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Activation

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Connection Comes Before Collaboration

No matter how thoughtful the agenda is, collaboration falters when people don’t yet feel grounded, respected, or safe enough to contribute honestly.

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Shared Mental Models

Whether you’re mapping a system, aligning a strategy, or just trying to get unstuck—drawing helps. The act of sketching something out, together, might be what gets you moving again.

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Shared Decision Making

Shared decision-making is one of the most challenging parts of collective action and coalition-building. In this guide, we share proven practices that help coalitions and teams make important decisions together.

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Activating Teams for Climate Action 

Climate action is fast becoming part of everyone’s job. To get this work truly activated and operationalized, we have to create high-functioning cross-functional teams.

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Moving beyond buy-in to activation

What’s clear is that commitments are only a starting point. We need more action, and we need it now.

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How might we make convening on climate action more accessible, inclusive and activated?

Last week was my first time at Climate Week NYC, but I walked away with a sense of missed opportunities. We can do better, and it feels important that we do. So, how might we?

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Staying activated and hopeful when the world is on fire

How will I show up in this moment, in this time, to be an activating agent for climate action? 

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Using small moves to reinvigorate progress on climate goals

This is not the time for 3-year initiatives, time-intensive custom builds, and 6 months of Discovery. We don’t have time to waste.

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