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I watched the recent BBC documentary on Kids Company, Camila’s Kids Company: the inside story, with great sadness.  It told the story of Camila Batmanghelidjh and the unravelling of one of the UK’s best known charities, who did remarkable work helping some of the most disadvantaged kids in

In a final interview before she left Transition Network to take on new challenges, I sat down with Sophy Banks to talk about burnout and balance, our current theme.  I started out by asking her what, for her, is meant by the term. You can hear the interview in full

Here are all of Chris Johnstone’s 5 tips for reducing the risk of burnout gathered in one place!  They are: No. 1: See enthusiasm as a resource. No. 2: Redefine a good life.  No. 3: Broaden your definition of activism No. 4. Follow your inner compass No. 5: See

The spirit behind Transition, that invitation for a community to come together to reimagine and rebuild itself, takes many forms, not all of them choose to use the label Transition, and some, like the story told in this book, emerged before Transition but very much sees itself as being a

Lou Hemmerman, a sustainable activism researcher and facilitator with Ecodharma, shares her learnings from 6 years of action-research whilst co-facilitating Sustaining Resistance: Empowering Renewal, a 10 day residential workshop for activists. Lou lives at Ecodharma, a land-based community and education centre in a wild and remote part

Last week I visited an amazing exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London called The Secret Temple: Body, Mind and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism, (it’s on until February 28th). The exhibition is a celebration of the Lukhang, a temple close to Lhasa’s Potala Palace which was conceived by