Recordings available! Day of Transition Practise 2025

Early April we celebrated the Day of Transition Practise 2025 – and what a Day!

We enjoyed the connections and synergies amongst more than 30 speakers and around 300 participants throughout the 15 sessions… Plus all the heartful work of the interpreters, language weavers, social media DoTP25 reporters, and the organising team…

It was incredible to see the depth of work happening across the broader Transition movement. Thank you so much for being part of this!

Below you will find a reminder of the programme and the session recordings. Digest the richness of these lessons and stories at your own leasure. Enjoy!

We started with Hidenori Tanaka (Japan), learning Strategies for Natural Disasters, diving deeper into community strenght and mutual support in the face of these more frequent climate events. Presentation slides available here.

Then Mary Stringer and Tom Danby (Australia), and Guy Erlacher-Downing (UK) shared about Transition Streets, showing us a fun way to transform our streets into a vibrant, proactive, engaged and enjoyable space for our neighbourhoods.
Find Transition Streets Australia presentation here and a document with relevant links here.

This strong energy literally invited us to Move and shake together with Karina Avakyan (Portugal), incorporating the body on this first stage of the Day.

After that, we gathered informally at the Transition Café to meet likehearted people and shared about topics that felt alive at the time (such as accessibility, youth in Transition, and more) – that session wasn't recorded intentionally.

Then, at the session What's buzzing in TNi? we could hear from Hanyun Xu (China) about People of Transition project – don't hesitate to contact her to participate!; Eva Schonveld (Scotland) and Anahí Bea Pacheco (Chile) talked about the Cultural Transformation game in development; and Esther Molina (Spain) shared very exciting news from Transition Network international Communications team – new website, branding and more!

We had then the pleasure of listening to Joe Brewer (Colombia), Jess Berliner (South Africa), Asha Singhal (Germany), Daniel Christian Wahl (Spain) and Deborah Benham (UK) in a lively discussion about Biomimicry and Bioregioning as Practices.

We could listen to the Heartbeat of the Movement thanks to Zsanna Sebesteny (France), Renata Nacif (Brazil), Kornelia Senzenberger (Austria) and Juliana Maria Medina Figueroa (Colombia), who shared four glimpses from four different territories, each telling a compelling story of positive change. Zsanna' slides are available here. Kornelia' slides are available here.

[HEARTBEAT OF THE MOVEMENT recording will be available soon]

Later, the power of arts and imagination in envisioning alternative and desirable futures was alive in the room and we were fascinated by James McKay's work at Drawing the Future Together.

These alternative futures couldn't exist without properly organising and distributing power – Ted Rau (Colombia), Filipa Pimentel (Belgium) and Roberto Spano (Mexico) shared about Sociocracy as a Practice that can support us in shaping a just and regenerative future.

We experimented with Traveling to the Future in community, to gather insights for the journey ahead, guided by Ora Wand (France) and Don Hall (USA).

Some of the Voices of Transition first cohort joined us to bring the voices of underrepresented groups and storytellers to the spotlight – Anahí Martínez (México), Álex Urbieta (México), Rakesh Rootsman Rak (UK), Dennise Dueñas (Colombia).

Mama D (UK) brought her magic with Transforming your Journey – a beautiful and impactful weaving of Ubuntu and storytelling.

After that, Zaida Amaral (Brazil) shared a delightful Restorative Yoga session to integrate and having a brief nourishing rest.

With renewed forces, the Heartbeat of the Movement (Abya Yala) was strongly heard again from other places of the planet. We could connect with Gabriela Montenegro (Brazil), Silvana Jakubiak (Argentina) and Edgar Gainko Ruiz (Mexico) to get to know about diverse learning communities and their practices.

To close this amazing Day, our friends Andrea Mumay (Colombia) and Anahí Beatriz Pacheco (Chile), held a community ancestral Word weaving circle – this session wasn't recorded intentionally.

Thank you so much everybody!!

Hungry for more?

Check-out past year's edition Day of Transition 2024 recordings, stay tuned to Practising Transition project, and connect to share your practical wisdom with the movement!