Looking for people to help with fundraising, outreach, organizing, and/or publicity.
Tentative Schedule for April 24–26
- Friday night in the 1912 Center Great Room: Plenary multi-media presentation with audience participation.
- Saturday (Great Room 8:30–4pm)(Fiske and Art Rooms 1–4pm)
- Morning workshop: Climate Courage Skills and Strategies: How Ordinary Citizens, Students, and Families Can Face the Climate Crisis Together, Instead of Alone.
- Afternoon workshops: “Introduction to climate change activism on the Palouse” and “break-out groups and tabling”.
- Concurrently in Afternoon: Fostering a Courageous Climate Change Ministry (private workshop for faith leaders).
- Saturday Night Dance, Potluck, Film (UUCP Basement)
Names for this event are still tentative: “Palouse Climate Courage Kickoff” or “A Climate Change Plan for a Resilient Palouse.”
Maria L. Talero, Ph.D.
Maria Talero will be the leader for most of this weekend event. Maria Talero is a Denver-based community climate change educator and former philosophy professor who is developing an innovative approach to climate change communication, organizing and activism. Her research-based methodology draws on a paradigm called “embodied cognition” to identify the stages of transformation (for both individuals and communities) that lead to courageous and powerful climate change activism. She is a hands-on, mindful and passionate presenter and facilitator with 15 years of experience as an educator, and she currently organizes a monthly community group in Denver, Colorado called the Climate Courage Resilience Circle. She offers leadership trainings and workshops to non-profits, schools and communities of faith in Colorado. She is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Denver. She is a 2014 NAAEE Community Climate Change Fellow as well as a board member and team leader with 350 Colorado and 350 Denver.
YouTube videos of Maria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On8pZi4KuxY,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-zPh1pwZGA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM9xTfv089k.
