GreenFaith Circle Launch Process
Pre-work before the launch meeting:
Examples of GreenFaith Purpose Statements
GreenFaith Dodoma Circle (Tanzania)
GreenFaith Bay Area Circle (United States)
US GreenFaith Song Circle
GreenFaith team launch agenda (2 hours)
GreenFaith Circle Welcome Process
Mission:Vision:Values:
Theory of Change
Priorities:
Additional activities for team launch events and team coaching

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Pre-work before the launch meeting:
Create a purpose statement for the team. When creating the purpose, ask
yourself:● What does success look like for this team?
● What are the major opportunities and challenges that this team mightface?
Template for purpose:● This team exists to [direct outcome]...by [3-5 bullet points] so that[progress is made towards a broader/larger goal].
Discuss together whether the draft purpose is:● Clear - we know what it would look like to accomplish it● Challenging - a stretch, but not impossible● Consequential - it has meaningful impact on the lives and work ofothers
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1 of 9Examples of GreenFaith Purpose Statements
These are examples of purpose statements that GreenFaith Circles haveused. Feel free to use this as is, or alter it to fit your local context orcampaign that you’re working on. .

GreenFaith Dodoma Circle (Tanzania)
The GreenFaith Dodoma Circle exists to bring people of faith together who
are impacted by the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline Project so we can have astrong, unified voice. We do this by:● Gathering stories of impacted families and farmers and spreading
those to others who are impacted.
● Teaching the Bible verses and passages from the Qu’aran that tell us
to stand up against injustice and protect our communities and theplanet.
● Connecting our group to the global campaign to Stop EACOP which
provides us more safety on the ground.
We do this because we believe that local people should be able to decide
what happens in their own communities and that when we are united andspeaking from a place of faith and quoting our holy scripture, we can impact
political decisions and win the demands of our community.

GreenFaith Bay Area Circle (United States)
The GreenFaith Bay Area Circle exists to bring more people in the Bay Area
into the Faith Climate Justice movement. We do this by:● Creating a welcoming space for religious and spiritual people to join
into larger campaigns for climate justice where we create communityand get to know each other and our faith traditions.
● Doing outreach events and presentations in congregations andcommunities of faith about our campaigns and the need for people offaith to be involved in the movement.
● Plugging into local and national campaigns through letter writing,attending council meetings and giving statements, attending actions
and events, and organizing our own faith rooted events to bring morepeople into the campaigns.
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2 of 9We do this because it is aligned with our religious and spiritual beliefs, andwe believe that bringing more people of faith into the movement will create
the power it takes to win a more sustainable and just world for all.

US GreenFaith Song Circle
This team exists to write, teach, and infuse the GreenFaith network withsinging and songs that ground, energize and support our movement andcampaigns. We do this by:● Writing new songs to be sung for specific regions or campaigns.
● Learning and teaching new songs to others in our network to be usedin actions, meetings, and events.
● Training people throughout our network to become song leaders.
We do this because song is such a strong part of all of our faith traditions
and we believe that having songs in our movement will create joy,community, and power that will strengthen our cause and make more
people want to join us.

GreenFaith team launch agenda (2 hours)
Spiritual moment/Mindfulness exercise - 10 min
You can choose a passage or verse from your own holy book, a poem thatmoves you, or choose a resource or prayer from this GreenFaith collection.
Sacred Season Resource Collection - EN
Relational check-in and introductions - 10 min● Go around- everyone speaks and checks in.
● Some possible go around questions:○ What brings you here today?
○ Why do you care about climate justice?
Discuss the primary purpose of this team- 10 min● Present the pre-drafted purpose of the team.
● Round: Is it clear, challenging, and consequential? If not, what would
make it more so?
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○ Clear - we know what it would look like to accomplish it○ Challenging - a stretch, but not impossible○ Consequential - it has meaningful impact on the lives and workof others● Are there any questions or elaborations?
● Does everyone fully understand the purpose of the team?
What excites you about the Circle? Do you have special skills,
relationships, and experiences that will be helpful for this Circle? - 10 min● Go around- everyone share if they have any special skills,
relationships or experiences that will be helpful for the Circle.
Before Action Review (modified) - 20 mins
● What is the intended result of this team?
● Imagine the project failed. What happened?
● What have we learned from previous projects or teams we’ve been apart of?
● What do we think will make us successful this time?
Commitments: Norms and work practices - 10 min● Norms: how do we want to work together?
● Quality standards: how will we hold ourselves and each otheraccountable to the agreements and the norms we’ve set for ourselves?
Team roles - 15 min● Go over Possible Roles:○ Convener: schedules the meetings and sets up the logisticalpieces of meeting.
○ Facilitator: decides on the agenda and runs the meetings.
○ Spiritual leader: Provides the spiritual moment at the beginningof the meeting, or makes sure that someone else is set to lead it.
○ Notetaker: Takes notes throughout the meetings.
○ Song leader: Leads the group in song to close the meeting.
○ Delegate: Is the liaison between this team and the GreenFaithstaff or other teams/circles within the GreenFaith movement.
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○ Participant:■ Participates in the team meetings but doesn’t have a
specific leadership role.
○ Feel free to add additional roles based on what you all come up
with. There may be a role that liases to a certain campaigncoalition or brings potential action on a particular campaign
back to the group.
● Go around: What role do you want to take on on the team?
● How often do you want to rotate leadership roles? How long do you
want the terms to be?
● Conversation:○ If there are multiple people who want to be a single role, see if
there’s a way that role can be shared or broken down into 2
different roles.
○ If there is an important role that needs to be filled but nobody
wants to do it, see if someone would be willing to fill it
temporarily, and brainstorm who you might recruit to the group
who could fill that role moving forward.
Finalize your GreenFaith team or circle name (5 mins):● If you’re a circle that’s based in a specific locality, you should nameyour circle after that locality. (Examples: GreenFaith Charlotte,GreenFaith First Presbyterian Church Atlanta, GreenFaith Boulder)● If you’re a circle that has a certain theme, you should pick a creative
name that illustrates the theme of your circle. (Examples: GreenFaith
Youth, GreenFaith Songwriters, GreenFaith Miami Street Choir, etc)
● What’s your GreenFaith team or circle name?
Next steps - 20 min-60 min● Brainstorm next steps and who will be responsible for them.
Meeting evaluation- 10 min- Round● How did you feel about the content of the meeting?
● How did you feel about the process of the meeting?
● How was the interpersonal part of the meeting for you?
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Once your Circle has decided on a name, roles, and a purpose for yourselves, it’stime to go through the GreenFaith Circle Welcome Process.
As part of the GreenFaith Circle Welcome Process, we will add your Circle to thelist of Circles and Global Map on the website. On the website, you can list
whatever information you’d like to list publicly for someone new who might becoming and wanting to get plugged into the GreenFaith organizing.
In addition to having your group added to the GreenFaith website, we willrecognize and celebrate you and your group members on a global GreenFaith
Celebration call (which happen 4 times per year).
But before you can be added to the website and recognized on the Global
GreenFaith Celebration Call, we ask you to read through GreenFaith’s Mission,
Vision, Values, and Theory of Change.
This form prompts you to fill in the information you’ll need to share with
GreenFaith in order to be recognized as a Circle and reviews the Mission, Vision,Values, Theory of Change, and priorities for GreenFaith.

