April 2025: Being Earth
Huge opportunities for Youth in Transition, DoTP25 recordings, Work with TNi... all this and more on this Transition Newsletter issue!
Dear friends,
This month’s update is brimming with news, fresh content, and ways to connect among ourselves.
Earth is our larger flesh – David Abraham
As Earth Day approaches, here's an invitation to pause and contemplate: How does she feel when we celebrate her and recognize ourselves as part of her? Joanna Macy reminds us to see with new eyes: Earth as a living organism, humans as an integral part of Nature. Indigenous wisdom and ancestral cosmovisions offer profound embodied insights. Practices like the Deep Time Walk can provide transformative experiences on that journey. What do you think-feel?
In community,
Transition Network International team
*NOTE: We're working to have translations available to a wide range of languages, these will be available soon, thanks for your understanding.
What's buzzing at TNi?
- The Day of Transition Practise 2025 was incredible! Find and enjoy the recordings of the sessions here.
Esther Molina
- Big news! Between April 22nd and 29th we’ll be raising funds for Youth in Transition. Check out the campaign and join us on April 23rd for a conversation on Engaging Youth in Transition:
Elizabeta Z Jovanovska
- Join us on May 27th for a global gathering to celebrate the New Moon and manifest Collective Healing together.
Anahí Beatriz Pacheco
- Every story matters. By sharing yours –in any language or format– through Sensemaker’s Community Research Project, you’ll help build a powerful resource for resilience and collective action. Together, our stories and data amplify impact, inspire change, and showcase the movement’s reach. Join in and discover more here!
Deborah Benham
Heartbeat of the Movement
- Feel the Heartbeat of the Movement with our friends of AbyaYala: Gabriela Montenegro (Brazil), Silvana Jakubiak (Argentina), Edgar Gainko Ruiz (Mexico):
- Read the Letter to Transition groups from the Transition Together Network Weavers
- Discover the project Tempo de plantar (Time to Plant) held by Transition Brasil friends - a regenerative movement that encourages people to plant trees during rains season.
What's alive in your Transition group? We'd love to hear and spread it further! Email us at comms@transitionnetwork.org
People of Transition
Hanyun Xu shared about People of Transition during the Day of Transition Practice – hear about her experience so far and ways of engaging:
Do you follow Hanyun on Instagram yet? Check the interviews on Youtube and posts on Instagram for some heartwarming inspiration. And do send some online love and reach out with your story as well!
Resources of the Month
Nature
Youth
- Challenges, Opportunities and Ideas for the Youth - Youth Caucus
- Engaging Young People: Suggestions from the Youth Caucus
Calendar
- April 15th · Collective Wisdom Session: Collaborations
- April 22nd to 29th · Big Give Match Funding campaign: Engaging Youth for a Regenerative Future
- April 23rd · Engaging Youth in Transition session
- May 6th · Dragon Dreaming Method - Practising Transition webinar
- May 27th · New Moon Collective Healing - Cultural Transformation event
Add your Transition events to the Transition platform calendar here to be featured in the community space, as well as the upcoming e-news. Make sure to set them up as "Public". How-to instructions here (see "Route 1").
Opportunities
- Transition Network international needs a Community Weaver (Social Media and Community Engagement role). Infopack will be published very soon at TNi's website (Latest News) and on Social Media profiles!
- Apply for the Youth for Climate Action Awards (people of age under 35). Submissions open until April 30, 2025.
- Climate Psychology Alliance is seeking a temporary Comms coordinator to start on May 1, 2025.
- Join Morag Gamble, founder of the Permaculture Education Institute, for the online International Permaculture Festival of Wild Ideas, May 3-11, 2025.
- Ananda Festival of Bliss (6-10 August 2025) is looking for volunteers.
- Actions for Change Romania will be holding Human Nature Erasmus+ Programme on 8-16 June. Deadline is 25 April. Apply here.
Which other opportunities would you like to share with fellow Transitioners?
Greetings from the Future
What is your own message to humanity from 2050? Send an artistic expression (drawing, short clip, collage, you name it!) to comms@transitionnetwork.org with your postcard from 2050 (or the year you manage to travel to) so we can share in the Transition Newsletter upcoming issues!
Feel free to communicate in your preferred language, and send the clip in any format or size you like. We can do the rest.
PS. We're preparing a special contest - the most imaginative postcards from the future we receive during this year 2025 will get some love!
Meanwhile, enjoy Drawing the Future with James McKay - the man who draws the future.
Stay connected!
Would you like to have some of your content featured in the next newsletter editions? Please write to comms@transitionnetwork.org
For May e-news, the deadline for submissions is April 30th. For June issue the deadline is May 21st.
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Thank you so much for making it until the end of this edition of the Newsletter. We hope you felt as excited as we did while crafting this. Stay tuned and hands-on!
