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All events for the 2020 Earth Festival will be held ONLINE. Details will be posted as soon as they are available.
Join The Resilient Activist and its partner, Climate Council of Greater Kansas City, at the Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch from April 18th through April 26th for multiple 2020 Earth Festival Events to celebrate Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary Celebration!
More info found here on Climate Council’s Website.
Bring Deep Nature Connection to Outdoor Interpretation
Tuesday, Aug. 17, 6:30 – 8:00 pm CDT
In partnership with the Missouri Department of Conservation
If you offer programming that teaches others about the mysteries and magic of the natural world, this course will give you additional tips and tricks to help your audiences make the most powerful connections possible!
Registration: Online
NOTE: Registration ends Monday, 8/16 at midnight!
Deep nature connection is one of the best predictors for those who choose to step into the important work that will ensure a healthy planet, reduce the effects of climate change, and shift business and governmental practices to a more nature-nurturing perspective.
This program will focus on interpretive approaches you can use for deep nature connections that will help nurture long-term ecological awareness.
You will learn:
- mindfulness practices and nature-connection activities for use with individuals and groups;
- the ecopsychology perspective on more than our five senses in nature
- proactive ways to alleviate fears of nature;
- techniques to use nature to support environmental activists with ecoanxiety and climate grief.
This program is presented by K-State Extension Master Naturalist and Climate Reality Leader, Sami Aaron, founder of The Resilient Activist.
The Resilient Activist JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Book Club
Are you interested in learning more about justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) in America with a group of like-minded and open-hearted people?
Do you enjoy reading and discussing books that expand your understanding of yourself and the world?
If these questions touch a chord, then The Resilient Activist JEDI Book Club is for you!
For our September JEDI Book Club, we will be reading James Baldwin’s, Go Tell it On the Mountain. Below is a summary of the book provided by Goodreads:
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin’s first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy’s discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin’s rendering of his protagonist’s spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.
Register at this link.
Please feel welcome to attend, even if you missed earlier meetings. This is an open group, and we understand that our lives are busy and not everyone will be able to attend each month!
The JEDI Book Club is facilitated by Resilient Activists Brenda Bennett-Pike and Anne Melia. We hope you will join us!