Advocate

🎵 Welcome Tune (optional)

Matter of Time by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

🌱 Opening

Read “To Be of Use” by Marge Piercy (p. 60).

💫 Check-in

Prompt: A wordless check-in—share your name + a body posture or movement that expresses your current mood. Then “popcorn” to someone else. (Circle leader should go first and model this. Invite everyone to “echo” each person’s body posture or movement.)

☀️ Discussion

Move through 3 generous questions, ensuring everyone has a chance to share.

1. How do you want to be of use in the climate movement/for a life-giving future?

2. What insights in this section challenge your thinking about what we need to or can do?

3. What do you see that’s working to foster more, deeper democracy?

📓 Journal Prompt

Offer the following journal prompt, for those who may want to reflect and write between this session and the next one.

Prompt: How does climate impact your civic/political participation?

🔧 Workplace Exploration (optional)

First, revisit the prompt from the last session.

Prompt: Was anyone able to take up the workplace exploration prompt from our last session, around bringing climate concerns to work? What did you learn?

Then, offer this next prompt for exploration between this session and the next one. (You may also want to email/message it.)

Prompt: Examine your organization’s role in advocacy. Does your organization engage in lobbying for or against climate policy? If your organization makes political contributions (you can Google this!), do they support climate champions? If your workplace is part of trade associations, what are their stances on climate policy?

🌙 Closing

Read 1 poem or quote from this section to close. (You can either select and read the poem/quote, or you can invite a member of your group to.)