[Scpg] complete list of Transition Town trainings in the U.S.

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1. Introduction
 
This email message provides you with an update schedule of  training courses 
for Transition Initiatives in the United States.  The East Coast courses 
described in  Section 2 and the West Coast courses described in Section 3 have been 
organized  by Pamela Gray, PhD, Trustee of the Transition Network. You can 
reach Pamela by  email: _pamelagray at transitionnetwork.org_ 
(mailto:pamelagray at transitionnetwork.org) .  The email addresses of contacts for the East Coast and 
West Coast courses are  identified in each section. 
 
More information about this training is available by  “clicking on” the 
Transition Training link on the Home Page of the Transition  Towns Wiki at 
_http://www.transitiontowns.org/_ (http://www.transitiontowns.org/) .
 
The West Coast training schedule includes a 4-day Training  the Trainers 
course on Dec 11-14 in San Francisco.  More information about this course is  
available of the “Become a Trainer for Transition” portion of the following  
website: _http://transitiontowns.org/TransitionNetwork/TransitionTraining_ 
(http://transitiontowns.org/TransitionNetwork/TransitionTraining) .
 
Section 4 describes a Transition Initiative training course  being organized 
by Michael Brownlee in Boulder Colorado on September 13 and 14,  2008.  
Section 5 provides  preliminary information about a Transition Initiative training 
course which is  being organized in the Central Coast of California on January 
17 and 18 of 2009.  

2. East Coast Training Courses
 
The  Transition Network is pleased to be able to offer the East Coast 
Transition  Training in Portland Maine and Cambridge MA this October / November  
2008. 
The  Transition Center in Portland Maine is now booking the following two-day 
courses  in Training for Transition: 
October 4-5   Location: Portland, ME     Cost:  $200 
November 1-2  Location: TBD*,  Portland, ME     Cost: $200  
or Cambridge MA 
November  22-23        Location: TBD, Portland, ME  Cost: TBD 
or Cambridge MA 
*TBD = To be  determined. 
The  instructors are Alastair Lough, PhD and Pat Proulx-Lough MS, LMFT who 
have 36  years background in science and psychology, and have trained 
extensively with  the original UK Transition trainers, Naresh and Sophy. Together, they 
are  passionate and committed to teaching people how the Transition Model can 
be used  to tackle Climate Change and Peak Oil in your community.    
For  further details, please email _jlough1 at maine.rr.com_ 
(mailto:jlough1 at maine.rr.com)  or  call  (207) 228-6461. 
Please note: if  sufficient interest exists in your East Coast community for 
the two  day Training for Transition course, the instructors can travel to 
your area to  provide the course, reducing the course-carbon footprint, while 
making it more  affordable for participants. 
3. West Coast Training Courses
 
The  Transition Network is pleased to be able to offer the West Coast 
Transition  Training in Northern California and Portland Oregon this December 2008. 
We have  confirmed several training dates with Naresh and Sophy who put 
together the  original Transition Training courses in the UK. We will be adding more 
to the  list as time goes on.   
Training for  Transition (T4T) Portland: This 2-day  course is scheduled for 
Tuesday & Wednesday, December 2 & 3 in Portland,  Oregon. The exact location 
is yet to be confirmed. The cost of attending T4T is  $200. Contact David 
Johnson for more information or to register for this event _ecodave at mac.com_ 
(mailto:ecodave at mac.com) .   
Training for  Transition (T4T) San Francisco: This 2-day  course is scheduled 
Saturday & Sunday, December 6 & 7 in San Francisco.  It will be held in the 
Presidio area (a haven of thriving nonprofits near the  beaches of Crissy Field 
and the Golden Gate Bridge) in the Pachamama Alliance  conference room. The 
cost of attending T4T is $200. Contact Carolyne Stayton for  more information 
or to register for this event _transitiontraining at gmail.com_ 
(mailto:transitiontraining at gmail.com) .   
Training the  Trainers (TTT): The first 4-day course is  scheduled for 
Thursday through Sunday, December 11 - 14 also in San Francisco at  the Pachamama 
Alliance conference room. The cost of attending TTT is $500.   Contact Carolyne 
Stayton for more information or to register for this event 
_transitiontraining at gmail.com_ (mailto:transitiontraining at gmail.com) .   
For  anyone that takes both courses, the cost is $600. 
The trainers for both the West Coast T4T and TT courses  are Naresh 
Giangrande and Sophy Banks, both long-term contributors to Transition  Town Totnes 
initiative. 
We  would like to offer bursaries to those who want to take the training but  
are short of funds. If any of you are willing to make a donation over and 
above  the course fees, we will apply your donation to the bursary fund.   
4. Boulder  (Colorado) Training Course 
Training for  Transition (T4T) Boulder: This 2-day  course will be conducted 
in Boulder, CO on Saturday & Sunday, September 13  and 14. This course will be 
taught by Michael  Brownlee and Lynette Marie Hanthorn, co-founders of 
Transition Boulder County,  the first official Transition Initiative in North 
America. Michael and Lynette  each bring more than three years of on-the-ground 
relocalization experience to  the Transition Training, as well as long-time 
practice in organizational  development, group process technologies, and 
psychospiritual processes.  The cost of attending T4T is $200 if registration occurs 
before Sept 5 and $250  after Sept 5. More information is available at the 
following website:   
_http://www.bouldercountygoinglocal.com/transitiontraining.html_ 
(http://www.bouldercountygoinglocal.com/transitiontraining.html)    
5. California  Central Coast Training Course  
Training for  Transition (T4T) California Central Coast:  This 2-day course 
will be conducted at Dancing Deer Farm in Templeton, CA on  Saturday & Sunday, 
January 17 & 18 of 2009. Michael Brownlee of  Transition Boulder County will 
lead this course.  This course is being organized by  Jim Cole and Bob Banner 
in cooperation  with other for people interested in launching Transition 
Initiatives in San Luis  Obispo and Santa Barbara counties as well as other 
California Central Coast  communities. Please contact Jim Cole at _jim.cole at mac.com_ 
(mailto:jim.cole at mac.com)  for more information about  this event.  
6. Concluding  Remarks 
The Transition Network is hopeful that as many of you as  possible take the 
T4T training - it will really help to get Transition  Initiatives off the 
ground in your communities. And if we can increase the group  of Transition 
Trainers through attendees at TTT, we will be able to offer more  extensive and 
speedier coverage of the US. We have no time to  lose!
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