Building community resilience by strengthening individual resilience - Circles of Personal Resilience
Jeff Joslin
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Building community resilience by strengthening individual resilience — that’s the goal for Circles of Personal Resilience. If you’d like to join a warm and welcoming atmosphere of empathy, celebration and gratitude, come to a Circle of Personal Resilience. Held every Tuesday, they are open to all including non-CCL members. https://bit.ly/CCLCircles (sign up for any date here.)

Circles of Personal Resilience – Experience being deeply heard and understood. In the Circle, you can share your fears, anxiety, anger, and despair … whatever you feel is valid and deeply heard here.

Climate activism is incredibly challenging work. We know that as GHGs multiply, the worry and angst of those trying to slow and mitigate the tragedy do as well. Do you long for a community or friends who will empathically listen to your thoughts and feelings, free from judgment, fixing, or trying to change it? The Circle will provide this opportunity.

In the Circle of Personal Resilience, you will be able to share your grief, mourning, or any feeling you have in an empathic, safe, and deep-listening setting. Then, you will have a chance to share the gratitude and joy you feel for the world you find so precious. Many CCLers have found this process healing and supportive. Here’s a sample of what’s been said,

  • “The [Circle] offered an incredible chance to genuinely connect to others with compassionate understanding. I was amazed by the sincere emotion and stories … the experience helped me fundamentally reconnect with the human side of climate work.“
  • “[The Circle or Personal Resilience] gave me relief and breathing room. I came away uplifted and refreshed, to face this hard work we do with renewed strength and compassion.”

Circles are scheduled for 1 ½ hours (shorter for groups of less than 12). Dates now available:

September 24th 8pm ET/5pm PT

October 1st 2pm ET/11am PT

October 16th 8pm ET/5pm PT

October 22nd 2pm ET/11am PT

October 29th 8pm ET/5pm PT

More dates will be added as we approach November.

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