Program
Climate Resilience Circle
monthly
Climate Resilience Circle is a safe space to process climate crisis feelings and share with your peers. Open to the public. If you see the importance of this shift, if you are a nature lover, or if you work / volunteer / advocate / activate in the climate movement, you are invited.
We gather in a circle, read aloud, hear from a facilitator, and the space will be open to sharing. Tickets are free (with a suggested donation) but limited to a small number of participants.
Monthly locations
Each month, we travel to a new spot. But the format is the same. This practice teaches us to be agile, to seek the familiar but embrace the different. We “pop-up” throughout Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington to practice resilience.
The setting/what happens
You’ll want to arrive about 15 minutes early to get a beverage and pick your seat just to get comfortable with the people and surroundings. Meet the facilitator and chat with your seat neighbors. We ask for two volunteers to reading our opening and closing statements. At the conclusion, we will have resources to take home.
Dates and times
The gatherings will be scheduled on a weekend day, during daylight hours in the rainy season and possibly in the evenings during warm months. We expect to hold these monthly, from January through November,
Notifications of gatherings
We advertise digitally through our newsletters (2x month) and social media, mainly Instagram. You can occasionally find us at community events, tabling to spread awareness.
Explore and validate your feelings
Climate work and environmentalist activities can leave you feeling heavy and burdened. It can be challenging to navigate the myriad of emotions and thoughts that arise in the face of climate change. Climate Resilience Circle gatherings are an opportunity to recognize and make space for the fullness of your experience through connecting with others, sharing authentically, listening deeply, and exploring opportunities for building personal resilience.
Free —
suggested donation $10
Climate Resilience Circle
Reserve your seat for the next gathering.
Locations will be announced 3-4 weeks prior to the event.
Participation is limited to 20.
testimonials
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what participants said
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Hester
[I enjoyed] "new connections, meeting like-minded activists and eco-workers."
Sadie
“I hope we can grow the value of safeness, being together, co-holding-- the power of grief and mourning together is so underrated in our culture as well as a lack of trust in how being together makes space for something to emerge."
Meet the Team
It all started with a mentorship. Tamara met Drew in early 2019. As a seasoned member of an organization advocating for political will to decrease carbon emissions, Drew’s climate leadership skills began there. Tamara agreed to coach Drew’s introduction to the organization’s volunteer work.
Tamara is an entrepreneur herself; The pair went on to talk about the need for community-level acceptance of the climate crisis. Tamara’s consulting work in climate resilience at Changing Your Climate brought Drew to attend Climate Camp PNW. This experience afforded Drew the experience of discovering personal resilience to continue working for climate justice.
Drew met Zeratha through the Good Grief Network. Finding a professional kinship, their values coincide.
Drew continues to look up to both Zeratha and Tamara’s expertise.
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Climate Resilience Circle FacilitatorAs a lifelong outdoor enthusiast, Tamara brings her full self and experiences as a resilience educator and a certified Integral Master Coach.
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Project Leader and FounderAs a recent college grad, Drew’s research was based on climate change and the effects on people and communities. As a social entrepreneur, they saw the gap in accessible resources for adaptation-level resilience support.
Drew wears multiple hats in the organization, but still makes time for nature, exploring the Northwest, developing preparedness knowledge, family, and two fur babies.
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SupporterZeratha is a Visionary Artist, Eco-Doula, Climate Grief Facilitator, Eclectic Witch, Herbalist/Plant Medicine Healer, Tarot Reader, Psychedelic Advocate, Social Permaculturalist, and above all, a Mother of two wonderful kids aged 7 and 9, as well as two fluffy Persialayan kitties, one Frenchbo dog, a garden and household plant family.
Zeratha is passionate about helping facilitate a present and future that promotes and enables a regenerative culture of systems of mutual support, reciprocity, relationship with, and respect for, one another, ourselves, and the natural world. They envision a present and future anchored in whole systems design and creativity and rooted in heart-based processing, radical vulnerability and the sharing and showing up of our authentic complex selves in these complex times.