Mental Health Liberation: Tools for Climate Activists

Join us at this workshop to learn a powerful framework for understanding how oppressive societies enforce passivity, overconsumption, numbness and isolation as “normal.” You will also learn simple and effective tools to face difficult feelings about the climate crisis and build emotional support for your climate activism.

Making a Climate for Families

Join us at 12 East 41st Street, 7th floor for some intergenerational fun for families, while thinking about our mother earth and how we can work together to reverse climate change. We’ll make art together–visuals, music, dance, movement, and storytelling. We’ll have circles where people can share their visions of a family-friendly environment. We’ll have […]

Eliminating the Effects of Racism on Our Work to Sustain All Life

Racism and Climate Change: How and Why to Tackle Them Together: Racism has had a deeply damaging and divisive effect on everyone. Please join us in this interactive workshop to learn the effective approaches used by Sustaining All Life and United to End Racism to heal from the damaging effects of racism on us personally […]

Voices from the Frontlines of the Climate Emergency

We welcome activists on the frontlines of the climate crisis to this forum to talk about the impact of climate change on their countries and in their communities. It will offer everyone a unique and personal opportunity to better understand the current threats of climate change in the Global South.  This will also be an opportunity to share individual stories of activism that […]

Jews, Land, and Climate Café

Jews, like all peoples, are deeply connected to the earth, to all life forms, and to the places where we live.  Antisemitism, however, has historically led to Jews losing our multigenerational connections to the many lands in which we have existed. We warmly invite Jews and our friends and allies to join us in this workshop where we will be sharing artworks—poetry, songs, and visuals—in celebration of Jewish […]

Artists at the Center

Art is at the center of every social movement! Join us for a hands-on art-making workshop. We will share stories of how climate change has affected our lives and the people we care about. We will learn exciting ways to make art inspired by our stories. No experience is necessary–everyone is welcome!

Introduction to the Tools of Sustaining All Life

In this class, we will offer an in-depth look at tools that have helped people address emotional barriers to effective climate organizing. We will share details of our theory and provide opportunities to practice our listening tools in pairs and small groups. The class will demonstrate how using these tools can help us address common […]

Thinking About Disability and Climate Change

This workshop will offer insights into the oppression and stereotypes that affect people with disabilities as well as the increasing impact of the climate crises on their lives. Members of this constituency are often left out of discussions with activists and policy makers who don’t understand the resources needed to help people with disabilities survive […]

The Intersection of Climate Change and Racism in the Southern US

The Southern U.S. bears the brunt of the climate crisis in the U.S., with hurricanes, sea level rise, tornadoes, drought, and severe storms affecting millions of people and their homes, land, waters, farms, and livelihoods. Racism and economic injustice cause these impacts to fall disproportionately on Native, Black, Brown, and low-wealth communities, as well as […]

Backing Indigenous Leaders: where ending the Climate Crisis, and Decolonization Meet

Colonization and capitalism have disconnected us from our connection with each other, our basic human needs, and the land.  There is so much to learn from indigenous cultures, especially surrounding our relationships – with nature, ourselves, and each other.  Come and learn to use engaged listening to back Indigenous leaders and heal ourselves from the […]

The Central Role of Young People in the Climate Movement

In this workshop, we will share why it’s important for young people to be at the forefront of the climate movement in an oppressive society that tells us we’re not important. We will also talk about why our relationships with each other are key in making big changes possible. We will have fun, share our […]

How the Global North can accept responsibility for the climate emergency and act fairly to solve it

This workshop will highlight the human patterns of behavior that underlie the Global North’s accumulation and maintenance of the world’s financial resources. It will suggest some strategies for assisting the Global North to accept its historical responsibility and access its wealth to address the climate crisis.

Listening to Latin America, building a climate movement by and for our people.

As people of Latin America, we know how capable and resilient we are and how precious our territories and all the life that inhabits them are. In this workshop, we will have the opportunity to remember and share experiences of what we have lost, but also what we want to protect and preserve, through listening […]

The Legacy of Colonization and Racism in Africa

Colonialism and racism have had devastating effects on the way of life of many Africans leaving them extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change. However, it is possible to heal from this trauma and strengthen the resolve to combat and end the emergency. In this workshop, Africans share how they have personally experienced racism […]

New Yorkers and the Climate Movement: Great Successes, More to Do! Keeping Going, Inspiring Others to Action

In our workshop we will share our perspective on current global climate issues, and how taking action in New York contributes to making progress in the climate crisis overall. There have been many successes of the climate movement in New York. We will talk about the successes and how inspiring they are. Sustaining All Life/United […]

Climate Week Listening Projects at the United Nations

Monday, September 18, through noon on Saturday, September 23, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. In Sustaining All Life/United to End Racism listening projects, pairs of people will be on the sidewalk in front of the United Nations all week during Climate Week, engaging passers-by and people entering and […]

March to End Fossil Fuels

March with Sustaining All Life, United to End Racism, and friends and families of Co-Counselors. We are calling on President Biden to lead the way to stopping fossil fuel extraction, production, and use. We’re also organizing a multimedia, multicultural event as part of the march—many people will carry 3-foot hands in many skin tones with […]

Women, Fast Fashion and Climate Justice

Sunday 2nd July 4.30-7pm Newington Green Meeting House, 39a Newington Green, London N16 9PR , Buses 21,73, 141, 236, 341, 476, 10 minute walk from Canonbury(overground) Join us for a subversive catwalk and discussion on the impact of fast fashion on women and the environment. There will be a subversive catwalk featuring clothes that women […]

