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April 2025: how to influence & organize

Each month, we break down our topic into four weekly modules. Catch up on previous editions here.​

This week's module: CONNECT

• 🎯 CONNECT | Conversation prompts on your sphere of influence
• LEARN | The 4 R's of social transformation & other frameworks for change
• ACT | Ways to develop your influence towards climate justice
• REFLECT | Art, poetry, & commitments!

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes

Here's what we'll learn today Reader

I can't believe it's already April! Happy Earth month 🌍

I just got back from a walk around the neighborhood and took like 30 pics of cherry blossoms. Some tulips and magnolias made the cut too. If your neighborhood isn't in bloom this time of year, here are some of the pictures I took so you can live vicariously through me 😉

I LOVE spring, and I've been thinking a lot about how "fighting climate change" should be about the awe and wonder and general loveliness of this planet. I don't know about you, but I would do pretty much anything to protect the ones I care about... and that extends to this Earth too.

I really do think saving the world comes down to love. (Plus strategy, plus friends, plus luck. Just read a YA fantasy novel and you'll get the point.)

Since "love" can be a pretty fuzzy concept, we'll talk more about strategy this month: our April topic is how to influence & organize for change. Today, we'll CONNECT with our own spheres of influence, next week we'll LEARN about some social transformation frameworks, the following week we'll ACT by choosing an advocacy pathway that works for us, and we'll wrap it up on Earth Day (how timely!) with our REFLECT module.

Let's go! ✨💫 🌟

Your bite-sized action plan Reader

✅ CONNECT with 4 prompts on your role in changemaking

Every CONNECT module, you’ll get up to four prompts to connect with yourself, others, spirit, and systems.

Your mission is to take what’s in these Changeletters and bring it into one of those dimensions.

• When is a time you've made a change in your actions, habits, or even values? Who or what influenced this?
• There's a large body of research that suggests change is rooted in connection and empathy. How do you think about vulnerability and its role in creating change?
• What are some challenges that come to mind when you think about changing the world for the better?
• There is no doubt that you have already influenced countless people in your life. What are some of the ways you influence those around you? ASK THEM how you've inspired or changed them!

The whole point of today's CONNECT module is to take these out of your inbox and into the world, whether that's through going on a walk and thinking about how you connect with the place you live, posing this question to a friend, or getting to know yourself a little bit better.

That's it for today! Next week will LEARN!

Love,

Nivi

Upcoming Soapbox events

• SEATTLE on Tuesdays 4/8, 4/15, 4/22, 4/29 in Seattle we're connecting, learning, acting, and reflecting together on The New Economy this month. Here's the Seattle calendar!​
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• SEATTLE on 4/14 | Meet Me at the Library author talk with Shamichael Hallman supported by Soapbox Project on Monday 4/14 at 7:30 PM. RSVP here​
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• NYC on 4/17 | plant-based supper club: how to organize and influence. Get tickets here​
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• DC on 4/29 l joyful climate advocacy dinner party. Join us!​

​Our entire events calendar for ALL locations + virtual can be found here.