Climate Communication for Real Life: A Closing Workshop with Jamie & Lilly
You've spent a week surrounded by people who get it.
The urgency for a better future is shared. The language is inspiring and fitting. The energy is real. But then Monday morning you’re back to “real life” and your colleague wants to talk about their upcoming 3-day cruise, your neighbor thinks wind turbines are an eyesore, and the person who runs your town's building department just killed the energy-efficient HVAC upgrade…again.
How do you not lose the thread of Boston Climate Week vibes?
This is a closing workshop for Boston Climate Week, a 2-hour participatory session designed to help you process what you've learned this week and actually bring it home with you. Not as a rant or lecture, but as a genuine conversation that meets people in your life where they’re at.
We'll spend our time together:
Reflecting and solidifying your experiences throughout the week
Connecting what you learned to the real places in your life where it can land: your team, your town, your family dinner table
Building a practical communication toolkit for talking about climate in real life
Creating a plan for applying what you’ve learned to real life.
We'll also spend a little time with activist frameworks like the Overton Window and Spectrum of Support to strengthen communications foundations and bring more people into the movement for a life-sustaining future.
This event is for you if:
You've had a great week and you're dreading the come-down
You care deeply about climate and you're tired of feeling like you can't talk about it with half the people in your life
You work in climate, advocacy, policy, or sustainability — or adjacent to it — and you want better tools for the real conversations
You want to leave with something on paper and not just in your head
Light refreshments will be provided. Come ready to think, share, and leave with a plan.
About the Facilitators:
Jamie McGonagill is a climate activist and climate communications consultant. She is the Media and Messaging director for Extinction Rebellion (XR) Boston and leads the communications team for Stop Private Jet Expansion at Hanscom or Anywhere (SPJE).
Before she was hopelessly radicalized, Jamie received degrees in Drama and Creative Writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and worked in the trenches of New York's downtown theatre scene. Now she lives in Somerville with her dog Eli.
Lilly Worthley is a facilitator and trainer who helps mission-driven organizations do hard work in chaotic times with more clarity, ease, and joy. As founder of Mossy Collaborative, she brings a decade of climate and social impact experience to the rooms she holds, creating space for people to process what's heavy and/or stuck and leave with something they can actually use. She currently lives in Maine with her husband and dog.
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