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Humor me for a second. Say you’re part of an organization that’s not taking the climate crisis seriously. 🌎 🌊 How many people need to take a stand before the norms of the group shift? How can we make inaction the outlier, and sustainability the new normal? 📰 Check out this month's newsletter to learn how! We dive into the logic behind social tipping points - the moment when a certain behavior spreads rapidly and becomes a new social norm in an organization or group – and how it connects to The Week. 🏫 Related to this, we also share an inspiring story from the US. It’s about how Tina Bessias, teacher and sustainability coordinator at Durham Academy, organized The Week with her school's entire staff! That's more than 200 people. It’s a really incredible accomplishment – and you can find out how she did it below. Until the next letter in October! ✌ #Raleigh #Durham #NorthCarolina #climateaction #sustainability #greenschools #backtoschool #socialnorms #climatecrisis #kids

Really exciting news, everyone – we’re going to be kicking off the Inner Development Goals Summit! 🎉🌎 Later this month, Frederic Laloux will host an online pre-summit special ahead of the 2024 IDG summit to share about The Week, and how anyone can use it to spark real, transformative conversations about the climate crisis. The theme of this year’s summit is “The Space in Between,” which will bring together perspectives from science, business, government, academia, and the arts to exchange on how inner development is driving transformative change across the world. This is par for the course for the Inner Development Goals, who – if you haven’t heard of them – are providing a blueprint of the capabilities, qualities, and skills needed to achieve the sustainable development goals. The session is free for all summit ticketholders, so book your ticket now! We’ll leave a link down the comments 🔗 Also, if you’ve gone through The Week yourself – then please say so in the comments so we can send you a discount code for the tickets! 🎟 And if price is an issue, please consider instead taking part in the IDG Survey – which we’ll also link in comments. Can’t wait to see some of you there! 😊 … 📅 Thursday, 26 September 🕔 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET 📍 Online Only #IDGs #SDGs #climateaction #sustainability #laborday #IDGsummit

For today's organizer spotlight, we wanted to celebrate Julie Gefroh, and share something she wrote about The Week. ✍ "When you take action rooted in what you care about, your enthusiasm is contagious, and you're able to connect with people in new ways." See, she organized a screening of The Week with the Climate Coaching Alliance back in June, and it left a real impact on everyone involved. So much so, that she wrote a blog post about her experience. Here's Julie again: "Facing any of these [environmental & other] crises will surface emotions. Instead of numbing and distracting ourselves, we can face and feel them so we can use our emotions for good. Our emotions point us to what is most precious, and help us answer what we want to protect." Thanks for putting pen to paper about your journey, Julie! 🙏 And the best part - she's hosting another screening! If you've been wanting to experience The Week, but haven't had time to organize your own - now's your lucky day. Here's when it's happening: 1️⃣ Monday, September 9th - 4pm PST / 7pm EST 2️⃣ Tuesday, September 10th - 4pm PST / 7pm EST 3️⃣ Thursday, September 12th - 4pm PST / 7pm EST 🔗 It'll happen online, and you can register with the link in the comments! #coaching #climate #oregon #portland #emotion

Quick story, y'all. Climate Coaching Alliance spread The Week across the world. Here's how they did it 🌎 See, last year, Andra MOROSI heard about The Week at ChangeNOW, and was inspired. She wanted to get the word out. So, she brought the idea to others at the Climate Coaching Alliance, a network of coaches around the world, committed to bringing the deep and difficult questions about the climate crisis into the coaching community. We partnered up with them in June as a part of their Seasonal Heartbeats - a dynamic series of events that syncs up with the changing seasons. Coaches ran sessions of The Week in CCA communities across the world! 💖 Here’s a few of these champions: 🔸 Michel Heitzmann, in Switzerland 🔹 Julie Gefroh, in the US. 🔸 Anna Brown, in the United Kingdom. 🔹 Csilla Sztarinka, in Hungary. 🔸 And many, many more (who I’ll shout out in the comments 😘) In total, they organized more than a dozen sessions, which led to a ton of enthusiasm for climate action, and planted real seeds of hope for a brighter future. Amazing work, Andra, and everyone who made this happen! 🎉 #sustainability #coaching #climate #tgif #esg #csr

