Don't forget to sign up for the hope-based communications 🌱💡 book club tomorrow, where we are going to be talking about BRAINS!🧠 Click here for sign-up link and reading material (both light & not-so-light). Yes, you can still attend if your brain is in zombie mode. lnkd.in/eNfheHK6

We are in love! 😍 Our participants of the Participatory Pulse Program are confirmed! 8 different social SMEs will kick off next week in our 10-week #program. Will you be head over heels with these eight organizations just like we are? Check them out now! 1️⃣ @MINTD 2️⃣ ZenZen

"In times of despair, simplicity and sincerity matter most." Must read research on civil society in Poland from Matthew MacWilliams. Highlights need for hope, showing change people can expect in future. comms-hub.org/inside/mobiliz…

This week's substack is a case study in using radical love to counter populism. hopebased.substack.com/p/whats-love-g…

Still time to sign up for the Activist Book Club taking place tomorrow, on the theme of humour and social change. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Can hope be the way to beat populism in the upcoming EU Elections? By appealing to hope and intrinsic human values such as connection to nature, compassion, and kindness, progressives can compete against the fear-mongering Far Right. ✍️ Thomas Coombes (he/him) 🧡 greeneuropeanjournal.eu/a-new-green-wa…

Civil society leaders from Poland🇵🇱, Hungary 🇭🇺 & Bulgaria 🇧🇬 Watch Zsofia Banuta our co-founder's message on why you should APPLY to our rewire hope-based mindset shift incubator🤩 For more info visit our website 📌unhackdemocracy.eu/en/rewire 🗓️Deadline 21 Jan. Please share, like 💛

"It takes a lot of guts to dream...as civil society our job is to help others dream."

MOST READ | Rather than adopting the toxic and short-sighted politics of fear deployed by populists, progressives must boldly demonstrate their ambitious goals and prove how through embracing compassion a better future is possible, argues Thomas Coombes (he/him) 🧡. greeneuropeanjournal.eu/a-new-green-wa…

Read the full story of the campaign on the hope-based communications 🌱💡 substack page

🎧 Here is a simple thing you can do to make your social change work more effective today: put this podcast right on top of your "listen next" queue. Anat Shenker-Osorio 🟧 is one of the leading social change thinkers in the world right now: so well worth a listen wordstowinby-pod.com

Exciting bit of #hopebased work from Platform for Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) here - one of the OGs of hope-based migration comms!

What gives YOU hope? 💛 Watch 🇭🇺children's rights activist Fanni Matyok #RewireYourMind participant talk about her #HopeBased journey. hope-based communications 🌱💡 Co-funded by 🇪🇺#Proteus Engaging Central Europe

Think about challenges as possibilities. That's what we are doing in our #HopeBased 💛mindset shift incubator. #RewireYourMind ⚡Watch what Sylvia Zareva from 🇧🇬has to say on the programme hope-based communications 🌱💡 💡

The power of collective thinking. Find out where 🇵🇱 Diana Safo gets her energy from to bring about change! What helps you? #RewireYourMind #HopeBased hope-based communications 🌱💡 Co-funded by 🇪🇺 #PROTEUS Engaging Central Europe

How @WTO creates social media content? @Jana174 shared with @Luefkens and I #SoMeInsights Her team have a "zero tolerance" for jargon for 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 of the content, and they focus on crafting content that is good for WTO, good for the audience, and good for the platforms.

🧶Reimagining There’re 20 amazing people from 🇵🇱Poland, 🇭🇺Hungary, 🇧🇬Bulgaria & 🇺🇦Ukraine in our ⚡️REWIRE⚡️hope-based mindset shift incubator to envision a more human centric world & demonstrate what it would look like w hope-based communications 🌱💡 👋Stay tuned for updates #REWIREyourMIND

🧶🙏Thank you for giving me this platform at Pontis Foundation #ImpactSummit to also talk about our #REWIRE program to grow hope into action and change mindsets #RewireYourMind #HopeBased hope-based communications 🌱💡

On this #HumanRightsDay a closer look at bright spots & advancements to protect rights in 2024. Interactive map spotlights civil society triumphs, the release of activists from prison, as well as positive court rulings & legislation: web.civicus.org/Brightspots2024