Following our day with Sophy Banks from the Transition Network, some of us met on 16 April to follow up the areas we had found to be important to us – Refreshing our Vision, Communicating the vision, Finding Out what people think, feel and want, How people can join TTT, and Practical Projects 

We felt that the starting point was Vision – we are in effect a new group as so many people have left and joined since we ever first talked about vision back in 2008.  So we did an exercise together where we took it in turns to say something about our own personal vision for ourselves, for Taunton, for what Transition could help do or influence in Taunton. …see the collective vision below….  If you want to add your own vision contribution to this, please comment on this post and  I will add it in.  Or come to a future meeting and we can talk about it together.

This was the summary of that collective vision…. a grouping of the important aspects.

After that, we realised we didn’t know enough about each other in terms of our skills, and also what we felt we were up for in the coming year – the skills we feel we have, whether we are willing to bring them to Transition, whether we are happy to mentor others in TTT, who in the room already wants to be mentored by that individual (and for what), and finally what we are each up for. 

However, we also realised that we are all interested in the Transition group, but can be held up by not all being able to be there at the same time to do things.  So we agreed that we will continue to meet regularly over the coming months to carry on with our thinking, sharing ideas and planning, and whoever is able to be there will be the ones entrusted with carrying the thinking on and bringing those not there up to speed.