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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...

This guidance for facilitators and Internal Coordinators is about sequencing: making sure tensions around mandate, membership, conflict, or process are surfaced and addressed before the election begins. That way the election itself can focus on discernment of ...

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...

About Extinction Rebellion XR's 10 Principles & Values Some further resources on posting positions on Reach: How to post a great volunteer opportunity on Reach (2mins 20secs YouTube) How to connect your Reach Integrator account - known as a colleague on Reac...

In July 2025 the Hive set up a temporary working group to survey all members of every XRUK Working Group circle within the Hive about how XRUK is working as an organisation. This was done in close colloboration with the Data Analytics and Insights team (DAIC)....

Introduction to a Council of All Beings practice 'Council of All Beings ' is a 'Work that Reconnects ' deep ecology practice from Joanna Macy and John Seed. This group process strengthens our direct experience with other beings. It invites us to step back fro...

Yesterday I was clever; So i wanted to change the world, Today I am wise: so I am changing myself. -Rumi We are called to activism by our passion to transform the world as we see it now, in a rapidly unfolding climate and ecological crisis, impacted by the g...

In the XR movement there is always something to be done. Our passion and commitment can lead us to ignoring our personal boundaries and to exhaustion, illness, a diminished capacity to communicate and a decrease in our effectiveness as activists. It is vital t...

Why Target Insurers? Insurance is the Achilles heel of the global fossil fuel industry. It’s what gives oil, gas and coal companies the confidence to dig and drill as the planet burns - by covering their operations against financial losses when things go wrong...

Discover more printable resources here Zines are little pamplets filled with information. As a format they have a rich history in activism and the use of printed media like this opens oour resources up to a much wider audience in a really fun and accessible wa...

In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited or depressed, They would ask four questions: When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? W...

A potential result of too much stress, a lack of self care, or not taking care of our boundaries is burnout. Burnout feels very different to stress, when we might feel under great pressure physically and mentally. However, when we are stressed we can still ima...

Develop a Personal Resourcing Menu We can build a toolbox of things we can do in order to get support and nurture ourselves. We can call on this when we are moving into a place of overwhelm. In this way we build our resources and develop resilience.This is al...