Center for Transformational Change

Super happy that @linasrivastava.bsky.social is part of this.

10F Consortium | Open-Source Foresight on Global Transformation Ten open-source forecasts on the transformation of globalization (2025-2035). Independent, practitioner-led strategic foresight. CC-BY-4.0 license. Use it, adapt it.

I have more news to share: Last year, I joined the @10fconsortium.bsky.social, a collective of foresight practitioners and domain experts from 15 countries.

We've just released a set of open-access forecasts mapping 10 global transformations. Learn more and download here: www.10fconsortium.org

From the Editor: Looking Ahead and Growing our Team New hires and what's coming up in 2026

Exciting news! I'm joining Proximate as interim executive director for this year. Proximate is a media outlet tracing how money and power flow in the social sectors. This project is in the portfolio of @cftchange.bsky.social, which I'll continue to run full time.

www.proximate.press/latest-stori...

The urgency of political hope — CfTC What good is hope in a time led by charlatans and monsters?  In our present moment, forces aligned toward extraction, opportunism, oppression, and violence seem to have gained momentum over our ...

How do artists practice hope in challenging times? @cftchange.bsky.social brings together creators exploring the urgency of art & creativity to fuel political hope right now. Thank you @linasrivastava.bsky.social for the invite to participate.
#TransformationalChange #PoliticalHope #ArtForChange

THE VISTA: January 2026 Many around the country have been inspired by the collective action of the people of Minnesota in the face of ICE’s surge in the state. We’ve also been called to honor the many distinct responses people are experiencing to the murders in Minneapolis. But what is clear is that the egregious political violence has spurred many new voices to denounce the authoritarian tactics,

Here's what we're reading, watching and listening to this month.

@19thnews.org @onesixcomics.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social @weforum.org
@daniel-hunter.bsky.social @22ci.bsky.social @moreincommonus.bsky.social @wagingnonviolence.org @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social @cftchange.bsky.social

Proud to play a small part in releasing a Zine on the urgency of political hope.

What gives you hope? A selection of artists and creators offer us some hope to grasp onto as we continue to collectively lift ourselves up.

The urgency of political hope — CfTC What good is hope in a time led by charlatans and monsters?  In our present moment, forces aligned toward extraction, opportunism, oppression, and violence seem to have gained momentum over our ...

Our friends @cftchange.bsky.social released a zine today to mark
MLK Day on the Urgency of Political Hope. Enjoy. www.transformationalchange.co/news-stories...

Black and white photo of a closed door with a sign that says "You Are Not Lost / You Are Here"

Poetry, art, witness, care— our zine from @cftchange.bsky.social explores how we practice hope as a discipline, offering a collection of visions for what political hope looks like now.

Please read here: www.transformationalchange.co/news-stories...

The urgency of political hope — CfTC What good is hope in a time led by charlatans and monsters?  In our present moment, forces aligned toward extraction, opportunism, oppression, and violence seem to have gained momentum over our ...

On #MLKDay, we remember Mariam Kaba's call that "hope is a discipline."

Our new zine explores how creators sustain political hope through expression and community.

It asks: What gives you political hope right now?

Read it here: www.transformationalchange.co/news-stories...

Learn more about #FallofFreedom here: www.falloffreedom.com

Notes on a Present Future

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"The Political Hope Zine: Artists on Artists Building Hope" in white on a black background, with the logos for Center for Transformational Change @cftchange.bsky.social and Fall of Freedom #FallofFreedom

#FallofFreedom is this weekend! To participate we're announcing a zine: What gives artists political hope? We're gathering voices from US-based creators on futures they imagine, art that fuels them, and keeping possibility alive. Releasing Dec '25.

A brief introduction to the "Narrative Infrastructure for Narrative Power" framework from the Center for Transformational Change, to support those dedicated to building the systems behind narrative change and narrative power.

Today is the 4th anniversary of the @cftchange.bsky.social . To celebrate, we are launching our framework, "Narrative Infrastructure for Narrative Power."

Power Shift | Change is so incremental that it’s not happening They represent two sides of an ambitious reform process. Can they reconcile their different approaches to improving aid?

Our next "Power Shift" episode explores a fundamental tension between resource holders' technical approach to humanitarian response and local organizations' close-range exposure to the politics of crises.

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/podcasts/202...

Power Shift | Do we want to relinquish power, or not? They represent two sides of an ambitious reform process. They often attend the same meetings, and yet, they’ve never spoken one-on-one. Until now.

On our new podcast #powershift, Michael Köhler admits that “in the parts of the humanitarian sector that I know, so far there has not been a discussion about power.” Until now. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Can dialogue transform? Why we launched the Power Shift podcast Raw, honest, direct: Bridging humanitarian power gaps demands a fundamental shift in how we engage and build relationships with each other.

We need raw, honest dialogue grounded in lived experience in order to shift power. I have a new essay out today in the "Power Shift" podcast series in @newhumanitarian.bsky.social exploring why, and how.

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...

Power Shift | Do we want to relinquish power, or not? They represent two sides of an ambitious reform process. They often attend the same meetings, and yet, they’ve never spoken one-on-one. Until now.

A question this political moment calls us to answer is how we are going to share and distribute power. We explore this in "Power Shift" from @newhumanitarian.bsky.social + @cftchange.bsky.social.

The 2nd episode is here! (And where you get your podcasts.)
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/podcasts/202...