One of my coaching colleagues, a passionate climate activist and veteran coach named Eve, asks groups of climate-concerned coaches to reflect on the following question: what is mine to do? What resources do I have to offer? What part of the climate movement can I most effectively contribute to, within the finite bounds of my time, energy, strengths, and money? How can I influence systems of power? In her presentations, Eve often shares a poem called hieroglyphic stairway, by Drew Dellinger. The poet is awake at 3:23 in the morning, troubled by the insistent questions of his yet-to-be born
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