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Conflict Resilience - Principles, Practices and Resources

Conflict Resilience - Principles, Practices and Resources

We’re excited to share with you our new set of Conflict Resilience Resources full of information about conflict transformation topics and processes, plus some practical ways to apply them in your own groups. Conflict and misunderstandings are common in groups working together for shared aims. Having a common purpose

A Web of Generations: Housing for All Ages at Chicago’s H.O.M.E.

This is the third blog from Kate Duva, read her first ‘Grief: The Great Changemaker’ and second El Amor de la Comunidad. It’s community dinner night at Pat Crowley House. Golden oldies are wafting through the room – Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys, Come Together by the Beatles – thanks

Are smoking cannabis and saving the planet mutually exclusive?

This blog has a deliberately provocative title, because I think this is something we really need to talk about. It is a question that has been in my mind after my recent trip to the ‘Education for Life’ conference in Mallorca. Psychiatrist Jose M. Fabregas gave an excellent talk which

My Personal Burnout Audit

In her framing editorial for our theme of burnout and balance, Sophy Banks asked: “What should leaders in our groups and our movement be modelling to show that well being and balance are more important than always doing? To model that it’s not acceptable to override one’s health

My name is Claire and I’m in recovery from addiction to activism: Part One.

It feels apt that I should be introducing myself as Transition Network’s new Inner Transition Coordinator as part of a blog on burnout. I have lived most of my adult life through the lens of burnout. In many ways I am incredibly grateful as it has supported me to

Burnout Tales: Chrissie Godfrey on the risks of the ‘Energy of Yes’

Chrissie Godfrey was formerly a co-ordinator of Transition Town Taunton (which she co-founded in 2008), but in 2012 suffered from a serious case of burnout. We asked her to tell her story, and we are deeply grateful for her honesty and for sharing her experience: “When you first

Catherine Sutton on managing burnout in Albany, CA.

I started Transition Albany in 2009 and – despite that “I” at the beginning of this sentence – our first event was a model of cooperation and organizing as group. Not surprisingly it was also very successful: multilayered, rich, informative and inspiring. We showed Power of Community, and had various community building