Sustaining All Life
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction 🐛
- Upcoming Events 🐝
- Resources for SAL Delegates 🐞
- Our Activities 🦋
- Past Events 🌻
- Sample outlines of SAL Workshops
- Language Liberation 🍄
- Social Media 🌷
- Donate 🌺
- T-Shirts 🌱
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:
🌸 longstanding divisions (usually caused by oppression) between nations and between groups of people within nations,
🌸 widespread feelings that it’s too late and any actions will be ineffective,
🌸 denial of or failure to engage with the climate emergency, and
🌸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
SAL at London Climate Action Week
Using Listening Skills in a Climate Crisis- Tuesday 27th June 6pm, Greenpeace, Canonbury Villas, London N1 2PN, Buses 21, 38, 56, 73, 341, 476, 5 minute walk from Highbury and Islington(Victoria Line, Overground)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/640522589307
People will get the chance to improve their listening skills and learn how to use listening as a powerful tool to build unity and become more effective in their climate crisis work. Facing of climate breakdown brings up many painful feelings. Learning how to listen effectively to each other as we face and talk about how it has affected us is an important “action” towards freeing our minds and acting more decisively in our climate work.
The Importance of Tackling Racism in a Climate Crisis- Wednesday 28th June 6pm, Greenpeace, Canonbury Villas, London N1 2PN, Buses 21, 38, 56, 73, 341, 476, 5 minute walk from Highbury and Islington(Victoria Line, Overground)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/640547473737
Participants will hear an explanation of Sustaining All Life (SAL) listening tools, and have several paired co-listening sessions during the workshop. The workshop will outline how racism is installed on white people and provide listening tools to help us to undo its impact. We will strengthen our connections with each other and with people of African, Asian and Indigenous heritage. We will look at the intersection between racism and the climate crisis. Facing the reality of racism and climate breakdown brings up many painful feelings. Learning how to listen effectively to each other as we face and talk about how racism has affected us is an important “action” towards freeing our minds and acting more decisively in ending racism in the world.
Women Fast Fashion and Climate Justice - Sunday 2nd July 4.30pm, Newington Green Meeting House, 39a Newington Green, London N16 9PR, Buses 21,73, 141, 236, 341, 476, 10 minute walk from Canonbury(overground)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-fast-fashion-and-climate-justice-tickets-640552308197
There will be a subversive catwalk featuring clothes that women artists have made in response to the climate crisis. There will be a short artist-made film then the opportunity to listen and talk about how women are affected by fast fashion across the world, those who wear the clothes and those who make them. Facing the reality of how fast fashion affects climate breakdown brings up many painful feelings. Learning how to listen effectively to each other as we face and talk about how fast fashion has affected us is an important “action” towards freeing our minds and acting more decisively in building unity to end the climate crisis.
SAL at New York City Climate Week, September 17 - 23
Sustaining All Life will hold in person events at New York City Climate Week at 12 East 41st Street from 9 am – 5 pm on September 17 through the 23rd, 2023.
Climate Week NYC inspires, amplifies and provides a global platform for connection and discussion on climate action.
The following events are confirmed so far:
Disability and the Climate Emergency, Wednesday, September 20
Jews, Land, and Climate Cafe, Friday, September 22
Making a Climate for Families, Saturday, September 23
More updates soon.
SAL at COP28 in Dubai
More information soon
🌻 Support Sustaining All Life! 🌱
Sustaining All Life & United to End Racism at the Global Climate March, New York City, USA • © Stan Eichner, 2019
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- The Work of Sustaining All Life
- Video Introductions to Our Work
- Tools for Healing
- Racism, Genocide, and the Environment
- SAL Article Handouts
- Sign Up for the Mailing List, sent several times a year to our wide world contacts
- The Work of Sustaining All Life
Introductory workshops offered upon request.
🐛 Resources for SAL/UER 2022 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.
Past Events
Language Liberation
Most SAL/UER events are interpreted into one or more languages.
Social Media
Stay up-to-date about our events and activities here:
Feel free to share, like, and follow!
Donate
Donate to support our ongoing work to address the climate emergency.
In 2023, SAL will be holding events at:
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- The UN Commission on the Status of Women (March)
- Earth Week (April)
- London Climate Action Week (June)
- New York Climate Action Week (September)
- COP28?
You can also send a check for Sustaining All Life payable to the Re-evaluation Foundation:
Re-evaluation Foundation
19370 Firlands Way North
Shoreline, WA 98133
T-Shirts
NEW SAL t-shirt for COP26, printed front and back.
Order at rationalisland.com by searching for "SAL T-shirt"
SAL/UER t-shirt for COP26 with this design on the back. More information here.