Active Hope in Scotland
This free 7-week program for people living in Scotland with Active Hope co-author Chris Johnstone has started and is now closed.
But the video-based part of the course is still available.
When facing the climate crisis, are there times you feel overwhelmed, disheartened, or at risk of burning out?
The Active Hope program offers a transformative journey designed to rekindle inspiration and nourish your capacity to play your part in ways that are satisfying and sustainable. It offers:
Regenerative strategies that help you recharge, so that you can mobilise your energy and motivation when you need them
Practices that help you face disturbing information and feelings they bring up, so that you may feel less overwhelmed by them
Change-making skills that strengthen your sense of possibility and the belief that you can make a difference
An approach to building communities of mutual support and solidarity, to both grow your effectiveness and strengthen the sense that you’re not alone in your concerns.
Shown to work
These sessions discuss, draw upon and apply practices from the free video-based online course at https://activehope.training
An outcome survey of over 250 people completing this course found it strengthened their motivation to act for positive change, and their belief that they could make a difference, leaving them less overwhelmed or defeated by their concerns for the world, and nourished by their experience of taking part.
What the course involves
A structured programme of videos released online in weekly instalments (please see below for the introductory video) at the website https://activehope.training
The videos follow the journey described in the book Active Hope, and mapped out in the infographic above. This includes gratitude practices that resource us, processes that help us when feeling distress about the state of the world, perspectives (both old and new) that help us feel a greater sense of connection with life and possibility about the future, and tools that help us find and play our part for positive change. The videos also include interviews with Joanna Macy, Rob Hopkins, Mutima Imani and a range of other inspiring voices.
A series of seven 90-minute meetings on Tuesdays in February and March 2024, starting on Feb 13th, to reflect on the videos, try out the practices they teach and explore the material as a learning community of mutual support. There is an option to either join a group meeting in Elgin, Moray (venue TBC) from 2pm to 3.30pm, or online in the evening, 7pm to 8.30pm. Please tell us which option you’d prefer.
An invitation to engage in practices linked to the course that nourish Active Hope. This includes an option for partnered or solo practices.
The course involves a time commitment of about a half a day a week (though if you’ve less time you don’t need to watch all the videos each week, which reduces the time needed to about 2 hours each week).
We’re grateful to Moray Climate Action Network for organising, and funding, this event.
Here’s a very short video
Pauline listened to Manda Scott’s podcast about Active Hope. Inspired by this, she decided to gather a group of people together to watch the Active Hope online course, and then meet each week to try out the practices and discuss the material. In the video below, (in just over a minute), she describes her experience.
Here’s the introductory video
Introduction to free online course at https://activehope.training
