East Bay Cohousing is hosting in Downtown Berkeley at The Hub at the Brower Center live in-person community-forming links to the Transition Movement's new Heart & Soul Series, teleconferences with people making a difference, featuring Joanna Macy, EBCOHO partner Daily Acts' Trathen Heckman (featured on this event), and Kit Miller, a local compassionate communication (NVC) and Permaculture guru.

UPDATE 7/7: Based on experience with the Joanna Macy call, we're starting this event 15 minutes earlier for introductions in the room before the call starts, and joining the Hub's own Sexy Salad regular lunch rather than going out, to continue the conversation. We're also lowering the cap so we're not quite as crowded.

Transition US, the series host, works closely with The Transition Network, the international movement spawned by the original Transition Town vision and book in England that maps out a path for citizen engagement in building resiliency through preparing towns for Peak Oil and other coming climate-, energy-, and economy-related challenges.

EBCOHO is participating in the series and hosting it locally because:

• Cohousing and EcoVillages are key tools in the Transition Handbook, yet we haven't forged close ties between the movements.
• The speakers are folks we admire, doing great work right here in the SF Bay Area (Daily Acts has put on North Bay cohousing carpool tours annually for the past half decade, and organized our East Bay Cohousing Crawl walking tour the last few years), and want to learn more from.
• We know from experience that creating an immersive multi-modal experience helps us get more out of any talk; studies show that learning/retention is enhanced by this sort of environment.

We'll join the conference call, bring up relevant info and websites on the display, and listen and appreciate and contribute together but also go deeper with our own in-person connections, using the room's wall-to-wall whiteboards for introductions, visualization, collective communication, collaboration and visioning during the event.

The call will run from 11 AM until around 12:30 PM.

Optional lunch afterwards joining the Hub's weekly "Sexy Salad" lunch; be sure to leave out your dish on the way into the meeting

Please arrive promptly, so we can do intros before the call begins at the posted time. Half price for current EBCOHO sustaining members (time to join or renew? Do it today, online or at the event), and HUB Members.

Trathen Heckman is the founding executive director of Daily Acts, publisher of Ripples, an award-winning journal, and a backyard farmer. He is the former executive director and a board member of Green Sangha. Seeking to inspire the engagement of hearts, minds and senses, Trathen educates and works with community, business and municipal leaders to create programs, policy and models which harness the power of nature and inspired action to restore the health of our lives and communities. Trathen has given oodles of local, national and international presentations on sustainability, Permaculture, ecological design and the power of our daily actions to renew the world. He lives in the Petaluma River Watershed where he grows food, medicine and wonder while working to compost apathy and lack.

Visit Daily Acts to learn more about Trathen's work work and RSVP here to join us Wednesday the 21st - space is limited. A portion of the door fees will be donated to Transition US.