[MCN] 10 Steps to Personal Resilience in a Chaotic Climate

[Jenny Mish]

Starts in one week — 

Some fantastic people have signed up. Others are curious but unsure. So I am opening up the first meeting for people who would like to check it out before making a commitment.

I am asking everyone to register with me by email, even for the first meeting, at jenny at one4alldevelopment.com <mailto:jenny at one4alldevelopment.com>.

Please encourage anyone who might be wavering to reach out to me and give it a try!

10 Steps to

Personal Resilience & Empowerment

in a Chaotic Climate


1: Accept the Severity of the Predicament.

2: Acknowledge that I Am Part of the Problem & Solution.

3: Practice Sitting with Uncertainty.

4: Honor My Own Mortality & the Mortality of All.

5: Do Inner Work.

6: Develop Awareness of Brain Patterns & Perception.

7: Practice Gratitude.

8: Take Breaks & Rest.

9: Show Up.

10: Reinvest in Meaningful Efforts.


This 10-step process builds personal resilience while strengthening community ties to help combat despair, inaction, eco-anxiety, and other heavy emotions in the face of daunting systemic predicaments. It is based on the work of the Good Grief Network (www.goodgriefnetwork.org <http://www.goodgriefnetwork.org/>).

Ten Meetings. Ten Weeks. Heart-centered.

Facilitated by Jenny Mish, PhD

10-12 participants. Discussion format. No homework. 

All agree to supportive group norms (see attached flyer).

 
Tuesday evenings, 6 – 7:30pm, February 4 – April 7, 2020

Suggested $50-100 ($25-50 for students).

Please commit to attending at least eight sessions. 

At the Swift Conference Room, 315 S. 4th St. E., Missoula

 
For more information or to register, email jenny at one4alldevelopment.com <mailto:jenny at one4alldevelopment.com>.

See Facebook event here. <http://www.facebook.com/events/505853560308268/>

Slowly but surely we are each becoming aware that our systems don’t work. When we look deeply at the way we eat, work, shop, travel, and recreate, we see that we can’t continue doing things the way we are doing them. We see that our housing, education, communication, banking, and political systems are not functioning smoothly. The whole way our society is designed is unworkable, and must change, dramatically.

It can be hard to integrate what we are learning. It can be difficult to change when our daily lives carry so much momentum for business as usual. We may feel insignificant, like witnessing from afar. We see climate events destroying lives, and we see the weather changing in front of us. Even watching the news is problematic. 

Understandably, we react with a wide range of feelings. From shock and disbelief to anger, fear, and deep grief, we may feel overwhelmed, isolated, hopeless, or desperately urgent at times. We may find ourselves blaming, searching for easy answers, or clinging to sources of hope.

In order to make sense of climate chaos, we need each other. We need to come together to listen to one another, to speak our hearts and find our way through the feelings. When we hear each other making personal sense of the immensity we share, we move forward together.


Jenny Mish has been looking deeply at the contradictions in our systems for over 30 years. She has personal and professional experience with systems change in food & agriculture, local economies, education, funding & finance, health & disability. She brings wisdom teachings from many traditions and holds a BA in Geography from Arizona State University, an MBA from the University of Montana, and a PhD in Business with a focus on sustainability from the University of Utah.

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