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Transitioners’ Digest (January – February 2016) Burn out and Balance.

During January and February, we have been exploring the theme of Burno...

IN Culture & Society / Inner Transition / Knowledge & learning / Natural environment

My Personal Burnout Audit

In her framing editorial for our theme of burnout and balance, Sophy B...

How Amazon debases our language, and how we can take it back.

The word ‘fulfilment’ has two distinct meanings.  The fir...

What indigenous cultures can teach us about burnout.

Our new Inner Transition Coordinator, Claire Milne, met Ilarion Mercul...

Why we need more mavericks, not less.

I watched the recent BBC documentary on Kids Company, Camila’s K...

Sophy Banks: the Burnout Interview

In a final interview before she left Transition Network to take on new...

IN Inner Transition / Knowledge & learning

Chris Johnstone’s Burnout Tips all in one place!

Here are all of Chris Johnstone’s 5 tips for reducing the risk o...

Book Review: The Island that Never Was: an English castaway in Bilbao by Robert Alcock.

The spirit behind Transition, that invitation for a community to come ...

Acting to Affirm Life: body awareness and self empowerment in activism.

Lou Hemmerman, a sustainable activism researcher and facilitator with ...

The Secret Temple, and reflections on what makes a good export.

Last week I visited an amazing exhibition at the Wellcome Collection i...

Chris Johnstone’s 5 Burnout Tips: No:5. See success with new eyes and savour it.

Neighbourhood Planning and Transition initiatives: an update.

Low-carbon Neighbourhood Planning – key policy changes and scope for...

The unstoppable rise of ‘Demain’.

The film ‘Demain’ (‘Tomorrow’) is proving to b...

The story of Unthinkable Drinkable Brent.

Back in May last year, I read in the papers, they found Anne Leitrim d...

IN Inner Transition

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...

The Transition movement in global perspective: Thomas Henfrey & Justin Kenrick

[Original here] The climate crisis has revealed a paradox at the heart...

Chris Johnstone’s 5 Burnout Tips: No:4. Follow Your Inner Compass.

IN Inner Transition

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

Chrissie Godfrey was formerly a co-ordinator of Transition Town Taunto...

Transition and burnout: the Australian experience

A guest post from Clare Power, a Lecturer at Western Sydney University...

Chris Johnstone’s 5 Burnout Tips: No:3. Broaden your Definition of Activism.

Activity of the fortnight: How to make decisions successfully?

Format: Activity / Guide People:  All of your group Time: 1 hour Reso...

Learning from the past in Kensal and Kilburn.

Oral histories have been something that has fascinated the Transition ...

“To see the new economy through a glass of beer…”

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, said recently “w...

IN Inner Transition

‘Neighbouring’: a burnout and build up again story

If our individual life is a mystery in itself, the life of a group, of...

Chris Johnstone’s 5 Burnout Tips: No:2. Redefine a Good Life

Book Review: ‘The Urban Farmer’ by Curtis Stone.

Book Review: The Urban Farmer: growing food for profit on leased and b...

Interview with Chris Johnstone: “Burnout is a risk where people are passionate about what they do”

Chris Johnstone is an old friend of this blog, a resilience specialist...

IN Inner Transition

Catherine Sutton on managing burnout in Albany, CA.

I started Transition Albany in 2009 and – despite that “I&...

Activity of the fortnight: How sustainable is your group?

Format: Activity People: Group Time needed: 40 minutes Resources neede...

Chris Johnstone’s 5 Burnout Tips: No:1. See enthusiasm as a resource.

IN Food & drink / REconomy

Beer made from bread? The story of Toast.

A Transition review, in 7 Episodes, of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’

**Warning: SPOILER ALERT: if you don’t want to know what happens...

Editorial: Sophy Banks on Balance or Burnout?

This blog, the last from Sophy as she leaves Transition Network, focus...

Touching the Earth.

It is said in Buddhism that just before his enlightenment, as the Budd...

Sophy Banks reflects on 10 years at the heart of Transition.

Today Sophy Banks, the founder of the ‘Inner Transition’ a...

Help us celebrate two of Transition’s great pioneers.

During 2015, two of the key ‘thought leaders’ of Transitio...

Sara Ayech reports from the edge of the edge of COP21

On my first evening in Paris for the COP21 climate summit, I eat at an...

Reflections on the Transition Story: Yoav Egozi

Continuing our exploration of the Transition Story project, we asked d...

Sarah McAdam on riding the COP21 rollercoaster

I started this  COP21 fortnight on the London Climate March with a sl...

‘A Moveable Feast’: Chris Bird reflects on COP21

If Ernest Hemingway was still alive he might well have said: “If you...

Corinne reflects on COP21 in Paris.

We are at the end of the two weeks of the COP 21 Climate talks here in...

Reflections on a week in Paris at COP21

Filipa Pimentel on talking to students in Levallois, Paris

Our Transition team had been very busy running around in Paris for alm...

Cristiano Bottone shares his thoughts on the Transition Story.

Continuing our exploration of the Transition Story project, we asked d...

The Transition Story: reflections from Chile

Continuing our exploration of the Transition Story project, we asked d...

Of climates past: 1963, the last time the River Thames froze

I don’t remember a winter as mild as the one the UK is currently...

Rob reports from COP21 in Paris: Day Eight.

The Solutions COP21 event at Grand Palais that I had visited the previ...

Rob reports from COP21 in Paris: Day Seven.

Today was the most thought-provoking day, at times viscerally so.  Th...

COP21: the View From Totnes

A guest blog from Naresh Giangrande: I am not in Paris. I have been fo...

The most beautiful song about Transition yet created?

I’m now over half way through my time here in Paris, and it is p...

Rob reports from COP21 in Paris: Day Six

I spent the morning at Place to B doing interviews, one for National G...

Rob reports from COP21 in Paris: Day Four

Tuesday was kind of a catch up day really, until the evening. I spent ...

Chris Bird reflects on stories, film premieres and sparkly high heeled shoes.

Chris Bird guest blogs from Paris: A few weeks ago we showed Naomi Kle...

DEMAIN the film – my first premiere!

Our Guest Reporter Henry Owen reports: Last night I found myself headi...

Rob reports from COP21 in Paris: Day Five

This shouldn’t take so long as today was, compared to past days,...

Paris so far – a state of emergency for France and for the planet

Our Paris Roving Reporter Henry Owen reports: So I’m in Paris for CO...

Rob reports from COP21 in Paris: Day Three

Today was my first visit to La Bourget, the vast conference centre com...

Rob reports from COP21 in Paris: Day One

This will be a brief report given that it’s late and I need to g...

Rob reports from COP21 in Paris: Day Two

Paris authorities banned the planned Peoples’ Climate March that...

How to Soup, French Style (Soupe)

From our Roving Reporter, Henry Owen: So on Saturday I was lucky enoug...