Launching an EcoFaith Recovery Cohort
Big Picture Questions for those wanting to form a group of those mutually developing leadership potential to better organize our communities for climate and racial justice using The seven Practices for Awakening Leadership:
- What is the purpose of your group?
- How would you like to ground yourself in an alternative imagination while supporting each other in organizing your communities for climate justice and racial justice?
- What three or more people will be part of this leadership development group?
- How often will you meet? ___ weekly ___ every other week ___ monthly
- Will you script certain parts of your gatherings to make
Planning your EcoFaith Chort Gathering(s)
Contact PastorRobyn@ecofaithrecovery.org if you would like lear more about starting a group and/or would like some sample meeting formats
| How will you do each of the following Practices and who will lead each part? | Time |
| Practice 1) Access Spiritual Power – to ground yourselves in the alternative spiritual imagination and power needed for this work? | |
| Practice 2) Develop Relationships,Practice 3) Discover our Stories & Practice 4) Mentor One Another
· Who will share a personal story (Self, Us, Now) about why this work matters? · What kind of one-to-one conversations will you engage in to cultivate relational power, on what question(s), and for how long? · How to share back with group (if time permits)? |
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| Practice 5) Act Together· How will you inspire, mentor, support, organize or act together to support your communities in acting together for climate justice and racial justice?
· How will you be accountable to your intentions, both personally and as a group · What are the next steps? How will take them? By when? |
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| Practice 6) Reflect On Our Actions and 4) Mentor One Another – How will you invite reflection and conversation on how your group is using power in order to challenge destructive systems and foster regeneration of life within this gathering and in any actions you are taking together? Will this reflection and conversation happen within the meeting or afterwards? | |
| Practice 7) Restore Balance – What intentions would you like to set and how will you affirm, bless or ground these intentions before the gathering concludes? |
EcoFaith Version of the Serenity Prayer
Inspired by Black author and activist, Angela Davis
God, grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change,
the courage to change the things we cannot accept,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Resources to Engage Deeper with the Practices with your Communities
Below are a few example formats for using the practices. These are meant as guidance for creating your own space for recovery from consumerism and continual devastation of the earth.
Other Possible ways to practice together include:
Working with one of the six categories per month by engaging a single one of its three practices for each of the first three weeks and using the last week to focus on the overarching category as a whole. This would enable you to move through all six categories twice every year;
Beginning (or ending) a meal or a meeting by engaging in any single practice;
Engaging a different practice as a family at the beginning or end of each day;
Please send feedback and stories of ways you have engaged these practices here so we can share your story on our website. Thank you!