Find Community at Our Weekly Meetings
Do you feel alone and isolated with your knowledge of collapse? Do your family and friends not understand what you're seeing and feeling? In a Collapse Club meeting, you will join like-minded people in a safe, structured space to discuss your concerns about our world’s converging crises.
We hold two meetings per week, on Wednesday and Thursday. You are welcome at either. Meetings are free and without obligation. Visit our Meeting Calendar to see the meeting times in your time zone.
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Our Meetings
Agenda
Our meetings have a simple agenda built around questions which invite you to share your personal experience of collapse. Meetings last about 90 minutes.
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1. Introduction/Grounding
The Conveners welcome participants and give a sketch of the meeting flow. The Conveners lead a short grounding exercise to help the group focus on the upcoming meeting.
2. Check-In: What have you noticed about collapse this week?
This is a brief check-in, about 2 minutes per person. This helps us toward a common reality and gives us a context for our sharing.
Some specific questions to consider:
- What have you noticed about collapse this week?
- What captured your attention?
- Or, just tell us how you are.
3. Circles: How are you living with collapse?
The meeting divides into breakout rooms of 6-8 people. Each room includes a Convener or an experienced participant to help guide the process.
Each participant has about five minutes to share their reflections about collapse. Whatever you wish to share is welcome, or consider 'The Three Questions:
- What are your feelings about collapse?
- Are you making changes in how you live?
- What are you discovering by living in a new way?
Each person speaks without interruption. The rest of the group listens and attends. This sharing is the heart of the meeting.
4. Glimmers: What brings you joy in the midst of collapse?
To end the meeting we share 'Glimmers,' which are the opposite of 'Triggers.' Glimmers are like tiny sparks of positivity that can appear even during difficult or challenging situations. They are those little moments that make you feel good, happy, or proud, even when things are tough.
5. Goodbye
The Conveners thank the participants, provide information about future sessions, and wish everyone goodbye.
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Meet Our
Conveners
David has been attending to collapse since he was a teenager. In high school, he made an extensive study of nuclear weapons and decided that the game is up! He went to Harvard for three semesters, majoring in "turn on, tune in, and drop out." As a volunteer HAM radio operator in the Seattle Emergency Operations Center, he saw the mismatch between the incoming crises and human capability to respond. He was a volunteer for the Deep Adaptation Forum from 2019 to 2021. He writes on Substack. Email David.
Susan is an artist with over 25 years of membership in 12-step recovery groups. She has a strong desire to connect with and participate in building an online collapse-aware community. She has a Substack where she posts her thoughts on various aspects of collapse and recovery. Prints of Susan's artwork are available at FineArtAmerica. Email Susan.
Matthew’s lifelong environmentalism and social activism did not prepare him for the sudden collapse awareness that completely unravelled him in 2017. Since then he has been working closely with fellow coaches, therapists, facilitators and educators to upgrade our sensemaking practices in order to help others get to grips with what is transpiring on earth and to respond with virtue. He coaches Deep Adaptation and full-spectrum sensemaking one-to-one and in groups, does photography to transmute his anxiety into beauty, and lives in the UK. Please email Matthew if you would like to contact him about coaching.
Teresa was a member of the U.K. Green Party in the 1980s, a Parliamentary election candidate and the London rep on the Party’s organising committee. Later, Greenpeace kept her informed of the escalating climate and ecological catastrophe. From 2019 she became involved in creative and joyous actions instigated by Extinction Rebellion. Her continuing connection to nonviolent direct action groups (mostly in support roles now) sits alongside her profound acceptance of collapse: direct action might slow it down and is a community of great people who understand what is happening.
Jo is a retired psychiatrist, avid gardener and writer whose intense awareness and love for her natural environment infused her life lived on three continents. Since childhood she has been attuned to changing and damaged landscapes, but became acutely aware of the acceleration of global warming in the 1980’s. A longtime activist, previously active in Physicians for Social Responsibility in the fight against nuclear weapons, she is now seeking ways to work with grief and despair and efforts to minimize the suffering accompanying collapse. Art, meditation, gardening and the collapse community are her sources of solace. Email Jo.
Details
Things you should know.
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Guidelines
- Everything said in a meeting is confidential.
- Politeness and respect are required at all times, even in difficult conversations.
- Please listen and attend while others are speaking. No interruptions, please, and please don't create side conversations in the chat.
- Please share your lived experience. We are not discussing theories or politics, and if we talk about the news we focus on how it impacts our personal lives. We are interested in you personally, because it is from your personal lived experience that all thinking and action emerge.
Safety and Responsibility
- The Conveners will rigorously enforce standards of politeness and respect, but you are responsible for your own emotional safety in this group. Please share and interact only in ways that you are comfortable with.
- The Conveners are here as volunteers, not professional counselors. We do not provide therapy or other professional services.
- This group is not appropriate for people in a state of acute emotional instability or psychological crisis.
- Our meetings are intended for adults. We discuss serious and sometimes disturbing issues. We encourage people under the age of 18 to seek guidance from a parent or trusted adult.
- Please do not attend if you are in the process of drinking or getting high.
If you need help...
- If you are having trouble coping with your feelings or thoughts, please consult this list of emotional support resources (external): https://www.collapsemusings.com/coping-with-collapse/
- If you feel you have been treated with disrespect in this group, or you are uncomfortable about any aspect of the group process, please bring it to the Conveners' attention:
- You can send a message to a Convener in the meeting chat.
- You can stay on the call after the official ending time to speak with the Conveners.
- You can send the Conveners an email at welcome@collapseclub.com.
We hope to see you soon!
❤️ --David, Susan, Matthew, Teresa, and Jo, Collapse Club Conveners.