{"id":15611,"date":"2025-06-10T04:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T04:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=15611"},"modified":"2025-06-16T05:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T05:00:27","slug":"2025-06-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2025-06-15\/","title":{"rendered":"What Can We Do"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/humanists.org_2025_06_15_can_do_Matt_Schlegel.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15612\"\/><figcaption>Matt Schlegel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong>11 a.m., June 15, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join us either in person or over Zoom, as we welcome Matt Schlegel.<\/p>\n<p>Humanity is now in the midst of the polycrisis, in which multiple crises confront us all at once \u2013 the climate crisis with extreme weather and fire events, acute land and marine biodiversity loss, domestic political turmoil, and increased geopolitical tensions. With so much happening simultaneously, it can be overwhelming. For those who do want to do something they often ask, \u201cWhat can I do?\u201d But is that the right question? Long time climate activist Matt Schlegel says a better question to ask is, \u201cWhat can we do?\u201d In this talk, Matt shares tips on how to start down the path towards finding or building a community of people who want to create a better, pro-social world that focuses not only on navigating the current crises but also directs energy towards building that better future for all life on our one shared planet.<\/p>\n<p>Bio<br>\nBest-selling author Matt Schlegel is committed to developing highly effective, style-diverse teams and giving them the tools and strategies to navigate environments defined by VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity), and tackle challenges that are seemingly impossible. Principal of Schlegel Consulting (<a href=\"https:\/\/evolutionaryteams.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/evolutionaryteams.com\/<\/a>), Matt discovered a powerful system called the Enneagram and used it to develop a novel set of tools, strategies, and applications for team effectiveness that he uses in his consulting practice and shares in his book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Teamwork-9-0-Successful-Workgroup-Enneagram\/dp\/1733478809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Teamwork 9.0<\/a>. As the climate crisis becomes an ever more daunting problem, Matt uses the Enneagram tools to guide teams towards pro-social solutions that address the crisis.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mattschlegel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mattschlegel\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1093553567?h=2d01e30109\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1093553567\">06\/15\/2025 What Can We Do? &#8211; Matt Schlegal<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Attend in Person:<br>This Sunday, you can attend our forum in person with fellow humanists at the <b>Mountain View Senior Center<\/b>, 266 Escuela Ave., Mountain View, CA 94040. Lunch will be served after the forum. 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Humanity is now in the midst of the polycrisis, in which multiple crises confront us all at once \u2013 the climate crisis with extreme weather and fire events, acute land and marine biodiversity loss, domestic political turmoil, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2025-06-15\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Can We Do&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,258],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15611"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15636,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15611\/revisions\/15636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}