Mission:Because the Earth and all people are sacred and at risk, GreenFaith isbuilding a worldwide, multi-faith climate and environmental movement.
Together our members create communities to transform ourselves, ourspiritual institutions, and society to protect the planet and create acompassionate, loving and just world.

Vision:We envision a world transformed, in which humanity in all its diversity hasdeveloped a shared reverence for life on Earth.
Religious and spiritual communities everywhere generate a moral
awakening to the sacredness of Earth and the dignity of all people. Together,
we are building resilient, caring communities and economies that meet
everyone’s needs and protect the planet. The era of conquest, extraction, andexploitation has given way to cooperation and community.

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The good life is one of connectedness—with each other and all of nature. Itis a world of flourishing life that replaces despair with joy, scarcity withshared abundance, and privilege with justly distributed power.

Values:
We share beliefs and principles that shape our work and guide ourrelationships:
Rooted in Spirituality.
We are centered and inspired by our faiths and revere the sacredness ofEarth and all people.
Moved by Compassion.
We act out of love and a deep will to end the suffering of people and theplanet.
Passionate for Justice.
We strive to end all forms of oppression and bring forth an equitable andhealed world.
Inclusive by Nature.
We collaborate with persons richly diverse in culture and backgrounds.
Responsible in Practice.
We lead by example and seek to embody integrity, transparency, andaccountability.
Bold for Good.
We show courage in taking risks and creativity in our actions.

Theory of Change
If we build a large, multi-religious base, deepen its members’ religious
motivation, organizing and communications skills, and bring people of faithat scale into campaigns that target the fossil fuel industry and advocate fora just transition and loss and damage funding, we can delegitimize theAdapted by GreenFaith from the PowerLabs Team launch agenda
7 of 9fossil fuel industry so it no longer are able to collude with governments tobuild destructive new projects. We can also provide a moral voice and amass of people to win big resource commitments for the new economy wewant to see- that prioritizes impacted communities and moves towards aworld of regenerative, connected, community solutions.

Priorities:● opposing new coal, oil, gas and deforestation projects and related
financing;● calling for policies and finance commitments to support growth ingreen jobs, an equitable energy transition for heavily affected
communities and workers, and universal access to clean, affordable
energy;● insisting on generous support from countries responsible for thehistoric majority of emissions to countries which have contributed
least to the climate and environmental crisis, and which suffer thegreatest loss and damage today.

Additional activities for team launch events and teamcoaching
Gamestorming is a set of co-creation tools used by innovators around theworld. Some activities that can be used in a team launch or re-launch event.
● Circles and Soup - an alternative to the After Action Review● Code of Conduct - an alternative method of creating norms● Campfire - a method of surfacing and sharing knowledge in a group● Memory Wall - an activity to acknowledge team member
contributions, celebrate their accomplishments, and build
camaraderie among team members● History Map - an activity to map moments and metrics that shaped
an organization.
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8 of 9● Spectrum Mapping - an activity to reveal the diversity of perspectivesand options around any given topic and to organize them into ameaningful spectrum● Welcome To My World - an activity that gives team members an
opportunity to better understand other people’s roles andresponsibilities.
● Impact & Effort Matrix - a decision-making exercise that forces teammembers to evaluate a proposed tactic or approach
Liberating Structures are easy-to-learn microstructures that enhance
relational coordination and trust. A few activities are below.
● 1-2-4-All - Engage everyone simultaneously in generating questions,ideas, and suggestions● What I Need From You - Surface essential needs across functions andaccept or reject requests for support.
● Critical Uncertainties - Develop strategies for operating in a range ofplausible yet unpredictable futures● Appreciative Interviews - Discover and build on the root causes ofsuccess● Making Space with TRIZ - Stop counterproductive activities andbehaviors to make space for innovation
Join the Liberating Structures Slack to connect and learn with 8,000 otherpeople using the microstructures. Find free and paid workshops on thisshared calendar to get experience using LS.
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning
Organization is a book of activities for building a shared vision, systems
thinking in an organization, designing a dialogue session, strategies forteam learning and much much more.

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