London Climate Week: Climate Communications for Real Life Workshop

Sign up on the London Climate Action Week website here: https://londonclimateactionweek.org/event/climate-communication-for-real-life-a-workshop-with-jamie-lilly/

Climate Action Week represents a phenomenon of bloom: You spend a week, a weekend, a demonstration, a protest surrounded by people who GET IT. The urgency for a better future is shared. The language is inspiring and fitting. The energy is real. But then on Monday morning you’re back to “real life” and your colleague wants to talk about their upcoming 3-day cruise, your neighbor thinks wind turbines are an eyesore, and the person who runs your town’s building department just killed the energy-efficient HVAC upgrade… again.

​How do you not lose the thread of Climate Action Week vibes, and progressive climate attitudes in general?

​This is a 2-hour participatory session designed to help you process what you’ve learned about the climate in spaces like Climate Week and actually bring it home with you. Not as a rant or lecture, but as a genuine conversation that meets people in your life where they’re at.

​We’ll spend our time together:

​Reflecting and solidifying your experiences throughout the week and in general about the climate crisis

Connecting what you learned to the real places in your life where it can land: your team, your town, your family dinner table

​Building a practical communication toolkit for talking about climate in real life

​Creating a plan for applying what you’ve learned to real life.

​We’ll also spend a little time discussing activist frameworks like the Overton Window and Spectrum of Support to strengthen communications foundations and bring more people into the movement for a life-sustaining future.

​This event is for you if:

​You’ve had a great activism season and you’re dreading the come-down

​You care deeply about climate and you’re tired of feeling like you can’t talk about it with half the people in your life

​You work in climate, advocacy, policy, or sustainability — or adjacent to it — and you want better tools for the real conversations

​You want to leave with something on paper and not just in your head

About the Facilitators:

​Jamie McGonagill is an American climate activist and climate communications consultant. She is the founder of Mission Critical Communication, a climate communications firm. She is also the Media and Messaging coordinator for Extinction Rebellion (XR) Boston and leads the communications team for Stop Private Jet Expansion at Hanscom or Anywhere (SPJE). She lives in Massachusetts, USA with her dog Eli.

​Lilly Worthley is a facilitator and trainer who helps mission-driven organizations do hard work in chaotic times with more clarity, ease, and joy. As founder of Mossy Collaborative, she brings a decade of climate and social impact experience to the rooms she holds, creating space for people to process what's heavy and/or stuck and leave with something they can actually use. She currently lives in Maine, USA with her husband and dog.