Have you ever played a pickup game? We know that participating in group sports is an excellent way to participate meaningfully in a community, and take care of our mental and physical health, and yet, in the US, most people stop playing after their mid-20s . We consider how messaging in our cultural environment may be playing a role in the decline.

02: SEE and Communities

We start a new miniseries about how the SEE framework can help us create more supportive communities for people of all ages. Environments where we are socially connected, and meaningfully engaged in activities that help us lead healthy, fulfilling lives. First off, we share an essay from reDirect collaborator Tara-Sky Woodward about how social networks support and sustain us, similar to other networks in nature.

01: SEE and Communities

We wrap up our SEE themes series by considering the types of scenic landscapes people prefer most and why. Plus, we share a new partner story from the Academy for Scholastic and Personal Success. Read their story to learn how they launched a new digital marketing and fundraising strategy after sudden funding loss.

03: SEE Themes Across the Domains

For the second issue in our series, we consider how “listening” and “familiarity” are important elements of SEE.

02 SEE Themes Across the Domains

We start a new mini-series based on a series of essays written by our co-founder Rachel Kaplan, which explore elements of SEE that do not fit neatly into a single domain. First up, we explore how participation, feedback, and small experiments relate to meaningful engagement.

01 SEE Themes Across the Domains

reDirect is thrilled to announce that Paige Porter has been promoted to be our new Executive Director! Also in this issue, we share a few exciting things coming up in 2026, review highlights from the past year, and share a couple of book recommendations.

We share a new video in which Anne Kearney explains how living in Barcelona is impacting her journey to learn Spanish.

Meredith King, one of our 2025 fellows, shares how she used SEE to help create a community engagement plan for the City of Ann Arbor, turning a mobile nano-grid into a learning lab where citizens can learn to live more sustainably.

We look at the role of rewards and positive reinforcement in habit formation as we learn how to optimize our external conditions—our environments—to support us on our way.

08 Willpower, Motivation, and Habits

We share a little story of an aspiring writer who experimented with adding structure to his environment to build a new habit.

07 Willpower, Motivation, and Habits

We look at four crucial elements that psychologists have identified in how we make new habits.

06 Willpower, Motivation, and Habits

We share a short 8-minute video from author and speaker James Clear about how to design our physical environments to better support our goals.

05 Willpower, Motivation, and Habits

We take a beat to talk about the reasons why we may feel unmotivated. Are we bored, or do we need a break to restore our mental bandwidth?

04 Willpower, Motivation, and Habits

In this issue we consider what to do when we feel unmotivated. Is waiting around for the feeling to “strike” the best approach?

03 Willpower, Motivation, and Habits

We often think that we just need more willpower to shift our habits and achieve our aims. We uncover what psychological research has to say about it.

02 Willpower, Motivation, and Habits