Transition Ojai

Visit our Answer Garden and find out what people in Ojai think. Add your own answer and/or suggest another question if you feel so moved.

Next Transition Ojai Valley meeting: Monday, September 13th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
Location: Glen Muse: 815 Libbey Avenue, Ojai

We'll also be hearing about how our actions/events/publicity/work groups etc. are progressing and setting up new workgroups or helping people find their place in existing groups throughout Ojai. Promotion and outreach remains an important focus.

Next showing of free film about Transition Towns: Call 272-8067 for details and to reserve your space.

At the meeting on May 11th: we broke into 3 groups to explore the question, "What is Success"? Below are the talking points that were discussed:

Group 1
Stepping into the unknown - stepping through a barrier of the unknown
Synchronicity
Trust
Reaching out for assistance.
Navigating from the heart – “seeking joy”
Desire for wholeness/ "peace"
"Showing up" to be of service
Feeling lovable - accept love/love yourself
Make connection - sharing the moment
Opening of your heart
Sharing passions day-to-day - expression of self-identity
Beauty - aesthetic quality of life

Group 2
Choosing a goal (ongoing) and reaching it
Finding comfort and confidence in something you thought you couldn't do
Never giving up
Joy, cooperation, spirit
Being conscious
Attitude
Being in process, right action based on conscious thoughtfulness and connection
Recognizing the joyful moments

Group 3
Being authentic – being true to oneself
Feeling connected
Dynamic process, ongoing
Inner strength - calm, peaceful inner foundation
The happiness of a memory of a success is a reminder of the feeling of success
A good plan
Keep showing up
Awareness of the dark side that keeps us from success

Santa Barbara is interested in finding out if residents would be open to imposing a tax on customers who don’t bring their own re-usable bag when they shop. In order to see if residents would be in favor of such a measure, Santa Barbara’s city council will consider conducting a survey of residents to determine not only if they would approve a tax but also how much the tax should be, according to Noozhawk.Read a bit of background info here: http://www.ojaipost.com/2010/04/santa_barbara_city_council_con.shtml

This seem a great issue to launch our own community wide survey as part of our community mapping project. I have years of experience in the field of data collection in the field (I'm currently employed by the US Census as a Field Operations Supervisor) and would love to meet with people who are interested in getting a community wide survey up and running of local thoughts,opinions and visions.

* Day meeting time to engage youth with the idea of creating Transition Youth.
* create a core to form the group around
* Exploration of social entrepreneurial project involving schools
* eco village modules in the community engaging youth and adults in the above* invitation to: schools, School district, merchants, youth.
* explore archiving
* tap into places like Ashoka Foundation and Youth Ventures.

I am inviting you all to join with me to exploring (through the transition town process or if anyone chooses another means) we can come up with.

Some work has been done around this and it might be a consideration to develop a youth focused transition module in and with the schools and youth groups of Ojai.

This list is a small cross section of our community, if anyone has others they wish to invite please do so. I am noting a few links to some of thethings I am involved with so that you know more of what I bring with me.Looking forward to meeting at the edge of where our ideas, interests and belief intersect.

Harry Poliak
Co Founder
Safe Water Today
www.safewatertoday.org
a project of
www,earthrightsinstitute.org
Tel: 805 798 3161
Ojai Valley CERT

CERT and Transition are a great fit and I encourage everyone to take an interest in emergency preparedness:
Contact:
Sean Kellythorne
KI6MGI ACS #809
805-701-6556

CSTI First Responder and ICS Outreach Instructor #1272
Ojai Valley Community Emergency Response Team Volunteer Coordinator

First Annual Ventura County Fire Department "Operation Certainly CERT"
Volunteer Planning Chief

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Free screenings of "In Transition 1.0"

If you are new to transition, please watch out for an introduction to transition meeting coming soon. A very uplifting and well done film.
You can book your place at a free screening of the film, "In Transition 1.0" by phoning: 805 272 8067

Tip: Hover over the sticky note icon in the top left corner of each slide to see the speaker's notes. (Not all slides have speaker's notes.)

Transition Ojai
www.transitionojai.org
Wayne Thompson 805 798 2152
Transition Ojai is what we make it!

It all starts off when a small collection of motivated individuals
within a community come together with a shared concern:
How can our community respond to the challenges, and
opportunities, of Peak Oil and Climate Change?
A: The path of cooperation, conservation
and sharing, along with, the path
of community solidarity
and preservation;
in a word:
Resilience
A Resilient
Community is one
that is able to respond and
adapt to internal and external shocks while still
maintaining its basic function and structure, and is, more
generally, an approach of community proactivity as opposed to reactivity.

We are putting together a list of all the groups actively engaged in community life in the Ojai Valley with a view to developing collaborative efforts to enhance the lives of all who live, work, and visit here. Please get in touch with any ideas.