About the Book
Leadership for the Great Transition a changemaker's toolkit for cultivating personal and community resilience
The Regeneration Handbook offers an abundance of insights, stories, tools, practices, and resources for experienced and aspiring changemakers to step into their full power at this time of unprecedented global crisis.
By introducing readers to a different kind of activism based on universal patterns of Transformation, Expansion, Wholeness, and Balance it points the way to a truly just and regenerative future.
Drawing on author Don Hall's experience as a leader in the international Transition Towns Movement as well as the work of dozens of regenerative thinkers and doers across many fields, including ecology, psychology, sociology, organisational development, and systems thinking this book will help you:
Better understand our current environmental, economic, and social polycrisis
Develop a holistic and inspiring vision for the future
Cultivate the confidence to lead and strengthen inner resilience
Work effectively in collaborative groups and organisations
Reach beyond the choir to engage people from all walks of life
Design and implement practical projects that foster sustainability and justice
While none of us can change the world alone, we all have an important part to play in the Great Transition. By starting wherever we are and leaning into this historic challenge, we'll discover our deepest purpose, realise our highest potential, and learn how to harness the power of regeneration to radically transform our lives, our communities, and our world.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Rob Hopkins
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Patterns of Evolution
Chapter 3: My Evolutionary Journey
Chapter 4: The Transition Story
Chapter 5: The Five Stages of Transition
Chapter 6: Our Global Context
Chapter 7: The Power of Vision
Chapter 8: Inner Transition
Chapter 9: Healthy Groups
Chapter 10: Community Engagement
Chapter 11: Practical Projects
Chapter 12: Part of a Movement
Chapter 13: Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About New Society Publishers
About the Author :
Don Hall has served in a variety of capacities throughout the international Transition Towns Movement over the past 15 years, first as Education & Outreach Coordinator for Transition Colorado, then as Founder and Executive Director of Transition Sarasota (Florida), and Executive Director of Transition US. He is currently Training Coordinator for the international Transition Network. Don holds a Master's degree in Environmental Leadership from Naropa University, a certification in Permaculture Design from the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute, and regularly teaches on a wide variety of topics including leadership development, community organising, effective collaboration, and local food systems. In 2019, Don edited and published 10 Stories of Transition in the US: Inspiring Examples of Community Resilience-Building. He currently lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Review :
This is a handbook for millions of us who have not given up on restoring health, sanity, vitality, and a higher moral purpose to our world – even with the dangerous head winds. It is a glossary of relevant ideas for regeneration activists. It is a compendium of projects that have worked. Don provides an analysis of where the movements for regeneration are, and what next steps can be. He is the kind of leader we need.
— Vicki Robin, author, Your Money or Your Life and Blessing the Hands that Feed Us, and host, What Could Possibly Go Right?
If you want to build a future that extends beyond the polycrisis currently gripping humanity, then regeneration should be your key search word. And your search lands here. This is the book to inform your personal and communitarian efforts as humans cease being fossil fools and transition into wise Earth stewards.
— Richard Heinberg, author, Power: Limits and Prospects for Humans Survival and Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute
Weaving together personal transformation, community organizing, and new economic thinking, this handbook is chock full of insights from Don Hall's lifetime commitment to the great work of our time – healing the collateral damage of economic growth and globalization.
— Woody Tasch, founder, Slow Money Institute and beetcoin.org
In The Regeneration Handbook, Don Hall illustrates how the great transition could be a bane, or if we look at it as a unique opportunity for transformation. Shared challenges demand shared solutions!
—Tom Llewellyn, executive director, Shareable
Many things about our future are murky – but one thing is clear, and that is that a rapidly changing planet is going to demand some rapid changes from all of us, in our communities and in our own selves. This book is a darned good place to start thinking through those transitions.
— Bill McKibben, author, The End of Nature
If you're feeling hopeless about our future, you've found the right antidote! With The Regeneration Handbook, Don Hall has done a brilliant job summing up the past couple decades of thinking on regenerative social change, and has written a clear, inspiring, and entertaining call to action.
— Adam Brock, organizational ecologist, Regenerate Change, and author, Change Here Now: Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation
