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Unified Playfulness practices give adults space to play, slow down, and tap into their creativity. These practices help disrupt patterns and foster behavior change, bringing more resilience, authenticity, and joy into their lives and the systems they inhabit.

The term ‘fake news’ – and the accompanying clickbait and digital polarisation – may have been popularised only in recent years but the phenomenon itself can be traced back to a much older disruptive communications technology: the printing press.

“Humans would fare the best, maximize happiness, satisfaction, and longevity of their species by recognizing their forgotten ecological context and moving toward fully-integrated reciprocal, respectful relationships with the Community of Life and the more-than-human, biodiverse world of Evolved Life.

Communal grieving allows us to metabolize our grief in a way that we can’t access when we grieve alone, in a way that our ancestors knew, that our bones recall.

When academics address reflexive social science questions, such as the gaslighting of society through propaganda, from the university, we are often told that we don’t want to alienate partners, like Shell Oil, from continuing funding us.

At its heart, Transition is about reimagining and reshaping our world, responding to big global challenges as well as those specific to our place, through local, practical, human-scale action, together with other people. It’s an antidote to feeling over-whelmed and under-powered in the face of the complex problems of our times.

Although there are limits to what groups engaging in disruptive action can control, the five factors of polarization provide guideposts for anticipating how a protest may be received and how they can work to shape this response.