Resources: Social Change

It can be challenging to resolve suppressed, repressed, or stuck emotions.  Increasing awareness can be a good first step. You can either accept an emotion or resist it.  Resistance often…

Uncomfortable emotions can arise for many reasons, like a growing awareness of the destruction of nature or the suffering of humans. During any kind of transition , many people may…

It can be completely reasonable to feel emotions like sadness, anger, or depression in response to historical oppression, or social injustice, or marginalisation, or climate change.   Rather than dismissing emotions,…

A transition in self-awareness can involve reframing human emotions and emotional self-care. While the forms that emotional self-care practices take may vary across cultures, normalising emotions is an important first…

You can embed awareness of diversity and social justice in everything you do.  How might you begin to address domination in your group?  How might more celebration of diversity enable…

A template for getting clear with your group or project team about 👉 orientation: how your project(s) can contribute to deep, wide-spread, and lasting impact 🎯 objectives: what you intend…

Most groups tend to develop in very similar ways by going through stages of forming, storming, norming, and then potentially performing. All of these stages have possibilities and challenges. It…

People typically have a preferred way of dealing with conflict. None is superior to any other, and it is possible to have more than one style. Five major styles include:…

A collaborative approach to crafting a proposal where everyone shares their views. A simple proposal is introduced, followed by a round of clarifying questions, and then reactions are shared for…

This Reflection and Activity Guide from The Regeneration Handbook will spark new insights, help you gain clarity about next steps, and strengthen your motivation to act on behalf of all…

In some places, Transition groups have formed regional hubs to coordinate across communities, in order to share, support, and imagine together. You can benefit from being part of a regional…

Humans naturally move between periods of Doing and Being; activity and rest; spending energy and replenishing; learning and integrating. Both are important; too much of either one can be problematic. …