Day of Transition Practise 2026 Programme & Registrations

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ABOUT THE SESSION:
The first session of the Day of Transition Practise offers a gentle combination of mindful yoga and meditation to support arriving fully into the day. Through simple movements, conscious breathing, and moments of stillness, participants will be invited to settle, open, and set an intention for the day ahead.

The practice is accessible and emphasizes presence, kindness toward the body, and connection, to ourselves, to one another and to the wider living world.

What to bring:
• A yoga mat
• Something warm for the meditation part (a blanket or a jumper)
• Your presence 

BIO:
Vesna Ilievska is a certified yoga teacher with a long time personal practice and a mindfulness practitioner in the tradition of Thích Nhat Hạnh. She invites awareness of our own body and breath as a way to cultivate an understanding of the interconnectedness of all that is, naturally leading to a way of relating to Mother Earth and to everything that exists as we relate to ourselves - an insight she is especially passionate about sharing through mindful yoga and mindfulness practice.

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Meet and Talk - a session for You, to meet each other and connect!
We can have different languages in breakout rooms - come and have a cup of tea or coffee and share what you've been up to.

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In recent years, since the publication of his book From What Is to What If, Rob Hopkins' work has focused on radical imagination and the urgent need to develop this capacity in our societies in the face of the climate and ecological crisis, and to build new and powerful narratives about humanity and our relationship with our common home, the Earth.

The book explores the state of health of our collective imagination in 2023 and explains why it is in decline at a time when circumstances require us to reimagine everything. Rob's work on imagination is at the forefront of an emerging movement around the concept of ‘imagination activism’. Since the book's publication, Rob's work has expanded to include workshops and training courses on the theme of imagination, both individually and in collaboration with Filipa Pimentel.

Imagination workshop: This workshop is a version of those given by Rob and Filipa, redesigned to last an hour and a half, online. The group of participants in this workshop will get a taste of what this “radical imagination” work is all about, inviting them to explore the tools shared to strengthen their work as catalysts for change.

During this workshop, we will:

• Strengthen the “muscle” of collective imagination through a series of
• Travel through time to a positive future and experience it sensorially
• Master the difference between “Yes, but” and “Yes, and”.

BIOS:
Filipa Pimentel s a trainer of imagination tools, collective intelligence, and Transition models. She currently plays several key roles in the Transition Network, supporting the international Transition Movement, exploring with people from around the world how to develop social infrastructure, collaborative culture, and new forms of leadership capable of supporting a movement whose mission is to contribute to profound social change.

Rob Hopkins is the co-founder of Transition Network and Transition Town Totnes, and author of several books, including "The Transition Handbook" and, more recently, "From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want." He is an Ashoka Fellow, spoke at TED Global and various TEDx events, and appeared in the French cinematic phenomenon "Demain" and more recently, Spanish series HOPE. His current work projects and podcast can be found at robhopkins.net.

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This session will be in German with live interpretation to English.

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Parenting as things fall apart - A session inspired by Joanna Macy's The Work That Reconnects and Claire Milne's work around Composting Modernity. A gentle space to feel what it's like to parent in times of uncertainty, to reflect on our role as caregivers for our own children, and all children, and possibly to find new paths forward. 

BIO:
Theresa Fend is a facilitator, community weaver, and regenerative culture practitioner. She has been studying and growing Healthy Human Culture since 2021, applying its principles to projects ranging from Climate Activism to Mothers Circles. With over a decade of experience in supporting projects working towards systems change, Theresa is committed to nurturing resilience and belonging — especially in times of transition and complexity. Her work is rooted in somatic wisdom, collective care, and the rhythms of life in transition, —whether personal, cultural, or ecological. Read more at her website.

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This session will be in English and Spanish.

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TALK 1 - From Grassroots to Regeneration: Learning Through Transition Warri with Yvonne Omatseye
Talk Description: Transition Warri is a community-led response to climate, social, and ecological challenges in the Niger Delta. This Butterfly Talk will share key learnings from building local transition practices rooted in education, youth engagement, food systems, and cultural context. It will reflect on what it means to adapt global Transition principles within a riverine, resource-rich yet vulnerable environment, and how local wisdom strengthens the wider movement.

