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Hope-based communication is a practical, five-shift approach to social change anyone can use to base their story on the change they want to see happen.
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Why the Left wins by telling a Love Story (opens the original)
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The most powerful value for left-wing political campaigns is love.At its best, left-wing messaging should be a love story for working communitiesLast weekend German left-wing party Die Linke recorded their biggest ever election victory. It’s an amazing comeback story. A few years ago, the party looked like it was in terminal decline, with one leader breaking away to form her own party. But that seems to have allowed younger voices to take the helm (a little lesson for the French left there…) and
5 ways birding can save the planet (opens the original)
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Throughout this piece, climate communications expert Dickon Bonvik-Stone will chime in on why birding offers such a powerful, scalable opportunity for climate communication. Scroll down for → the hope-based strategy tool → the usual hope stuff round-up. I invite you to listen to the dawn chorus from my local park while reading.After every election, I ask myself: why isn’t every election dominated by the climate crisis?! How do we make nature a bigger part of people’s
The Hope Dialogues #1: Reframing the Good Immigrant Narrative (opens the original)
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I’m experimenting with a new format: The Hope Dialogues. A series of Socratic conversations exploring the hardest questions about using hope as strategy, where there are rarely simple answers.After this post, the series will live in its own feed within this Substack. You can sign up here.I’d love to know what you think.Sha
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