Moving Beyond Climate Gridlock When Caring Isn’t Working

First Meeting of the month: Live in Person, University District, Seattle, WA
Second Meeting: Zoom on-line.

Most people who care about climate change aren’t inactive because they don’t care enough.
They’re inactive because the systems we live inside make meaningful response unlivable.

This meetup is grounded in the Triadic Recovery Series (TRS) — a body of work that maps why climate concern so often stalls before action, and how that stalling is structurally produced, not personally failed.

Rather than pushing action plans or moral urgency, this group focuses on something more basic:

Restoring the conditions where response becomes possible again.

What this group is not:

Not a protest or organizing group

Not a debate forum

Not therapy or self-help

Not about “doing more” or “trying harder”

What this group is:

A shared inquiry into why effort stops working

A space to recognize common patterns of self-silencing, overwhelm, ritualism, and private concern

A way to rebuild somatic, symbolic, and social capacity without collapse

We draw from three interlinked frameworks:

The Six Pillars of Climate Inaction (TSPCI) — mapping the architectures that block action

The Triadic Modulation Workbook (TMW) — understanding how those blocks show up in real lives and relationships

The Song-Recovery Workbook (SRW) — restoring coherence, voice, and shared orientation without forcing outcomes

You don’t need to have read anything in advance.
You don’t need to agree with anyone.
You don’t need to know what you “should” do next.

This is a place to regain footing, not be pushed forward.

What a Typical Meetup Looks Like:

1. Shared orientation to the terrain
   A brief framing to situate why caring so often stalls — without diagnosing individuals or prescribing action.
2. Surfacing lived points of gridlock
   In small groups, participants reflect on moments where concern met resistance, exhaustion, or silence — without trying to resolve them.
3. Naming the gap, not fixing it
   As a whole group, we notice recurring patterns between care, constraint, and action — focusing on where movement breaks, not why people fail.
4. Introducing a TRS lens
   One or two scaffolded concepts are offered as interpretive tools, not answers — ways of seeing the gap differently.
5. Testing resonance and friction
   Back in small groups, participants explore how (or whether) these concepts make their experience feel more legible — including where they don’t fit.
6. Collective reflection and clarification
   The group reconvenes to share what shifted, what resisted, and what stayed unclear. Questions are welcomed, but no outcomes are required.

People leave less activated, not more

Think scaffolding, not marching orders.

Who This Is For:

People who care deeply about climate but feel stuck, numb, conflicted, or exhausted

Professionals who feel the tension between ethics and institutional survival

Parents, caregivers, and overextended adults carrying too much already

Anyone who suspects the problem isn’t motivation — it’s architecture