🌍 Climate Circle: Art, Spirit, Action 🌀

A Transformative Weekend of Creativity, Connection, and Climate Consciousness

📅 June 27–29, 2025📍 The Art SHAC – 1622 S. Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem, NC

The Art SHAC and Philopoetics invite you to Climate Circle: Art, Spirit, Action—a weekend of hands-on workshops, soulful art-making, and creative response to the climate crisis.

Over three powerful days, we’ll gather to explore the emotional, spiritual, scientific, and collective dimensions of climate change through interactive learning, reflection, and performance. This is a call to create, to connect, and to take meaningful action—together.

✨ Free! Registration is required for each session. Sign up at the links below.

WEEKEND SCHEDULE

Friday, June 27 | 6:00–8:30 PM

➡️ Register for Climate Fresk with Sarah Rawleigh, MSW

Climate Fresk is an engaging, interactive workshop that uses systems thinking and collaborative visuals to help participants understand the causes, impacts, and feedback loops of climate change. A powerful foundation for action. Ages 16 and up.

Sarah Rawleigh grew up in Julian, NC, where she and her twin sister spent summer days catching crawdads and exploring the woods and creeks with their dogs. This is where she developed a deep love and appreciation for the natural world. She brings that appreciation into her work as a licensed clinical social worker, by helping clients who come to her with climate anxiety and other psychosomatic responses to the climate crisis. She supports her clients to find the “window of tolerance” where they can feel their emotions related to the crises without becoming debilitated by them and then engage in their chosen work to make positive change in the world. Sarah is also an environmental activist, currently helping lead the charge locally to stop the SSEP methane gas buildout. You can learn more about her work as a therapist at www.enorivertherapypractice.com and learn more about local efforts to stop the SSEP at www.nossep.org

Saturday, June 28 | 10:00 AM–12:30 PM

➡️ Register for Climate SoulCollage® with Carrie Fields, MSW

Join us for an immersive SoulCollage® session that invites you to explore your emotional responses to climate change through intuitive art-making and reflective dialogue. This gentle, creative practice helps you connect with inner guidance, process climate emotions, and discover a deeper sense of belonging and resilience. No art experience necessary—all are welcome. Ages 16 and up.

Carrie Fields, MSW is a social worker, hypnotherapist and healing arts facilitator based in Wilmington, NC. She works with individuals and groups using creative and experiential modalities to promote personal growth, insight, intuition and healing.  Find out more about her work at http://innerlandscapeshealing.com

Saturday, June 28 | 6:00–8:00 PM

➡️ Register for Climate Wayfinding with Francisco Gallegos, PhD

Climate Wayfinding is a deep learning program for people seeking clarity, courage, and community on their climate journeys. Through diverse modes of exploration, participants discern and enliven their unique contributions and develop key capacities for climate engagement. As the program’s creator, Dr. Katharine Wilkinson, writes, “We are each a node of possibility for climate healing." Ages 16 and up.

• We look inward — exploring our climate emotions, core motivations, guiding values, and skills and “superpowers.”

• We look outward — exploring climate solutions, accelerators for change, and our unique contexts and communities.

• We look forward — exploring our visions of the future and creating a personalized “climate compass” and plan.

Francisco Gallegos is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. He does research and teaches classes on environmental ethics, the philosophy of emotion, social and political philosophy, and Latin American and Latinx philosophy. He has helped to put out two books, The Disintegration of Community: On the Social and Political Philosophy of Jorge Portilla, published in 2019, and The Latinx Philosophy Reader, published this year. After experiencing the unique power of Climate Wayfinding at a workshop in 2022, he decided to become a certified facilitator in 2024, so he could bring this elegant and clarifying framework to others who are feeling overwhelmed by the immensity and complexity of the challenges and opportunities we are facing today.

Sunday, June 29 | 2:00–4:00 PM

➡️ Register for the Climate Talent Show: Music & Poetry for the Planet

Close out the weekend with joy and expression. Featuring guest poet/performer T. Walker from Heavy Energy University, plus an open mic for community voices. All ages and experience levels welcome.

📍 LOCATION

The Art SHAC1622 S. Hawthorne RoadWinston-Salem, NC 27103

This is not your typical conference. This is an invitation to breathe, imagine, and take root—in community, in creativity, and in the shared care of our planet.

🌱 Register today—we can’t wait to create with you.

This project was supported by the N.C. Arts Council, a Division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County, and The Arts Council of Greater Greensboro.