We’ve teamed up with The Scottish Rewilding Alliance and Letters to the Earth for this campaign
Community Workshops
Paperboats workshops are designed to get people talking about, and speaking up for nature to their political representatives. If we are not talking to our politicians about nature restoration, they are unlikely to prioritise action on it.
The Aims of Paperboats Workshops:
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To get people talking about their concerns around the nature crisis;
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To connect with their own feelings and experiences of climate and ecological change;
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To share those feelings with their political representatives.
Format:
We follow a simple workshop format based on the Letters to the Earth Community Toolkit. Workshops take between one, to one and a half hours, and require minimal resources: pens and writing paper. Presentation facilities are useful but not essential.
The facilitator sets the parameters for the workshops to encourage safe spaces, active listening, connection to feelings, freedom of imagination and radical participation.
In pairs or small groups, participants are invited to explore and discuss their experiences and feelings around climate and nature, through a series of open questions. They are then invited to share these insights in a letter to their political representatives.
Our experience of running these workshops, is that the format is successful in moving people from a place of overwhelm and helplessness, to one of active hope and possibility.
If you would like one of our authors to run a workshop in your community, then please get in touch at: hello@paperboats.org
It would be helpful when contacting us about workshops if you could let us know the following:
- Location
- Venue details
- Possible dates
- Approx number of attendees
- If the workshop is for children, please let us know the approximate age range. If for adults, a little background for the group is useful so that we can adapt the workshop accordingly.
- We have a small budget to run workshops. Contributions to author expenses are welcome but not essential. Please do let us know if you are able to contribute towards costs.