There’s a good chance you’re the underdog in a matchup between the MMA heavyweight of a global pandemic combined with social distancing versus your mental health.
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Being a teenager without being able to hang out with your friends is like eating toast without Nutella. Technically it’s doable…but not really.
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Sports give us a place to belong, train and compete. But they also charge our bodies with endorphins.
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It turns out you can only play Fortnite for so long before you actually feel like doing something else.
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So you want to start organizing a group in your community? Want to gather people around social change? Here are some considerations for you to think about right at the start from our experience organizing NGM Circle groups across Canada.
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At this stage, you’re now starting to take action researching and discovering what your group will do and what you’d like to impact. If you’re not sure what to do next, here are some suggestions.
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At this point, it’ll be helpful to pause and reflect on your own motivations and fears before going ahead. In the last stage, you uncovered new ideas, worldviews, and relationships you may not have been exposed to before. These experiences might have given you some fresh insight into your own motivations. Take some time to ask yourself these questions given what you know now.
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You’ve done the research, you’ve challenged your own assumptions and beliefs, you’ve made new connections; it’s time to process what you’ve gone through so far and put it into words.
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Many well intended projects die out before ever really becoming anything. Plans, ideas, and words stay imaginary until we take action. Groups often find themselves paralyzed after the initial excitement of starting something new wears off. You may catch yourself or others feeling stuck, finding new things to get excited about, or wanting to back away instead of following through with the plan. The goal of this checkpoint is to choose to commit or quit.
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You’ve made it to the Ideating & Generating stage, congrats! This stage is all about bringing your team together to get everything set up for your community engagement.
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Things are starting to come together and take shape! If you have some momentum and experience working in community, you might be surprised to find that this is a point where people get stuck. If you are feeling stuck, this one’s for you.
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Game time! You’re now doing something in public, bringing people together and holding space for something you care about deeply. Here are some things to consider before the event.
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