Climate Camp Workshop/meeting

national | miscellaneous | event notice Saturday November 22, 2008 15:03 by Scully - Gluaiseacht gluaiseacht at gmail dot com

Inspired by the recent climate camps in Britain, there have been some meetings to discuss the possibility of having a similar camp in Ireland in 2009. There have been two of these meetings so far (one in Dublin and one in Cork).

The camp's purpose will be to address diverse social justice, environmental, climate issues and to be a catalyst for movement building in this country. The guiding principles of 'Direct Action' and non-hierarchical consensus based decision making will apply. We are appealing for people to get involved, and help make it happen. We are currently still at the discussion stages, so now is a good time to get involved and be part of the decision making process of what the main focus of the camp will be. We intend to make this camp as inclusive as possible.

In order to help facilitate this discussion we have invited over Katie K from the climate camp organisation in Britain to give us a workshop on the processes they used for their very successful camp last August and to facilitate the discussion around camp Ireland.

Some of us who were at Climate Camp UK in Kent in August of this year were very impressed at the standard and structure of organisation and process that made that camp such a great success in many ways. A subsequent Climate Camp Gathering in Manchester in September gave further insight into the way they work and the 'process' they use. Many were very impressed at the high standard of facilitation of meetings and watched at how they moved from discussions to ideas to proposals to consensus based decisions, in very good time, with serious and important issues to be decided on.

Katie plays a key role in the whole Climate Camp UK (and Earth First) organisational process and has great skills in that regard. She said she'd love to help us out if we needed her to give a workshop at any stage. At our first Camp Ireland meeting we decided to invite her to come and give us the benefit of her experience. And so she's coming to see us on Sunday 30th November in Dublin.

BEGINS at 11am

Lunch at 1 to 2 pm (PLEASE BRING FOOD TO SHARE IF POSSIBLE)

Ends 5pm