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Our everyday acts of giving and receiving are the foundations of our communities, and our economy.

Our moment-to-moment choices can either support our sense of connection to each other and our beautiful Planet Earth, or pollute our social and natural environments, and create alienated lifestyles that don't work for anyone.

How we think, speak and act is how we create a more abundant and mutually beneficial world for each other and ourselves...it is the daily 'commerce' of our hearts.

Come for a facilitated dialogue about our relationships, communication styles, and avant-garde, heart-centered forms of mutual exchange. We are putting love to work, sleeves rolled up and feet on the ground!

Facilitators:
Alpha Lo is a social architect who designs non hierarchical and gift economy systems. He co authored/edited the Open Collaboration Encyclopedia and helped found the Gift Circle Network that has virally replicated around the world. He writes the Open Collaboration blog.

Judith Katz is the co-founder of the Connection Action Project www.Facebook.com/ConnectionAction which offers mediations and trainings, produces events, and disseminates publications relating to the intersection of spirituality, social action and empathic communication (NVC).

Julia Bystrova has been an active member of Transition Sebastopol, is a local holistic practitioner, minister and philosopher/activist.

Friday afternoons at 3:30 at Coffee Catz, an informal gathering, usually outdoors, weather permitting. There has been a different assortment of folks at each one, usually 4 to 5 of us. We encourage you to try it some week.

Where: Coffee Catz, 6761 Sebastopol Avenue, Sebastopol

Drop in—arrival and departure times are loose.

First person there asks at the counter for the “Insurgent Elders” sign to put on the chosen table area so others can find you. You might check the far back room if the weather’s cold or wet and choose some shade if it’s warm outside. It’s possible no one would show up, but it hasn’t happened yet!

-- Alexandra & Lucky

The Transition Sebastopol Working Group Council will be meeting next on:

Wednesday, March 14th at 2pm 

Location: the Sebastopol Grange

6000 Sebastopol Rd. (Hwy. 12)
Sebastopol, CA 95472 

Read more about the Transition Sebastopol Working Group Council Meetings here.

Friday afternoons at 3:30 at Coffee Catz, an informal gathering, usually outdoors, weather permitting. There has been a different assortment of folks at each one, usually 4 to 5 of us. We encourage you to try it some week.

Where: Coffee Catz, 6761 Sebastopol Avenue, Sebastopol

Drop in—arrival and departure times are loose.

First person there asks at the counter for the “Insurgent Elders” sign to put on the chosen table area so others can find you. You might check the far back room if the weather’s cold or wet and choose some shade if it’s warm outside. It’s possible no one would show up, but it hasn’t happened yet!

-- Alexandra & Lucky

DATE CHANGE! LOCATION CHANGE!

Due to the exciting opportunity to have the film makers join us in March, we have changed the date for our March Movie Night to March 19th!

Location: The Sebastopol Grange Hall, 6000 Sebastopol Road (Hwy. 12 just east of the Chevron Station), Sebastopol 

 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?

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

Reminder to all: the Elders Salon is regular and ongoing on the fourth Thursday of each month.

Location:

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

Friday afternoons at 3:30 at Coffee Catz, an informal gathering, usually outdoors, weather permitting. There has been a different assortment of folks at each one, usually 4 to 5 of us. We encourage you to try it some week.

Where: Coffee Catz, 6761 Sebastopol Avenue, Sebastopol

Drop in—arrival and departure times are loose.

First person there asks at the counter for the “Insurgent Elders” sign to put on the chosen table area so others can find you. You might check the far back room if the weather’s cold or wet and choose some shade if it’s warm outside. It’s possible no one would show up, but it hasn’t happened yet!

-- Alexandra & Lucky

Mon 3/26 7pm to 9pm
(come early for tea and social)

Location:
Sebastopol Center for the Arts Library Room
6780 Depot Street  in downtown Sebastopol

$ donation ($10 suggested or pay what you can)

We are pleased to announce the follow up to our "Love in Action" event, which is a new and exciting group for creating our alternative economy and real ongoing mutual support for us in building resilience.

Though we are focusing on the simple gift circle to begin with, the idea is to allow the gift circle idea to include ways of creating a "Resilience Network". This means that this regular meeting will be a place where we can offer what skills we have to share, what we are doing to make ourselves more healthy and happy, emergency preparedness support, gardening and food help, energy sourcing, music and art sharing, and heck, who knows, maybe even barn raising!  This group will be what you make it.

We are beginning the group this next Monday, March 26th. We plan to do this on a regular basis and invite folks to step in to facilitate as well.

There is a new google group list for this, where you can post needs and wants between gatherings as well.  
You can sign up at:  http://groups.google.com/group/resilientliving 

or for more info you can send an email to:  resilientliving@googlegroups.com 

At the circle we will introduce the basic format and guidelines and then dive in! This will be a fully participatory evening, so consider what you might want to give and receive. We will also be basing future dates and frequency of our meeting on the desire of the group, but every other monday looks like a good place to start.  

This room does cost us to rent, so we will be soliciting a nominal fee based on what feels right to you.

