It has already been 3 months since the Klimaforum09 People′s Climate Summit took place in Copenhagen. A wonderful event that acted as a constructive response to the climate crisis in addition to the official UN conference COP 15. At Klimaforum09 in the 170m2 Purple Hall the 2020 Climate Solutions Meshwork took place. An event that turned out to be eye-opening and inspiring to many.

Through deep conversations, facilitated by experienced (“Purple sweater”) hosts that focussed on letting people speak from their heart and stay connected to each other, participants found out what it really is that is moving them. Through live conversation as well as online collaboration they found peers in their journey. They found other “pieces of the puzzle” that fit theirs which enables them to get a sense of what the whole puzzle is about.

Thank you for your conversations, your wonderful efforts and initiatives and willingness to share your experiences

With these continuing newsletters we would like to stay in touch and keep you updated on the developments concerning the Climate Solutions Meshwork. As a start we are happy to announce that the online meshwork currently counts around 1,500 users, all of whom are working on climate change and related issues. Feel free to explore them using the meshwork′s “synchronicity” and “mesh screen” functions

Meshworker’s Experiences:

… It was empowering to see how many people appreciated the space the Purple sweaters created. The openness and the willingness to listen rather than talk. It was a space of flow, of letting go and of harvesting whatever everyone without a Purple sweater had to say!...

... I found the stories or the demonstrators the most powerful: they always entered the space suggesting "Power to the people, down with rightist governments", but over time they found the different energy in our space and they stopped pointing to others. They became willing to consider what it is that they can do to contribute to the big picture, to the solution...

... I personally had a powerful meeting with a Sri Lankan environmentalist who had spoken at the Bella centre on behalf of climate refugees. My father was from Sri Lanka, but I have lost touch with the island and my relatives that still live there. He spent an hour telling me tales of some happy achievements in Sri Lanka but mostly of frustrating and desperate barriers to change, at the end of which he said “I’m Sorry” (for the bleak picture I presume). And yet I felt that he had been generous, with his experience, and moreover that he had given me a missing piece of my puzzle – revived my connection to Sri Lanka and part of my inheritance and perhaps to the part I can play in the big picture...

WHICH PIECE OF THE PUZZLE DO YOU HOLD?

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Your Experiences!

... Since I met you I have changed, your heart changed me. You and your team are amazing, you can really make a difference in the world, you really mean it - you care, you have passion, you love people form your heart, you change people. By acknowledging me, us, that is how you are giving me power. My work is all over the world now because you acknowlegded me. you have empowered me - I now speak from a different space and every door is opening for me now, also here in the US. It is amazing. You are the first people who really, REALLY talked to me, saw me. And connected me, yes connected me even to my fellow Ethiopians less than 100 km away - we are really going to making a difference. When you empower people you get power back. You see possibilities. I can see you smile, I can see your welcoming faces, your team is incredible. Without the Meshwork I wouldn't have gotten so far - I am on top of the wave because of you. Gashaw is making Africa green again and that motto is now REAL because of your empowerment, and I just really want to acknowledge you for that. THANK YOU…

If you would like to share your experience and/or a relevant story/announcement in an upcoming newsletter please contact Jasper Bets.

Roles You Can Play

There are a number of roles that we are currently looking for people to play, to further develop the global and national 2020 Climate Solutions Meshworks. For three global co-ordination roles please check here online. For a number of roles that can be played at national and international level, please click here. If you are interested in any of these, or would like to help in any other way, please contact Peter Merry.

Keep Your Profile Updated!

Don't forget to keep your profile as up-to-date as possible. It helps people who are most relevant to you to find you, and it enables you to kind the knowledge and people who can most help you. Also we encourage each of you to ask three of your contacts to upload their story (best practice) and share it among all

Support

If you have any problems getting into the system, please contact Chris Reynolds.