Tired of hearing “fine” when you ask your child or grandchild about school? These 12 questions spark real conversations, helping your child – or your partner, friend, or yourself – reflect, open up, and share the moments that matter most. Perfect for back-to-school season or just about anytime.

It feels like we're in a doom-loop of terrible news – so how do we move forward? Instead of jumping straight to changework through sheer will and desire, finding ways to embody love in honest and real ways might center our work a bit better.

This “hat, haircut, or tattoo” framework is helpful in supporting the decision-making of potential activists and activists alike. By identifying what kind of decision we’re being asked to make, we can overcome fear, start small, and build lasting impact in our communities.

Explore how intimate you are with the social issues you care most about. Learn why going beyond awareness to build real relationships fuels lasting activism, resilience, and meaningful change.

It can be a struggle to move from planning into action. Analysis paralysis and information overload can keep up lost in our heads, while we never end up actually moving our feet. Instead, what if we focused on taking small, relational steps that can lead to real community impact?

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s poem “For When People Ask” offers an oh-so-human look at the tension of living in the both/and of this moment. Watching children die across the world while watching our own dance in the summertime breeze – how can we hold such emotions and honor them both? How can we remain awake to both so that we might give ourselves to action?

Feeling stuck but wanting to make change? Consider these ten recommednations from Omkari Williams to being making a meaningful impact without burnout. Learn how to focus your efforts, build community, and stay grounded in purpose—all while honoring your values. No action toward change is too small.

Learn the difference between clean and dirty pain and how understanding both helps us to lean into our current political moment with more resilience, presence, and healing.

Solidarity and building relational resilience is complex. It requires co-regulation, mutual aid, shared understanding, and collective action.

When change comes unexpectedly, how can we meet it with gentleness? A reflection on parenting, resilience, and leaning into the ways change shapes us instead of resisting it.

When we find our “one thing” and focus our attention in our changework, we create the conditions for forward momentum. By doing this each day, each week, or each month, we have something tangible and specific to focus on and stay committed to.

Power does not flow down from the top of our organizations and structures. Instead, it is propped up by various support systems and the consent of others. Therefore, effective change-making sees these support systems and creates collective power to address them.

In times of crisis, there is a deep need for us to pursue urgent systemic change as we also focus on community-level care. These two approaches are not antagonistic to one-another as we resist fascism and attempt to move a new future into being.

Feeling disillusioned by politics-as-usual? This article reframes activism through the lens of infinite games—where the goal isn’t just to win, but to keep building a better world. Learn how shifting from short-term wins to long-term engagement can transform our approach to countering fascism, sustaining community, and creating lasting change.

Most powerful social movements don't begin with scale—they start with community relationships. Effective activism follows a predictable pattern of adoption, from passionate initiators to reluctant skeptics. Use this practical framework to focus on "close-in" connections that create more sustainable change than trying to convince everyone at once. Start small, start local, and create the foundation for transformative impact.

The ancient Greeks had two overarching concepts for how to measure time: kairos and chronos. Chronos is linear, logical, and works much as a clock does; kairos measures something much deeper. Read more for how these deeply textured experiences transcend our linear understanding of time and connect us to what truly matters.

"Opportunity cost" as an intellectual concept can be intriguing – but noticing it in everyday life can be transformative. By using it as a filter to evaluate trade-offs and the choices we make, we can become more intentional and mindful with our behaviors, aligning our actions with the values we actually wish to embody.

Too often we approach creating change with a mindset of see-problem-fix-problem: as if the world is ours to save. Instead, these 3 questions invite us to go deeper, ensuring our changework is grounded in our vision for the future, a strong sense of purpose, and community.