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**Warning: SPOILER ALERT: if you don’t want to know what happens in the new Star Wars film, don’t read this. ** Like so very many people, I fell for the hype, and at vast expense, took my kids to see the new Star Wars film, ‘The Force Awakens’, just

This blog, the last from Sophy as she leaves Transition Network, focuses on the causes of burnout – the physical, the personal, the cultural and some of the unconscious processes that are much harder to spot. We’re giving ourselves spacious time over the next two months to explore the theme,

It is said in Buddhism that just before his enlightenment, as the Buddha sat beneath the bodhi tree, he was challenged by Mara, the demon, who tried to distract him from attaining enlightenment with desire and fear.  Mara demanded that the Buddha produce a witness to confirm that he had

Today Sophy Banks, the founder of the ‘Inner Transition’ aspect of what we do, moves on from Transition Network to pastures new, a moment we felt needed marking.  So I cycled up the not inconsiderable hill to Sophy’s house, and over a cup of tea we talked about Inner

During 2015, two of the key ‘thought leaders’ of Transition have stepped aside to focus on other things.  Fiona Ward was the founder and originator of the concept of REconomy, and Sophy Banks has pioneered the whole field of ‘Inner Transition’.  Both have played a huge role in making Transition,

Continuing our exploration of the Transition Story project, we asked different National Hubs for their reflections on the blog that opened our theme on the Transition Story.  Today Yoav Egozi of the Transition Israel Hub shares his thoughts:  “I think the some of the parts that attracted me to Transition

On my first evening in Paris for the COP21 climate summit, I eat at an Indian vegetarian restaurant close to Gare Du Nord, and over a mixed vegetable dosa I observe a table of climate activists across the restaurant, some from India, others from a northern European country the name