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# Opening session – introduction and mapping
- URL: https://news.transitionnetwork.org/opening-session-introduction-and-mapping/
- Published: 2010-06-11T23:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-13T12:15:01.000Z
- Author: Transition Network international
- Tags: Blog, #Import 2026-03-17

A great opening session with introductions from Pete Lipman, Rob Hopkins and Sophy Banks.

(sophy and rob)

(sophy)

Then we mapped ourselves by geography, age, initiative ‘maturity’ and other frames,

(initiatives mapping by ‘maturity’)

… and then broke out into ‘home groups’ (smaller groups of people who don’t already know eachother for support across the conference.