Watch the recording of this special Practising Transition webinar, celebrating the release of The Regeneration Handbook: Transform Yourself to Transform the World by Transition Network’s Training Coordinator Don Hall!

Deeply rooted in the history of the Transition Movement, The Regeneration Handbook builds on “The Five Stages of Transition” from Rob Hopkins’ Transition Companion to present a clear and accessible pathway for deepening, broadening, and scaling up any community-based changemaking initiative over time. It also offers a bold new vision for unleashing a “second wave of Transition” that could end up being orders of magnitude bigger than its first.

This event occured on October 23rd 2024, and was hosted by Deborah Benham, co-Lead Link for Transition Network.

The author

Don Hall has had the good fortune to serve the international Transition Towns Movement in a variety of capacities over the past 16 years. Initially serving for two years as Education & Outreach Coordinator for Transition Colorado, the first official Transition Initiative in North America and a statewide hub, Don founded Transition Sarasota (Florida, USA) and became a certified Transition Trainer in 2010. After six and a half years as Transition Sarasota’s Executive Director, he became Co-Director of Transition US in 2017 and Executive Director in 2020. Don currently serves as Training Coordinator for Transition Network and is the author of The Regeneration Handbook: Transform Yourself to Transform the World (New Society Publishers, 2024). He also holds a Master’s in Environmental Leadership from Naropa University, a certification in Permaculture Design from the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute, and lives in Boulder, Colorado. For more information about Don and The Regeneration Handbook, you can visit his website at https://evolutionarychange.org.

The host

Deborah Benham has worked at the international level of the Transition Towns movement for the last 6 years, currently as co-Lead Link of Transition Network international (TNi) focused on strategic and development aspects, and also involved in the design and delivery of regenerative design resources and impact evaluation for the Transition Movement. Her interests lie in living systems based solutions to societal challenges. Guided by the core principle of Biomimicry - 'Life Creates the Conditions for Life to Thrive' - Deborah works to support a shift toward humanity being a net-positive species on the planet. She holds a vision of human societies, cultures, communities and businesses, designing with and as nature, creating mutual benefit, using tech in life affirming ways and uplifting justice, kindness and cooperation. Deborah is a Biomimicry Educator, Gaia Education trainer of trainers, Transition Trainer, Connection First (deep nature connection and community building) practitioner and wildlife guide, focusing on experiential and participatory ways of learning and shifting towards an ecological, biocentric worldview. Her academic and previous work background were in Marine Mammal Ecology and environmental education and she is forever inspired by and grateful to the sea otters of Monterey Bay who she studied during her PhD, and for their lessons in how to be a keystone species that contributes to the health of their entire ecosystem. She is privileged to live in and contribute to an eco-cohousing neighbourhood where she can apply many of these principles in daily life.