October 2025: Learnings
A new Transition Training; a recording full of HOPE; news from Japan, Croatia, Portugal, Mexico, Abya Yala... plus a bunch of resources and opportunities - all of that inside October 2025 newsletter issue!
Hello friends,
Diving into Transition can feel both beautifully simple and surprisingly complex. You start with a powerful idea, and soon discover a world of possibilities — and questions.
- How do we communicate in a way that truly connects?
- How do we build groups where collective genius can flourish?
- How do we turn our boldest ideas into tangible, scalable projects?
The good news? You don't have to figure it all out alone. For 19 years, the global Transition movement has been gathering the answers. We've distilled the best tools, resources, and proven strategies into powerful tools:
- The Practising Transition campaign: A focused journey into actionable skills.
- Our New Resources Library: A curated collection of our most effective tools.
- NEW! The Evergreen Online Training: Learn at your own pace, anytime, anywhere.
Find all this collective knowledge now more accessible than ever.
We'd love to hear what excites you most. Your feedback ensures we're providing the best possible support for this incredible movement.
With love,
The Transition Network international team 🌱
What's buzzing at TNi?
- This month we are celebrating the launch of Transition Network international’s first-ever “evergreen” course, Transition Launch Training! For more info and how to enroll:
Don Hall
- We had a really great time collectively watching HOPE Episode 2: The Power of Two Words and connecting to Javier, Filipa and Rob last Monday. Watch the recording here:
Esther Molina
- Tech in Transition coming next! In November, Sam Rossiter and Esther Molina will share perspectives and practical tools relating to ethical technologies, followed by a closing panel with Shai Tubali, Wakanyi Hoffman, and Denise ‘Kuku’ Dueñas on the spiritual and environmental impacts of technology.
- If you have peeked at this story collector in the past months, but forgot to add your community / activity / project story, there is still time to do it! – get your friends and neighbours, and all of you share your own take on your actions. It can be in any language or format (written or audio), through the Sensemaker collector. The more stories we gather, the more patterns emerge, and the better the collective learnings. Get ready and click here, you'll get access to the data!
Heartbeat of the Movement
- In August 2025, Shunro Yoshida and Mikae Koyama from Transition Japan visited Hong Kong and China. Read about their journey here:
Transition Network international
- (In Portuguese) The Community School in Linda-a-Velha in Portugal is celebrating 10 years of existence! Here is their story.
Transition Network international
- Shambala: What's next for the Shambhala node and the larger alliance circle? Incredible energy and vibrant events, find out what's happening:
Activista
- (in Portuguese) - Filipa Pimentel's Imagination Workshop in Porto:
Filipa Pimentel
- (in Spanish) Autonomías Season Two is out! Autonomías is a podcast that documents the rise of self-organization across Latin America as a response to today’s crises. Produced by our Community Weaver, Pamela Carmona, this new season begins with the story of those preserving native maiz seeds in Mexico City, sowing a future less dependent on industrial agriculture.
- Watch the latest People of Transition episode: Hanyun interviewed Irena Borovina (Croatia). Tune in to hear Irena’s reflections on courage, playfulness, and community, and why doing what makes you happy might just be the most radical act of all:
What's alive in your Transition group? We'd love to hear and spread it further. Email us at comms@transitionnetwork.org
Resources
- We have bunch of new resources on our Resources site! Check them out and find what speaks to you most. And also feel inspired to share your own.
- A great playlist exploring Self Organisation beyond hierarchy, by the The Beyond Hierarchy Project.
- Katy Momo writes about Personal and Collective collapse of activists, and how to address them.
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
- Europe based: ECOPRISE course for social entrepreneurs. Participants need to be based in Italy, Portugal, Serbia, Lithuania, Greece or Cyprus.
- The European Community Organizing Network hosts the event: "Organizing for democracy – Responding to the rise of authoritarianism and the far right". October 17 2025, 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm CEST.
- RadHR Soapbox: What does 'socially-just pay' actually mean? Free online event, Thursday, October 23 2025 · 6 - 8pm WEST
- The Democracy at Work Fund welcomes applications from frontline workers’ organisations supporting labour rights with a focus on leadership by women and underrepresented groups (in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil). Deadline is 27 October 2025.
- Climate Psychology Alliance is hiring: four part-time positions and one volunteering. Closing date 31 October 2025
- Apply for a Climate Storytelling Fellowship. Writers will each receive a $20,000 grant and will be mentored by a professional screenwriter with an interest in climate storytelling. Applications open until 28 November, 2025. More info on how to apply here.
Which other opportunities would you like to share with fellow Transitioners?
Stay connected!
Would you like to have some of your content featured in the next newsletter editions? Please write to comms@transitionnetwork.org
For the November e-news, the deadline for submissions is October 31.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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!
