10-Steps to Personal Resilience & Empowerment in a Chaotic Climate
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…Because how we live in this time and place matters.
The Good Grief Network’s unique 10-Step program aims to help build personal resilience and empowerment while strengthening community ties to combat despair, inaction, and eco-anxiety on the collective level.
Ten Meetings. Ten Weeks. Small Groups. Heart-centered Process Work. Hosted by the Good Grief Network — Or You!
Purchase our manual & bring the program back to your local community. Our asking price is $100, $50 (discounted price) or $25 (low income) for the manual.
10-Steps to Personal Resilience & Empowerment in a Chaotic Climate
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Step 1: Accept The Severity of the Predicament.
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Step 2: Acknowledge That I Am Part Of The Problem & Solution.
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Step 3: Practice Sitting With Uncertainty.
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Step 4: Honor My Own Mortality & The Mortality Of All.
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Step 5: Do Inner Work.
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Step 6: Develop Awareness of Brain Patterns & Perception.
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Step 7: Practice Gratitude.
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Step 8: Take Breaks & Rest.
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Step 9: Show Up.
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Step 10: Reinvest Into Meaningful Efforts.
Find A Meeting
- (US) Portland, Oregon
- (US) New Jersey Branch
- (US) San Francisco Bay Area Branch
- (US) Davis, California Area Branch
- Contact Lou: 707-890-0734 or Email
- (US) Vermont Branch
- Fall 2019
(Closed To the Public)
- Fall 2019
- (Canada) British Columbia Branch
- Fall 2019
(Closed To the Public)
- Fall 2019
- (Australia) Melbourne Branch
- Coming Soon
***Don’t see a meeting in your area, perhaps it’s time for you to start a small group. Please consider organizing and facilitating the 10-steps in your local community. It’ll change your life.
Bring the “10-Steps to Personal Resilience & Empowerment” Manual Home To Your Community.
Included In E-Manual: List of Step-Specific Resources, Suggested Expectations & Norms, Facilitator Tips, Meeting Script, the 10-Steps and Their Readings, Talking Points, and More….
Also included is an invitation to a digital”Facilitation Discussion.” The discussion is a presentation and Q&A to help you get started.
CHOOSE YOUR PRICE. We ask $100 for our time & energy putting this program together and for the facilitation discussion, but we don’t want money to prohibit you from starting your own group!

E-Manual:
Resources To Dig Deeper Into Each Step
We’ve curated a wide variety of writings, audio, and other media we specifically recommend for those at each step in the 10-step program. Our updated and expansive list is included with the purchase of our e-manual.
Overall Recommendations
Quotes
- “There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.” ―Adrienne Rich
- Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ― Howard Thurman
- “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.” — Marian Wright Edelman
Articles
- In Facing Mass Extinction, We Must Allow Ourselves to Grieve by Dahr Jamail
- The Miraculous Hope Of Climate Realists by Erika Spangler-Siegfried
- Facing Extinction by Catherine Ingram (Audio version)
- We Need Courage, Not Hope, To Face Climate Change by Kate Marvel
- Beyond Hope by Derrick Jensen
- Forget Shorter Showers by Derrick Jensen
- Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals by Martin Lukacs
- Human and Planetary Health Part I: Facing the Crises by Daniel Christian Wahl
- Human and Planetary Health Part II: Going Upstream by Daniel Christian Wahl
- Human and Planetary Health Part III: Improving Planetary Health by Daniel Christian Wahl
- Human and Planetary Health Part IV: Restoring Ecosystems in the Century of Regeneration by Daniel Christian Wahl
- Dahr Jamail & Barbara Cecil on How Shall We live?
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as-the-climate-collapses-we- ask-how-then-shall-we-live/ https://truthout.org/articles/
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climate-crisis-forces-us-to- ask-to-what-do-we-devote- ourselves/
Books
- Climate — A New Story by Charles Eisenstein
- A New Republic Of The Heart: An Ethos For Revolutionaries by Terry Patten
- Active Hope: How To Face The Mess We’re In Without Going Crazy by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
- Coming Back to Life by Joanna Macy & Molly Brown
- Who Do We Choose To Be: Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity by Margaret Wheatley
- Be The Change: Live Well & Spark A Climate Revolution by Peter Kalmus
- Radical Joy For Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
- Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times by Carolyn Baker
Video
- The Hidden Promise of Our Dark Age by Joanna Macy
- Beyond Anxiety and Depression… A Call to Awakening! by Jason Silva
- Why I Think This World Should End by Prince Ea
- Living Into Being by Joe Brewer
- American Psychosis with Chris Hedges
Poems
- Let This Darkness Be A Bell Tower by Rilke
- Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
- Summer Day by Mary Oliver
- Clearing by Martha Postlewaite
- Thanks by W. S. Merwin
- The Peace Of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
- The Breeze At Dawn by Rumi
Courses
- Charles Eisenstein: “Unlearning For Change Agents“
- Pachamama Alliance “Game Changer Intensive“