Learning, Teaching & Collaborating to Support Climate Leadership
retreat focus
In the face of escalating change and climate crises, what new approaches to learning, teaching, and collaborating will enable us to adapt and evolve?
How might we foster the conditions for curiosity? Exploration? Deeper understanding? Right relation? Meaningful action?
What is required of us as individuals and as a collective in service to future generations?
These questions will guide us as we practice different ways of thinking, moving, sensing, and relating. Along the way we will explore how these experiences might inform our work as leaders and educators, inspire our approach to partnership, and ultimately enable thriving planetary systems.
Inspiration and Resources
Arizona state university
Principled Innovation
Generative & Reflective Questions
Atlas of Creative Tools
just transition framework
From Banks and Tanks to cooperation and caring: A Strategic Framework for a Just Transition
Climate Justice Alliance
teacher network
"We Are Earth” by Adrienne Maree Brown
"Leverage Points” by Donella Meadows
"The Relational Work of Systems Change” by Katherine Milligan, Juanita Zerda & John Kania
Poems
To Know the Dark
How I Go the Woods
The Spell of the Sensuous
Tao Te Ching
The Journey
Advice
Websites
Center for Whole Communities:
Recent reports and guiding docs
Whole Measures Framework
En-ROADS
GARP SCR
podcasts
Drilled
Amy Westervelt is the queen of helping understand oil majors and petrostates in a human & enraging manner. This is her eighth season of doing these and this is serial journalism at its best. Anyone focused on phasing out fossil fuels should listen.
Hidden Brain
Does not focus on climate, but instead on understanding how we think and why we do what we do, important for educators and communicators everywhere. (The host has done a handful of climate focused podcasts, including an interview with Amy Westervelt (above) and the author of one of the books below.
Volts
Dave Roberts is not for everyone, but he’s thoughtful, geeky, gets good guests on his pod, and distills things well.
books
Barbara Kingsolver:
Animal, Vegetable, MIracle
Flight Behavior
Eleuthera
Kim Stanley Robinson, Ministry of the Future
Greta Thunberg’s family, Our House is On Fire
Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind