Open Heart……Open Mind
A deep ecology event based on the work of renowned international practitioners Joanna Macy and John Seed.
Transition Mount Alexander invites you to a special event to celebrate the inaugural gathering of our new Heart and Soul Working Group. This event is part of the Transition Town course being held at Castlemaine Community House.
When – Saturday August 7th
Time – 10.00am (for a 10.30am start) – 4.30pm
Where – Muckleford Community Hall, Muckleford/Walmer Rd Muckleford
Enquiries, car pooling and bookings – Jacinta Walsh 0412 759942 jacinta@consentric.com.au
Bookings – Castlemaine Community House 5472 4842
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Friday, February 27, 2009
Training for Transition
February 28 – March 1, 2009
What we would like you to think about before the training
1) Any information on your Transition Town that you can share, posters you have used, leaflets, brochures, any printed/audio/visual material that you have used or assisted in your TT initiative. This will be a mutual learning environment!
2) Your story is important. Take some time to reflect on your journey regarding Transition.. When did you realise that we needed to make big changes to the way we live.. How did you hear about Transition and what got you interested? Why do you want to be part of a Transition process?
3) Pre course exercise – The Need For Awareness Raising
Have a look at:
• One page of a newspaper
• A few pages of a magazine (include advertisements)
• One news programme on the radio or TV
• (Or any other half an hour of listening or viewing)
For each of the articles or items jot down the main story in a few words
What assumptions about the world underlie the content? What story or beliefs are presented in the mainstream media?
Additional background materials
You may want to read more before you come, here a suggestion:
http://transitionnetwork.org/Primer/TransitionInitiativesPrimer.pdf
Or The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins
A few details about the weekend:
What to bring
Please bring along lunch to share with us (something that does not require heating). Bring along a water bottle and anything you need to make yourself comfortable.
We will provide tea, coffee and local fruit.
Timing
Please arrive after 8.30am to start promptly at 9am
We will break for Lunch at 1pm and finish for the day at 5pm
janet@consentric.com.au
jacinta@consentric.com.au
What we would like you to think about before the training
1) Any information on your Transition Town that you can share, posters you have used, leaflets, brochures, any printed/audio/visual material that you have used or assisted in your TT initiative. This will be a mutual learning environment!
2) Your story is important. Take some time to reflect on your journey regarding Transition.. When did you realise that we needed to make big changes to the way we live.. How did you hear about Transition and what got you interested? Why do you want to be part of a Transition process?
3) Pre course exercise – The Need For Awareness Raising
Have a look at:
• One page of a newspaper
• A few pages of a magazine (include advertisements)
• One news programme on the radio or TV
• (Or any other half an hour of listening or viewing)
For each of the articles or items jot down the main story in a few words
What assumptions about the world underlie the content? What story or beliefs are presented in the mainstream media?
Additional background materials
You may want to read more before you come, here a suggestion:
http://transitionnetwork.org/Primer/TransitionInitiativesPrimer.pdf
Or The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins
A few details about the weekend:
What to bring
Please bring along lunch to share with us (something that does not require heating). Bring along a water bottle and anything you need to make yourself comfortable.
We will provide tea, coffee and local fruit.
Timing
Please arrive after 8.30am to start promptly at 9am
We will break for Lunch at 1pm and finish for the day at 5pm
janet@consentric.com.au
jacinta@consentric.com.au
Showcasing Castlemaine Program
Showcasing Castlemaine
Inaugural Regional Sustainable Living Festival Event
Thursday 19 February 2009 9.15=1.05pm
Ray Bradfield Room, Victory Park, Castlemaine
Hosted by Transition Mount Alexander
Showcasing Sustainable Castlemaine – is it all green? Great sustainability ideas, enormous fun, learning for recycling in YOUR homes and communities
9.15 Participants arrive, Alistair on Fiddle
9.40 Opening – Mount Alexander Shire Council Mayor, Cr Philip Schier.
9.55 Welcome and notices – Transition MA: Carol McDonough
10.00 Mount Alexander working towards healthy landscape, secure water futures, and food
Presenters: Cr Philip Schier*- securing water futures, Nick Barber Don KRC – food processing for wide markets, Phillipa Calwell*, Drought Assistance Coordinator, MASC- securing food futures, maintaining farm communities in our drying climate
Facilitator: Ted and Margaret Levecke, Castlemaine Rotary and Inner Wheel.
