Climate Action Team
Members:
Team: Elaine Stover, Lisel Burns, Lynda Baker, Melanie Chase, Cheryl Kartes, Linda Ellinor, Stephanie Hochman, Sherwood Shankland, Courtney Lonergan, Sunny Walker
Team leads: Rachel Hefte, Marti Roach, Ted Wysocki
Charter:
Each of us can contribute to shifting our culture to save the planet, starting with what we do best, facilitating focused conversations!
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Vision Elements Addressed:
- Effective External Marketing
- A vibrant forum for professional development and learning of our members
- Coordinated national branding and marketing efforts in place
- Increase awareness and interest in the ToP Methods
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Focus of Activity for 2016
- Encourage Trainers to incorporate Climate Change demos in TFM & SP courses
- Encourage Facilitators to engage their clients in Focused Conversations about Climate Change
- Develop Action Plan for Town Meetings in October that would feature Climate Change actions
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New Messages that Apply to Us:
- ToP and ICA are part of the movement for a livable world. We enliven our historic legacy of social advocacy and our work thrives because of it.
- Participation can help solve climate change and we will be working on the ICA’s mission together.
- Working together with ICA-USA we build our connections and promote healing between the ToP Facilitators Network and the ICA.
- Together, in the Network, we can work on this issue and it can be rewarding, fun and meaningful.
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Success Indicators for 2016
- Trainers test out using sustainability/climate change subjects in training. Action Team evaluation for evidence of impact to support training and introduce/educate on a social concern.
- Successful town meetings held that link to climate change and sustainability.
- Dialogue among committee members stimulates ideas to further introduce this topic in our work & our lives.
- Prompts that help others in the ToP Network get further educated on climate change and be exposed to ToP tools for facilitating conversations on this topic.
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Behaviors to Develop:
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Climate Action Team 2016 Calendar
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Quarter 1
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Quarter 2
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Quarter 3
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Quarter 4
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- Test out climate change related topics in selected ToP trainings.
- Build Team with 2nd call on March 28.
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- Test out climate change related topics in selected ToP trainings.
- Build Team with Adobe Connect meeting in late April / early May.
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- Explore other tools we can promote/develop to foster ToP practitioners in facilitating climate change conversations.
- Invite others to help with Town Meetings.
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- Town Meetings use Focus Conversation method to Change Conversation on Climate Change
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