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Invite friends, family or neighbors to come together 3 times during a week to experience The Week together (age 16 and up). You can do it in person or online, whatever works best for you all.
It can be done in many different ways
The essence is: “Meet 3 times, with the same group, within a week”.
You meet for 90 minutes: 60 minutes of film + 30 minutes of conversations (or more if you want).
You meet for 90 minutes: 60 minutes of film + 30 minutes of conversations (or more if you want).
For the rest, people do The Week in all sorts of ways:
In person or remote (or a combination, like the first 2 sessions remotely and last one in person).
Most in-person groups meet the 3 times in the same place, but some groups choose to meet at a different place each time.
Some choose to throw in a dinner or potluck or drinks all 3 nights or just the last night.
Here is what not to do:
Don’t watch The Week alone! It’s too big of an experience to do it on your own. The secret sauce is the group experience of processing it all together.Â
No binge watching. Leave 24 hours or more in between sessions.
Join only if you can do all 3 sessions. It’s designed that way. Participating only in 1 or 2 of the session will leave you hanging.
They organized
My experience was really great - I am deeply involved in climate change already (emotional and job wise) and The Week helped me take my best friends with me on that journey. It was eye opening to them and really activated them in the thought process of what to do. To me it also showed that everyone deals with the topic very differently.
For me, The Week is a new approach to bring about change, it’s very accessible and pragmatic. When you ask people to get involved over three days, it’s clear this is about something important. It's no longer a small thing we do in passing, but something we engage with for real.
I will organize another session of The Week with my wife, friends and family members in a week. And I'm organizing the same thing with about 60 colleagues at work in a month. I'm looking forward to seeing their reactions.
I've often felt very alone with my climate knowledge and urge to act. With The Week, I see that I'm gonna involve everyone I know into this, make it socially attractive to DO something together.
After seeing The Week the first time, we organized another session with 25 people. And we are already planning a second one with neighbors. In "The Week", there is so much respect for everyone. In our group, where people were at very different stages of awareness, everyone appreciated the experience, because they felt respected...
Testimonials
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My experience was really great - I am deeply involved in climate change already (emotional and job wise) and The Week helped me take my best friends with me on that journey. It was eye opening to them and really activated them in the thought process of what to do. To me it also showed that everyone deals with the topic very differently.
For me, The Week is a new approach to bring about change, it’s very accessible and pragmatic. When you ask people to get involved over three days, it’s clear this is about something important. It's no longer a small thing we do in passing, but something we engage with for real.
I will organize another session of The Week with my wife, friends and family members in a week. And I'm organizing the same thing with about 60 colleagues at work in a month. I'm looking forward to seeing their reactions.
I've often felt very alone with my climate knowledge and urge to act. With The Week, I see that I'm gonna involve everyone I know into this, make it socially attractive to DO something together.
After seeing The Week the first time, we organized another session with 25 people. And we are already planning a second one with neighbors. In "The Week", there is so much respect for everyone. In our group, where people were at very different stages of awareness, everyone appreciated the experience, because they felt respected...
What’s my role as organizer?
Mostly, it’s just getting the group together!
- If you meet in person, you'll need a screen that everyone can see (your computer, or a TV/projector hooked up to your computer).
- If you meet online, you’ll need a (free) Zoom account.
Everything else we’ll explain in a short email that we send you when you sign up for a session.
You don’t need to set up or facilitate the group conversations after the films. We’ll do that for you. After each film, you’ll watch another short video that lays out:
- A few simple guidelines for the conversation (e.g. everyone speaks in turn)
- A question to kick-start the conversation.
What does it cost?
If you use The Week outside the workplace – in your home with families or friends, in your community center, church or spiritual group, etc. – you can sign up your group for free.
Yes, for free so no one is excluded. But with this request to all participants: at the end of The Week, if you found it valuable – and if you can – we ask you to make a 10 $/£/€ donation, or whatever amount feels right to you, so we can keep spreading The Week. We depend on your donations to do so.
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Yes, for free so no one is excluded. But with this request to all participants: at the end of The Week, if you found it valuable – and if you can – we ask you to make a 10 $/£/€ donation, or whatever amount feels right to you, so we can keep spreading The Week. We depend on your donations to do so.
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If you are able to make a larger donations, Â here is a link to make tax deductible donations in the US, UK and a number of European countries.Â
Ready for the adventure?
Even if you’ve organized a group previously, sign up your new group here, as your old one will have expired. Also, if you organize several groups in parallel, sign up each group separately. We'll send you unique links to the films for every group so your groups don’t get mixed up.
