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Your story can spark change too.

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Local economy, jobs, support with basic needs or costs of living.

Food waste reduction.

Promotion of local languages and culture.

Local food security.

Climate change reduction, adaptation or resilience.

Biodiversity or general health of the natural environment

Community cohesion, mutual aid or wellbeing

We asked people about the impact of their community-led projects and these are the areas where their work made a difference. 🌱

📣 Join the Cultural Transformation Circle in their first Instagram Live Series!
🌟 Nuggets of Wisdom: Building Collective Resilience
🗓️ Aug 13 | 🕒 3PM UTC

Real connection, practical tools & inspiration to move from eco-anxiety to eco-action.

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🌍✨ Happening tomorrow!
Earth-centric Storytelling: Weaving our Belonging
🧭 With Sara McFarland | 💻 Online

Join us to awaken imagination + explore storytelling as a path to deep Earth connection.

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Transition Network international - Uniting communities International network of communities in 67 countries. It envisions a world where every individual can become part of a supportive community.

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The Hands: we turn our vision and ideas into a tangible reality, initiating practical projects and starting to build a new, healthy economy in the place we live.

The Heart: we work with compassion, valuing and paying attention to the emotional, psychological, relational and social aspects of the work we do.

🌱 Head, Heart & Hands 🧠❤️👐
These three elements are essential to doing Transition in a meaningful and transformative way.

The Head: we act on the basis of the best information and evidence available and apply our collective intelligence to find better ways of living.

As Things Fall Apart - Starter Culture As Things Fall Apart is a depth-journey supporting cultural-change agents to compost Modernity, from the inside-out, in service of radical inclusivity, and more creative and transformative...

We want to invite you to this beautiful offering from our friends at Starter Culture 🌱

As Things Fall Apart is an 18-month, Earth-centric fellowship for cultural-change agents ready to compost Modernity from the inside out.

Don’t miss it!

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🌿 What if storytelling could reconnect us to the Earth?

Join Earth-centric Storytelling: weaving our Belonging, an online workshop with Sara McFarland on Aug 5.

✨ Awaken your imagination
🌍 Center wild beings & deep time
🌀 Share stories of reciprocity

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Create Account - Transition Platform

Jay will also lead a free webinar this Sept as part of the Tech in Transition series monthly sessions on ethical tech + collective wisdom.

It’s all part of launching the Transition Platform, a new social space for people driving change.

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YouTube video by Transition Network international Jay Vidyarthi - Surfing Life’s Changes: A 10 Minute Meditation for Navigating Transitions

🌊 In this 10-min guided meditation, Jay Vidyarthi helps you feel the micro-transitions happening in every moment, so even big life changes feel less overwhelming.

youtu.be/7yAN23V3AyA

Now we want to hear your story:
🌱 What local project are you proud of?
🌍 What’s making a difference where you live?
💡 What have you learned that others could build on?

📣 Share your story here: sensemaker.transitionnetwork.org

In San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico, a citizen network stopped an urban plan threatening protected areas and continues to fight for participatory processes.

In France, an association distributes farmer seeds to raise awareness about biodiversity and preserve rural life.

In Wellington, UK, a community transformed a field into a food forest and now stewards 65 acres as a green corridor.

In Lesotho, an organization was founded to create sustainable projects with and for marginalized groups after the pandemic.

Colombia banned asbestos thanks to an organized campaign and a community that stayed connected.

In Wales, citizen assemblies with 250+ people created local climate action plans, some already in motion.

We asked people from across the world:

“What’s a community-led project that made a real difference where you live?”

Here are some of the powerful stories they shared

July 2025: Trusting the Spiral July news are here! Totness 20-y anniversary, TNi rebranding, new VoT podcast episode, CTC events, a huge opportunities list and more!

📣 Our July newsletter is out!
✨ New look, new partnerships
🌍 Global events & new Hubs
🎙️ Voices of Transition episode ft. Anahí Martínez (Mexico)
📚 Grants & opportunities

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YouTube video by Transition Network international VOICES OF TRANSITION 🗣️ Anahí Martínez #VoT 5

🎙️ In this episode of Voices of Transition, we speak with Anahí Martínez, facilitator, ecosystemic activist & part of Transition Mexico.

With heart and imagination, she helps communities co-create solutions for a better world. 🌍💚

🎧 Listen now: youtu.be/AkHCjhLTUeM

-To learn new skills.
- To feel like they are creating a new story for their place.
- To feel connected to other people and to something historic and exciting happening around them.

Why do you do Transition?

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- To get to know their neighbours.
-To feel like they are making a difference in the world.
-Because the world’s huge challenges feel more manageable if addressed at the local scale.
-To catalyse all manner of new projects, enterprises and investment opportunities.

People do Transition for all sorts of reasons:

Earlier this month we explored core, community, calling & cycles with Wangũi wa Kamonji in Tending the Roots. 🌱

You're invited to keep exploring together.
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📅 July 15 | 16:00 UTC
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Explore her legacy: workthatreconnects.org/joanna-macy-...

Joanna Macy, beloved teacher and elder, is being lovingly cared for at home in this moment of passage, surrounded by loved ones.

Her wisdom has deeply shaped our movement, helping us face these times with courage and love.

We hold her in our hearts with immense gratitude.

🌍✨ What if we stopped fearing the future—and fell in love with it instead?

How to Fall in Love with the Future by @robintransition.bsky.social is out now! A bold invitation to dream better worlds, and start building them.

www.robhopkins.net/the-book/

Energise networks and alliances: Building cross-scale alliances to amplify networks of change and collaborate with partners, including local government.

If you want to dive deeper, we have plenty of resources on our page
transitionnetwork.org

Broaden and deepen participation: Fostering inclusive participation and shared decision-making that values diverse and marginalized perspectives.