About This Course
While Transition Launch is rooted in the visionary, holistic, bottom-up approach to local community resilience-building developed by the international Transition Towns Movement, this training has been designed to provide an abundance of valuable insights, tools, practices, and resources for anyone interested in learning how to set up and grow a community-based changemaking initiative where they live.
Topics include:
- Making sense of our current environmental, social, and economic polycrisis,
- Harnessing the power of positive vision,
- Strengthening inner resilience and avoiding burnout,
- Developing effective collaborative groups,
- Engaging your community through online communications, events, and partnerships,
- Designing impactful practical projects, and
- The many benefits of being part of a global movement.
Each of the eight sessions that make up this training include a 45-60 minute introductory video presentation on that session's topic, a curated list of key related resources you can explore, 1-3 discussion forums you can participate in, and 1-3 experiential activities you can do as an individual or with a group. We invite you to steer your own way through this course, following your inspiration and interest.
How Does It Work?
For more information about Transition Launch and how to navigate this online platform, please watch this video first. Then, contact Transition Network International's Training Coordinator at training@transitionnetwork.org with any other questions you might have.
This course is currently available only in English. However, our tech team is working hard to make it fully translatable into many more languages in the coming weeks.
While we're offering this course for free to make it as widely available as possible, we ask that you seriously consider making a donation to support Transition Training if you can. Your generous donation of £5, £50, or even £500 will enable us to develop more courses like this one and keep them accessible for grassroots leaders around the world.
Your Instructors
Don Hall (Session 1: Introduction to Transition)
Don has had the good fortune to serve in a variety of leadership capacities throughout the international Transition Towns Movement over the past 17 years. He currently serves as Training Coordinator for Transition Network International and recently authored The Regeneration Handbook: Transform Yourself to Transform Your World (New Society Publishers, 2024). Don 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, USA.
Elizabeta Jovanovska (Session 1: Introduction to Transition)
Elizabeta is a community resilience facilitator, youth worker, and non-formal education trainer with over 25 years of experience across South-East Europe, the UK, India, and Portugal. Her work spans the design and management of programmes focused on ecology, resilience, human values, youth participation, creative expression and imagination, critical thinking, and social inclusion. She actively nurtures self-directed learning and authentic relating, often weaving artism and systems thinking into her approach. Elizabeta is based in southern Portugal, where she supports grassroots engagement and regenerative practices. She is also part of the international team of Transition Network as Lead Link of the Learning and Practising Transition Circle.
Maricio Deliz (Session 2: Our Global Context)
Mauricio is a changemaker with over 30 years of experience in sustainability, participation, and regenerative development. With a background in engineering, anthropology, and environmental planning, he has worked in Norway, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Africa. A specialist in permaculture, ecovillages, and participatory methods, he has facilitated transformation processes in communities, municipalities, and organizations. He is president of Change the World – Cambia el Mundo (Norway) and an associate professor in sustainability. His work combines positive vision, collective action, and hope. Today, he promotes an international network of “World Changers” to regenerate the planet through collaboration, awareness, and local action with global impact.
Ângela Lacerda-Nobre (Session 2: Our Global Context)
Ângela was born in Lisbon and has been living in Lisbon ever since. Born in 1960, she was 13 years old when the Democratic Revolution came, on the 25th of April of 1974, and the fire of freedom and of free thought stayed on. It emerged through militant research and Transition activism, and, since the nineties, through teaching Macroeconomics at a Business School and beyond.
Jorge Barbosa (Session 3: The Power of Vision)
Jorge is a Transition Trainer, a certified permaculture designer and educator (PAB), currently based in Berlin, Germany. He offers experiential activities and trainings related with permaculture, transition, regenerative lifestyles, to children, young people and adults. Locally, he collaborates with several schools, designing and developing school gardens, offering design support, consulting and environmental education. He's also involved in educational projects at a transnational level, collaborating with permaculture academies in Italy, Spain and the UK.
Martina Francesca (Session 4: Inner Transition)
Martina has been part of the Italian Transition Hub and a Transition Trainer in Italy and, as a group facilitator and participation expert, she supports social and Transition initiatives with facilitation, conflict transformation and mediation tools. She is also a Work That Reconnects facilitator and co-founded La Prossima Cultura, a project that explores how systems thinking, deep ecology and facilitation can shape a new, emergent culture.
Josué Dusoulier (Session 4: Inner Transition)
Josué has been involved in the development of Transition and Transition Trainings since the beginning of 2010. He is an initiator of Ath en transition and the Hub RéseauTransition.be. Josué has also been a participant in the international Transition Hubs Group since 2012. This activity led to him being selected in 2014 as one of the "100 Creators of the Future" by the Future Generations Foundation. Josué also coordinated and refined the French translation of Rob Hopkins'book “The Power of Just Doing Stuff.”
Nick Osborne (Session 5: Healthy Groups)
Nick is an entrepreneur in the business of shifting organisational paradigms beyond hierarchy. With over 30 years of experience with organisations as diverse as Shell, EY, and Extinction Rebellion through to grass-roots community groups, he founded Evolving Organisation to help leaders and teams adapt to fast-changing complexity through self-managing teams and systems. As the UK’s first Holacracy Master Coach, Nick’s work equips leaders and organisations to cultivate the trust, collective intelligence and resilience needed to thrive in a rapidly changing world. He currently leads online team training programs to liberate leaders, leadership and teams from outdated ways of working.
Anahí Martínez Encinas (Session 6: Community Engagement)
Operational leader of Transición Mexico Hub. Multidisciplinary artivist. Specialist in regenerative projects and environmental education. As a facilitator of creative processes, Anahí's work integrates art, design, and sustainability to promote transformative narratives. She coordinates events, festivals, and projects based on the transition model — where environmental education, ecological regeneration, and community participation converge — always with a pedagogical and permacultural approach.
Rakesh "Rootsman Rak" (Session 7: Practical Projects)
Rakesh is a Transition Trainer, practitioner, and facilitator with over a decade of experience supporting communities worldwide. Combining permaculture, sociocracy, eco-village design, and community forest gardening, he helps groups create resilient, self-reliant towns. Rakesh’s expertise includes building local food systems, renewable energy projects, and circular economies, with a focus on inclusivity and diversity, shaped by his non-Western heritage. Known for his engaging facilitation style, he empowers communities to co-create practical, regenerative solutions that address global challenges. Driven by a passion for true sustainability, Rakesh inspires transformation for a thriving planet and connected, equitable communities.
Juan del Río (Session 8: Part of a Movement)
Juan is a transition facilitator, regenerative catalyst, and network weaver with over 20 years of experience leading projects and training programs on community resilience, systemic change, and sustainability. He co-founded Transition Spain, the Municipalities in Transition project, and several transition initiatives. A certified Transition Trainer since 2011, he is also the author of Guía del movimiento de Transición and co-director of the film ALTER NATIVAS. Since 2019, he has worked with ECOLISE, the European network for community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability, where he now leads the Regenerative Communities Fund. Juan holds a BSc in Biology and an MSc in Sustainability, and lives with his family in Cardedeu, Spain, where he’s active in several community projects.
Rubén Gutiérrez Cabrera (Session 8: Part of a Movement)
Rubén is an international ecosocial facilitator. Bachelor of International Relations, Master in International Cooperation and Expert in Governance and Citizen Participation, he is a Transition Trainer member of Red de Transición de España. He has also been member of international teams such as the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) or Transition Network international (TNi), promoting a global transition towards a regenerative and just future.
