Start a Transition Group - Transition Australia

What is the Transition movement?

Transition is a movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world through a process of creating healthy human culture.

It’s a movement you can join.

It is inspirational, positive, evolving, and it may well be just what you’re looking for.

Table with an assortment of homegrown food on it

Many groups organise food swaps

What is a Transition group?

Transition has been growing since 2005. It is about communities stepping up to address the big challenges they face by starting local. By coming together, they are able to create solutions together.

They seek to nurture a caring culture, one focused on connection with self, others and nature.

A Transition group will typically run events to inspire, encourage and support each other, and the wider community to live more sustainably.

It’s an approach that has spread now to over 50 countries, in thousands of groups: in towns, villages, cities, universities, schools.

One of the key ways it spreads is through telling inspiring stories. We hope you feel inspired to take part, we’d be honoured if you did.

Four people smile with a basket of lemons in front of them

Climate Change Conference 2019

Why do it?

People get involved with Transition for lots of reasons:

To get to know their neighbours
To feel that they are making a difference in the world, both now, and for future generations
To overcome the sense of disconnection they feel from self, others and from the nature around them because the world’s huge challenges feel more manageable if addressed at the local scale
To catalyse all manner of new projects, enterprises and investment opportunities
To learn new skills
To feel like they are creating a more life enhancing story for their place
To feel connected to other people, the natural world, and to something historic and exciting happening around them
Because they feel it is “the right thing to do”
Because they feel disenfranchised by politics and want to be able to take back a sense that they can influence the world around them.