Dear Friends,

As many of you are aware the Transition Leadership Co-Learning Network (TLCN) was an initiative of the Wollumbin Institute. In mid-July the Institute ceased operation having found no way to fund its core overheads beyond the initial 12 month pilot phase. It is now in the process of being wound up.

Is there a future for the Transition Leadership Co-Learning Network? This largely depends on your interest in building the community of practice we originally envisaged.

This Leading for the Future website remains live on the Internet. While there has been little activity here since it became apparent the Wollumbin Institute would not continue, there is no real reason why it can't function as the hub of a self-organising online community as intended. But, of course, this requires the active engagement of at least some of the 42 members registered here and the expansion of the network to include additional transition leaders.

Can I invite you to consider your own relationship with this site:

1. Do you think the network has the potential to offer sufficient value to make a modest investment of your time worthwhile? If so, what do you think is needed to realise this potential?

2. Are there any changes to this website that would facilitate your participation? What are they?

3. Are you willing to share stories of transition leadership (your own or others) from whatever field of practice you're engaged in?

4. Can you commit to posting on the website about once a month to:

• offer something from your own practice
• share an article, resource, or website that you've found of value
• respond to another participant's post

I look forward to reading your responses here over the coming days and weeks.

Best wishes, Ken

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Can We Evolve Fast Enough?
Despite the current global crisis, author and scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker is positive about the potential of human evolution and consciousness. You can watch the full interview in the Videos section.

Transition to a society that is sustainable within the biophysical limits of the planet means a transformation of the way we live and work and the redesign of many of our social, economic, cultural and governance systems.

Building grassroots leadership capability within our organisations and communities will be critical to the success of this transition. Such transition leaders will need a deep understanding of how complex systems evolve and change and be skilled in facilitating systemic learning through collaborative action.

The concept of distributed leadership – i.e. that the capacity to lead is within us all and therefore leadership development should aim to realise this potential throughout all facets of community and organisational life – underpins the Transition Leadership Network.

In the space of distributed leadership we are all both practitioners and learners.

The goal of the Transition Leadership Network is to create a web of mutually supportive relationships between grassroots leaders that enable the more experienced leader/learners to support the development of the less experienced and, by so doing, deepen their own reflective practice and learning.

Three areas for collaboration have emerged from the Transition Leadership Network design workshops held so far:

1. Incubating Ideas

2. Fostering Community

3. Enhancing Learning Opportunities

This website provides a venue to explore and develop these concepts and build a network of mutually supportive learning relationships.