Fostering the Stillness of Listening
Join our community of calm and kindness seekers
We envision neighborhood-level support group gatherings, and normalizing self-care throughout the Cascadia bioregion.A community of practice to “stack” personal coping & resilience skills about climate / poly crisis and safety.
To learn more about each of our three programs, see their individual webpages below.
Belonging Circles for Resilience
Witnessing ecological harm together, weaving stories to express feelings; and seeking personal resilience during uncertain times.Participants are introduced to the North Star of bioregionalism towards a regenerative and just future. Circles are held in person and online, and a hybrid model.
Climate Moxie Facilitator Training
Education: Learn how to facilitate peer-group Belonging Circles for your network. This training is suitable for non-clinicians, social justice champions and students. Becoming a Climate Moxie Facilitator will inform your work as a sustainable leader, navigating others through the emerging disruptions to life as we’ve known it to be. Your community needs you! Mentorships available. For more information, click to be redirected to ClimateMoxie.org
CLIMA-sphere Network
Workshops & Presentations: Is your organization working towards building community climate acceptance & navigating climate and social justice conversations? Partner with us to design a CLIMA-sphere project, large or small workshop, or a presentation tailored to your group.
Celebrating Impact
| 174 | 10 | 15 |
|---|---|---|
| Participants in Belonging Circles. Many are returning members. | Trained MOXIE Facilitators. Six have continued on to lead their own member circles and events. | CLIMA-sphere workshops, presentations, and community events. |
Based on total historical member data since our launch in November 2023. Join our member groups today to help us build our community amplify our impact!
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About Cascadia Stack
Cultivating a legacy of understanding and perception.
We see the displacement and genocide of Native Peoples by colonial settlers as harms that may never be forgotten. The work of Cascadia Stack takes place on the lands where people once lived sustainably, with pride and harmony. The communities and summer encampments along the Columbia and Willamette rivers were the place of harvest and home amongst the plentiful natural resources of the watersheds for thousands of years. We support Indigenous activists and the MMWIP movement; and all those that advocate to regenerate this stolen land.
Values Statement
Motivation for advocating, marching, and holding space for climate conversations can lead some of us more empathetic individuals to cynicism, anger, overwhelm, exhaustion, or, eventually, simply checking out. Our Belongings Circles ask participants to acknowledge all those feelings.Cascadia Stack empowers regular folx to become leaders amongst their peer networks by practicing personal grace, gratitude, and grit. (The 3 G’s). Belonging Circles for Resilience welcome all (LGBTQ+ and all humans) as a bioregional community of personal-resilience practicing and like-minded souls.The founder of this organization checks many boxes on the diversity spectrum. We invite you to be-real and be-long.
Community Voices
“I just love that this exists. We as a society especially those who are in the fight for climate justice need it.”
----------“Very comforting and relaxed atmosphere that seemed to allow everyone to share and trust.”
----------[I enjoyed] "new connections, meeting like-minded activists and eco-workers."
----------“I was surprised to learn that so many others in the Circle are experiencing similar feelings as I am. It's helpful to hear climate concerns given an audible voice. So many of us are struggling with how to talk through our concerns about the future with friends and family - climate change topics are generally avoided in social settings.”
Theory of Social Change
THIS IS HOW IT WORKS:
Critical thinking | Long-term | Pro-future | Bioregionalism
REAL TALK...
As a participant of our three programs, the individual will move through and around these three cycles. Based on studies, climate-thinkers and professionals, belonging to a community of practice will increase an individual's a sense of determination.Participants in our programs learn and practice personal
resilience and inspire others to do the same.
Cascadia Stack is creating a "platform" which develops emerging leaders in the climate crisis. We believe that what we've created over the past two years, is a sustainable model to be duplicated.
Consider donating if you understand this need so that we can build upon these milestones.
Climate Moxies: resilient, sustaining, ready to guide peers.
Theory of Social Change
| Understanding | Acknowledging | Including |
|---|---|---|
| Climate impacts are increasingly apparent. The poly crisis touches so many aspects of local life, to cultures with myriad effects. | Realize personal somatic responses. Sit with discomfort, process feelings, and seek support from others. | Practice trust. Listen without judgment. Practice empathy with boundaries, allow others their own perspectives. |
the visual hourglass of stack's three programs
We build leaders.
Moxie Training was created to develop and practice leadership skills in a chaotic climate and poly-crisis, to train others in the kindness and inclusive spirit; to be-real and be-long. Find your moxie spirit: resilient, sustaining, ready to guide peers.
We teach individuals to embrace their grit, to be authentic leaders, emotionally sober, and how to lead others through the same journey. What is the climate changed world going to look like in ten years?Learn with us.
Join our STACK of Supporters!
Since 2023, Cascadia Stack has held multiple Circles, with both first-time and returning participants. The biggest challenge so far has been building trust. Now in year two, Cascadia Stack has big ideas and is building a fundraising strategy to expand upon our successes so far. To introduce Belonging Circles to more people... BIPOC, neurodiverse, LGBTQIA+ ...in ASL, Spanish.... to continue grow its mission, we need your help.
Become a Supporter
Would you like to contribute to the Climate Resilience Movement in Cascadia?
All funds raised are tax-deductible.Your gift will be used for digital contractors, digital tools subscriptions, printing, domains, and web hosting. Use these links to be directed to our fiscal sponsor’s page, Cascadia Now! for single and recurring gift donations.Based in the Portland metro, Cascadia Stack is a nonprofit community project of Cascadia Now, a 501c3 organization.
Stack can accept tax deductible donations.
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Thank you for believing in this work to build resilience now so that the
next generation is climate prepared!Click here to learn more about Cascadia Stack and current and past Climate Moxie Facilitators.
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