March 2025: Navigating Liminal Times
We are living in liminal times - threshold moments where the old ways are unraveling, yet the new has not fully emerged. From ecological tipping points to political uncertainty, from economic instability to the quiet but persistent work of community resilience, we are in a space of deep transition.
Dear friends,
We are living in liminal times - threshold moments where the old ways are unraveling, yet the new has not fully emerged. From ecological tipping points to political uncertainty, from economic instability to the quiet but persistent work of community resilience, we are in a space of deep transition. These moments can feel unsettling, but they also hold immense possibility.
In times like these, doing Transition means that we don’t have to passively wait for the future to arrive—we can shape it. Across the world, people are reimagining economies, reclaiming local food systems, and rebuilding relationships with land and each other. This work has never been more vital. As we step into the unknown, let’s do it with courage, creativity, and care.
Yours in solidarity,
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?
- Have you signed up yet?
Check out the 24-h Programme of the Day of Transition Practise 2025, and register for the sessions that call your name - and if you also hear your friends' names, send them an invite too 😄
- The Community Research Project is open for your stories! Q&A session happening on Wednesday, April the 2nd, 2025 at 4pm UTC. We're gathering stories of change through a Community Research Project. This will provide valuable information and resources for local groups to learn from each other, raise awareness of their activities, support fundraising efforts, and demonstrate the wide-reaching impact of our movement. Discover more here, and register to the Q&A session here.
Deborah Benham
- Rob's logbook: a month-long imagination tour through Portugal. Read here.
Transition Network
- The Cultural Transformation Circle invites you to join a special celebration of the Equinox —a time to reconnect with Nature and each other— on March 22nd, 15:00h UTC. Find out more and register here.
Anahí Beatriz Pacheco
Heartbeat of the Movement
- Online event in German: "Macht voll verändern" (Completely Changing Power) on 19 March from 6 to 8pm (CET). At the end of 2024, Eva Stützel published a book entitled "Completely Changing Power". In this session she will introduce the essence of the book and invite participants to develop an awareness of their own power and become aware of how it affects the relationship with others. More info here.
- Sustainable Living Tasmania · 21 March 2025
CALLING ALL OF TASSIE'S CLIMATE CONSCIOUS KIDS!
Register now for The BIG Day of Circular Living Ideas YOUTH FORUM! This forum will kick start the Big Day because the voices of our young people are so important. Please register your interest by emailing nel@slt.org.au and share with your neighbours, friends and sporting groups. - ALTER NATIVAS being released! After two years of screenings, AlterNativas documentary by Transition Spain is being released to watch free. Celebratory online event (screening) happening on 26 March 2025.
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
Do you follow Hanyun on Instagram yet? Featured in March: Shunro Yoshida from Transition Japan. Check the interviews on Youtube and posts on Instagram for some heartwarming inspiration. And do send some online love and reach out to Hanyun with your story as well!
Resources of the Month
- We thought you might find useful this guide to Resilient communities from USA: Be Prepared: Build Inner Resilience & Build Resilient Hubs - “A Guide to Resilience for the New ‘20s”. (Info gathered by Aya Nagano, USA)
Also, a few other short reminders of own resilience:
- Circles of Control, Influence, and Concern: Where Should You Focus Your Energy?
- How Flipping the Switch Leads to Resilience
Calendar
- March 17 · Last call for Bioregional design scholarships
- March 19 · "Macht voll verändern" (Completely Changing Power)
- March 21 · The BIG Day of Circular Living Ideas Youth Forum
- March 22 · CTC Equinox celebration. Reconnecting with Nature
- March 26 · AlterNativas documentary release
- April 2 · Community Research Project Q&A live session
- April 4 · Day of Transition Practise 2025
You can 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
- The Healthy Food Healthy Planet Fund: HFHP invites civil society organisations based in Europe to participate in its open Calls to Collective Action. If interested, you can find more information here.
- Storytelling: new call from Climate Story Unit, with funding for up to 125.000 USD.
- Scholarships: Are you called to meet the challenges of these times through becoming a Bioregional designer? We are supporting 10 people with a fully funded scholarship for this course - few more spaces available if you are fast! The training starts on March 18th 2025. Read more on how and where to apply for the scholarship.
Transition Network
Greetings from the Future
Greetings from the Future postcard from Dan, one of TNi Core Circle lead links
- If you're curious, here is a link to the weekly play breaks that Dan hosts every Monday.
What is your own message to humanity from 2050? Send a short clip 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!
Stay connected!
Would you like to have some of your content featured in the next newsletter editions? Please write to comms@transitionnetwork.org
For April e-news, the deadline for submissions is March 22nd. For May issue the deadline is April 20th.
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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!
