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The Kansas City Conservation Equity Network (KCCEN) connects, inspires, and empowers the conservation community in the Kansas City region to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in all our work.
Since forming, KCCEN and its partner groups have taken formative steps to engage the environmental community and educate ourselves to advance DEI among our members. Learn more about our partners.
Register below for our next event,
“A Roundtable Discussion on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Conservation”
Friday, October 23rd, 11 am – 12:30 pm Central Time
on Zoom
We will be discussing,
- “How do we define Equitable Conservation?”
- “How and what are you and your organization doing to advance DEI?”
You may have already taken steps in programming and outreach or started changing your structural frameworks. You may have just started by reading a book or evaluating your own positions. Regardless, we all have a long road before us, but with our Network partners we have gained insight and ideas to help us advance this work by coming together – and working together!
We can’t wait to make a difference together! Learn more …
Thursday, June 9th
Noon – 1:00 pm CT
On Zoom via our Mighty Networks Online Community
This presentation offers a guide for engaging in our political system to effect positive change in a joyful, self-caring, and sustainable way.
We present activism as part of self-care, and self-care as part of activism.
Activism is often perceived as a negative, frustrating, and angry way of being. As such, people do not want to become activists or even adopt the changes that activists are promoting.
We are presenting a different paradigm!
We believe that we will draw more people to our cause if we are energized, engaged, and joyous in our activism. Anger, sadness, and frustration are natural responses to our broken and inequitable world. However, by cultivating joy, self-care, and connection, we can focus our negative emotions into positive, sustainable, and resilient activism.
This presentation is intended for two audiences:
- Those who want to meaningfully engage in our political system to support, nurture, and protect what they hold dear, but aren’t sure where to begin.
- Those who are already taking political action and want to add resilience, but are not sure how.
Anne Melia
- Environmental Scientist/Chemist
- Political and Environmental Activist
- Native Plant Enthusiast and Gardener
- Serial non-profit board member/volunteer
- Recent yoga and meditation practitioner
Tobi Holloway
- Retired enterprise data architect with wellness side-gigs
- Board member, presenter, and resilience and meditation teacher for The Resilient Activist
- Lifestyle-as-medicine nerd
- Move-Your-Body enthusiast
Wednesday, July 20th
7:00 – 8:30 pm CT
On Zoom via our Mighty Networks Online Community
This presentation offers a guide for engaging in our political system to effect positive change in a joyful, self-caring, and sustainable way.
We present activism as part of self-care, and self-care as part of activism.
Activism is often perceived as a negative, frustrating, and angry way of being. As such, people do not want to become activists or even adopt the changes that activists are promoting.
We are presenting a different paradigm!
We believe that we will draw more people to our cause if we are energized, engaged, and joyous in our activism. Anger, sadness, and frustration are natural responses to our broken and inequitable world. However, by cultivating joy, self-care, and connection, we can focus our negative emotions into positive, sustainable, and resilient activism.
This presentation is intended for two audiences:
- Those who want to meaningfully engage in our political system to support, nurture, and protect what they hold dear, but aren’t sure where to begin.
- Those who are already taking political action and want to add resilience, but are not sure how.
Anne Melia
- Environmental Scientist/Chemist
- Political and Environmental Activist
- Native Plant Enthusiast and Gardener
- Serial non-profit board member/volunteer
- Recent yoga and meditation practitioner
Tobi Holloway
- Retired enterprise data architect with wellness side-gigs
- Board member, presenter, and resilience and meditation teacher for The Resilient Activist
- Lifestyle-as-medicine nerd
- Move-Your-Body enthusiast
Saturday, August 13th
2:00 – 3:30 pm CT
On Zoom via our Mighty Networks Online Community
This presentation offers a guide for engaging in our political system to effect positive change in a joyful, self-caring, and sustainable way.
We present activism as part of self-care, and self-care as part of activism.
Activism is often perceived as a negative, frustrating, and angry way of being. As such, people do not want to become activists or even adopt the changes that activists are promoting.
We are presenting a different paradigm!
We believe that we will draw more people to our cause if we are energized, engaged, and joyous in our activism. Anger, sadness, and frustration are natural responses to our broken and inequitable world. However, by cultivating joy, self-care, and connection, we can focus our negative emotions into positive, sustainable, and resilient activism.
This presentation is intended for two audiences:
- Those who want to meaningfully engage in our political system to support, nurture, and protect what they hold dear, but aren’t sure where to begin.
- Those who are already taking political action and want to add resilience, but are not sure how.
Anne Melia
- Environmental Scientist/Chemist
- Political and Environmental Activist
- Native Plant Enthusiast and Gardener
- Serial non-profit board member/volunteer
- Recent yoga and meditation practitioner
Tobi Holloway
- Retired enterprise data architect with wellness side-gigs
- Board member, presenter, and resilience and meditation teacher for The Resilient Activist
- Lifestyle-as-medicine nerd
- Move-Your-Body enthusiast
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 August JEDI Book Club we will be reading, You Are Your Best Thing, Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience, an anthology co-created by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown.
Here is a blurb about the book from Brené’s website.
This anthology is a space to recognize and process the trauma of white supremacy, a space to be vulnerable and affirm the fullness of Black life and Black possibility, a space that gives Black humanity breathing room. Featuring essays by Jason Reynolds, Austin Channing Brown, Tanya Denise Fields, Kiese Makeba Laymon, Prentis Hemphill, Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts, Marc Lamont Hill, Keah Brown, Luvvie Ajayi Jones, Shawn A. Ginwright, Kaia Naadira, Deran Young, Sonya Renee Taylor, Irene Antonia Diane Reece, Yolo Akili Robinson, Laverne Cox, Jessica J. Williams, Aiko D. Bethea, and Imani Perry.
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!