​Re-gain your motivation to fight for social justice, climate justice, ...fighting to keep good moral values on the world.

​This hour online might be for you if:

• ​you have empathy for living beings

• ​If you know about the environment and/or watch news clips

• ​you occasionally experience strong feelings and emotions

• ​If you want to try and figure out where you want to spend your time volunteering

​68 people have met

​Over the last 12 months, 68 people living in Cascadia or across the continent of Turtle Island have joined a BCR.

​A safe space to process feelings about the uncertainties we face here in our bioregion. in the age of the climate crisis.

​What to expect

• ​Establish group agreements and safety

• ​Hear about building personal resilience

• ​Practice resilience skills (deep breathing, etc.)

• ​A volunteer reads mood setting introduction

• ​Individual sharing, everyone has an opportunity

• ​Afterwards, go around the circle for individual follow-up reflections to add to what the individual originally shared.

• ​Practice resilience skills

• ​Volunteer is asked to read the closing thoughts or additional facilitator input

• ​Resource sharing by the everyone in the circle members to affirm hope

​​​"The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has--even if we don't quite know it yet." Bill McKibben, founder of 350 .org and Third Act.

​Meet your co-facilitators

​Kate Alperin has been hosting BCR's since completing training in the Spring.

​— ...an artist, activist, and community-builder - passionate about bringing people together to design bold, holistic, and grassroots-driven initiatives

​Kate has a background in sustainability, environmental justice, & community resilience; also humanitarian aid, disaster response, & emergency preparedness and much more.

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​Jairaj Singh (he/they) has dedicated over 15 years to the climate and environmental justice sector.

​— Jairaj is deeply committed to climate justice as well as mental health, and eager to continue cultivating resilient communities against overlapping crises, including climate chaos.

​Come and show support, this will be his first Circle since taking the training!

​This section contains some important additional notes about what to expect during our time together.

​Belonging Circles are intended to be a casual and relaxed setting for each participant to share their unique perspective, experiences, thoughts, and feelings about the climate crisis and the overall state of the world as the poly crisis becomes apparent. This is a space free of educating or persuading to any particular view or course of action. We will take turns deeply listening to one other and allow moments of silence for deepening as it naturally arises.

​In order to hold a space where everyone can feel as safe as possible to share deeply, it’s useful to listen without any cross talking. Cross talking can be understood as a back and forth dialogue, answering questions, opinion or advice-giving, and commenting of any kind upon what has been previously shared.

​The pause between shares can be used as an opportunity to notice if thoughts arise around a shared experience. Our natural impulses to give advice, opinions, share a resource, to comfort or console, etc. is highly discouraged and not what we are going for here, we should strive to refrain from these habitual impulses.