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We have 4 workshops, each overlap in different ways but the activities are repeatable and participants will have a different experience based on the group they are with and where they are in their community building journey. Each workshop has an accompanying Z...

Below you'll find printable zines/handouts, all will download as Google docs. They're available both in XR and Unbranded format as different people will pick them up. Zines Zines are little pamplets filled with information. As a format they have a rich history...

The World Water Wedding Open Call took place on Tues 12 Aug 2025 where we heard from Meg, who married the River Avon. Attendees learnt more about the campaign and actions, and had an opportunity for fishy questions. Here's the recording of the Open Call and t...

Summary Encouraging involvement Recommendations from a 2024 study to bring people in to a climate movement were: ask people directly to get involved make it easy and show people how to do it provide options and describe their benefits strengthen perceptions o...

Leading an Open Day at a Water Treatment Works. Many water companies offer ‘open days’, as a PR exercise, to ‘inform the public’ about the work that goes on at a water treatment works. Frequency may vary, or may even now be being stopped, due to the public ou...

When we have a group of people there are two directions in which we can build community. We can build our community for ourselves, so before an action this looks like building trust with those you are taking action with and strengthening the skills of your gro...

Extinction Rebellion is not involved in designing systems outside the movement, but it is inspiring to introduce examples of these here. Regenerative culture sees overlap and interchange everywhere, XR regenerative cultures is largely inward facing but very aw...

"The Children’s Fire" is another practise to guide our actions in a regenerative way. The concept has been handed down from the Indigenous people of the place we now call America (N. America is known by some indigenous people as Turtle Island). Historically In...

Sacred activism is an important component of XR, as XR aims to actively heal and revitalize the planet, going beyond sustainability to actively improve and enrich ecosystems and communities. Sacred activism, with its focus on integrating spirituality and mindf...

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Media Advisory Template (for you to send out in advance of your event) You can either open the Google doc, make a copy and then edit it from there, or copy the text template below. Press Release Template (Google doc) Edit anything between the square brackets [...

Background On Sunday 27 July, we had our first XRUK Movement Assembly. Around 80 participants took part and a full summary can be found here. In breakout groups, participants were asked to generate ideas that were then added to pol.is, “a real-time system for ...

This was the first of what we hope to be many more Movement Assemblies to help us all to 'walk the talk' and learn more about each other, hear more voices and share ideas across the whole of XR. We asked people for feedback on the assembly and have produced a ...

The Great Turning - Joanna Macy The renowned soul Joanna Macy was an activist and a scholar of buddhism, systems theory and deep ecology. She conceived a model for a transition to a regenerative future, which she called The Great Turning. She described three ...

Pre-reading You need to have a Volunteer Website account before you can create a Reach Volunteering account. If you don't have a Volunteer Website account, please go to this page for help on how to create one. Please post your roles on the Volunteer Website fi...

Team Connector = EC Team Guide = IC 3 years experience Posting Opportunities (roles) on Reach New volunteers who apply for a role via Reach are more unlikely to know much, if anything, about XR. To avoid confusion, it's best to use non-XR language and abbrevia...

Example of a Team Guide (Internal Coordinator) Role ad for XRUK Assemblies team Use this example for wording and to see what can be added to each section of your role ad. Email Template Here's a handy template email with the relevant links for copy/pasting to...

Responding to Applicants When replying to your Reach applicants, it's a good idea to reply first via the Reach platform (rather than your team's email) and to send them 2 links, one to the XRUK Website, asking them to read through the Learn More/About page, an...

Some things it may be helpful to resolve before holding an election This guidance for facilitators and Internal Coordinators is about sequencing: making sure any tensions around mandate, membership, conflict, or process are surfaced and addressed before the el...

The world’s media system; social media, corporate media and state media, has been hijacked by a handful of powerful interests – billionaire-owners, political operators and advertisers. Abusing this power, they push narrow, toxic agendas at the expense of truth...