10.30 The Blenders
10.50 Mount Alexander working towards safe climate
Presenters: John Anthony, MASC- the MASC GAP; Mike Hall MASG; Janet Phillips, C500 + TransitionMA: How we create safe climate; Bronwen Machin CVGA- Solar Cities
Panel Facilitator: Mez Woodward, The Futures Factory
11.20 Flautasia
11.35 Mount Alexander working towards ensured livelihood
Presenters: Mount Alexander Business Network members from Barkers Street – Wayne Hollis* of Good Foods, Karen Nancarrow* of The Down to Earth Store; Katie Finlay*, Mount Alexander Fruit Gardens; Jo Middleton MASC HACC Climate Change Project: increasing livelihood of low income householders
Panel Facilitator: Dr Darryl Coulthard Deakin University
12.05 Surprise
12.20 Mount Alexander working towards community well being for ensured lifestyles
Presenters: Dave Collins, Officer in Charge, Castlemaine Police Station; Ensuring community wellbeing; Vic Say*, Refugee Home Tutor Scheme: Resettlement ; Ron Moore*, Castlemaine Community House Coordinator; Building community resilience in hard times.
Panel Facilitator: Jacinta Walsh, Consentric Facilitation
1.01 Action steps, thank yous
1.05 In Victory Park performances; go Buy YO lunch and return to park; DYI tours around towns – pick up handouts from table. MAKE SURE you visit Library Mechanics Lane and gaze on Sudanese silk scarves. MP3 Player and guide around town from information @ Market Building, refundable $20 deposit. Watch videos in Market Building!!
Inaugural Regional Sustainable Living Festival Event
Thursday 19 February 2009 9.15=1.05pm
Ray Bradfield Room, Victory Park, Castlemaine
Hosted by Transition Mount Alexander
Showcasing Sustainable Castlemaine – is it all green? Great sustainability ideas, enormous fun, learning for recycling in YOUR homes and communities
9.15 Participants arrive, Alistair on Fiddle
9.40 Opening – Mount Alexander Shire Council Mayor, Cr Philip Schier.
9.55 Welcome and notices – Transition MA: Carol McDonough
10.00 Mount Alexander working towards healthy landscape, secure water futures, and food
Presenters: Cr Philip Schier*- securing water futures, Nick Barber Don KRC – food processing for wide markets, Phillipa Calwell*, Drought Assistance Coordinator, MASC- securing food futures, maintaining farm communities in our drying climate
Facilitator: Ted and Margaret Levecke, Castlemaine Rotary and Inner Wheel.
10.30 The Blenders
10.50 Mount Alexander working towards safe climate
Presenters: John Anthony, MASC- the MASC GAP; Mike Hall MASG; Janet Phillips, C500 + TransitionMA: How we create safe climate; Bronwen Machin CVGA- Solar Cities
Panel Facilitator: Mez Woodward, The Futures Factory
11.20 Flautasia
11.35 Mount Alexander working towards ensured livelihood
Presenters: Mount Alexander Business Network members from Barkers Street – Wayne Hollis* of Good Foods, Karen Nancarrow* of The Down to Earth Store; Katie Finlay*, Mount Alexander Fruit Gardens; Jo Middleton MASC HACC Climate Change Project: increasing livelihood of low income householders
Panel Facilitator: Dr Darryl Coulthard Deakin University
12.05 Surprise
12.20 Mount Alexander working towards community well being for ensured lifestyles
Presenters: Dave Collins, Officer in Charge, Castlemaine Police Station; Ensuring community wellbeing; Vic Say*, Refugee Home Tutor Scheme: Resettlement ; Ron Moore*, Castlemaine Community House Coordinator; Building community resilience in hard times.
Panel Facilitator: Jacinta Walsh, Consentric Facilitation
1.01 Action steps, thank yous
1.05 In Victory Park performances; go Buy YO lunch and return to park; DYI tours around towns – pick up handouts from table. MAKE SURE you visit Library Mechanics Lane and gaze on Sudanese silk scarves. MP3 Player and guide around town from information @ Market Building, refundable $20 deposit. Watch videos in Market Building!!
