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Happen Films: Permaculture, Living Simply, Living Joyously
Transition Documentaries
Inspiring Short Films
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
Cancel The Apocalypse: Here are 30 Films to Help Unlock the Good Ending
Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust (2020)
The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015) ($5)
Renewables Can't Power Capitalism, But They Can Power Ecosocialism
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020) ($5)
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)
A New Story for Humanity (2016)
Money & Life (2013)
Feeding Ourselves (2017)
Singapore: Biophilic City (2012)
Tomorrow: Take Concrete Steps To A Sustainable Future ($5)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013) ($5)
The Nature of Cities (2010) ($5)
In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times (2012)
Communities Of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe (2020)
Inner Climate Change: The Change Starts Within You (2020)
Rundown Apartments Reborn as Food-Forest Coliving Agritopia (2021)
The Hardest Thing I've Ever Loved: Creating a Transformative Culture (2020)
Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)
The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy (2018)
Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas (2008)
What's a Colloquium? An Oral History of the Natural Building Movement (2020)
India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed (2019)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006) ($5)
Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)
Fantastic Fungi (2019) ($5)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016) ($5)
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The Big Picture
How Government Works
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Everything Is a Remix | How Creative Commons Supports a Vibrant Culture
Deep Reads - Get Cozy and Dig in
Occupy Your Brain: The Profound Ways that Schooling Harms Society
The End of the Corporation?
How to Fix the World
Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change
Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community
The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege
Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life
A Thousand Rivers: What the Modern World has Forgotten about Children and Learning
When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them
Why Do so Many People Get Lost in Drugs Instead of Making a Life That You Don't Need to Escape From?
A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves
The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Centered Activism
Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure
What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?
Dear White People. An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous
Can We Go to the Very Root of Violence and Be Free from It?
On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom
Wanted: Men Who Love
Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition
Why Tribal Societies Work: An Introduction
Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism
Deconstructing Workplace Hierarchies: On Contrived Leadership and Arbitrary Positions of Power
The Whiting of Euro-Americans: A Divide and Conquer Strategy
Understanding Patriarchy
The White Working-Class Must Name The True Root of Their Problems If They Ever Want to Get Free
You Are Still Being Lied To: Columbus and the Myth of Human Progress
Positive Thinking in a Dark Age: A 12-Step Guide to Gracefully Responding to a Collapsing Dominant Culture
Humanity Is Being Held Hostage by an Economic and Cultural Death Cult
Our Way of Life Works AMAZING for Products, But It Works TERRIBLE for People
What Martin Luther King Jr. Can Teach Us about Nonviolence
The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names
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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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