5th Meeting CLOUGHJORDAN, Ireland – January 2011 – Final Draft Design, Review and Test Run

“We were in the heart of the collapse in Ireland.  It was very cold – worst temperatures Ireland has ever had – minus 19 degrees.  A new village was bringing new life to an old village.  The task was very hard, finishing.  The multilateral grant occupied so much of our time.  This was the toughest so far.  You are there, or you are not there.  Our process was involving magic in our working together.  This was one of those important moments of grace.” Davie Philip, Cultivate, Ireland
 

Sophy Banks talks about her experience with the EU learning partnership and how it works with the organisation she represents. Transition Network.

 
In Ireland we were busy seeking the next steps for our partnership, particularly as to how this can be carried beyond preparing the curriculum of learning materials into the implementation phase.  It was decided that
 
The Essential Elements of the Transition to Resilience Training are:
  • System thinking.
    • Be able to understand natural systems and complexity and how we can learn from them
    • Understand the world, and problems and solutions  in terms of the dynamics of a system
    • Learn how to look for holistic long term solutions
  • Personal transformation (the journey) and resilience
    • Any journey of outer transformation will create an inner journey. We will use tools and process that engage the participant inner journey in his or her work. These abilities enhance our personal resilience, and strengthen our ability to deal with adversity and uncertainty.
  • Opportunities and challenges of our time
    • We need to understand the context of the world we are living in and adapt and configure our projects and work accordingly. This will enable us to respond to the risks and opportunities of our time. Local/global
  • Positive visioning
    • Participants will engage with the power and potential of positive visioning.
    • Participants will learn tools for creating vision, individually and with others.
  • Collaborative tools and processes
    • Learn how to use new ways of living and working with others, processes and tools for facilitating groups and project teams.
    • Finding like-minded people to create collaborative projects with.   
  • Learning how to use or access existing resources in a new way.
  • Longer term support and mentoring for the learners
    • Learners can join a community of practice that will be a shared enquiry in creating resilience.
  • Active learning.
    • Participants will be nurturing their visions and projects to create a practical outcome of their learning journey.
  • Integral approach.
    • There will be an I/we/ world perspective build into the course to look at the ways in which that approach can inform different levels of scale as well as being aware of inner and outer perspectives as essential to human systems.
  • Social Entrepreneurship
    • The learning will be applied to practical ways to create new forms of socially responsible businesses and organisations.  
  • Community resilience
    • Learners will enquire in how to enable and increase their communities resilience and learn how to create thriving and successful locals.
 
Unique Selling Points
  • Building on the learning and experience of leading edge sustainable practice networks in Europe
  • Learning together with experienced practitioners, being coached/mentored by them
  • Collaborative learning based utilising active learning and action research methodologies
  • Learning will take place immersed in communities and workplaces that model resilience themselves
  • Utilising a integral approach integrating the personal, community and world levels.
  • Become part of a learning network of like-minded people who will continue to support you in developing your own communities and projects.
 
‘Elevator pitch’
 
A training grounded in the practical experience of the different leading edge practioners networks in Europe who are immersed in building the new systems/ sustainable/resilient culture.
 
Join these people on a shared inquiry and be empowered to become a more effective change agent yourself
 
Connect with your purpose and increase your personal resilience, learn about new collaborative ways of working and hands on from cutting edge sustainability initiatives in the context and opportunities of today’s world. Learn how to thrive in a uncertain world.

Naresh Giangrande speaks about the Transition to Resilience EU Learning Partnership and how it relates to the work he is currently doing with the Transition Network.
 
10 Most Inspiring Outcomes from Clough Jordan
  • manifestation of the eco-village vision in Clough Jordan
  • presentation of eco-village Sieben Linden, Global Eco-village Network for the people of Clough Jordan
  • spontaneous breaking into open space focusing conversation
  • fish-bowl session as inquiry into gender tensions and masculine and feminine dynamics
  • the ability of the group to solve conflicts and finding solutions that works for all
  • sharing facilitation, including different styles and exercises
  • seeing viable systems model in practice in Cloughh Jordan eco-village
  • The introduction to what Cultivate is doing in Dublin
  • Video recording of the learning partnership
  • Successfully integrating different ideas about the curriculum into one proposal.
 

Capra Caruba speaks about Damanhur and what this Learning Partnership means to her.