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Hey there, follow up on this post from a few months ago. I lead a pretty novel adult learning initiative called EcoGather and we are currently enrolling two donation based courses that align so well with what you've reflected on here. I wanted to make you, Courtney, and your readers aware:
EcoGather's Climate + Change is an invitation for adults to face facts they know they can’t ignore – but to do it together and with the guidance of an experienced and especially sensitive climate educator who demystifies the science, takes a sobering tour of the projections, makes space for the feelings of grief and paralysis that often arise, and then offers clear, actionable, and meaningful steps that can be taken now to avert the worst outcomes and give today’s youth & future generations a fighting chance.
WHEN: February 7 - March 18, 2024
HOW: Fully online with synchronous facilitated Zoom sessions for learning & group processing
WHO: Adults who want to establish or deepen their climate literacy, prepare to take meaningful action, and support young people
COST: Offered on a donation basis
This kind of education is existentially important. We do not want cost to be a barrier to anyone ready to learn and act. Pay what you can now, consider a larger donation at the end to help sustain our programming, if comfortably possible for you.
We're also about to run a really amazing 6 month learning journey on Change Shaping: Connection Based Training for Good Trouble Makers, which has just a $75 commitment fee (which I can waive, if it is a barrier). The arc of learning is formed of five courses:
"Do the intimate work, the domestic work, the community work, the neighborhood work, and the geopolitical work won’t feel so preposterous." Might be the some of the best words to live by I've ever heard! Put it on a t-shirt, post it on a community board. Love.
Thanks for this Courtney. So much resonance, especially to not compartmentalizing climate actions and the rest of it. Climate is the ultimate intersectionality.
Three things:
1) My friend @kimberly Nicholas keeps the We Can Fix It substack- I didn’t see it on your list and thought it’d be a good add. https://wecanfixit.substack.com/
2) She also wrote a book - Under the Sky We Make. Worth a read and putting on the list.
3) I wrote about this recently here - I would love to have you read 🌳🌍❤️📚🌈
Hey there, follow up on this post from a few months ago. I lead a pretty novel adult learning initiative called EcoGather and we are currently enrolling two donation based courses that align so well with what you've reflected on here. I wanted to make you, Courtney, and your readers aware:
EcoGather's Climate + Change is an invitation for adults to face facts they know they can’t ignore – but to do it together and with the guidance of an experienced and especially sensitive climate educator who demystifies the science, takes a sobering tour of the projections, makes space for the feelings of grief and paralysis that often arise, and then offers clear, actionable, and meaningful steps that can be taken now to avert the worst outcomes and give today’s youth & future generations a fighting chance.
WHEN: February 7 - March 18, 2024
HOW: Fully online with synchronous facilitated Zoom sessions for learning & group processing
WHO: Adults who want to establish or deepen their climate literacy, prepare to take meaningful action, and support young people
COST: Offered on a donation basis
This kind of education is existentially important. We do not want cost to be a barrier to anyone ready to learn and act. Pay what you can now, consider a larger donation at the end to help sustain our programming, if comfortably possible for you.
https://www.ce.sterlingcollege.edu/climate-change-sync
We're also about to run a really amazing 6 month learning journey on Change Shaping: Connection Based Training for Good Trouble Makers, which has just a $75 commitment fee (which I can waive, if it is a barrier). The arc of learning is formed of five courses:
1. Showing up for Change
2. Communities of Care
3. Culture, Coalition and Movement Building
4. Empathy as a Force for Social Good
5. Story Justice
https://www.ce.sterlingcollege.edu/change
We would love to have Examined Family readers join us...
"Do the intimate work, the domestic work, the community work, the neighborhood work, and the geopolitical work won’t feel so preposterous." Might be the some of the best words to live by I've ever heard! Put it on a t-shirt, post it on a community board. Love.
Thanks for this Courtney. So much resonance, especially to not compartmentalizing climate actions and the rest of it. Climate is the ultimate intersectionality.
Three things:
1) My friend @kimberly Nicholas keeps the We Can Fix It substack- I didn’t see it on your list and thought it’d be a good add. https://wecanfixit.substack.com/
2) She also wrote a book - Under the Sky We Make. Worth a read and putting on the list.
3) I wrote about this recently here - I would love to have you read 🌳🌍❤️📚🌈
https://beccakatz.substack.com/p/a-little-less-shitty-or-the-next?utm_medium=email&utm_content=post