Circles Session 5
Reshape
Problems embedded in the contours
Of cities, transport, infrastructure, capitalism
Coastlines and landscapes where human-nature meet
Much to reconsider, rend, invert, remake
🎵 Welcome tune (optional)
Slackwater by Ben Sollee
🌱 Opening
Read 1 poem or quote from this section to open.
💫 Check-in
Prompt: Share your name + something you have mended. Then “popcorn” to someone else. (Circle leader should go first and model this.)
🌻 Agreements
This is a good time to bring back the agreements, asking the group these questions. You may want to remind everyone of the principles you agreed to: Generous, Equitable, Confidential, Growing, Courageous, and Joyful.
We’re midway on the journey… How are we doing on the agreements?
Are there any that need attention or “tuning”?
☀️ Discussion
Move through 3 generous questions, ensuring everyone has a chance to share.
What fact about the climate crisis do you find hard to face? What makes it so hard?
How is the climate crisis challenging the meaning of home? How might we redefine it?
Where do you see necessary and effective “reshaping” taking place (at any scale)?
📓 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 the place you call home need to be reshaped or transformed, given the climate crisis?
🔧 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, on communication about climate? 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: Explore the connection between climate and capital. Where does your organization bank and invest, and are funds divested from fossil fuels or supporting them? If applicable, can employees access climate-friendly retirement plans? Do any philanthropic dollars go toward 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.
🎧 The ‘Prestige Problem’ Making Fossil Fuels Powerful podcast episode from A Matter of Degrees (via Apple, Spotify, anywhere you listen to podcasts)
📺 A Healthy Economy Should Be Designed to Thrive, Not Grow TED Talk by Kate Raworth
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