July Climate Café

​For July's café, we will aim to go back outside. This time to Roberto Clemente Park, just off Godfrey Avenue in the Roosevelt Park neighborhood near the Black Hills. We will meet near the shelter/restrooms.

​This will be a Friday afternoon café to enable more folks to make it one their lunch break (no problem to bring food). We will start with introductions at 1pm. But please join us whenever you can make it there.

​We will have blankets and cold NA drinks, but you may want to bring a camp chair, blanket, or beverages/snacks.

​In case you're wondering, what is a climate café?, it is "a simple, hospitable, empathetic space where [feelings] and uncertainties about our climate & ecological crisis [and related political crises] can be safely expressed."

​Climate Café GR is a nonjudgmental space open to anyone in Grand Rapids down to explore eco-emotions in a justice-oriented group setting.

​It is an advice-, debate-, and fixing-free zone, but rather a lightly peer-facilitated space to focus on feelings about current climate and other political realities, and to create community around those feelings. There is no charge to participate. Masking is welcome but not required.

​Climate Café starts with a short orientation to the format, followed by introductions and a lightly facilitated roundtable conversation.

​At Climate Café GR, we value everyone’s participation who sincerely wishes love and liberation for each of their co-participants. We expect all participants to engage in respectful peer sharing and support. We understand participants may hold different viewpoints, but since the focus is on relating our experiences, we ask all would-be participants to refrain from argument during the session.

​Climate Café Grand Rapids meets monthly. Contact: climatecafegr@gmail.com or @climatecafegr on Instagram. (Do not worry if you do not see many signups on Luma; we do not require RSVPs. There will be others there!)