“An audacious vision of seeding transformative ideas”

Described as “an audacious vision of seeding transformative ideas”, Inspiring Transition was launched on 1 September and continued through the month in many places. Organisations around the world are simultaneously talking up the vision of a great Transition to a life-sustaining future. They are using blogs, articles, lectures, workshops, and guerrilla marketing tactics, along with personal conversations, presentations and live workshops. It can be both serious and playful! Read More

Thanks to Sarah-Jane Sherwood of Communicate Blue and Andrew Gaines of Be the Change, Australia for bringing this to our attention and driving the Inspiring Transition movement.

Inspiring Transition – a short introduction

Inspiring Transition is an audacious vision of seeding transformative ideas so deeply into mainstream culture that we succeed in changing our direction and becoming ecologically sustainable. This is the need of our time; no lesser aspiration will do.

Background

As you know, climate change, ocean acidification, fracking, and looming fresh water and food security issues will have devastating consequences. We are in a global emergency with a very short time frame to turn things around.

Much of mainstream society operates in ways that make these issues worse. The changes needed to turn things around are so profound that we need a whole system change to a life-sustaining society.

On the positive side, there is a huge wave of positive change already going on. It involves millions of groups. If we succeed in setting the agenda, historians in the future may look back at our time as the time of the Great Transition to a life-sustaining society.

A successful transition to a life-sustaining society requires informed passionate mainstream commitment to doing everything required

The purpose of the Great Transition initiative is to catalyse this commitment.

Our model is to invite individuals and organisations to

1 Champion the idea that we are in a Great Transition to a life-sustaining society

2 Inspire their members and networks to work as thought catalysts / Transition Leaders who communicate about whole system change and how we can achieve it.

Accelerating the Great Transition – Engaging mainstream commitment to a life-sustaining future spells out a three tiered strategy, provides twenty or so interesting communication tactics, and has links to purpose-built communication tools for communicating about the Great Transition.

Our idea is to make communicating as easy as possible, so that it need not take an overwhelming amount of any one individual or organisation’s time.

The Inspiring Transition Launch

The Inspiring Transition Launch will be throughout the month of September 2015. We envision thousands of individuals and organisations communicating within their networks about the Great Transition and whole system change to a life-sustaining society.

The purpose of the Launch is to

1 Make the idea of the Great Transition to a life-sustaining society prominent in the global sustainability conversation.

2 Cultivate an informal network of individuals and organisations championing the Great Transition.

3 Catalyse the thinking necessary for people to know what is involved in a whole system change to a life-sustaining society, and see how they can contribute to it through their own sphere of influence.

The reach of any one individual or organisation is limited. However, if thousands of us – even millions – focus on communicating through our networks about transformative change to a life-sustaining society, together we can be potent force for affecting mainstream consciousness. We have open source tools to facilitate this communication that need not take an overwhelming amount of any one individual or organisation’s time. They can be downloaded through www.inspiringtransition.net.

A request

We make this request of everybody:

Would you be willing to consider doing one or more activities championing the idea of the Great Transition to a life-sustaining society during the launch? Activities could be as simple as a blog or social media posting about accelerating the Great Transition, or it could be something more in-depth such as conducting personal conversations about transformative change or hosting a training.

Or, send an email to your networks, with helpful templates in our sample email kit.

A set of imaginative tactics are outlined in Accelerating the Great Transition.

You are not being asked to join another organisation, or to work under the umbrella of some kind of peak body. The Great Transition initiative is set up as an independent community of practice – a community of leaders who act autonomously.

Administrative support for Inspiring Transition is provided by Be The Change Australia. Be The Change does not direct what people do.

We have common cause.

Resources

•             Communicators kit

•             Accelerating the Great Transition – Engaging mainstream commitment to a life-sustaining future

•             Understanding Whole System Change

•             Tabletop Presentations

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Administrative support for Inspiring Transition is provided by Be The Change Australia, led by Andrew Gaines:

“We have a simple communication strategy that many organisations can adapt without it taking an inordinate amount of their time. We also have more than 20 interesting communication tools and tactics, some of which are highly imaginative.”

Inspiring Transition was launched 1 September 2015. “We aim to get as many individuals and organisations on board as we can by Christmas; we look forward to a great flowering throughout 2016!”

Source: http://www.inspiringtransition.net/