Bio: Yvonne Omatseye is a social impact practitioner and community organiser based in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. She leads Transition Warri and works at the intersection of climate action, education, and regenerative community development through initiatives such as school gardens and youth climate clubs. Her work focuses on translating global sustainability frameworks into locally grounded, people-centred practice.

TALK 2 - Just Transition Cards: Supporting Inclusion in the Transition Movement with Amanda Jones & Rakesh "Rootsman Rak" 

Description: This talk introduces the Just Transition Cards, an open-source and growing resource created to support more inclusive practice within the Transition movement. Grounded in the perspectives of marginalised groups, the cards prompt reflection on who is excluded and why, helping groups plan events and projects that include more people from the outset. We will also share how to access, use and adapt the cards for your own local context.

BIOS: 
Amanda Jones works across the UK with universities and hospitals as a patient advocate in different roles. She shares and connects her lived experience of being disabled to improve healthcare. This involves inclusivity, social justice and intersectionality and fits with other work and she is part of the Just Transition Circle.

Rakesh “Rootsman Rak” is a permaculture designer, educator and community weaver with decades of experience supporting regenerative land projects, Transition initiatives and grassroots communities. Rooted in lived experience, cultural heritage and inclusive practice, his work centres marginalised voices while helping groups build practical skills, shared resilience and healthy ways of working together. Through Roots n Permaculture and his wider Transition work, he has supported thousands of people to turn ecological values into meaningful, community-led action.

TALK 3 - Town Anywhere - The power of collective imagining with Lily Lowe-Myers & Lucy Neal 

Description: 'Town Anywhere’ brings the future to life through time travel, visioning, actual making and co-creating then coming back ‘home’ to harvest the learning. The process playfully opens up inspirational thinking in communities to help them create and rehearse the future communities they long for.

BIOS:
Lily Lowe-Myers is a film and theatre creator using creativity to help build a sustainable and nourishing future. A member of Transition Leytonstone since 2022, she brings storytelling to community resilience work. She facilitates activities for the lay-Buddhist network for social transformation, SGI, weaving spiritual values into her artistic practice. Lily is a mother and nature lover, devoted to deepening connection with self, community, and the natural world, and is particularly inspired by the work of Joanna Macy, Rob Hopkins, and Daisaku Ikeda.

Lucy Neal is an artist, writer and co-director of Walking Forest, a ten-year public art work inspired by forest ecology and the undertold stories of women Earth-defenders. A theatre-maker at heart, she was co-founder director of the LIFT Festival (1981-2005) and enjoys creating space for stories that act as a catalyst for change. Active in the Transition movement since 2008, she was co-founder of Transition Town Tooting and author of Playing for Time - Making Art As If the World Mattered. Now in its 2nd edition, the book maps collaborative arts practices and an aesthetics of care in response to the nature and climate crisis. She is a founder ‘declarer’ of Culture Declares Emergency and a director of Forever Fishponds reclaiming flourishing green habitat in Tooting, South West London where she lives. 

TALK 4 - Multiversidad Mastay: Learning Journeys for a Higher Education in Colombia with Andrea Giraldo

Description: The “Mastay Multiversity” (MUMAY) is a weaving of relationships and alliances between people, projects and territories that articulate and integrate the collaborative exchange of holistic knowledge based on the merging of ancestral and modern regenerative practices through the co-creation of transformative experiences in order to learn how to live in community, peace and harmony within ourselves, with each other and with Mother Earth.
MASRTAY PATH - Students walk a 2 year journey traveling through 4 different Guardian Territories and 12 Seed Schools becoming professionals in Native Permaculture: an adventure immersed in PDC courses/diplomas, holistic residencies, ancestral wisdom retreats, transition trainings and festivals followed by Pedagogic Pathways that take place in different sustainable settlements, ecovillages and transition initiatives around Latin America and abroad. Ancestral technologies, including the construction of “Mother Houses” for the apprenticeship of a model of shared-governance, social justice and human care purposes, are brought as keys for community sustainability in service of the care for life.