Your Intiating Hosts:

Julia Bystrova 
Mary O'Conner

Here is a good overall look at Gift Circles by Alpha Lo, our local pioneer:
http://opencollaboration.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/gift-circle-overview-o...

Here is a good write up of some folks who are doing a gift circle:
http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-start-gift-circle.html

Here is a great site:
http://wiki.gifteconomy.org/Gift_Circle

Here is an article on gift circles by Charles Eisenstein:
http://www.realitysandwich.com/circle_gifts

And here you can read about resilience circles:
http://localcircles.org

The Transition Sebastopol Working Group Council will be meeting next on:

Wednesday, March 28th at 2pm 

Location: the Sebastopol Grange

6000 Sebastopol Rd. (Hwy. 12)
Sebastopol, CA 95472 

Read more about the Transition Sebastopol Working Group Council Meetings here.

Please join Transition Sebastopol for the screening of Renewal hosted by Heart and Soul at the French Garden Restaurant, March 28th at 7 pm.

"RENEWAL is the first feature-length documentary film to capture the vitality and diversity of today's religious-environmental activists. From within their Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and Muslim traditions, Americans are becoming caretakers of the Earth. With great courage, these women, men and children are re-examining what it means to be human and how we live on this planet. Their stories of combating global warming and the devastation of mountaintop removal, of promoting food security, environmental justice, recycling, land preservation, and of teaching love and respect for life on Earth are the heart of RENEWAL."

"The religious environmental movement is potentially key to dealing with the greatest problem humans have ever faced, and it has never been captured with more breadth and force than in RENEWAL. I hope this movie is screened in church basements and synagogue social halls across the country, and that it moves many more people of faith off the fence and into action".—Bill McKibben

Please stay with us for the conversation following the film. We will have representatives from different local faith-based communities telling us about the good work they are doing for our planet. Our conversations are fun and lively, and this one should should be great!

WHEN: Wednesday March 28 at 7:00 pm
WHERE: French Garden Restaurant; 8050 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol

Looking Forward to seeing you there!

Friday afternoons at 3:30 at Coffee Catz, an informal gathering, usually outdoors, weather permitting. There has been a different assortment of folks at each one, usually 4 to 5 of us. We encourage you to try it some week.

Where: Coffee Catz, 6761 Sebastopol Avenue, Sebastopol

Drop in—arrival and departure times are loose.

First person there asks at the counter for the “Insurgent Elders” sign to put on the chosen table area so others can find you. You might check the far back room if the weather’s cold or wet and choose some shade if it’s warm outside. It’s possible no one would show up, but it hasn’t happened yet!

-- Alexandra & Lucky

Where: St. Stephens Church, 500 Robinson Way, Sebastopol 

Schedule: 9:00-10:30: Work party in the Community Seed Garden

10:30: Class 

9:00- 1:00--Seed Exchange: Free seeds to share. (Seeds and resources are available the whole time.) 

Come by and check out our seeds or stay for the whole time!.

All classes and seeds are free to the community! 

On April Fools Day - Sunday, April 1, come to the Town Plaza car-free!

LITE Initiatives , Transition Sebastopol and the Sebastopol Farmers' Market invite you, your family and friends to travel by foot, skates, skateboard, bike or any other kind of human powered transit. Wear funny clothes, a “Car-Free Today!” note or some other kind of drive-less message.

Everyone who checks-in at the LITE Booth betweem 10am and 1pm will be entered in a raffle to win a $100 Community Bikes gift certificate as well as other prizes! You do not have to be present at 1pm.

Live out of town? Consider parking near a bike path and walking or biking in; carpooling is also an environmentally friendly option. Whatever your choice - be sure to make safety your top priority!

Want to help? Folks are invited to organize a downtown walk, a kid’s activity, or a critical mass bike ride. Contact Portia at lite@sonic.net .

Friday afternoons at 3:30 at Coffee Catz, an informal gathering, usually outdoors, weather permitting. There has been a different assortment of folks at each one, usually 4 to 5 of us. We encourage you to try it some week.

Where: Coffee Catz, 6761 Sebastopol Avenue, Sebastopol

Drop in—arrival and departure times are loose.

First person there asks at the counter for the “Insurgent Elders” sign to put on the chosen table area so others can find you. You might check the far back room if the weather’s cold or wet and choose some shade if it’s warm outside. It’s possible no one would show up, but it hasn’t happened yet!

-- Alexandra & Lucky

Transition Sebastopol and their new working group Catalyzing Intentional Communities and Neighborhoods cordially invite you to attend the very first community gathering of this kind.

Community means different things to different people. We are experiencing a tremendous surge in interest for creating communities of place. Members of our greater community are actively pursuing a more connected sustainable lifestyle by joining and/or creating community where they live, …sharing resources, time, and energy to create more resiliency on the home front.

We invite you to come, meet each other, and participate in a community-mapping event where we will be able to explore the possibilities.

When: Saturday, April 7, 2012 from 9-11am

Where:

St Stephens Church
500 Robinson Road
Sebastopol, CA 95472

For additional information: Call Angel @ 477-4564, or email wegreenyou@yahoo.com

Catalyzing Intentional Communities and Neighborhoods.