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Published in: TransformationAlways keep your sadness inside your heartLeaving their family behind in Baghdad, a father and his son journey from Iraq to Finland in search of peace and security.
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Published in: TransformationWhy South Africa's gold miners are suing their bossesTens of thousands of gold miners are suffering with diseases like silicosis, tuberculosis and HIV. In the mines,...
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Published in: TransformationThree research-based ways to cultivate kindness in your lifeAre you lacking in kindness? Here are three strategies for bringing more into your life.
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Published in: TransformationPresent perfectWith neither past nor future in common, what do relationships that exist entirely in the present have to offer?...
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Published in: TransformationSeven everyday things poor people worry about that rich people never doIt isn’t just poor people’s lives which differ from rich people’s lives – it's poor people's thoughts that differ...
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Published in: TransformationWhy kindness is the key to a new economyWe learn kindness from our mothers - could we use it to replace the free market with a gift economy?
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Published in: TransformationFive ways ordinary people are helping refugees in CalaisAs the humanitarian crisis in Calais grows, the media is increasingly dominated with tales of savagery and menace in...
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Published in: TransformationIt's OK for you to be fat but not for me: life beyond anorexia's liesRecovery is about a compassionate way of being in the world, love and community. Content warning: disordered eating,...
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Published in: TransformationInside the alternative death care movementFrom funeral cooperatives to green burials, there's a kinder, gentler, less expensive way to die.
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Published in: TransformationWashboard abs and crash diets: how the beauty industry is hurting menWe ask each other: "do you even lift, bro?" It’s about being big or being shredded. Preferably both.
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Published in: TransformationIntersectional pain: what I’ve learned from hospices and feminism of colourMight pain and oppression be like love—a simple thunderbolt at times, and in other circumstances complex and slow...
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Published in: TransformationThe problem with safer spacesWhen you make your trauma a crucial aspect of your identity, it becomes harder to heal from it.
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Published in: TransformationHow random acts of kindness could transform support for battered womenWhat happens when your cause is ill-suited to campaigns that tug the heart-strings?
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Published in: TransformationCan the end of life be an opportunity for social change?Death and grief can nurture compassion, joy and solidarity, creating a revolution in the way we care for others.
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Published in: TransformationWho cares? Preparing for the age wave of the future.Everyone has the right to be cared for in their elder years. Here’s one way to make that happen.
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Published in: TransformationWorks of love: Cicely Saunders and the hospice movementProfoundly rejecting the fatalistic response of the medical establishment, a new movement placed people at the heart...
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Published in: TransformationLet's change how we think about mental healthSeeing psychological distress as a mental health problem supports a modern cultural myth.
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Published in: TransformationCan you train your brain to be more compassionate?We found changes in regions associated with empathy, emotion regulation and reward processing.
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Published in: TransformationWhat will it take to shut down Yarl's Wood?Hundreds of people will protest against the locking up and abuse of women at Yarl's Wood detention centre.
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Published in: TransformationArms companies are making money by taking over UK schoolsEurope's largest arms manufacturer, BAE Systems, has applied to sponsor the failing Furness Academy. The reason is profit.
