{"id":4338,"date":"2015-01-10T09:37:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T14:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4338"},"modified":"2015-01-10T09:37:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T14:37:54","slug":"how-the-power-to-convene-can-transform-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4338","title":{"rendered":"How ‘The Power to Convene’ can transform Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"

How ‘The Power to Convene’ can transform Transition<\/a><\/h3>\n

I had seen it in lots of different places. I\u2019d seen it in the 30 people who turned out to plant nut trees on a grey Sunday morning in Totnes. I\u2019d seen it in Liege in Belgium, where representatives of many local organisations had come to an\u00a0event to discuss creating a \u2018Food Belt\u2019 around the city<\/a>. I\u2019d seen it at the\u00a0launch of the Brixton Pound<\/a>, in a hall packed with local traders. \u00a0What I didn\u2019t have was a name for it.<\/p>\n

It was in a small sideroom at the\u00a0Resilience Hub in Portland, Maine<\/a>, that I first heard the term \u2018The Power to Convene\u2019.\u00a0 It fascinated me, and finally gave me a name for this thing I\u2019d been seeing for years.\u00a0 I was doing\u00a0an interview with Chuck Collins<\/a>\u00a0of the fantastic Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition (JPNET) group.\u00a0 \u201cOne thing we have\u201d, he told me, \u201cis the \u2018Power to Convene\u2019”. \u00a0He continued:<\/p>\n

\u201cSomebody comes and has a great idea, such as \u201cI really want to start a bicycle taxi business\u201d, and young people who are graduates of a local bike mechanic programme say \u201cwe know how to take care of bikes, we\u2019d like to start a business.<\/p>\n

So we pulled together a community event, and got 70 people there who were interested, and we got a whole bunch of new stakeholders and allies, and now they have a working group and are working on setting up that business.\u00a0 I think we just keep doing that in every area where there is both a problem and people who want to do something about it.\u00a0 We can get a crowd together, help identify resources and spark them\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2018The Power to Convene\u2019 put a beautiful, succinct term to something you will no doubt recognise. We’ve noticed more and more groups working in this way and exploring the potential of their own, place-based, ‘Power to Convene’. \u00a0We see it in different forms:<\/p>\n

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How ‘The Power to Convene’ can transform Transition I had seen it in lots of different places. I\u2019d seen it in the 30 people who turned out to plant nut trees on a grey Sunday morning in Totnes. I\u2019d seen it in Liege in Belgium, where representatives of many local organisations had come to an\u00a0event […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2557,2558,809],"class_list":["post-4338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-community","tag-new-economy","tag-transition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4339,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions\/4339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}