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Category Archives: Reskilling Workshops
ANOTHER WAY TO THINK – An NVC course
ANOTHER WAY TO THINK: how to translate your judgmental, critical and blaming thoughts toward yourself and others into compassionate communication. Before you speak, you think. This four-week workshop will help you formulate empathetic ways of thinking that can profoundly affect … Continue reading
Blog post on the presentation last Saturday
Not only last Saturday’s workshop succeeded very well, to an audience of 16, opening the Amherst Winter Farmers Market’s weekly workshop series this winter with elegance, but Nick and Betsy, long-time supporters and active participants, of Transition Amherst, even wrote … Continue reading
Emotional Resilience Workshop at All Things Local
Come to a discussion about how to create emotional resilience in our lives. How do we “keep going” when everything looks so bleak? Lets talk! How to prepare ourselves for changing times and deal emotionally with emerging economic and environmental … Continue reading
Winter Farmers Market Workshop Series
The 2014-2015 season is shaping up in the middle school. Every Saturday when the market is on, at noon there is a one hour workshop held in the back room (labeled). Here is the series in its entirety Dec 20 … Continue reading
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Resilience in and around the home
Come to the winter Farmers Market in Amherst (Middle School), to see a slideshow that will teach and brainstorm about how to get food, heat, energy and water needs met without relying on external resources. (Meet in the Professional Development … Continue reading
Bike Maintenance
It’s a rainy spring here! During wet times, cold or warm, more things can go wrong with a bicycle, if not properly maintained. Come to this workshop, where we look over all things that can go wrong, and build some … Continue reading
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First CyclingSavvy course in Massachusetts is complete
The three-part CyclingSavvy course that Transition Amherst sponsored during Bike week was well attended as you can see it from the crowd on the right. Friday evening we got our classroom part amidst delicious finger food from one of the … Continue reading
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Mushroom Log Inoculation
The picture to the right shows the crowd that gathered last May to inoculate logs. We had fun and some of us may already have had mushrooms. We will again be inoculating fresh oak logs with spores of Shiitake and … Continue reading
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Bicycle course by CyclingSavvy
Transition Amherst invites you to a three part experiential bicycling course to teach us all bicycling in traffic effectively. CyclingSavvy Pioneer Valley is excited to offer the 3-part course in Amherst for Bay State Bike Week 2014 beginning Friday, … Continue reading
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