OPENING UP NEW TERRITORY?

The first working day of the new year brought a poignant call from Judy Leaf, who for the last seven years has been on staff at the Genesis Farm in New Jersey. There are folks there who have been considering Transition for a while, and they have been studying the Transition Handbook at the Farm. Some apparently attended a recent Training for Transition in Boston with Alastair Lough (when Naresh Giangrande was on hand, beginning his U.S. tour), but they came away disappointed and decided that they would go their own way and essentially create their own Transition workshop.

Judy, on the other hand, feels that it's important that the work be "closer to the Source," and has been speaking with Jim Cole (she's part of the Pachamama/Awakening the Dreamer network) about his experience. Jim recommended that she contact us. 

Our conversation very quickly went deep, and she became convinced that we were the right people to bring Transition to the area. It's a big area, Hudson Valley, and the whole NY-Philadelphia-D.C. corridor. She has a big network, and has recently left the Genesis Farm (she's in transition, it seems). We talked about the possibility of doing a training out there in March, maybe even a series of trainings and a train-the-trainer, developing a whole strategy for Transition in the Northeast. 

Interestingly, Judy lived here in Colorado in the late '60s, in Nederland and then in Boulder--about the same time I was going to school here.

This seems auspicious, a great way to begin the year, causing us to think differently about what our role is becoming. We must be alert, cautious, and wise.