Our Trainings

The following courses can be taught in a variety of formats, online and in-person. As part of all Transition Trainings, you will build mutually-supportive relationships with other participants, develop new skills and knowledge, receive guidance for overcoming the specific challenges you are facing, and create a plan for action.

Please visit our events calendar to browse upcoming trainings or click here to learn how you can host your own. You can also click on the titles below to view a list of trainers who offer each course.

Transition Launch

Our most popular training, Transition Launch teaches you how to set up and run a community-based changemaking initiative right where you live. Launch is ideal for those who are new to the Transition Towns Movement and want to learn more about its holistic, grassroots approach to social, economic, and environmental transformation.

Topics typically covered include: making sense of our global context, harnessing the power of positive vision, forming effective groups, engaging your wider community through awareness-raising events and practical projects, cultivating mutually-beneficial partnerships and networks, and strengthening inner resilience.

Transition Talk Training

Learn how to communicate about Transition in a way that engages, informs, and inspires. Transition Talk Training provides you with everything you need to begin delivering dynamic presentations throughout your local community and beyond.

This includes a PowerPoint template you can use and adapt how you want, tips for public speaking, and opportunities to practice your delivery and receive feedback. Transition Talk Training also helps you hone your elevator pitch, attract speaking invitations, connect with diverse audiences, and respond skillfully to difficult questions.

Transition Thrive

Designed for more experienced changemakers, Transition Thrive can be thought of as the sequel to Transition Launch. While Launch focuses primarily on the first few steps of the Transition process, Thrive builds upon this foundation to suggest additional strategies for deepening, broadening, and scaling up.

Topics may include: strategic thinking, agile self-governance, fundraising, reaching beyond the choir, facilitating local economic development, and avoiding burnout.

Inner Transition

Inner Transition is a personal and collective journey that supports and deepens external change. Topics include the psychology of change, practices for inner transformation, connecting with our sense of purpose, working with trauma and grief, and unlocking our full human potential.

Effective Groups

While working together in groups for social change can be fun, it’s not always easy. Learning how to form new groups, develop shared purpose, facilitate meetings, delegate roles and tasks, make decisions, and transform conflict may be the most important investment you can make in your initiative’s future.

Resilient Food Systems

Cultivating more resilient local and regional food systems is one of the best things we can do to help bring about a regenerative future. Topics include Permaculture Design, ecological farming and gardening, setting up community gardens and food forests, and running eat local campaigns and food rescue programs.

Beautiful Economies/REconomy

REconomy refers to a wide variety of efforts designed to promote just and sustainable local economic development. Topics include creating local economic blueprints, championing local independent businesses, fostering social entrepreneurship, establishing community currencies, and facilitating local investment.

Municipalities In Transition

While Transition has always been a non-partisan movement, that doesn’t mean we don't advocate for policies that advance our mission. Furthermore, by partnering strategically with local governments, Transition groups can unlock valuable resources and amplify their impact.