BIO:
Andrea Giraldo is a Social Artivist, mother of 3 wonderful beings that invite and motivate me to walk the learning journeys designed thorough the school of my life. In service for the weaving of art, culture and ancestral remembrance that expands throughout the world for the regeneration of life and consciousness on the planet. Immersed in a world in Transition for more than 10 years throughout the practice and communication about Sacred Birth, “Buen Vivir” (Well-being/living) and regenerative education. Part of the Inner/Cultural Transformation Circle with TNi. Co-founder of Casa Jovenes, part of CASA Latina from the Global Ecovillage Network and Guardian of Vision for the Mastay Multiversity.

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This session will be in all languages.

ABOUT THE SESSION: 
This is the second session of the day where you can meet other Transitioners.
Meet and Talk - a session for You, to meet each other and connect!
We can have different languages in breakout rooms - come and have a cup of tea or coffee and share what you've been up to.

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Discover how communities everywhere can nurture real, lasting change in collaboration with nature. Join us for a very special 90-minute panel introducing the Living Systems Alliance, a new collaboration bringing together five pioneering organisations: Transition Network International, the Permaculture Association, Global Ecovillage Network, Kincentric Leadership, and The Biomimicry Institute.

In a world full of challenges, the Living Systems Alliance is about becoming “keystone communities”—groups that regenerate the places and living systems they call home. With decades of collective experience, our partners are weaving together nature’s wisdom, hands-on practice, and global networks to support community-led action—not just locally, but across entire bioregions.

This session is a unique opportunity for Transition groups and friends to explore why reconnecting and acting with our ecosystems is essential at this moment, and what can happen when we learn from, design with, and decide alongside all of life—not just as individuals, but as part of a greater living web. You’ll hear inspiring stories, find out about new tools being co-created to support your efforts, and learn how the five partners will help communities like yours unlock deeper resilience, creativity, and hope.

Whether you’re new to nature-led approaches or already pioneering change, the panel will offer practical pathways for involvement and highlight how learning from the Living Systems Alliance can help communities rise to today’s challenges, in partnership with the more-than-human world. 

Come along, bring your questions, and help shape a growing movement for bioregional, nature-led transformation—together!

BIOS:
Deborah Benham is a co-Lead Link of Transition Network international (TNi) focused on strategic and development aspects, and also involved in the design and delivery of regenerative design resources and impact evaluation for the Transition Movement. Her interests lie in living systems based solutions to societal challenges. Deborah is a Biomimicry Educator, Gaia Education trainer of trainers, Transition Trainer, Connection First (deep nature connection and community building) practitioner and wildlife guide, focusing on experiential and participatory ways of learning and shifting towards an ecological, biocentric worldview.

Jenélle Dowling is a behavioral ecology researcher turned nonprofit program leader with 17 years of experience bridging science, education, and community engagement. As Head of Programs at the Biomimicry Institute, she applies her passion for nature-inspired innovation and equitable program development to drive meaningful impact. At the Biomimicry Institute, she is honored to contribute to a mission that harnesses nature’s wisdom to create regenerative solutions and drive positive change.

Andy Goldring is a Chief Executive of the Permaculture Association, member of Leeds Permaculture network and active teacher and designer. Also working in Leeds on the Climate Action Leeds project, developing a city hub - Imagine Leeds - as a climate action hub and space for participatory design.

Anna Kovasna is a systems thinker, creative convenor, and passionate weaver of resilience and kinship with all life. She cofounded Kincentric Leadership with Justine Huxley and works with communities worldwide to catalyse systems-change and regenerative practice rooted in animist and relational worldviews. With a long history in the ecovillage movement, Anna also serves as Strategic Lead for Community Resilience at the Global Ecovillage Network, is a trustee of Transition Network and Gaia Education, and cofounded the Living Systems Alliance, advancing more-than-human governance and place-based living-systems design. She lives with her more-than-human kin on a homestead in the Pyrenees, and brings a background in social anthropology, a deep love for the living world, and extensive experience in facilitation, community living, and grassroots organising.