If you're looking for a new podcast, have I got one for you 🌱🎙 Last week, Frederic joined Joshua Spodek on the Award-Winning podcast This Sustainable Life to talk about The Week, and how it's creating space for conversations on the environment. 🌳 What's it about? Well, in Joshua's words - "Frederic tries to square, not always easily, the many projects he is passionate about, with his inner knowing that he is meant to live a simple life, spending as much time with his family and whenever possible in the silent presence of trees. 🌎 The Week, the most recent of these projects, points out what our kids will ask us: what did you know about the climate, and what did you do? Figuring out our answer to this question is perhaps one of the most important things we are all invited to do. That’s why we built The Week: to open a space where everyone can explore this question, and come up with their own answers." ⏯ Give Part 1 a listen on Apple podcasts or Spotify, or check it out on Joshua's website: https://lnkd.in/eezTtJGN And if you haven't heard of him, definitely check out Joshua's other work! He's a four-time TEDx speaker, bestselling author, professor at NYU, and leadership coach who's changing the culture on sustainability in the States. #podcast #climatecrisis #climateconversations #reinventingorganizations

The Week’s packing movie theatres! 📽 For this week’s organizer spotlight, let me introduce Christoph Seitz, a climate activist, dad, and leader over at Roche. He wanted to organize The Week for his kids’ high school, so he reached out to a local movie theatre to see if they could include the experience in a film festival they were hosting. That meant more than 120 students were able to watch the films together on the big screen! I mean – just look at the turn out. Really amazing stuff, Christoph 💪 🎉 Should The Week be part of other film festivals? What do y’all think? Any names come to mind? #film #Climateaction #climatedocumentary

If you want to make a difference for the environment, now's your chance to learn how through The Week! 🌎 📌 On August 28th, 9am PST / Noon EST / 6pm CET, join John Hasan to learn what The Week is, and how anyone can use it to spark real, emotional conversations about the climate crisis. We'll start from the basics, and share powerful examples of folks who've used The Week to inspire climate action. Or, if you've already done The Week, forward this to somehow who might be interested! Feel free to tag them in the comments. ⬇ Hope to see you there! ✨

📌 No really, steal this idea. In a nutshell: it’s using The Week at work to spark meaningful conversations about the climate crisis, which builds enough momentum for change in a company to actually happen. I wrote this article about how it works. 💼 Thing is, it’s much harder to change business-as-usual if you’re the only one calling for climate action. To transform our workplaces, we need all of our colleagues - entire teams of people - wanting to be more sustainable too. When we do that - we can reach a social tipping point in the company, where change not only becomes easier, it becomes possible. 🌎 About 13,000 have done The Week with their colleagues, or at their workplace. For many, it’s a way to reach a point where the scales tip, and things become easier. Read about how Florian Grolman made this happen at his company, and about our new partnership with Terra.do. There’s a ton happening with The Week these days, so stick around for September’s story! #climateaction #esg #csr #sustainability #greenjobs #greentransition #hr #grind #climatecrisis

📌 "I‘m sorry, but I tried.“ It's the bare minimum that we'd like to say to our kids 10, 20 years down the line, when they ask us what we did to stop the climate crisis. This letter, read by Benedict Cumberbatch on the Letters Live stage, was written back in 2019 by Stuart Capstick, an environmental social scientist. He addressed it to his children, for a campaign where the British public were invited to write letters in response to the climate crisis. 📌 "The hardest part was living through a time when we could've turned things around, but that most people did nothing." He really speaks to why we made The Week in the first place - to give folks a medium to take a hard look at the climate crisis, and what we can do about it. So that later in life, when our kids ask us what we did, we can say: "I knew what I needed to know, I did what I needed to do, and I have no regrets." Now, more than ever, is the time to hear this message. Now, more than ever, is the time to start taking action, and make a difference. 🌎🥰 #climatecrisis #futuregenerations #kids

How did a church in California decide to put their heads together, and think about becoming a climate resiliency hub? 🤔 They went through The Week! 💫 For today's organizer spotlight, let me introduce y'all to Sarah Berg. She's the Assistant Director of the Center for Climate Justice & Faith at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, over in Berkeley, CA. Back in 2023, she organized The Week with her seminary. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive, and the experience really left an impression on everyone who came. And that includes Sarah, who went on to organize another session with her congregation. It made a huge splash there as well! So much so, that everyone involved came together afterwards to brainstorm what climate actions they'd like to commit to. So, they're putting together plans to become a climate resiliency hub for their community! In Sarah's words, that means "using solar panels and battery back-ups to provide clean, cool air for our neighbors during heat-waves and wildfires." Really amazing work Sarah, and bravo to everyone over at University Lutheran Chapel! 🎉 #climateaction #sustainability #tgif #summer #heat #creationcare