Sustainable LIving Festival: Showcasing Castlemaine Press Release
Showcasing Castlemaine: Local Sustainable Living Festival
Thursday 19 February 2009
Showcasing Sustainable Castlemaine – is it all green? Great sustainability ideas, enormous fun, learning for recycling in YOUR homes and communities.
Come to the Ray Bradfield Room,
At the informative morning session in the Ray Bradfield Room, there will be panels interspersed with music talking about sustainable impact of the core 'business' of each group/agency/in the Shire – and beyond (e-businesses, produce/products, tourism etc). The panels will be of
Be surprised as the event spills over into
Our United Nations World Environment Day Awards 2008 and the Sustainability Group 'Carbon Heroes' posters will be on display. Pick up a wide range of regional sustainability and history resources including a leaflet of self-directed afternoon activities which showcases further examples of shelter (sustainable housing, cluster housing, eco- communities), 'closed loop' local water systems, organic food production and sales, community arts hub, town mural, market information centre and ipod walking tours (ipod refundable $20 deposit).
Buy lunch in our many cafes and restaurants or BYO lunch where speakers will be available to talk further with participants. To participate in this exciting Sustainable Living Festival Regional Event, we suggest you book at our bookings hub and project partner The Down to Earth Store at
The complete timetable/ program will shortly be available from The Down to Earth Store info@thedowntoearthstore.com.au or from transitionma@gmail.com
Supported by Mount Alexander Shire Council, hosted by Transition Mount Alexander, we thank our partners and participants who include Mount Alexander Sustainability Group, Castlemaine Community House, Castlemaine Library, Castlemaine Police, Mount Alexander Business Network members: The Down to Earth Store, The Bike Vault, Good Foods, Council staff. Melbourne City Council is major sponsor of The Sustainable Living Festival,
Contact Carol McDonough event coordinator for Transition Mount Alexander on 0427 204 524.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
COMING SOON: Castlemaine Sustainability ‘Trains&Stations’
Castlemaine Sustainability ‘Trains&Stations’
February 19 2009 9-2 pm + optional 2-4pm
These ‘Trains’ will be 4-6 walking or bikeriding ‘trains’ with ‘driver’ and conductor’. Starting from Castlemaine Railway Station, the trains will set off to the ‘stations’ – community agencies, businesses, shire buildings (including walking to free bike hire just up the street at MASG- Mount Alexander Sustainability Group presenting their exciting partnership programs and initiatives). There are exciting visual and aural street/park performances interspersed with brief interviews of sustainable impact of the core ‘business’ of each group/agency/business on landscape lifestyle and livelihood (triple bottom line) in the shire – and beyond (ebusinesses, produce/ products, tourism etc). Some examples: Farmers are coming to the town park to share their sustainable practices and adaptation to drought. East African Refugee resettlement is big here; along with the ‘Carbon Heroes’ poster display, their art is featured in the Library. They will also be a part of the Community House ‘station’, as well featuring brief community participatory music and our household water and energy audit program. Each participant will be given a show bag of regional sustainability resources including a leaflet of self-directed afternoon activities which showcases further examples of shelter (sustainable housing, cluster housing, eco- communities), ‘closed loop’ local water systems, organic food production and sales, community arts hub. There will be a catered lunch ($10 unwaged, $15 waged) at which the speakers will be available to talk further with participants (these ‘Trains’ will run on time!). The lunch will spill over into the park where the mural and silk artists, musos, jugglers, stilt walkers, acrobats, previously in the street will cluster and perform. Castlemaine Sustainability ‘Trains&Stations’ in a kilometre is covering great sustainability ideas and impacts. It will be enormous fun, very educational and recyclable into your homes and communities. The immediate generous ‘buy-in’ by everyone approached to participate has been fantastic. Everyone has immediately said YES.
We are limiting participation to the first 100 booking registering people at our ‘Trains’ bookings hub, to be posted here soon. The complete timetable/ program will shortly be available.
