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Comment by Rob Riman on February 11, 2012 at 4:42pm

Greetings all!

I'm helping to organize a workshop with Mark Morey of the Institute for Natrual Learning called The Nature of Resilience, to be held in Belmont (Feb 18th) and Weymouth (Feb 19th), so I'm passing this along should you or anyone you know be interested in participating. Please feel free to circulate widely!

Here is a link to the event announcement (or see below): http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=aebaeb20c0855a8968f6a9f49&id=903e6d5c5f&e=

...and a bit of background, should the description leave you wondering about the origins of the program: Mark Morey is a colleague of author John Young who founded the Wilderness Awareness School (based in Washington state), the Art of Mentoring and more recently the 8 Shields Institute. John draws upon a decades long mentoring relationship with tracker and author Tom Brown, Jr. (of New Jersey) as well as study with many indigenous cultures around the world. My association with Mark stems from my participation in an Art of Mentoring workshop through Vermont Wilderness School last fall. 

cheers,

Rob

p.s. questions? email or call me at 617-576-2628 or follow up through the Institute for Natural Learning website (see link below)

p.p.s. As prep/preamble for this workshop, Mark will also be holding a free call this Sunday at 7pm. Register here: Being Resilient During Times of Uncertainty w/ Mark Morey. Note that the call will be capped at 50 people. Also, if you are curious about it but can't join you might check out a similar recent talk of his which can be downloaded at this link: http://8shields.com/distance-mentoring-programs/core-mentoring/. 

Comment by Our Permaculture Trip on January 8, 2012 at 9:07pm

Thank you Elizabeth (was great to meet you on Saturday!) and thank you Alex - I actually just noticed the permaculture potluck too - we hope we can make it. Looking forward to keeping in touch with everyone and meeting more people.

Jess & Mike

Comment by Alex on January 7, 2012 at 11:30pm

Elizabeth, you forgot to mention that the UHL is having a permaculture potluck!

Other than that, you did pretty much cover it. There's a Greater Boston Permaculture meetup too. Oh, and Transition Worcester (et al).

I'm one of the organizers of the Framingham Sierra Club and we're starting to dabble with Transition. We'll see where it goes. 

Stefanie - if you want to convene a get together, we could certainly cross advertise.

Comment by Elizabeth Marcus on January 6, 2012 at 3:34pm

Hi Jess & Mike,

There is currently a planning group organizing the 2012 Northeast Permaculture Convergence which will take place in Northeastern MA sometime this summer. If you are interested in helping to plan, this would be a great opportunity to meet folks in the permaculture community in Eastern MA. 

There are also a number of active transition groups in the Boston Metro area, including Transition Wayland, Somerville Climate Action, Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition and Transition Newburyport. I am a member of the Transition Newburyport initiating group.

There are also a number of permaculture meetup groups in the area. The ones I am familiar with include:

North Shore Permaculture Meetup and The Urban Homesteaders League.

Hope this info is helpful.

Elizabeth Marcus

Comment by Our Permaculture Trip on January 6, 2012 at 12:50pm

Hi all -

We are new to permaculture and the transition movement and live in Waltham, MA, 9 miles outside of Boston. We were wondering if any happenings are taking place in the area so we can get more involved and meet more people?

Thanks!

Jess + Mike

ourpermatrip.com

Comment by Stefanie on December 30, 2010 at 4:37pm

Any chance a meet up will happen in the new year? It would be very helpful to converse with others who are creating Boston area transition communities. In South Boston, we are supporting local food, trees and other initiatives, but we have a ways to go to call ourselves a "transition town". Does anyone know if there is a transition plan for the City of Boston? Maybe it's not called that, but I'm sure (I hope!) someone is working in it. I'm aware of the City's climate action plan, but that's not really a transition plan. Thanks.

Comment by Steven Landau on September 7, 2010 at 10:59am

New Permaculture email listserve:

https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/easternmapermaculture

Comment by Alex on September 5, 2010 at 3:16pm

Imagine the possibilities if more people were thus engaged. You could be local and resilient in no time!

Comment by Rob Truslow on September 5, 2010 at 10:34am

Woburn is truly a city in transition though it does not have a "Transition Town" movement. The city recently passed a meals tax to pay for the 7.5 acre portion of Spence Farm it has purchased to keep it in agriculture and to pay for 75 acres of mature forest it is purchasing from Northeastern University to keep it undeveloped. Woburn has also decided to beginning the process of becoming a Green Community.

Without much rhetoric about philosophy or movements the city is moving forward in positive ways. Why? Because people who want to DO something are finding things to do and are doing them. Like, for example, going to City Council meetings, talking to their Council members, and learning about and talking about issues that are important to their community in public and private forums.