Hope in Troubled Times: Workshops at Greenbelt 2018
Turning the Tide is running three workshops at Greenbelt Festival this year, exploring spirituality and activism, creative action tactics, and hope. See you there?
Author: Turning the Tide
‘Let them hear our silence’: Experiencing the Silent Walk for Grenfell
Lisa Cumming reflects on the power of collective silence as an act of witness, following the Silent Walk for Grenfell one year on from the fire.
Can we create more power of our own?
Milan Rai makes the case for shifting from ‘mobilising’ to ‘organising’ to win power for positive social change.
Applications Open! Training for Trainers – January 2018
Training for Change return to the UK in January 2018 to run two exciting Training-for-Trainers workshops. Read on to find out more, and for details on how to apply…
Nonviolence and Religion
This final part of Steve Whiting’s series on Nonviolence and Social Change looks at relationship between nonviolence and religion, following on from Part 1: What is Nonviolence? and Part 2: Common Dilemmas of nonviolence.
Job opportunity with Turning the Tide!
Our long-serving staff member, Steve Whiting, is leaving, so we have a rare and exciting job opportunity. We’re looking for a motivated leader, communicator, organiser and team-worker to empower people for nonviolent social change.
Nonviolence for a Change: the story of the film
It may be some years old but we think that our 30-minute video, Nonviolence for a Change, remains relevant
Calling people in: Navigating our way through Brexit-Trumpland
With 2016 now behind us but the result of Britain’s EU referendum and the election of Donald Trump bound to have wide-ranging implications for some time, Turning The Tide trainer Milan Rai shares his personal reflections on what it might mean for those of us working for nonviolent social change.
My Activist Journey: Renegotiating Activism
Because activism is really a journey and we’re all in different places with it, we invited Turning The Tide trainer and artist Clare Bonetree to share her personal experience of ‘being an activist’.
Book review: Spiritual Activism
Although only 200 pages long, this is a BIG book. It explores the meaning and place of spirituality in our modern world, and how this can inspire our activism, our politics, and other ways we act in the world.