Slides and Resources from Session 5 (DISSEMINATE)

Overview

• Goals:
  • To create a space of community, collaboration, excitement, and momentum for participants and their guests in terms of being lifelong participants in the movement to reverse global warming and actively engaging with the Drawdown Solutions of their choice.
• Intended Results:
  • For participants in the course to share what you have learned.Commit to being lifelong ambassadors for reversing global warming.
  • Acquire new tools for being effective in your Drawdown work.
  • Clear on how you can stay engaged with others in the workshop, with Pachamama Alliance, and other organizations that can help support going forward.
  • For people not in the workshop to be inspired to investigate and participate.
  • Have fun!

Slides/Presentation

• Session 5 Slides – DISSEMINATE. These are the slides with notes that we went through during our fifth session. Videos are not embedded in order to work better on Zoom and to reduce the size of the presentation. At present, the slides are only available in Microsoft PowerPoint format but we will likely update this before the end of the series.

AV During Presentation

• Will Grant Innovation Skills (7:07) (transcript). Will outlines the set of skills including design thinking that will be essential to continue to develop as we continue our journey to address the climate emergency.
• Will Grant Comfort Zone, Stretch Zone, and Panic Zone (6:18) (transcript) A great overview from Will on where we learn as human beings (the Stretch Zone). This is where we want to be as we do our work.
  • Related: Staying Centered in These Times. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Will Grant gave this one-hour seminar on staying centered and facilitated a great discussion on comfort zone, stretch and panic zones. A great resource for anyone who is working to have difficult discussions.
• For Fun: School Lunch Opera. Wouldn’t it be cool if this happened at a kid’s school lunch? Wouldn’t it be cool if we were not in the middle of a global pandemic and this kind of lunch could happen?? 😁
  • Description from YouTube: Sacla’ the Pesto Pioneers and Italian foodies favorite, served up a great surprise at a Buckinghamshire primary school and staged an impromptu Opera in the canteen one lunch time. Four secret opera singers, disguised as canteen staff, broke into song bringing the room to a standstill with a rousing medley of the Italian classics by Verdi, Puccini and Rossini. From soaring soprano to booming baritone, the singers’ stunning performance thrilled the unsuspecting school children whose shocked and surprised reactions were captured on camera by a six strong film crew behind the scenes.

Handout(s)

• IDEO’s *The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design. (referenced in Will’s Innovation Skills video)* Embracing human-centered design means believing that all problems, even the seemingly intractable ones like poverty, gender equality, and clean water, are solvable. Moreover, it means believing that the people who face those problems every day are the ones who hold the key to their answer. Human-centered design offers problem solvers of any stripe a chance to design with communities, to deeply understand the people they’re looking to serve, to dream up scores of ideas, and to create innovative new solutions rooted in people’s actual needs.

Polling and Quizzes

Yale Climate Opinion Maps (Interactive)

https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/