Circles Session 4
Reframe
Language and story, creativity and culture
Our means of making sense
To tell the truth—expand, flip, and rekindle it
Imagining, evolving, holding on to our humanity
🎵 Welcome Tune (optional)
Breaths by Sweet Honey in the Rock
🌱 Opening
Read 1 poem or quote from this section to open.
💫 Check-in
Prompt: Share your name + 1 word you associate with the climate crisis. Then “popcorn” to someone else. (Circle leader should go first and model this.)
☀️ Discussion
Move through 3 generous questions, ensuring everyone has a chance to share.
As you consider the climate crisis, what language/story do you want to leave behind or lean into?
What makes for generative conversations about climate, and what impedes them?
Are there particular culture-makers or culture-shapers we might invite into/collaborate with on climate work?
📓 Journal Prompt
Offer the following journal prompt, for those who may want to reflect and write between this session and the next one.
Prompt: Where might you spark/convene a fresh climate conversation?
🔧 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 the organization’s role in advocacy? 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: Consider your organization’s role in shaping the “climate story.” Does your workplace leverage its storytelling and culture-shaping power for climate? What language, narratives, and methods of communication does your organization use to communicate, implicitly or explicitly, about climate?
🌙 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.)
Additional Resources
For those who may wish to watch/listen further—now or down the road—we’ve curated a couple resources related to this section of All We Can Save. Please share these with your Circle after the session.
🎧 Is Your Carbon Footprint BS? podcast episode from How to Save a Planet
📺 How to Find Your Voice for Climate Action TED Talk by Fehinti Balogun
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