Benefits for RCEs in Becoming Involved with COMMEET Roger Petry (RCE Advisor to the Americas) 11th Americas Regional RCE Meeting 5 October, 2022

1. Benefits for RCEs in Becoming
Involved with COMMEET
Empowering RCE members to act on diverse sustainability topics:
 Importance of informed action/praxis (Paulo Freire)
 Importance of tested strategies
 Importance of dialogue
Ability to use multiple educational formats:
 ex., modular design
 ex., talking circle/study circle formats
 ex., one time grassroots community events on topic, classrooms,
regular (weekly/monthly) meetings within organizations

2. Benefits for RCEs in Becoming
Involved with COMMEET
 Ability to engage organizational and individual members of RCE in a
new way
 Reduced feelings of isolation
 Formation of new social capital
 Shifting of regional culture for SD
 Ability to showcase own RCE projects and scholarship through
COMMEET toolkits
 A global and local perspective on each issue
 Ability to become informed of global partners connected to issue
areas