10 Steps to Resilience & Empowerment in a Chaotic Climate
Are you having difficulty coping during such painful and unprecedented times?
Are you looking to build emotional intelligence and resilience?
Do you feel burnt out from the work you used to love?
Do you want to build brave and supportive community?
Do you want to imagine new ways of investing your time and energy into meaningful efforts?
Are you dedicated to overturning injustices?
Do you want to fully live during times of great crisis?
This group is for you.
“This past spring, I was able to participate virtually in the Good Grief Network’s 10-Step program. Each week, I joined 13 other amazing humans from across the globe to process our difficult emotions about climate change, examine our own privilege, and build individual and community resilience. This was hands-down the most helpful resource I’ve experienced to navigate climate anxiety.”
—Heather H.D., 2022 Participant
“I didn’t think a Zoom program could affect me so much. The level of vulberability and honesty of facilitators and participants was off the charts.”
—S.T., 2023 Participant
Spring 2024 10-Step Group for Parents & Caregivers
Join GGN FLOW Facilitators Kristan Childs (U.S.), Teddy Kellam (Canada), Zeratha Young (U.S.) for the 10-week journey for parents and caregivers.
Ten Mondays from 6pm to 8pm Pacific Time (U.S. & Canada) from 26 February- 29 April 2024.
Sliding scale payment & scholarships available.
Click here for a time zone converter
Closed
Spring 10-Step Group For Everyone
Join GGN FLOW Facilitators Zeinab B (Morocco), Indira H. (U.S.) & Danni (U.S.) for the 10-week journey of healing, connection, and inspired action.
Ten Thursdays from 11:30am-1:30pm Eastern Time (U.S.) starting 7 March 2024.
Sliding scale payment & scholarships available.
Spring 10-Step Program For Helpers & Healers
Join GGN FLOW Facilitators Karen Hansen & Kirk Shepard for the 10-week journey.
Ten Tuesdays from 4:30pm-6:30pm Pacific Time (U.S.) from 19 March – 21 May 2024.
Sliding scale payment & scholarship available.
I’ve come to see that any solutions to the myriad of problems facing us, if they are to be meaningful, will come from those of us who have been brave enough to take the time and energy to feel these scary and disorienting feelings.
– LaUra Schmidt, Good Grief Network Founder
10-Step Program
Ten weeks. Ten meetings.
Small groups. Heart-centered process work. Together.
Good Grief Network provides social and emotional support to people who feel overwhelmed about the state of the world.
Our unique 10-Step Program helps individuals process their overwhelming feelings, deconstruct and reimagine cultural narratives, build community, and reinvest their energies into meaningful efforts.
Using embodiment exercises, journaling, and group sharing, we create brave and emergent spaces that serve as practice grounds where people can practice new ways of being with ourselves and each other during chaotic times.
Our unique and decentralized 10-Step meetings also provide fertile ground for emergent and innovative visioning. As we connect with community, share vulnerability, and process our heavy emotions, we are able to envision new paradigms, access our unique gifts, and reorient our lives toward action at a time when action is essential.
I think the connection aspect of the group and non-judgmental space that is held in the group for people to openly say how they feel and be able to learn and grow from other perspectives is an incredibly useful tool. I am so glad to have found this group!
The 10-Steps left me with a greater understanding of myself as well as questions I will continue to work with. I also gained an understanding of the intersection between personal and planetary resilience and a sense of hope that this community can create the new paradigm.
Good Grief Network has helped me metabolize a build-up of climate grief that was leading to burn out and downshifting. Participating in the Good Grief Network is helping me continue my climate activism with more balance, resilience, and presence.
What is this group about?
GGN’s 10-Step Program is a peer-to-peer support group where people come together for 10 weeks to build community, process our heavy and painful feelings about the state of the world, and identify meaningful actions each of us can take. Each group is facilitated by GGN-trained facilitators; this is not a therapy program.
We prioritize an intimate group experience, capping each group at 15 participants, including the 2-person facilitation team.
This 10-week program is process-based, meaning that the weekly meetings are initial introductions to each of the 10 steps. The real work happens when you begin to integrate these lessons into your daily life.
