Sustaining All Life (SAL)
A Project of Re-evaluation Counseling
Sustaining All Life (SAL) displayed this and other posters at our booths at COP27. They are now available as downloads for SAL fundraising.
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Sample Outlines of SAL Workshops
Introduction
It is possible to limit the effects of human-caused climate change and restore the environment—and some big changes are needed if this is to happen. These changes will require a massive movement, spanning the globe, of people of every background.
In Sustaining All Life (SAL), we believe that the barriers to building a sufficiently large and powerful movement include:
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longstanding divisions (usually caused by oppression) between nations and between groups of people within nations,
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widespread feelings that it’s too late and any actions will be ineffective,
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denial of or failure to engage with the climate emergency, and
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difficulties in effectively addressing the connections between the environmental crisis and the failures of our economic system.
Sustaining All Life works to address these issues and others.
Upcoming Events
During NYC Climate Week, Sustaining All Life/United to End Racism (SAL/UER) will offer a week of events focused on removing emotional barriers to effectively addressing the climate emergency: September 22 - 29, 2024, at 12 East 41st Street, 7th Floor, Manhattan. Join us for interactive events where we exchange effective listening to free ourselves from the emotional harm resulting from oppression and other hurtful experiences—harm that can interfere with thinking about and responding effectively to the climate crisis.
SAL/UER workshops share our perspective on current aspects of the climate emergency and offer tools of engaged listening to free ourselves and others from emotional hurts that interfere with our thinking and functioning. Our workshops are interactive, giving participants the chance to share their experiences and be listened to as well as listen to others.
The 2024 elections will have a huge impact on how effectively our government addresses the climate crisis. Many of us are feeling overwhelmed by discouragement, anxiety, hopelessness, and anger. This year SAL/UER is offering workshops that will provide participants with some perspectives and practices to counteract those feelings, maintain hope, and continue to take action to address the climate crisis and work toward electing candidates who will take action on climate.
SAL events for NYC Climate Week
Sustaining All Life & United to End Racism at the Global Climate March,
New York City, USA • © Stan Eichner, 2019
Resources for NYC Climate Week Delegation
Our Activities
SAL/UER at the COPs and climate action summits presents a series of daily workshops, forums, support groups, listening projects, introductory classes, caucuses, and more.
SAL workshop presenters share their perspective on key topics related to the climate emergency and how we have used the tools of Re-evaluation Counseling to free ourselves and others from emotional hurts that have interfered with our functioning. The workshops are interactive, giving participants the chance to share their experiences and be listened to awarely.
SAL forums provide opportunities for people impacted by climate change, activists, indigenous people, and others to speak to an assembled group with their story. Periodically the flow of speakers is paused to give the audience the opportunity to exchange listening with one another in pairs. Everyone appreciates the chance to tell their stories to an interested audience, as well as the chance to hear others' stories.
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one of many posters SAL created for COP27 in Sharm El-Sheik
Readings & Handouts
Past Events
COP21: Paris 2015, narrated slide show
COP22: Marrakech, Morocco 2016
COP23: Bonn, Germany 2017
COP24: Katowice, Poland 2018
Global Climate Action Summit:
California, USA 2018
NYC Climate Action Week: New York City, USA
2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
2023: compilation video, events, photos
London Climate Action Week: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
COP25: Madrid, Spain 2019
COP26: Glasgow, Scotland 2021, photos
COP27: Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt 2022, photos 1, photos 2
COP28: Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2023 photos, events
World Social Forum: Nepal, 2024 photos, workshops
Watch SAL/UER Workshop Recordings
SAL/UER Online Events 2021
Language Liberation
Most SAL/UER events are interpreted
into one or more languages.
Social Media
Facebook: English Spanish French
Instagram in English, Spanish, French
Donate
Donations made in USD are tax-deductible and all donations help us communicate personal healing tools that are important in efforts to replace the current system with one that meets the real needs of humans and other life forms and that protects and restores our environment.
You may also donate by sending a check
in memo write 'Sustaining All Life'
payable to:
The Re-evaluation Foundation
19370 Firlands Way North
Shoreline, WA 98133
ReevaluationFoundation.org
T-Shirts
Various sizes available at Rational Island by searching "SAL T-shirt." Information about the shirt designs is here.
Questions or having trouble ordering: litsales@rc.org
COP26 shirt front
COP25 shirt front
shirt back