (location given when you register)
Call 707-321-0644 or email to julfire@yahoo.com to register
This class is part of an ongoing series named the Emergence Preparedness Trainings
Next class will be on June 25th.
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Start: Apr 11 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
6:00-6:45
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, including those facing us in the era of peak oil, climate change, and energy descent. This meditation evening creates space for shared silence and stillness within our community, honoring inspiration and insights from various spiritual traditions.
ALL ARE WELCOME
St. Stephens Church
500 Robinson Way
Sebastopol
for information:
karmendraji@yahoo.com
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Start: Apr 12 2011 7:00 pm
End: Apr 12 2011 9:00 pm
Presented by Jerry Allen and Suzie Gruber
Chris Martenson’s Crash Course describes the interdependence & the converging challenges of the 3 E’s: Economy, Energy and the Environment. Chris explains the fundamental structure of our Energy currency and our debt situation, shedding “light on the limits of our present economic model of infinite growth as we face the realities of a planet with finite resources.”
While viewing the 45-minute video version of the Crash Course, we will weave group discussion and music in among the presentation, in order to deepen our understanding of the current crisis we face and to open a pathway to prepare and protect our families and our community. Please come join us.
We are pleased to hold this event at the Sebastopol Grange, with the endorsement of Transition Sebastopol, two organizations working on building local community resilience. For more information about the Crash Course, go to www.chrismartenson.com .
When: Tuesday, April 12, 7 to 9 p.m.
Where: Sebastopol Grange, 6000 Sebastopol Road/Highway 12
For more information about this event, please call (707) 888-9646
or e-mail suzie@suziegruber.com
Start: Apr 12 2011 7:00 pm
Sonoma County is creating over 1000 actions to grow food, conserve water and save energy on the weekend of May 14 and 15th, as part of the 350 Home and Garden Challenge- its about creating resilient sustainable lives and building community. We need your help to achieve this goal. Each region is organizing and creating projects and getting the word out in their community. Transition Sebastopol needs you to do this in West County.
Tuesday April 12th 7 pm
St Stephen's Church, 500 Robinson Rd.
Please come to an organizing meeting, help generate ideas and pull some creative, inspiring actions together.
Some ideas we are talking about:
- A Water and Energy Saving Wagon Brigade going door to door giving out low flow shower heads and CFLs
- A Bicycle Brigade going around neighborhoods helping gardens emerge or going to all the community gardens and helping at work parties.
-A major lawn burial and garden installation on public land- maybe Spooner Park
- a mini food forest featuring Gravenstein Apples on a public corner that is a watered lawn now
- a neighborhood laundry to landscape greywater installation- a class in the morning and teams going out and helping one another install ( looking for a neighborhood that wants to take this on)
Got an idea, inspired by ours, have skills to help- please come to our meeting
For more information on the 350 Home and Garden Challenge or to register an action you are going to take to help us reach 1000 go to dailyacts.org !!!
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Start: Apr 14 2011 2:00 pm
End: Apr 14 2011 8:00 pm
AN INVITATION TO WEST COUNTY ARTISTS WHO RESONATE WITH TRANSITION MOVEMENT VALUES!
When: Thursday, April 14, 2 to 8 p.m.
Where: Sequoia Village Cohousing Common House, 459 Sequoia Lane, Sebastopol— off Covert Lane, opposite Pacific Market (Fiesta) and west a little, before Pleasant Hill. PARK ON THE STREET!
TRANSITION ART BRIGADE (working title as of now) is in early stages of formation. The first meeting for interested ARISTS OF ALL KINDS is scheduled for Thursday, April 14, 2-4 pm at Sequoia Village Cohousing common house.
ARTISTS OF ALL KINDS means visual artists, musicians, poets, dancers, fashionistas, performance artists — all kinds— are invited to come out and play!
The group will self-determine how they want to organize and operate, but may choose to be project-driven or to do pop-up art in different places, some performance, some visual, and so on. They could also operate as a Transition-related cultural arts support group. We do have an exhibit in mind for late summer/early fall.
We anticipate that this group will choose to participate as musicians, poets, visual artists, performance artists in the TRANSITION STYLE project planned for later this year. For more information about this, contact Alexandra (ahart@sonic.net or 707/827-3781) or Julia (julfire@yahoo.com or 707/321-0644), or COME NEXT THURSDAY!
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all day
We are set to march in the Apple Blossom Parade April 16.
This is our chance to show the broader Community about Transition Sebastopol and the possibility for a brighter more connected future. The hope is that all the working groups will want to represent themselves by marching (or riding) with a sign or two or perhaps a playful demonstration if there is energy for it. Right now the plan is to do the same as last year with brown and green clothing and a couple of gardens on wheels along with and electric car and bicycles. Some ideas we have heard so far include; a cage of chickens being whipped for the safari theme, a solar cooker in a wheelbarrow with a "chef", if you just want to come pass out flyers about your groups that's great too.
Contact Ariel 824-6909 for more details.
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