Jules Ellison is a creative strategist, educator and social enterprise advisor working at the intersection of ecology, economy and community. With a background in research and innovation, she supports organisations and communities to develop practical responses to inequality and ecological breakdown. Her work encompasses education, organisational development, and place-based initiatives. Alongside her advisory work, Jules has lectured and served as Third Sector Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Bristol, and as a founding director of TreeSisters and Catalyse Change CIC, supporting environmental regeneration and gender equality. She also co-founded Sacred Severn, a community initiative championing the rights of the River Severn through arts, ceremonies, and storytelling. She currently works with the Global Ecovillage Network on ecovillage research and nature-centered decision-making.

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Young people are doing amazing work in Transition communities around the world, but we don't always see or hear about it.
This session brings together resources made by young Transitioners to help us all do better at supporting youth involvement in our movement. Let's talk about what it really takes to make Transition a space where youth belong and thrive.

BIOS:
Max Jeffery works across a variety of community initiatives addressing issues around democratic economies, youth inclusion, and regenerative futures. He is based in England and works within networks domestically and abroad as a researcher, designer, and facilitator. He has supported Transition Together's projects in the UK, and is contributing to TNi's efforts to support youth in transition work throughout the global movement.

Elizabeta Z. Jovanovska is a Transition explorer and a youth trainer and mentor. In her work, she combines non-formal education and self-led learning approaches to cultivate personal and community resilience skills among youth. Throughout the years, she has been involved in numerous local and international programs and projects focused on personal, social, and environmental transformation, youth empowerment, community development, creative expression, and self-exploration journeys. Elizabeta is passionate about raising awareness of the importance and joys of regenerative lifestyles and encouraging radical imagination for positive societal change. She is a part of the Transition Network team, supporting the worldwide Transition movement in the Youth Engagement role and as the Lead of the Comms Circle.

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This session will be held in English and Spanish

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Narratives are the shared stories, frames, and assumptions through which we collectively make sense of reality. They shape - often unconsciously - what we believe is normal, possible, or inevitable - and in doing so, they guide our decisions, behaviours, and the systems we create. Culture Hack Labs (CHL) is a not-for-profit consultancy that supports organizations, social movements and activists to create cultural interventions for systems change. A global leader in Narrative-Led Systems Change, CHL has devised a method that supports narrative practitioners to analyze and intervene in the narrative ecosystem to open space for post-capitalist and post-anthropocentric futures beyond the current metacrisis. 
In this session, you’ll learn the basics of Narrative-Led Systems Change and get a taste of the Culture Hack Lab’s method through hands-on practices that you can apply in your campaigns and projects to create deep, lasting impact.

BIOS:
Esther Molina is a passionate communicator, facilitator and researcher bringing regenerative frameworks and systemic thinking to support communities thriving from the inside out. She serves as Transition Network international co-Lead, communications circle and wellbeing working group member, and coordinated the Narrative Hack project as part of TNi’s Rhizome Fellowship participation.

Melandri Constant is a feminist narrative researcher and culture hack practitioner with nearly a decade of experience in participatory research, youth engagement, and evidence-to-advocacy translation. At Culture Hack Labs, she designs narrative research and cultural interventions across land justice, climate, and technology, and supports international learning spaces such as the Rhizome Fellowship. Her work is relational, trauma-informed, and focused on how small shifts in stories and norms can catalyse systemic change.

Tiffany Shakespeare is an anthropologist, researcher and artist from the UK who specialises in climate & social justice, the arts, and their intersections. She holds degrees from Oxford University and University College London (UCL) and has taught and facilitated narrative strategy, movement building and policy advocacy within NGOs, think tanks, academia and artist collectives in Latin America, Africa and Europe. Alongside her role at Culture Hack Labs as a Researcher, Curriculum Design Lead and Rhizome Fellowship Advisor, she is developing her dance practice through her UK Arts Council-funded project The Onto-Shift Must Be Embodied. She is currently based in Berlin.

