FRIDAY arrive & set up camp
- 4pm Making Fire with Adrienne Campbell
- 4.30pm Opening Ceremony - Led by Rebecca Stewart
- 5.30pm Talking Circle: How is Your Transition Journey?
Friday evening: Sunset 6.23pm Dinner 6pm-9.30pm
- 8pm Big Picture Thinking, Small Action Living - Charlottte du Cann. Facing reality in a time of radical downshift.
- 9pm Campfire Quickfire - Open mic songs, stories and music. Hosted by Nicky Mitchell plus Jan Allain.
- 9pm Star guide: Olly Davey takes us on a guided tour of the sky at night (weather depending!)
SATURDAY Sunrise 7.12
- 7am Early morning silent & chakra group meditation
- 8am Yoga Butterfly for kids aged 3+, with fully qualified, CRB checked teacher Sarah Dawson www.karmiyoga.com
- 9.30 Introductions Game with Martin Grimshaw
- 10.30 Sing for Oxytocin with Peter Cow A practical experiential session on the role of harmony singing in group development, happiness and creating harmony
- 10.30 TALK: An introduction to Transition with Martin Grimshaw What is Transition all about, and how to start your own initiative.
- 10.30 Felt Making - with Katy Young. Drop in demo How to felt & a talk about natural dyes.
- 12.15 Felting for kids
- 11.45 Herbs for Resilience: 10 key medicine plants - Charlottte du Cann
12.30 - 2pm LUNCH
- 2-3.30pm Nature Awareness Session (Kids)
With Milly Hawkins. Fun & practical ways to tune-in & focus our senses so we can experience more of nature. These games & activities help re focus our awareness of ourselves, nature, & our own heart felt connection to the natural world, the results of which can be quietly thoughtful, & more often crazy & comical!
- 2-3.30pm Sacred Baking with Michael Hanson
Bread as the ferment for creating community. The ease and practicalities of bread making for oneself and for ones community. How baking can change your inner and outer life.
- 2pm Rocket Stove making - practical workshop with Louise Smith
- 3.45 TALK:Seeds & Saving with Peter Brinch
- 3.45 Nature connection. with Victoria Mew
Victoria will explore the changing relationship of children and nature and the effects of spending time in nature. Looking into the psychological, physiological and social effects it has on both adults and children. Victoria is a founder of the Art of Mentoring UK movement and will give us a short over view of this at the end.
- 5pm Bike Maintenance Workshop with Patrick Shaw
- 5pm TALK: Permaculture For Transition with Alistair MacKenzie
- 5pm TALK: Hydraulic Fracturing in Sussex. A new wave of gas drilling. Will Cottrell from frack-off.org Sites are planned in Balcombe & across the South East. An overview of UK oil & gas drilling, side effects, the main company involved.
- 4-6pm Kids Pizza Making in earth oven
Saturday evening. Moonrise 4.23pm
8pm TALK: Navigating Community Chaos
Mike Grenville. Will transition to a low carbon
economy come about by persuading more people to go 'Green'? Looking at how real change
comes about in nature and culture, he'll describe some of the signs that major societal
change is inevitable, how change comes about in nature and society, and highlight
tools to help ourselves and communities navigate these changing times.
- 9pm Campfire Quickfire - Open mic songs, stories and music - all welcome. Storytelling
Milly Hawkins & Janice Weatherspoon.
Hosted by Nicky Mitchell plus Jan Allain. - 9pm Star guide: Olly Davey takes us on a guided tour of the sky at night (weather depending!)
SUNDAY
- 7am Early morning silent & chakra group meditation
- 8am Yoga with Suzy Daw
- 8am Kids Yoga Butterfly with Sarah Dawson
- 10am Natural Beekeeping with Adrienne Campbell
- 10.30 - 12.30 Hedgerow Foraging with Anna Richardson. Anna has extensive knowledge and experience of native wild plants. Self taught research into medicines available in the hedgerow led to a yearlong bushcraft/survival training, as well as an interest in wild foods and other practical uses of plants.
- 11.00 Rhythm & blues & rhythm & resilience.
With Lynne Christine Ridden. Based on our understanding and embodiment of natural rhythms and how this builds resilience. This experiential workshop uses the arts and integrates permaculture principles. It explores our own inner landscapes in the process, both as individuals and groups/communities. Lynne is a chartered occupational & organisational psychologist as well as an integrative arts psychotherapist and shamanic practitioner. - 11am Playing with words and images' for kids with Marie-Annick Jubé. During this workshop, you will create your own visual collage and a collective word collage through innovative and inspiring exercises. At the end of the session your creative work will be the visual proof of your unique creativeness. You will leave this workshop feeling invigorated, inspired and more confident in yourself.
12.30-2pm LUNCH
- 2pm Spirit of Transition Philip Carr-Gomm. A writer and psychologist, Philip trained with Ross Nichols, the founder of the Order of Bards Ovates & Druids, and has been leading the Order for over twenty years.
- 4pm Closing Talking Circle & Closing ceremony
Led by Rebecca Stewart from Transition Crouch End
Page Last updated 28th September 2011
MEAL TIMES: BREAKFAST: 7.30am-9.30am LUNCH: 12.30-2pm DINNER Kids 4-6pm Adults 6-7.30pm (Fri till 9.30pm)