Posted by Carol McDonough
February 19 2009 9-2 pm + optional 2-4pm
These ‘Trains’ will be 4-6 walking or bikeriding ‘trains’ with ‘driver’ and conductor’. Starting from Castlemaine Railway Station, the trains will set off to the ‘stations’ – community agencies, businesses, shire buildings (including walking to free bike hire just up the street at MASG- Mount Alexander Sustainability Group presenting their exciting partnership programs and initiatives). There are exciting visual and aural street/park performances interspersed with brief interviews of sustainable impact of the core ‘business’ of each group/agency/business on landscape lifestyle and livelihood (triple bottom line) in the shire – and beyond (ebusinesses, produce/ products, tourism etc). Some examples: Farmers are coming to the town park to share their sustainable practices and adaptation to drought. East African Refugee resettlement is big here; along with the ‘Carbon Heroes’ poster display, their art is featured in the Library. They will also be a part of the Community House ‘station’, as well featuring brief community participatory music and our household water and energy audit program. Each participant will be given a show bag of regional sustainability resources including a leaflet of self-directed afternoon activities which showcases further examples of shelter (sustainable housing, cluster housing, eco- communities), ‘closed loop’ local water systems, organic food production and sales, community arts hub. There will be a catered lunch ($10 unwaged, $15 waged) at which the speakers will be available to talk further with participants (these ‘Trains’ will run on time!). The lunch will spill over into the park where the mural and silk artists, musos, jugglers, stilt walkers, acrobats, previously in the street will cluster and perform. Castlemaine Sustainability ‘Trains&Stations’ in a kilometre is covering great sustainability ideas and impacts. It will be enormous fun, very educational and recyclable into your homes and communities. The immediate generous ‘buy-in’ by everyone approached to participate has been fantastic. Everyone has immediately said YES.
We are limiting participation to the first 100 booking registering people at our ‘Trains’ bookings hub, to be posted here soon. The complete timetable/ program will shortly be available.
Posted by Carol McDonough
HOt Weather? HOT changes our name to Transition MA
UPDATE: We have changed our name from HOT (Hats Off Transition) to Transition Mount Alexander We are still with our 'hats off', we are being involved in the transition movement as citizens of the shire. Transition Mount Alexander is part of the international transition to resilience movement working to transcend and transform our communities in response to peak oil and climate change (including global warming). As documented below, we formed as an outcome of the Communities of Mount Alexander receiving the United Nations Australia World Environment Day Communities Award 2008, Theme: “Kicking the carbon Habit, going carbon neutral”, in order to further move our communities towards long term resilience in the face of desertification (rapidly reducing rainfall and runoff), climate change and peak oil. Involving more than 200 people of all ages we have conducted 10 community building/community education events about transition issues. We are participating in the international training for transition towns, February 2009. Our network facilitator, Janet Phillips, is one of the three National Transition Facilitators. We network closely in our shire (and also beyond), with all other sustainability, environment, community building groups, networks and our Council.
Community Planning Lunches
Transition MA hosted Community planning lunches in the silly season. Our next event is Childrens SustainabilityBikes and Games in the Botanical Gardens late January (watch this space for details)
The four lunches were:
21 November Taking action locally Community consultation and professional input has given us GAP and MAP2020 What are these? What has been achieved? What our actions and opportunities from these reports? Ian Lillington and Mez Woodward
28 November Complementary water systems How do we best supply our longterm water needs in drought/ step change? Gavin Hanlon, Mangaing Director Coliban Water
5 December National and international transition towns movement There is much to report, including international trainers training up locals in Australia in early 09. Discussion: What next for HOT? Janet Phillips
12 December The Story of Stuff - a video and discussion leading to a sustainable Christmas
posted by Carol McDonough
The four lunches were:
21 November Taking action locally Community consultation and professional input has given us GAP and MAP2020 What are these? What has been achieved? What our actions and opportunities from these reports? Ian Lillington and Mez Woodward
28 November Complementary water systems How do we best supply our longterm water needs in drought/ step change? Gavin Hanlon, Mangaing Director Coliban Water
5 December National and international transition towns movement There is much to report, including international trainers training up locals in Australia in early 09. Discussion: What next for HOT? Janet Phillips
12 December The Story of Stuff - a video and discussion leading to a sustainable Christmas
posted by Carol McDonough
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