IMPACT

George has spent a lifetime directly engaged in environmental research & activism around the globe, as well as creative efforts towards community-building and civic engagement.  As such, he is innately connected to communities on the cutting edge of new ideas around governance, “the politics of belonging”, and environmental stewardship. This film’s over-riding intent is to bring these important new ideas to a broader audience, in the hopes of creating deeper community affiliations and renewed sense of agency. 

In The Invisible Doctrine, Monbiot does more than merely provide a critique of the forces that hae come to guide our lives, he provides a way forward – proposing avenues for the revitalization of community, the commons, democratic participation, and reclamation of government (in particular on the local & community level) – thereby planting the seeds for systemic, long-term change.

A robust outreach & impact program will play a key role in helping to drive interest in, and provide access to, the project – not to be limited to educational institutions, these efforts will include community-based organizations as well. 

To that end, our educational & community engagments will be supported by a Classroom Curriculum Guide, Screenings Facilitator's Guide, and a General Audience Discussion Guide with and eye towards the following key goals:

1. Activate individuals as stakeholders through participatory practices that increase democratic engagement - transforming them from mere consumers, back into engaged citizens. 

2.  Activation around a deeper investment & engagement in community – which may include exploring new forms of community – towards creating a virtuous circle of strengthening togetherness, solidarity and belonging.