Transition Town Lewes Review and restructuring meeting Thursday 28th October Lewes Werks at 7.30pm
The following discusssion recently held in Transition Totnes offers TTL some helpful tools as it begins to review and restructure decision making at the above meeting, but more crucially it also reveals some serious challenges ahead for the future of the Transition movement: "http://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/ben-brangwyn/2010-09/ways-knowing">>
Rob Hopkins, the co founder of the Transition movement, acknowledges that critical thinking is "the key thing we turn to first when evaluating new approaches, new information, new understandings... the scientific method, checking back against evidence, continually challenging assumptions, is, in terms of ‘ways of knowing’, our primary method. It needs to be embedded deeper into Transition.”
Whilst recognising the role of “the dynamic edge of Transition: the exploration of the relationship between science/critical thinking and the ‘inner’ aspects of Transition” he is also very concerned to ensure that “Transition... is always accessible... some people find football a transcendent, spiritually nourishing experience, but it is not explicitly presented as such!”
Too much focus on the inner aspect within transition initiatives is described as: “deeply excluding for many people, and utterly pointless. Most peoples’ experience of getting involved with Transition is already that it is inspiring enough, reconnects them to others and to the support that challenging times will require, gives them some of the inner resources that effective Transition will find useful, and offers a sense of connection to a wider movement for change. That is sufficient."
The Transition principles of being open and transparent, inclusive...
Rob Hopkins, the co founder of the Transition movement, acknowledges that critical thinking is "the key thing we turn to first when evaluating new approaches, new information, new understandings... the scientific method, checking back against evidence, continually challenging assumptions, is, in terms of ‘ways of knowing’, our primary method. It needs to be embedded deeper into Transition.”
Whilst recognising the role of “the dynamic edge of Transition: the exploration of the relationship between science/critical thinking and the ‘inner’ aspects of Transition” he is also very concerned to ensure that “Transition... is always accessible... some people find football a transcendent, spiritually nourishing experience, but it is not explicitly presented as such!”
Too much focus on the inner aspect within transition initiatives is described as: “deeply excluding for many people, and utterly pointless. Most peoples’ experience of getting involved with Transition is already that it is inspiring enough, reconnects them to others and to the support that challenging times will require, gives them some of the inner resources that effective Transition will find useful, and offers a sense of connection to a wider movement for change. That is sufficient."
The Transition principles of being open and transparent, inclusive...
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