Care to Repair Retreats

If you have followed Climate Critical, at all, since our launch in 2021, then you know that our most cherished practice is . . .rest practice. We invested in it as our first order of business after we developed a plan to make our mission and principles real. We began testing it with our advisors on day one. Why? It matters that we do what we demand, and make our care and repair a community event. This has led us to develop our own habits of language, and the intentional inclusion of dedicated pauses in our activity as a collective and individually.

In everything at Climate Critical our pacing anticipates that we are humans who will get tired, need inspiration and require time for processing. From the beginning that has looked like two rest practices in the community each year, where we limit our engagement on actions to restorative, nourishing and creative pursuits. Over the years and across geographies that has involved a great deal of reflection, pre planning, and logistics, fundraising,and even more intention so that the work is done with our values embedded from start to finish.

We care to repair our relationships with ourselves, so we prioritize regular and consistent rest practice as a core part of our theory of action. We care to repair our relationships with others so we practice journaling and reflection, asking for what we want and commit to naming it so that our internal pledge is an external action. We care to repair our movements so we interrogate and examine the institutional and systemic harm we are seeing, experiencing and seek to avoid cultivating, and we share what we learn publicly.

What kinds of practices are you engaged in personally or with others to make care and repair a part of your daily work?

In care and solidarity,

Tamara
Founder and Friend