Slides and Resources from Session 4 (DIVE IN)

Overview

• Share concrete opportunities to get involved with Solutions of interest
• Choose one Solution to create an Action Plan around
• Do an inventory process of your personal goals and resources
• Individually or in groups be on track to develop and begin implementing an Action Plan

Slides/Presentation

• Session 4 Slides – DIVE IN. These are the slides with notes that we went through during our fourth session. Videos are not embedded in order to work better on Zoom and to reduce the size of the presentation.

AV During Presentation

• 2040 Movie Trailer. (2:15). A journey in fact-based dreaming focused on solutions that exist today to create a better tomorrow. We hosted a large showing of the movie in August 2020 and posted all of the material from that event here (including how you can watch and Q&A panels).
• What Did You Do Once You Knew? (Drew Dellinger’s Hieroglyphic Stairway Poem). (2:50) This poem captures how many people think about the climate crisis for future generations and culminates in a clarifying question around our own accountability and agency at the end. I also mentioned Tammy Baldwin’s commentary on this poem to Al Gore in 2009. You can find that here. and the poster made of that conversation here.
• Paul Hawken on Diversity of Organizations.  (Transcript) (1:55). Speaking from his experience of writing Blessed Unrest Paul discussed why it’s important to embrace the diversity of organizations focused on social, environmental and climate justice. You can find his book at the library and on Amazon.

Handout(s)

• Inventory of Goals and Resources.  Adapted from a Joanna Macy exercise from her book: *Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re In Without Going Crazy.*You can do this by yourself, or, ideally, have someone act as a “scribe” for you so you can let the ideas flow. The scribe will record your responses and reflect them back to you (and also act as a witness you in the process). Use more paper as needed. If you have no one whom you wish to invite into that role you can simply fill in the answers yourself. The scribe begins by reading aloud each question and recording your answers to each one.
• Solutions Research #4 – Action Plan Worksheet. The goal at this point in the course is for each of us to discover and begin to get into action on our unique contribution to reversing global warming!

For Fun and Going Deeper and Wider

• 100 People of Dance (3:47) An incredible video of adventure and collaborative dancing. From the creator: “Filming this video was one of the craziest experiences I have ever had in my life. It took 2 months of filming and a month and a half was spent living out on the road driving all around the USA and Canada, I drove a little over 10,000 miles. This video was incredibly difficult to film and edit, so hopefully people find a little enjoyment out of this. Huge thanks to everyone that danced with me and helped film the video. Meet so many amazing people, got to see so many friends, it was an experience of a life time. “. You can find this video on YouTube here.