Beyond workism, tiny experiments and the tipping points of climate change
A monthly digest of inspiring projects, useful resources and opportunities to create systemic change.
Hello! For anyone new here, this is my monthly digest. Each month I look out for interesting things to share with you from my travels and conversations with clients and collaborators. We’re talking culture-shifting campaigns, breakthrough technologies, impactful learning resources, funding opportunities, exciting jobs…
These digests provide you with a monthly dose of inspiration and support for all the brilliant work you do. They’ll also encourage you to look after yourself and everything you need to thrive whilst you do it. I hope you find something here to fuel your growth and feed your soul.
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Work for Humans is a podcast with Dart Lindsley which explores how work can be designed differently. My lovely friend
over at had a wonderful conversation with him about how we can re-kindle joy in a work-dominated world.Starting out as the world’s first crowdfunding platform for homeless people, Beam is now leveraging latest technologies to reinvent welfare services with AI. They are Beam’s Founder and CEO is currently hiring for his Chief of Staff, an exciting role with a front row seat as Beam continues to define how technology can be used for good in the startup ecosystem. Find out more and apply here.
Johan Rockström is a co-developer of the planetary boundaries framework. In his TED talk ‘The tipping points of climate change - and where we stand’, he offers the most up-to-date scientific assessment of the state of the planet and explains what must be done to preserve Earth’s resilience to human pressure.
What Girls Want is an informal coalition of more than 20 girl-centred organisations, institutions, funders, and allies fighting for change around the world. A subset of this group collated insights, data, and stories from more than 20 publicly documented consultations with girls and young women over the past 10 years - united by a shared desire to centre and amplify girls’ demands in spaces where they are being ignored. Learn about their campaign and manifesto presented this week during Summit of The Future in NYC, an event organised curiously with little input from and consideration for girls and their needs.
is a great substack by investigating why the world is in crisis and what to do about it. In one of her recent podcast episodes, Rachel interviews Steffi Bednarek, a climate psychotherapist with over 25 years experience in systemic change and trauma therapy. Together they question whether health is an attainable goal in a sick society, and discuss the construct of the self, the metacrisis as a birth process, and how to build psychological resilience.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff is a neuroscientist, writer and Founder of Ness Labs, the first learning community for knowledge workers who want to achieve more without sacrificing their mental health. They provide online education and peer learning to study creative thinking and mindful productivity. Their popular Maker Mind newsletter shares neuroscience-based strategies to cultivate your curiosity and maximise your productivity. Anne-Laure’s new book Tiny Experiments is a transformative guide to rethinking your approach to goals, creativity, and life itself.
Tara Brach’s teachings blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, mindfulness, and a full, compassionate engagement with our world. She is a much-loved voice in Western Buddhism, offering a thoughtful and caring approach to freeing ourselves from suffering. In this recent podcast episode ‘What is Love Asking from Us?’, Tara and world-renowned physician and author Dr Gabor Maté come together to reflect on Palestine and the Bodhisattva path - the commitment to alleviate suffering for all beings.
writes a wonderful Substack highlighting regenerative projects, practices and paradigms. His recent piece ‘Coming Home in Plum Village’ is, as Tijn puts it himself, “a short story of personal transformation” written after his experience at the Wake Up retreat at Plum Village, the Buddhist monastery founded by Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh.Freya Pratty is a senior reporter at Sifted, the leading media brand for the European startup community backed by the Financial Times. Read her latest piece,‘VC has a sexual harassment problem. One woman has a plan to change it’ to learn about Safe Raise, a new platform built by Founder Brooke Andrews to keep female founders safe whilst they raise capital for their companies. Safe Raise is collecting and analysing data on women’s experience of fundraising which will then serve as a tool for advocacy to allow investors to push for reform. Andrews has early plans to start an educational programme for VCs and angels to become “Safe Raise certified”, demonstrating their investors have undergone training to create a safe fundraising experience for their founders.
Led by my friend Sarah Stein Lubrano and Max Haiven, Sense and Solidarity is a platform where people who want to radically change the world can learn together and build individual and collective capacity. Building on Sarah's focus on cognitive dissonance and ideology and Max's focus on social movements and the radical imagination, Sense & Solidarity aims to create bridges between critical theory and activism and organising. They produce media, host in-person workshops and online courses, organise writing retreats, and otherwise seek to build community and grassroots power. They’re hosting ‘Changing Hearts and Minds: A London movement workshop intensive’ on November 14th-17th in partnership with Kairos, a new London space exploring radical ideas for social and cultural change in response to the climate and nature crises. It’s a 3.5-day workshop for community organisers, radical artists, activists, educators and other practitioners of the radical imagination to learn techniques and theories for changing hearts and minds. Attend to explore questions such as; why are so many people apathetic and defeated?; How can we bring more people into our movements?; and why do we burn out, fall apart and split? (And can we not?). Learn more and book your ticket here.
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