DEEPENING COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP: A COURSE IN SYSTEMS TRANSFORMATION

Deepening Community Leadership Flyer.pdf

Sundays from 1-4PM
August 30 - December 13
Boulder Meadows Community Room
4500 19th Street in Boulder
(No class Labor Day and Thanksgiving weekends)

In this time of unprecedented environmental and economic crisis, we can no longer afford to simply keep repeating the patterns of the past. We need to make a quantum leap in our leadership.

This course will provide you with information, skills, tools, and practice to lead more successful change initiatives in your community.

Topics Will Include:
The Long Emergency and Transition
Personal Resilience Plans
Holacracy
Community Mapping
The Psychology of Change
Facilitating Dialogue
Cultivating Diversity
Transforming Conflict
Alternative Economics
And More

You will also have an opportunity to further hone your leadership skills through a Community Leadership Project that you will design and implement in collaboration with a small group of your peers.

Free Introductory Classes:

August 12, 7-9PM
Boulder Meadows Community Room
4500 19th Street in Boulder

August 22, 3:10-4:20PM
Earthworks Expo in Denver
http://www.earthworks2009.com

THE TEAM

Don Hall is Transition Colorado's Education and Outreach Coordinator, a graduate of the Environmental Leadership Master's Program at Naropa University, and a certified Permaculture Designer. He will be the lead instructor for this course.

Ellen Rosenthal is the Director of the Living Earth Center, an organization committed to creating resilient community through teaching sustainable living skills and fostering deep connections with life on earth. She holds three certifications in permaculture design and teaching.

Jessica Johnson is a graduate of the Environmental Leadership Master's Program at Naropa University. Her work involves helping individuals and communities to create more sustainable lifestyles through connecting with their own inner gifts and living a life of love and purpose.

Lynette Marie Hanthorn is a co-founder and Executive Director of Transition Colorado, a non-profit organization that embraces the ethics and principles of the global Transition Movement to localize and regenerate community. She is a certified Transition Trainer and Holacracy Facilitator.

Michael Brownlee is a co-founder of Transition Colorado, and a board member of Transition US, working as a catalyst for community Transition and Relocalization in response to global crises. He is also a certified Transition Trainer.

Richard Dart, a geologist for the US Geological Survey, teaches outdoor survival based on a philosophy that emphasizes rediscovery of our natural place in the natural world. Richard has recently developed an important community mapping tool for Transition.

For more information, please call Transition Colorado at 303-494-1521 or email don@transitioncolorado.org. $550. Need-based partial scholarships and monthly payment plans are available. 10% discount if registered by August 15. Click here to register online.

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Comment by Don Hall on July 21, 2009 at 3:41pm

Who Should Take This Course: Anyone who is interested in being a greater force for positive change in their community. You don't necessarily have to be involved with a Transition Initiative, or even think of yourself as a leader in the conventional sense. All of us act as leaders in our lives in one way or another. There is no one big solution to the challenges we face, only millions of little ones.

If this course sounds interesting or potentially useful to you, please consider attending one of the free introductory presentations. There you will have an opportunity to ask questions and find out if Deepening Community Leadership will be a good fit for you.

Thank you for your interest in Deepening Community Leadership!