Making a Family Friendly Environment
I helped lead a Sustaining All Life workshop at COP26 called “Making a Family Friendly Environment.” Parents, young people, and allies came together for a few hours of connection, fun, and creativity, much like at an RC family workshop.
The tone was human, connected, and caring. People of all ages from around the world got a chance to be together and celebrate the earth, living things, ourselves, and our connections with each other. I think the workshop was a huge contradiction to the hopelessness that many of us carry. I cried through whole parts of it, especially watching the people of all ages and from all over the world sing and play music.
Thirty of us made the workshop happen. Coordinating it was a bit of a challenge, but the work we did together created a space in which people celebrated the environment, sang, danced, made art, told stories, played games, and had a chance to discharge.
Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
(Present Time 206, January 2022)