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Your chance to experience One Day in Transition

We’ve written before here about the wonder that is One Year in Transition. It is, in essence, a year-long, part-time and low-cost programme that helps young adults create a livelihood in the community work they dream of doing. Booking is now open for the next year’

June 2014 – Transition Network Newsletter

This month news that that the Transition roadshow could be coming to a region near you, starting with Lancaster in July. We have the monthly World Roundup, the Digest introduces the ‘Transition and Health’ articles posted in May, REconomy offers tips to transform your local economy, our Social Reporters are

The Transitioners’ Digest (May)

Our theme this month has been ‘Transition and Health’, and it’s been fascinating. We’ve been reflecting on where Transition and public health overlap and the benefits all round that could be gained by forging a more explicit link between the two. Here also is our rather stylish new

Transition as Social Medicine?: health leaders discuss

One of the following quotes comes from the Transition movement. The other 3 come from public health professionals. Can you tell which is which? A: “A sustainable system protects and improves health within environmental and social resources now and for future generations. This means reducing carbon emissions, minimising waste and

How public health + grassroots creativity = innovation

Mark Dooris is Professor of Health and Sustainability at the University of Central Lancashire. A lot of his work is about managing the delivery of programmes related to public health, wellbeing and sustainability. We started by asking him “would it be fair to describe you as somebody who is trying

Inner Transition for everyone.. who wants it

What helps Inner Transition to be accessible to as many people as possible? This was the question of a recent International Inner Transition conversation, with some great ideas from people in places as diverse as Brazil, Europe, Canada and Australia. There was general agreement that many people who might benefit

Meet the man bringing Transition to the NHS

David Pencheon is a public health doctor and Director of the NHS Sustainable Development Unit. His interest is, as he puts it, in “promoting health in the best sense of that phrase, rather than just as a large illness treating machine”. He is one of the people behind the NHS