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Meditation is an essential tool for regenerative activists and community leaders. While there is an almost infinite array of different meditation practices available now on popular meditation apps, they aren’t all the same. In this session, you’ll be introduced to three time-tested techniques for cultivating clarity, confidence, and inner resilience that lasts. You’ll also receive guidance for establishing a regular meditation practice and have the opportunity to ask questions.

BIO:
Don Hall is the author of The Regeneration Handbook: Transform Yourself to Transform the World (New Society Publishers, 2024) and Training Coordinator for Transition Network International. Having studied Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and practiced mindfulness-awareness meditation for more than two decades, Don became a certified Meditation Instructor in 2025.

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TALK 1
The Journey of Life-Affirming Economies in Rio de Janeiro, Vale das Videiras, and São Paulo — with Ana Lavaquial

This talk presents the Life-Affirming Economics Journey, a collaborative experience led by UMMA – Hub of Regenerative Businesses, in partnership with Transition movements in Rio de Janeiro, Vale das Videiras, and São Paulo, alongside Schumacher College (UK). The journey brought together diverse actors to explore how local territories are reimagining economic practices rooted in care, collaboration, and regeneration. The process was enriched by international perspectives through the participation of Jay Tompt, Professor of Regenerative Economies at Schumacher College.

Speaker Bio
Ana Lavaquial coordinates the Donut Economics Brazil community and is an active member of the Transition Towns movement in Rio de Janeiro. She supports cities, communities, and organisations in applying economic models aligned with social justice and planetary boundaries, bridging local experimentation with global regenerative movements.

TALK 2
Learning with Love, Transforming the Future — with Malu Criar
What if education were not just about transmitting content, but about creating experiences that transform lives? Grounded in the Pedagogy of Love, this talk places the human being at the centre of learning, empowering participants to become protagonists of their own evolution. Drawing from learning communities such as Collab Jovem, Malu explores how education can become a laboratory for creativity, connection, and real transformation — where emotion, action, and purpose walk hand in hand.

Speaker Bio
Malu Criar designs and facilitates living learning experiences that restore people’s right to dream and build possible futures. A researcher of the Pedagogy of Love and co-creator of Collab Jovem, she has been cultivating meaningful learning communities since 2019, guided by a lifelong practice of transition, purpose, and freedom.

TALK 3
Life at the Center: Biocentric Governance for Regeneration — with Roberto Spano
Modern decision-making systems often place efficiency and the economy above life. Drawing from Indigenous governance traditions, this talk explores what becomes possible when life — human and more-than-human — is recognised as a subject of rights. Roberto invites us to imagine and practice biocentric governance as a pathway to regenerate communities and territories.

Speaker Bio
Roberto Spano is an architect, facilitator, and regeneration activist based in Mexico. Working at the intersection of permaculture, community governance, and ecological design, he supports communities in learning to make decisions with life at the centre. He is a co-founder of the Acahual Multidisciplinary Center, a living laboratory for territorial and social regeneration.

TALK 4
Title To Be Confirmed — with Trathen Heckman

Speaker Bio
Trathen Heckman is the founder and Director of Daily Acts and author of Take Heart, Take Action: The Transformative Power of Small Acts, Groups, and Gardens. For over 24 years, Daily Acts has inspired transformative community action by spreading practical solutions, innovating policy, and empowering everyday leaders. Trathen lives in Petaluma, California, where he grows food, medicine, and wonder — composting apathy into possibility.

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ABOUT THE SESSION:
This is the third session of the day where you can meet other Transitioners around the virtual Fire Circle.
We can have different languages in breakout rooms - come and have a cup of tea or coffee and share what you've been up to. Space held by Anahí Beatriz Pacheco.

This session will be held in English, Portuguese and Spanish.