Cascadia Stack

Fostering the stillness of listening.

Stack offers peer group gatherings and workshops designed to inform and uplift with wo programs: Belonging Circles for Resilience, Climate Moxie Facilitator Training, and CLIMA-sphere.

Stack encourages folx new or hesitant to talk about the effects of climate change, and social injustices. In Belonging Circles, no more than 8 people attend, listening to one another share stories of grief, anger, guilt, and a deep sense of sadness that seems to lurk underneath eavery happy moment. Circles are great for highly sensitive people (HSP), anxiety, depression, addiction. Folks from all walks of life have different experiences and perspectives, and it’s helpful for others to listen, to foster the empathy. This is designed to be a “community of practice” where “circle-ists” attend regularly and establish strong bonds. Our volunteer facilitators are based on Portland, Vancouver, WA, and a few other spots in Cascadia. Stack provides facilitator training and workshops and presentations.

This project is an emotional support beacon within the community. Subscribe to our mailing list for the next meeting announcement!

Upcoming Events

  • Our BCR’s, also known as Cascadia Climate Cafe, facilitators come from many training avenues. Each Circle is different. Find our complete calendar with all the details at https://lu.ma/climate-emotions-circles-pnw Free, with a suggested donation. Find out more here.

  • This program offers trained facilitators to speak to your group or design a workshop suited to your audience. https://CLIMA-sphere.org

  • See more on our webpage: ClimateMoxie.org

Our Theory of Change.

Project Mission

Our mission is to enhance personal climate resilience skills for climate sensitive people in the Pacific Northwest to mindfully prepare themselves and their community to adapt and thrive while witnessing the effects of the changing climate.

Project Vision

We envision neighborhood-level support group gatherings, normalizing self-care, throughout the Cascadia bioregion. This will be accomplished through a training program so that we can build the relationships with CBO's and coordinate the program to train youth, elders, disabled, LGBTQ, BIPOC, and neurodiverse laypersons to hold Circles in their community and workplaces.

Project Values

Towards the ideals listed as our JEDI Values, we strive to:

‘Seeing’ others.

Envisioning a living economy.

Accepting criticism, inviting conversation.

Supporting a just transition to resilient and intentional communities.

Encouraging those that confess to still learning.

Humility. The Golden Rule. 

Reducing stigma.

Reducing consumption.

Centering multicultural communities.

Acknowledging harms of colonial systems and injustices.

 

Cascadia Stack’s motto is Climate Mindfulness. Our Project Leader and four core volunteers believe in these values. This project is working towards UN Sustainable Development Goals and support others doing this work too!

#3 Good Health and Well-Being
#11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

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Contact us to let us know if you would like to volunteer directly with this project. All gifts are tax deductible.

Cascadia Stack Project Leader

Drew Alcoser (they/them)

Personal LINKEDIN: www.linkedin.com/in/drew-alcoser-social-entreprenuuer

As a ‘mature student’, Drew G. Alcoser received their undergrad degree in 2021 from Colorado State University in Organizational Leadership with a fundraising focus; in April ‘23, Drew completed a grad certificate from Portland State University in Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Drew’s capstone research was for Multicultural Communication in Emergency Management in the Portland Metro. Drew’s college path has focused on climate change adaptation and social justice, at the intersection of social change theory.

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