January 2026: Finding Healthy Rhythms

What are healthy rhythms for making change within ourselves, our teams, and the wider systems we’re part of? This question has been alive within the TNI team over the past year, both individually and collectively. We’ve taken steps toward healthier ways of working together by holding regular team wellbeing meetings, creating informal spaces for peer connection, experimenting with a Reading and Learning week, and continuing to cultivate a culture where people feel safe to offer honest feedback and ask for support. We are not perfect, rather, we are a work in progress. As we move into 2026, we remain committed to learning our way toward more sustainable team rhythms.

In a recent check-in, team members also shared how they’re exploring healthier rhythms in their personal lives: eating more nourishing food, returning to slower forms of learning through magazines and regular reading, setting boundaries around email, moving their bodies more, and consuming less bombastic media. Working closely together, we can clearly see how intertwined the personal and the collective truly are. Our small team is a microcosm of wider change, and this lived experience echoes what Jill Kubit’s research highlights, that individual actions influence others and help create the conditions for broader social and political transformation.

Are there any healthy rhythms you are stepping into this year? We would love to hear. If you feel inspired, feel free to share on Community Waves! 

With love,
The Transition Network international team 🌱

• We are almost there! The full programme and the registration for the Day of Transition Practice, scheduled for 24 April 2026, will be with you next week - stay tuned!
• Work that Reconnects is hosting a conversation with Don, Anahi and Martina - three Transition Movement leaders working at the intersection of inner and outer transformation. February 4, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PST. Register here.
• If you haven't until now, check out Community Waves - the open source social media space crafted with love and ethics for people involved in community-led change. Do join and invite your friends and community members as well - there is space for everyone on this path.

Heartbeat of the Movement

• [FR] This year the Rimouskoise Week of the Environment sees things in a big way: it's not just one week, but 10 days of activities on the theme 1, 2, 3...ACTION!, from February 8 to 17, 2026.
• [PT] From Pedro Macedo, Portugal: "Caros amigos, quero celebrar convosco a publicação do meu livro sobre política e transição, em que partilho a experiência de 30 anos em prol da sustentabilidade, e a esperança num futuro melhor."
• [Croatia] Days of Permaculture and Transition - Dani permakulture i tranzicije, 7-8.2.2026. Full programme here.
• [UK] Climate Cafe Listening Circles in Cornwall: check out the updated calendar and join in if around the region.
• [Sweden] A long term project is starting, called Close to food. It will explore what an alternative, crowded food system can look like. Check out this page for info on events/webinars/workshops.
• [AUS] Bendigo Sustainability Festival 2026: Sunday 29 March 2026. The Bendigo Sustainability Festival will return in 2026 to inspire, connect, and empower our community toward meaningful environmental action. Interested in being part of it? More info here.
• Rob's podcast is continuing! In his words: "Yes, it's back! My much-loved podcast 'From What If to What Next' is back in your life, for a series of monthly deep dives into the radical imagination with some of the greatest time travellers, imagination provocateurs, artists and activists out there. We start on Monday morning, with Episode 101, starring the brilliant Rasheedah Phillips of Black Quantum Futurism. It will eventually appear 'everywhere you get your podcasts', but get it the second it's released by subscribing. It's only £3 a month, and it really helps with all the other stuff I do. Oh, and while I have your attention, don't forget to subscribe to my newsletter, the Time Traveller's Gazette. It's completely free. Just go to robhopkins.net and pop your email address in the 'Email Newsletter' box. ❤️"
• People of Transition: This month Hanyun talked to Yvonne Omatseye in Nigeria - worth checking out! And get in touch with us if you'd like to be featured next. :)

What's alive in your Transition group? We'd love to hear and spread it further. Email us at comms@transitionnetwork.org

Resources

• You might find helpful this Guide - Burnout to balance: doing and being.

Burnout to Balance: Doing and Being - Transition Network Resources

Burnout is common to many social change movements, showing up similarly on all levels – for individuals, groups, and the planet. The Transition movement aims to address planetary depletion, what some view as burnout on a large scale – human systems that deplete resources, not allowing enough time for natural systems to replenish and revitalise. Any system, group, or individual that uses its resources faster than they can replenish will steadily deplete them. Burnout can result from consistent depletion over a long time, with many naturally restorative processes disrupted. Typically some kind of intervention or change is required to restore a more self-nourishing balance.

Transition Network ResourcesRoot Cuthbertson (2020)

• Meg-John Barker's zine Staying With Our Feelings is all about why it’s important to cultivate the capacity to stay with our feelings, and how we can go about doing that. Hopefully working through the zine will help you to figure out your own emotional landscape.

Zines - Rewriting The Rules

This page includes all of my free published zines, on topics like self-care, staying with feelings, queer relationships, social mindfulness, gender, and plural selves

Rewriting The Rules

Calendar

Check out the calendar and add your Transition events here. They'll 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

• Save the dates: Re-Imagining Education Conference, 5th Edition is taking place between February 26 - March 1, 2026. You can register for the conference here. Our Youth Engagement role, Elizabeta Z. Jovanovska, will participate at the Conference in a panel called Nurturing the Next Generation: Uplifting Youth Leadership. Saturday 12:00 UTC.
• UK: Workers.coop is launching Own The Future, its first co-op support programme for workers leading the transition to a new economy.
• 2026 Sakharov Fellowship programme 7-20 June 2026 - call for applications closes 15 February 2026.
• Freedom From Fees-3.0 - Permaculture Design Course (PDC), facilitated by Teaching Where it Matters, a social enterprise from India. The core philosophy and vision of the organization is to make permaculture education, Design, and mentoring accessible to remote and marginal communities. The course will be delivered online over three months, from Feb 21st-May 17th 2026.
• FITO Network has a Call for Stewards: They are looking for Stewards to spark their new Fix-it Stations, which are four 90-minute, playful deep-dives into the real challenges we face as network leaders.
• Join Emma Gorbutt and Hattie Duke for this free Mother Nature Self Care Workshop. How we can bring circles of support into our lives as women, as mothers, as beings on a journey of self discovery.

Which other opportunities would you like to share with fellow Transitioners?

Would you like to have some of your content featured in the next newsletter editions? Easy! Just send your text, photos and/or links to comms@transitionnetwork.org. For the March e-news, the deadline for submissions is 28 February, 2026.

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Thank you so much for making it until the end of this edition of the Newsletter. We're looking forward to hearing from you all, amazing people. Stay tuned and hands-on!