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Burnout Tales: Chrissie Godfrey on the risks of the ‘Energy of Yes’
Chrissie Godfrey was formerly a co-ordinator of Transition Town Taunton (which she co-founded in 2008), but in 2012 suffered from a serious case of burnout. We asked her to tell her story, and we are deeply grateful for her honesty and for sharing her experience:
“When you first
Transition and burnout: the Australian experience
A guest post from Clare Power, a Lecturer at Western Sydney University:
I’d like to contribute some of my thoughts which were formed while doing a PhD that explored the Transition movement in Australia and found high incidences of burnout among Transition participants. During the research process I kept
Activity of the fortnight: How to make decisions successfully?
Format: Activity / Guide
People: All of your group
Time: 1 hour
Resources needed: This activity sheet, a place to meet
This is also a guide that is useful to print out and store in a folder about your group, to refer to in the future and to show new members
Chris Johnstone’s 5 Burnout Tips: No:3. Broaden your Definition of Activism.
“To see the new economy through a glass of beer…”
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, said recently “we have to move to a new model of economic growth that is rooted in more investment, more savings and higher exports”. This growth-at-all-costs mantra runs through pretty much everything, yet at the same time, something fascinating is
Learning from the past in Kensal and Kilburn.
Oral histories have been something that has fascinated the Transition movement since the outset. The idea that the future can learn things from the past, and that a past with less oil wasn’t just the relentlessly miserable, dour, monochrome experience it can sometimes be portrayed as being, has been