While in the meetings, we share our experiences, wisdom, and passions with each other. We co-create a brave container to practice being vulnerable and calming our nervous systems. We express our emotions, explore new ways of thinking and seeing the predicament, and open to creative responses that become available once we process our feelings and connect with others. We build resilient community by learning how to see people again and co-envisioning life-sustaining paradigms for the future.
GGN’s 10-Step Program has been mentioned/covered by CBS, NBC, MSN, RollingStone, Outside Magazine, Time Magazine, CNN, CBC, Yale Climate Connections, NPR, Reuters, Daily Beast, Medscape, Deutsche Welle (DW), USA Today, Grist, LA Times, The Guardian, Washington Post and The Weather Channel.
To read more about each step, view our piece: “Tools for the Awakening“
What is required of you?
Attendance. Please try to attend all 10 meetings. We know this is a big commitment, and this program honors your time with a big offering of resources and support in return; the process works best when you show up!
*Of course, we understand that emergencies and urgent needs arise. We just want you to think about whether you can make this program a priority for these weeks, and if not, allow us to offer the space to someone else who needs these support services at this time.
An open heart and open mind. We are sitting with people from different places and inviting different worldviews and experiences into the circle, and we ask that you respect these differences in perspective, whether or not you fully understand or agree with them.
Vulnerability. The process works best if you show up, both physically and emotionally. Showing up requires that the willingness to be vulnerable. Can you share from a place of honesty? We will do our best to take care and create a safe container for you.
Patience. Patience with yourself and everyone else in the group is essential to participation. We’ll be talking about a lot of difficult topics, so we must each try to recognize that we’re all at different stage of this journey, and all doing our best to make sense of uncharted territory.
Attention to your mental health. Because this isn’t a therapy group, we need to know that you’re taking care of yourself. Do you have a supportive partner or friend to check in with after the meetings? Do you have a therapist? Do you know how to find a therapist if you need one?
Integrity. You can arrive as your full self for us. Be authentic, be kind, and please be you.
Who are the facilitators?
All Good Grief Network facilitators have participated in a 36-hour live online training with GGN’s founders, Aimee Lewis Reau and LaUra Schmidt. Our facilitators are trained to holding space, cultivating emergent processes, manage tension, cultivate emotional intelligence and body awareness, and have participated in an in-depth study of each of the 10-Steps.
What happens at the meetings?
We open every meeting with an introduction, group check-in and short grounding exercise.
We dive into the step of the week and allow space for personal sharing. Each person is invited, though not required, to share what’s on their heart and what the step brings up in them. There will be space for each person to share at least once. Group sharing is not a discussion; we avoid cross talk, and instead, share a part of our journey, and witness others share parts of theirs.
Each session ends with a check-out, closing and a short poem.
Meetings are two hours long.
When and how do we meet?
We meet for at the same time for 10 consecutive weeks on Zoom. Your facilitators will send you a weekly reminder email with a Zoom link.
How much should I pay for the program?
Please consider the following questions before deciding the offering that is appropriate for you:
- In this program, we will help you reframe the global predicament, teach a variety of emotional regulation tools, and offer access to a live intimate, supportive community for 10 weeks. What are these offerings worth to you?
- Each 10-Step meeting is led by a team of two GGN-trained facilitators, who are available to support you throughout your 10-week journey. What is the value of our team’s time, energy, and leadership?
- What is the “hourly rate” that your culture has assigned to your time? Please consider a minimum fee that is equal to 20 hours at your average hourly rate.
- What offering covers a meaningful investment into this 10-week journey and is also within your means to pay?
GGN’s suggested offering offers three tiers of payment options, as well as scholarships and work exchanges. To sign up, please scroll up to find the group you’d like to join and click on the link for that group that says ***Click here to participate***
What is our refund policy?
We are unable to offer refunds for GGN’s 10-Step program. We offer a small group experience, which means that if you book a space in our group, you have secured a very limited spot. If for some reason you are no longer able to attend a group that has already begun to work the steps, we are unable to fill that spot with someone else who may have benefitted from this critical healing work. It is important to us that you are intentional with your sign up and join us only if you are prepared to join our entire 10-week journey.