Prosperity and Quality of Life

Promote and develop an integral design for strong, local, human-scaled, self-sufficient and sustainable economies and communities that have the resilience to overcome the inevitable challenges arising from economic uncertainty, climate instability and resource depletion.

Transition Centre has asked two tough questions:

1.  Do we know what has to be done to achieve a sustainable future?

2.  Do we have the capacity to do that?

There is then a third question we must ask:  If not, then what?

In response to these questions, Transition Centre is offering the following programs:  

1.  Resilient Communities

2.  The Borsodi Legacy

3.  Foodshed Strategy

4.  Integral Leadership

5.  Korzybski Principles and Practices

What does it take to create a resilient community, a community that can not only respond to emergencies but also  embrace dynamic transformational change?  Based on extensive research and over a decade of experience, the Transition Centre Resilient Communities Blueprint provides a template for a safe, secure, healthy and equitable community.

"We have the option to passively accept what life gives us or to actively engage in it -- to seek self-reliance and self-determination.  I believe we must pursue that option. Society is the product of its members. The more humane its members, or at least its leaders, the more humane the society."   Bill Sharp

Four things are required of the resilient personality:

1.  Clarity and certainty about who and what you are.

2.  Ability to accurately perceive reality both internally and externally: WIGO – What Is Going On.

3.  Ability to accurately define problems.

4.  Knowledge and skills needed to effectively solve these problems.

"I think it is clear that to change the world you need to change yourself.  There has to be a method, a school, for preparing more people to engage what many of us believe are inevitable challenges.  That is not an easy task.  A lot of people have and continue to work in that direction.  "