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What is The Week?The Week is a 3-session experience with friends or colleagues to help us face the environmental and climate crisis and make sense of it.
What it's like to experience it?Everyone who has been through it says what a profound experience it has been for them. At first, it's hard, but then it triggers us to step into our power. Now we know what we want to do.
Some of the largest employers, faith movements and environmental movements are on board. This could be big. But for now, this is still in a prototype phase, and you are amongst the very first ones who get to experience it. |
You want to try it
with your friends or colleagues?
Here is what to expect.
3 days, 3 episodesYou get together as a group 3 times over the course of a week, hence the name The Week. Together, each time, you watch a one-hour episode (more below). And then you talk about it for 30 minutes, to make sense of it all.
3 sessions, in our busy lives? Yes! It's more than a football game. Much less than a season of Games of Thrones. Three sessions, that's what it takes to start what is perhaps one of the most important conversations we can have: What is coming to hit us? What can we do about it? How can we step into our power, so we have no regrets? |
A different take on the topicWe won’t talk about polar bears or melting ice caps. The Week starts instead with this simple question: "What will be happening to me, in my lifetime, where I live?" And what can I do about it?
The coming crisis will hurt everyone, conservative and progressive communities, rural farmers and inner cities residents. We all have a right to know what's coming, and to determine for ourselves what we want to do about it. |
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Episode #2
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Episode #3
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If you want to host a session of The WeekWhether you've already watched the prototype and you liked it so much that you now want to share it with others.
Or whether you've just heard about it and want to try it for the first time. It's easy to organize a screening with a group of friends or colleagues, in person or online. More information here. |
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This is a prototype for a big dream.People who've participated in The Week all tell us what a deep and rewarding experience it's been for them. We feel so honored to be creating something that is so meaningful to people!
Right now, the videos come in the form of three zoom recordings. Down the road, we'll turn this content into a 3-episode documentary series. So consider this a prototype of something even bigger than will come down the road! Right now, in the videos, it's two of us leading you through this experience. In the films, you'll see more diversity on screen - people of all ages, backgrounds, political views, ethnicity, ... What more is in the pipeline? When the films go live, we'll also offer a support infrastructure after people go through The Week:
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Who are we?We are a group of friends, in our 20s, 30s, 40s, in the US and in Europe. Each in our different ways, we woke up to this crisis, and decided to create something simple and powerful to talk about it.
None of us does "climate" professionally. We have very different kind of jobs and care about lots of different things in our lives - education, farming, justice, economic opportunity, spirituality, our kids, you name it... All those things we care about, we now know it's going to be much harder to make them happen if we don't address the elephant in the room - how things will unravel if we let the climate and environmental crisis spin out of control. More about us |
Who's already done The Week?To test the storylines of the three episodes before filming them, we ran several prototypes with a few groups in the USA, Canada, France, and the UK. Since then, this prototype version has gone viral and more than 300 groups have spontaneously signed up with more than 3000 participants.
We've learned tons about how to fine-tune our scripts to be as powerful and empowering as they can be. But more importantly, we learned that even in the current zoom format, it creates a profound experience. Some participants were hardly aware of the issue, others already deeply into it. All found it a powerful to face it and to make sense of it in conversations with people who matter in their life. |
The Week is truly unique. It created a "before and after" for me. I keep talking with everyone about it. |
Before I felt small. Now, after watching the prototype, I feel focused and determined. |
I haven't experienced anything like it. The Week is spot on in the way it addresses the audience |
The Week is really powerful because there’s no blame. No one is pointed out, but everyone is responsible. |
My husband and sister-in-law now understand much better what’s at stake. I no longer feel alone in dealing with this. |
Episode 1 was hard, but I left energized after the third episode. Something powerful is getting started here! |
