About the event

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Cascadia Stack holds Climate Circles online and occasionally in-person in Portland, expanding to Vancouver, WA in 2025.

​What is the value of Climate Peer-Support Circles in the Community?

​This special edition of Climate Emotions Circles will start with some introductions to the concept of climate resilience.

​The certain chaos coming to the PNW:

• ​extreme weather will affect the economy
• ​food & water supply
• public health
• ​other multifaceted impacts

​How will individuals, families, and youth respond to these kinds of changes to “normal” life as we know it to be now?

​The first half hour of this Open House will be a discussion where we will informally discuss– how can our communities prepare to avoid a public health anxiety problem?

​In the second half hour, participants will experience a sample, abbreviated, peer-facilitated Climate Circle.

​If you are considering training to become a Climate Circle host, please join this Open House to gain an understanding of the place in time where North Americans are at and where we are headed.

​HYBRID. Location in Vancouver, Washington, TBA.

​Subscribe to Cascadia Stack’s “Luma” event calendar for the location notification. https://lu.ma/climate-emotions-circles-pnw​

 

A peer support circle, share or just observe.

​​​”The world hasn’t ended, but the world as we know it has–even if we don’t quite know it yet.” Bill McKibben, founder of 350 .org and Second Act.

​​The Big Picture. Why should we acknowledge our feelings about climate change?

​​The short answer: To avoid burnout. To find our strength. To put on our oxygen mask before attempting to help others.

​Climate Circles are a system of clima-unity.

​​Coming together in a Circle like this, gives each participant a chance to simply listen to perspectives of others. How does the changing climate, and everything before it, during, and the aftermath of its wrath— how do each of us take this into our continuum of understanding the natural and built world.

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This *Special Edition” Climate Emotions Circle is our final Circle of the year, doubling as a fundraiser. Our goal is $500. Cascadia Stack is a community project of Cascadia Now! a 501c3 nonprofit organization.