Join CPA-NA's bi-monthly drop-in conversation called “Linking Conversations.” We will think and talk together about what’s happening in the world–such as extreme weather, political moments, and cultural flashpoints–and about linking thought and action, being and doing, the internal and external worlds. Through these conversations, we hope create links that will help us bear the weight of climate change and find spaciousness from which to act.
This Month's Suggested Topic:
From Shock to Purposeful Participation
The shock you may be feeling is evidence that you're awake to the magnitude of what's happening around us.
In times when everything feels like it's unraveling, how do we move from paralysis to finding our specific thread in the web of collective resilience?
When have you experienced your own eternal flame—that fuel source within you that stays lit even when the waters of crisis rush over it? What keeps that flame burning, and how does community serve as the protective grotto that shelters it?
We stand at a moment of profound reconstruction. How might we hold space for both the grief of what's ending and the possibility of what we could become as a people—drawing wisdom from those who have always envisioned futures beyond the systems that marginalize them?
What becomes possible when we recognize that our individual threads, when woven together consciously, create the web strong enough to hold us all through this transformation?
Browse this poem for more insight.
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The conversations are founded on the idea that to build an empathic and justice oriented response to the climate crisis, we need to support and honor those parts of being human that “link” - to our own inner lives, to the subjective experiences of others, to the collective lived experience of our communities, and to the environment in which we live and upon which we depend. In a culture that persistently attacks and disavows these links, we aim to recognize and support them.
FREE with suggested $5 donation (we are an all volunteer organization and welcome donations to defray costs. No one turned away for inability to make a donation.
REFUND POLICY
We understand that things come up and can’t always be anticipated. We will grant refunds requested 48 hours ahead of the event. We will not honor refunds after the event has started.