Circles Session 4

Reframe

Language and story, creativity and culture
Our means of making sense
To tell the truth—expand, flip, and rekindle it
Imagining, evolving, holding on to our humanity

🌱 Opening

Read 1 poem or quote from this section to open.

💫 Check-in

Prompt: Share your name + one word you associate with the climate crisis. Then pass 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. As you consider the climate crisis, what language/story do you want to leave behind or lean into?

2. What makes for generative conversations about climate, and what impedes them?

3. Are there particular culture-makers or culture-shapers we might invite into/collaborate with on 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:

Where might you spark/convene a fresh climate conversation?

🌙 Closing

Read 1 poem or quote from this section to close.

🔧 Workplace Exploration

First, revisit the prompt from the last session.

Was anyone able to take up the workplace exploration prompt from our last session, around the organization’s role in advocacy? What did you learn?

Then, offer this next prompt for exploration between this session and the next one.

Consider your organization’s role in shaping the “climate story.” Does your workplace leverage its storytelling and culture-shaping power for climate? What language, narratives, and methods of communication does your organization use to communicate, implicitly or explicitly, about climate?