Transition to Resilience Training
We are creating a European Learning Partnership that brings together the expertise of different European organisations for lifelong adult education in the field of social, economical and ecological sustainability, funded by the EU Lifelong Learning Program.
The goal is to develop a 2-year learning journey (the Transition to Resilience Training) to support those who work in local government, NGO’s and the community in the creation of sustainable living environments, both urban and rural. The current situation of interlocking crises invites us to change the paradigms of the way we design, implement and manage successful projects for true sustainability. Our challenge is to find the next level of complexity that supports the ecological environment (cradle to cradle), a social environment that allows the variety of people to express their inner needs and an economic system that is based on resilience and quality rather than growth.
The partners are
- GEN-Europe
- Transition Network UK
- Sustainable Projects Ireland
- Center for Human Emergence, Netherlands
- Permakultur Institut, Germany
- The Hub, Belgium
- Findhorn Foundation, Scotland
- Associazione Dendera (Damanhur), Italy
This training works towards unleashing community creativity in setting up projects for sustainability (building community in cities, setting up Transition Town Initiatives, CO2-reduction programs, energy self-reliance in bioregions, fostering rural-urban village networks etc.)
It draws upon already existing trainings and methods like the Transition Town Training, the Powerdown Training, the Ecovillage Design Education, the Dragon Dreaming Training, the Permaculture Design Certificate Course and Spiral Dynamics Training.
The Learning Partnership develops intelligent design integrating these existing modules into a whole. The two-year long flexible course-design is interspersed with practical experience that the participants gain through setting up their own sustainable projects (Action Learning).
We are working within the context of the UN Decade for the Education for Sustainability, 2004-2014.
The successful transition to a live sustaining culture requires the active participation of many. The most underutilised resource we have is the good intentions and creativity of citizens, and their willingness to make a difference. The Transition to Resilience Training will liberate, channel and utilise this resource in constructive ways.
For more information, visit the TRT website.
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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