Circles Session 7

Feel

Awake, aware, attuned
Hearts break, souls shake with anxiety
Can’t skip this struggling, mourning, raging, healing
A ferocious love for the planet we call home

🎵 Welcome Tune (optional)

Resilient by Rising Appalachia


🌱 Opening

Read 1 poem or quote from this section to open.


💫 Check-in

Prompt: Share your name + your primary emotion regarding the climate crisis right now, today. 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.

  1. What in this section made you feel seen?

  2. Has the climate crisis impacted your choices about or experiences of parenthood? How so?

  3. What practices help you face our planetary emergency? How might we support one another in our inner 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: Who makes you feel more climate courageous, and why?


🔧 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, about organizational values? 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: Within your organization today, do you see climate courage in action? Where would you like to see it?


🌙 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.


🎧 How to Cope With All the Climate Feels podcast episode from A Matter of Degrees (via Apple, Spotify, anywhere you listen to podcasts) 


📺 3 Questions to Build Resilience—and Change the World TED Talk by Sister True Dedication

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