Activism for introverts
Objectives:
- Overcoming the fear of being in public or front light. Expanding the concept of environmental activism. Finding new ways to participate. Finding ones place in a setting of activities.
Preparation:
Tools needed: The list of 27 tools for environmental activism for introverts (see resources)
Description
A discussion about the different ways of environmental activism and types of people.
Participants can first share positive or negative experiences on previous events in a smaller group.
The list of tools can be read and discussed together or in smaller groups.
Adding to the list: what other ways to participate there can be?
Variations
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Resources
List modified from https://www.ilmastotoiminta.fi/ Environmental activism tools for introverts: Creating various media content (images, texts, videos, illustrations). Writing opinion pieces. Writing emails or tweeting to decision-makers. Signing and sharing petitions. Social media campaigning. Making climate memes: you can do it even under the covers. Groundwork, setting up, dismantling and cleaning up events. Doing background work and surveys for campaigns. Website and social media updates for organizations and campaigns. Curating and translating texts from other languages. Building websites and doing other technical work. Content production and analysis. Writing longer statements and summaries of other texts. Thinking about campaign strategy. Acting as an “observer”, atmosphere interpreter or well-being manager, who monitors the atmosphere in the audience, meeting or event, makes observations and collects valuable information. Photography and videography at events. Handing out flyers. Making coffee. Taking care of the well-being of volunteers. If you want to avoid chatting with people, you should learn to climb high with a banner. This is suitable if you are not afraid of heights and can work systematically with ropes. Making signs for demonstrations and other events. Reading and commenting on the notes of event planning meetings, if you don’t like to be present and loud in meetings. Media monitoring. Promoting events by sharing event pages created for them on social media: important for visibility. Sticking stickers in public places. Acting as an orderly at demonstration.
Comments
A TEDtalk about the topic Sarah Corbett: Activism needs introverts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coHWLitlm-U
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