Belonging Circle: Winter Solstice
You. Are you thinking about the excesses of the holiday season and the impacts to the climate, the animals, and people? That's human empathy. Let's channel this into the framing of winter solstice.
Topic: Winter Solstice- Hope or toxic positivity?
Belonging Circle: Winter Solstice Sunday, December 21 · 9:00 – 10:30am Time zone: America/Los_Angeles Google Meet joining info Video call link: https://meet.google.com/nob-kgvh-yqb Or dial: (US) +1 650-597-2756 PIN: 177 064 943# More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/nob-kgvh-yqb?pin=1996234754355
Belonging Circles
...process feelings about the uncertainties we face here in the the Northern Hemisphere, in a first-world country in the age of the climate crisis. ...acknowledging the environmental injustices taking place throughout the world.
A camera-on space for Imaging, meditative practice and mindful storytelling with a few like-minded people from all across the bioregional land of Cascadia. This is not a lecture, not group therapy. It is a listening and sharing warm space to belong with other concerned and empathetic humans.
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What to expect
Establish group agreements and safety
Hear about building personal resilience
Practice resiliency skills
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 skills again
Closing reading or additional facilitator input
Resource sharing by the Circle members / building hope
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. It's important to direct your share toward finding the emotions which are driving the thoughts.
This Climate Emotions Wheel is based on the research of Panu Pihkala at the University of Helsinki and particularly his 2022 paper Toward A Taxonomy of Climate Emotions
In order to hold a container 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.
Questions: [email protected]