Dear Venetia, thank you as always for sharing such great resources. I always love browisng your recommendations to inspire my own reading list. Maybe you and everyone else here would enjoy this one: I had the privilege to once join one of Thomas Coombes Hopeful Communication workshops and I now discovered that he is also writing on Substack.
Thomas used to be human rights campaigner at Amnesty International and now teaches about how as humans and activist we should tell stories of hope, compassion and empathy to talk our vision of society into reality vs. relying mostly on fear-based stories and sharing daunting facts of reality: „In human rights and social change work, we often believe our duty is to expose the worst aspects of humanity. But neuroscience tells us that people learn behaviors and attitudes by observing others. We must be conscious of how the stories we tell shape behavior and attitudes. If we want to see radical change, we must put forward radical visions of the world we want to create. If we don’t, we ensure they will never happen.“
I never thought I would see Stormzy censoring himself for a brand deal but here we are. My instagram content preferences didn't have a political option but "sensitive" content, I assume it's the same thing. Going to try to stick to logging off this weekend, I am exhausted. Currently loving: reading Yellowface, playing sims 2, watching Andor, using the cherry soap by lush, eating 🍉 dates. See you next Friday.
Not logged off for the weekend but my screen time is down to 2 hours and 11 minutes. Mostly reading on Libby, writing on Notes, and FaceTime(ing) family-a smattering of socials. I deleted TikTok and, to borrow your words, {{{holy hell}}} the amount of time spent there…embarrassing. Thank you, as always, for sharing your thoughts. xoxo Tonette aka Grandma Cluck Cluck :)
Dear Venetia, thank you as always for sharing such great resources. I always love browisng your recommendations to inspire my own reading list. Maybe you and everyone else here would enjoy this one: I had the privilege to once join one of Thomas Coombes Hopeful Communication workshops and I now discovered that he is also writing on Substack.
Thomas used to be human rights campaigner at Amnesty International and now teaches about how as humans and activist we should tell stories of hope, compassion and empathy to talk our vision of society into reality vs. relying mostly on fear-based stories and sharing daunting facts of reality: „In human rights and social change work, we often believe our duty is to expose the worst aspects of humanity. But neuroscience tells us that people learn behaviors and attitudes by observing others. We must be conscious of how the stories we tell shape behavior and attitudes. If we want to see radical change, we must put forward radical visions of the world we want to create. If we don’t, we ensure they will never happen.“
I can really recommend checking out his latest article on here - maybe it resonates with some of you. 🤗 https://open.substack.com/pub/hopebased/p/the-science-of-communicating-hope?r=17fpju&utm_medium=ios
I never thought I would see Stormzy censoring himself for a brand deal but here we are. My instagram content preferences didn't have a political option but "sensitive" content, I assume it's the same thing. Going to try to stick to logging off this weekend, I am exhausted. Currently loving: reading Yellowface, playing sims 2, watching Andor, using the cherry soap by lush, eating 🍉 dates. See you next Friday.
Not logged off for the weekend but my screen time is down to 2 hours and 11 minutes. Mostly reading on Libby, writing on Notes, and FaceTime(ing) family-a smattering of socials. I deleted TikTok and, to borrow your words, {{{holy hell}}} the amount of time spent there…embarrassing. Thank you, as always, for sharing your thoughts. xoxo Tonette aka Grandma Cluck Cluck :)
Nice piece! The ‘one sec’ -app is great for preventing doomscrolling ☺️