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# Grow your Group
- URL: https://news.transitionnetwork.org/grow-your-group/
- Published: 2011-05-05T23:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-02-03T13:27:47.000Z
- Author: Transition Network international
- Tags: #News, #Import 2026-03-17

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**How thriving is your group?**

- Is it in the first flush of action and enthusiasm? How will you keep it so?
- Is it shrinking into a small core of overwhelmed people?
- Does it have a large email list and some who come to events but few who really are committed?
- How much fun and celebration are you having?
- Are meetings full of fun, lively, focussed and result in clear decisions everyone was involved in?
- Is there conflict, tension, difficult behaviours, stress, burn-out, drop out?

Grow your gconsultancy and training can help you build a healthy, sustainable group and **offer our service to Transition groups in the Midlands/South Yorks area for expenses only.**

We are Jeannie Thompson from Nottingham and Marion McCartney from Derbyshire. We believe that successful groups need the same sort of care and attention as a garden. That’s why we called our training consultancy Grow Your Group. There is a huge amount of knowledge about group skills, processes and strategies and we are passionate about bringing this into Transition .

We have extensive experience of groups and facilitation. We run sessions in which everyone feels involved and leaves with plenty of ideas and strategies.  

We can:  

- Visit your group to help you think through what is needed in your specific situation
- Do a one hour taster on fun and effective meetings and then facilitate the rest of your meeting agenda with you using these processes.
- Run tailor made sessions on positive communications, conflict, prorating and decision making, resilience in challenging times and many other topics
- Sessions can be one hour tasters to full weekend intensive skills training. We can also run these for several Transition groups in a region or at a local “green issues” type conference.

**We offer this service to transition groups in the Midlands/South Yorks area for expenses only.**

CONTACT Jeannie 0115 9200470 , Marion 01773 852485 . Best to talk than email. [mazmc@googlemail.com](mailto:mazmc@googlemail.com) [jeanniejonathan@aol.com](mailto:jeanniejonathan@aol.com) 

www.growyourgroup.org.uk