Transition Town Workshops on the Sunshine Coast
Empower yourself!
Transition Sunshine Coast offers regular courses, workshops and networking events on the Sunshine Coast in South East Queensland and we are available to deliver workshops anywhere in Australia. Our education program, Pathways to Resilience, offers participants the chance to learn about and 'do' transition work with others. Sunshine Coast courses are mostly held on weekends.
We are also available for presentations, conferences and speaking engagements in your community or to your local council.
We are continually updating and adding to our programs – our aim is the meet the needs of the community – to support new start-up initiatives, but to also ensure that those who are further along their pathway to resilience are being catered for.
We can also travel to you. We have facilitated workshops in South East Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. We can tailor a workshop just for you, bringing out the unique qualities of your community and how they fit in the Transition model.
Our courses are designed by educational experts with many years experience working with community groups and in education systems. They are designed to suit the unique Australian perspective of Transitioning.
For more information on our entire range of courses and workshops, click on our Events section on the right.
If you would like to contact us about delivering a workshop in your area, to register your interest in Transition training or just to find out a bit more, please contact us.
Transition Town Education Programs
Pathways to Resilience - Transition Town workshops in Australia
Next Transition Town Workshop starts 6pm Friday July 17, then runs all weekend of the 18th and 19th. Held at the Eumundi Bamboo Forest, this is THE course to do if you are interested in starting your own initiative in your community.
Transition Town Workshop: DYNAMIC GROUPS - For Transition
This workshop is a wonderful opportunity to begin to build strong foundations based on ethics, values, respect and 'the heart' of the Transition Movement in Australia.
- Dates: (TBC) August 2009
- Venue: At ‘CAMP COOROORA’ via Cooroy
- Cost: $380 (TBC) - Includes food for all meals (everyone will share the cooking, food prep and cleanup), cuppas, four nights camping fees, notes, resource use, and night time sessions on two nights.
For full details click the following link to download the course details and booking form 
(PDF document, 60 KB).
An adventure in Creative Facilitation, Interactive Learning Methods, Personal Empowerment and Skills Development.
A four-day training intensive usually offered for facilitators, teachers, trainers, groups leaders, change agents and people in creative, healing and sustainability industries who would like more skills, tools and confidence to work and play with groups.
Offered specially for the Transition Towns Movement on this occasion and designed to address some of the HEART aspects from The Transition Handbook.
This course is a unique opportunity to work with Robin Clayfield of Earthcare Education in an open, creative and stimulating atmosphere. The aim of this course is to up-skill anyone involved in the areas of education and group work from established teachers, people conducting introductory workshops or guest speaker spots to anyone wanting to start teaching or working more creatively in groups. It is being offered this time to contribute to the upskilling of people involved or coming into the Transition Movement and has been aimed, in the past, specifically at Permaculture Practitioners and others in sustainability, community, healing and creative industries.
For full details click the following link to download the course details and booking form (PDF document, 60 KB).
More workshops planned for 2009...
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If you would like to find out more about Transition Town workshops or any future programs we have planned- please contact us.
Transition Sunshine Coast's Pathways to Resilience Education Programs offer a range of courses and workshops on Transition Towns, peak oil, climate change and energy descent planning and preparation - from free composting and organic vegie growing workshops to fully accredited post carbon training courses.
Our Credentials
Transition Sunshine Coast is based firmly on education and communication.
We have sound educational backgrounds and support networks. We design our programs to suit your needs and the needs of this rapidly evolving network.
Facilitator Janet Millington has a Master of Education, is a well-known community facilitator and educator, a published author on how school gardens can be integrated across curriculum and was one of a team of people who established the Accredited Permaculture Training Framework. Janet also holds a Diploma of Permaculture.
Facilitator Sonya Wallace has completed Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, Permaculture Design Certificate, Dynamic Group Facilitation workshops, Certificate in Sustainable Agriculture and is currently working toward her Diploma of Permaculture.
With a strong educational focus, our workshops are academically sound with learning outcomes, creative facilitation, inspiration and practical skills high on the agenda.
Participants enjoy a supportive, friendly learning environment to ensure success and high achievement. All our teaching team have qualifications in dynamic group facilitation and Certificate IV's in training and assessment.
Students gain valuable skills that are increasingly in demand.
We have also been recognised with the 2008 Sustainable Project Award from the Sunshine Coast Environment Council.
Transition Sunshine Coast is proud to be the only place in Australia where you can study...
Australia's very first energy descent action planning course
Ladies and gentlemen - stop your engines! It's Time for an Oil Change!
The Time for an Oil Change course addresses the issues of peak oil and climate change. Students develop practical and positive ways for individual households, communities and the entire region to prepare for a future with less oil and one where we all use less energy. These solutions form the Sunshine Coast Energy Descent Action Plan.
Co-created by Sunshine Coast permaculturists, Sonya Wallace and Janet Millington the course applies sustainability principles to the areas of our lives that are currently being affected by climate change and peak oil.
The trial course started in July 2007 with students from a wide range of backgrounds and professional experience and finished on October 20. They are working on developing projects and solutions that will become the first installment of the first Sunshine Coast Energy Descent Action Plan, which is currently being written and will be launched very soon!
Each week students looked at oil and energy dependant areas of our lives such as: food production and distribution, waste water and energy use, infrastructure and transportation, the built environment, health systems, communication, education & re-skilling, employment, economics, community governance, and finally and most importantly, attitudinal changes.
Further courses will be run and those participants will add their projects and findings to the existing plan. Details of upcoming courses will be posted on this site.
The course ran every Saturday at the Sunshine Coast Energy Action Centre (now Transition Sunshine Coast) over twelve weeks.
Be part of the solution and take advantage of this unique opportunity to make a very real difference in the future of your region.
