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Guides
The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking
How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently
The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Centered Activism
Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change
Seven Building Blocks for a Post-Corona World
Coronavirus and Climate Activism: Five Common Lessons
Six Rules for Organizing a Grassroots Regeneration Revolution
HOLY SH*T! 7 Things to Do Instead of Hoarding Toilet Paper
Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration
What Does It Take to Start a Worker Co-Op? A Practical Video Guide to Democratizing Our Economy
5 Guiding Principles for Social Justice
Positive Thinking in a Dark Age: A 12-Step Guide to Gracefully Responding to a Collapsing Dominant Culture
A Do No Harm, but Take No Sh*t Guide to Dealing With Others.
Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap For Radicals
How to Not Be Offended
The Steps Toward Self Empowerment
10 Things to Know About Nonviolent Struggle
The Feynman Technique - 3 Steps to Learning Something New
How to Resist the Pressures of Conformity
How to Resist From a Place of Love: Self-Care for the Long Haul
Wendell Berry: 17 Rules for a Sustainable Local Community
5 Steps to Turn Your Business into a Worker-owned Co-op
4 Steps to Free Yourself From Overwhelm
The Tao Te Ching: Wisdom for Aspiring Leaders and Change-Makers of Every Kind
9 Ways We Can Make Social Justice Movements Less Elitist and More Accessible
Lao Tzu's Four Rules for Living
A Manual for a New Era of Direct Action
The Most Amazing Guide to Leadership Ever
Guide to Building a Solidarity Network
Thich Nhat Hanh: One of Our Greatest Inspirations and Mentors
Environmental Films
The Zeitgeist Movement | Peter Joseph
Economics
Trending Videos
Trending Articles
Emotional Literacy
The Myth of Positivity: Why Your Pain Holds a Mighty Purpose
The Ultimate Romance Begins From the Love We Show Our Selves
Increasing Your Capacity to Feel
Core Nonviolence Commitments
How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts
Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success
Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy
4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Speaking Up (or Listening)
A Healthy Way to Embrace Big Emotions: Take It to the Trees
The Neurochemistry Of Empathy, Explained With Claymation
The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh
Let Yourself Grieve
How Cynicism Masks Pain
No, You Don't Have to Admit You're Wrong to Apologize (And Other Apology Myths Debunked)
Stress: It's Not in Your Head, It's in Your Nervous System
It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are
Join the Empathy Revolution!
The Steps Toward Self Empowerment
Dealing With Painful Emotions
Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)
6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises
Brené Brown on How to Reckon with Emotion and Change Your Narrative
Why Are so Many Adults Today Haunted by Trauma?
11 Traits of People With High Emotional Intelligence
Empathy: Why It's Important, Why We Should Nurture It in Our Kids
Healing Our Collective Trauma: The Key to Creating a Society Based on Trust Rather Than Fear
Women Are Better at Expressing Emotions, Right? Why It's Not That Simple
If You Do Not Transform Your Pain, You Will Transmit It
Thich Nhat Hanh on Loosening the Knots of Anger
Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure
What Is Emotional Intelligence and Why is it Important?
Harnessing Pain and Burning It as Fuel for the Revolution
An Indigenous Approach to Healing Trauma
Masculinity is Killing Men: The Roots of Men and Trauma
Self-Esteem Might Boost Our Egos, But Self-Compassion Opens Our Hearts
Control is a Trap
The Demoralized Mind
The Great Grief: How to Cope With Losing Our World
The Important Difference Between Love and Being Loved
How Mindfulness Empowers Us
"I Love Being a Woman" - What Will It Take to Create a World Where Every Woman Can Say This?
The Root Cause of Addiction
The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities
What is the Meaning of Death? This Man Has Some Words to Share with You.
Triggered: “Planet of the Humans” & A Call for Emotional Intelligence
Honest Government Ads
Raising Children
Activist Philosophy & Reflection
Why I've Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists
“Basic Training” for Spiritual Warriors
How to Sustain Your Activism: What Grace Lee Boggs Would Have Taught Us
Not All Politics Is Identity Politics
20 Principles for Successful Community Organizing
Liberation Theory: a Working Framework
The Trifecta of Civil Resistance: Unity, Planning, Discipline
Guidelines for Alliance-Building: Working Assumptions for Winning Allies and Being an Effective Ally
How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently
Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde
The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities
What Is My Activism Really About? to Love, Serve and Remember
No Impact Man's Guide to Activism
Hey Progressives, Can We Stop Using the Tools of Social Justice to Tear One Another Down?
Towards a Perspective on Eliminating Racism: 12 Working Assumptions
9 Ways We Can Make Social Justice Movements Less Elitist and More Accessible
The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi
The Polarization Trap
How to Disagree
Blocking Awareness and Defriending Our Way Into Group Think
There Is No One Right Way to Be an Activist
Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change (2015)
How To (Not) Change Minds On The Internet
What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic
The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Centered Activism
One "Piece of the Oppressor" That I Have Discovered Within Myself
The Trap of Righteousness
How to Resist From a Place of Love: Self-Care for the Long Haul
The Left's Self-Destructive Obsession with Shame
Standing Rock Wisdom: How Sacred, Nonviolent Activism Has the Power to Succeed
Are You Tired of the Social Justice Outrage Machine?
Why Allies Are Welcome to Criticise Social Movements
The Problem With Judgement
Fighting with Non-Violence | Scilla Elworthy
5 Reasons to Build a Network of Small Groups, Rather Than a Mass Movement of Individuals
Trending Documentaries
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Medicating Normal (2021) ($5)
GIFT (2018) ($5)
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021) ($5)
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011) ($5)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020) ($5)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020) ($5)
School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018) ($5)
Redefining Prosperity (2018) ($5)
TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017) ($5)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013) ($5)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019) ($5)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006) ($5)
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019) ($5)
The Nature of Cities (2010) ($5)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016) ($5)
A Quest For Meaning (2017) ($5)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015) ($5)
We Are Many (2020) ($5)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015) ($5)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020) ($5)
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015) ($5)
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010) ($5)
To The Ends of the Earth (2016) ($5)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013) ($5)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019) ($5)
Paradise with Side Effects (2004) ($5)
Accidental Anarchist (2017) ($5)
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017) ($5)
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017) ($5)
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993) ($5)
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012) ($5)
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012) ($5)
Films about Localization - the Solution to Globalization and Destructive, Infinite-Growth Economics
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