The Importance of Tackling Racism in a Climate Crisis

Wednesday 28th June 6-7.30pm London, Greenpeace, Canonbury Villas, London N1 2PN For white people to learn how addressing racism is crucial in tackling the climate crisis and practise listening skills that will help you become more effective in climate work. Participants will hear an explanation of Sustaining All Life (SAL) listening tools, and have several […]

Using Listening Skills in a Climate Crisis

Tuesday 27th June, 6-7.30pm London. Greenpeace, Canonbury Villas, London N1 2PN, Buses 21, 38, 56, 73, 341, 476, 5 minute walk from Highbury and Islington(Victoria Line, Overground). Learn how to develop your listening skills to build unity to tackle the climate crisis and make a positive impact. People will get the chance to improve their […]

Ending Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls: Key to Empowerment

Without working to end sexual violence and heal its effects, our societies cannot achieve women’s equality, the equality of all people, and the empowerment of women and girls. While sexual violence and threats of sexual violence are experienced by every woman and girl, the impact of this form of violence disproportionately affects women and girls […]

Forum: The Climate Crisis and Women from the Global South

Sustaining All Life (SAL) will host an online forum at this year’s NGO CSW67 UN Women Forum. To achieve women’s equality, the equality of all people, and the empowerment of women and girls, we must address the growing climate crisis. The climate emergency disproportionately impacts women, and genocide, sexism, racism, and other oppressions multiply the […]

Muslims and Jews United for Climate Change

For over a thousand years Muslims and Jews were Allies,  protecting one another and living side by side.  Many principles of Islam are based on principles of Judaism. Moses is mentioned more than any other person in the Quran.    In the more recent period, Muslims and Jews have been systematically pitted against each other […]

What Does Race Have to Do with It: Racism and the Climate Emergency

We are all experiencing the effects of climate change. However, Indigenous and Global Majority People are disproportionately impacted by the global climate emergency due to historical and present-day settler colonialism, systems of oppression and exploitation, and greed. This workshop will explore how looking at climate change with a racial lens can assist us in acting […]

Listening Circles: A Tool for Climate Activists

As activists we have chosen to face the truth about the climate emergency and about climate injustice. To remain strong, resilient, and clear thinking, we need a safe place to express the emotions that come up for us in the present crisis. Listening circles can be a place to release these feelings and heal from the […]

We Want to Live: Our Water, Art & Climate Justice Movements

Ending the climate emergency that threatens all life on the planet requires masses of people coming together to put our creative minds in action towards climate solutions. Hear from speakers from frontline nations, tribes and communities in Africa and the Americas, and other communities. They will speak from their personal experiences, highlight their relationship to […]

The Legacy of Colonisation & Racism in Africa

Africa and her people have been made extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change because of colonisation and racism.
However, it is possible to heal from this trauma and strengthen the resolve to combat and end the emergency.
In this workshop, Africans share how they have personally experienced racism and colonialism as well as their resolve, commitment, courage, and hope.

What Can We Do about Climate Grief?

We can listen to each other’s stories to help each other heal. We can listen to the stories of the populations suffering the most from the effects of climate change to learn the impacts so we are proponents for change.  Climate change affects real people. Often those stories aren’t heard and people are slow to […]

Staying Hopeful as We Face the Climate Crisis

People at the forefront of the climate movement may struggle to find ways to stay hopeful, to find spaces where we feel connected. Staying hopeful is important for those of us working on the climate emergency. Come and learn some tools allowing us to renew hope even as the future at risk is our own.

Introduction To The Tools Of Sustaining All Life

Participants will learn about our natural ability to heal from hurtful experiences using the process of emotional release. They will be paired together to listen to each other in equal turns with respectful, non-judgmental attention. In the safety and confidentiality of these short “sessions,” we can access past huts and current upsets, including experiences of […]

No Human Enemies: A Strategy for Climate Justice Organizing

Addressing the climate crisis requires broad and powerful coalitions. However, oppressions continually divide and separate people, making it harder to create and sustain these coalitions. In this workshop, we will move beyond the concept of “enemies” which fuels every form of separation.

Emotional Resilience in the Climate Emergency

Current crises can trigger feelings of despair, fear, and hopelessness from painful experiences early in our lives. Doing emotional healing work to free ourselves from the effects of past hurtful incidents prepares us to emotionally handle the deepening crisis of the climate emergency.

Healing the Trauma of the Climate Crisis

This workshop will support participants to heal some of the trauma induced by the climate crisis. Awareness of the climate crisis is growing along with the existential threat that it poses for humans and all life on planet earth. Opportunities to face and heal this trauma are not widely available to most people. In this workshop, participants will learn tools for trauma healing. Healing Climate Trauma Listening Circles led by experienced peer co-counselors will provide safe space for participants to tell their story of the trauma they experienced as a result of climate change. Strategies to continue the healing process will be shared.

Introduction To The Tools Of Sustaining All Life

Participants will learn about our natural ability to heal from hurtful experiences using the process of emotional release. They will be paired together to listen to each other in equal turns with respectful, non-judgmental attention. In the safety and confidentiality of these short “sessions,” we can access past hurts and current upsets, including experiences of […]

Introduction To The Tools Of Sustaining All Life

Participants will learn about our natural ability to heal from hurtful experiences using the process of emotional release. They will be paired together to listen to each other in equal turns with respectful, non-judgmental attention. In the safety and confidentiality of these short “sessions,” we can access past huts and current upsets, including experiences of […]

The Climate Crisis in Africa

You will get to hear Africans share their own experiences with the world and relate to one another globally. At intervals during the forum, participants will be in small groups of two or more to process what they have heard, and take turns
to listen to each other’s stories. This way, everyone has a chance to tell their own story and to process what they hear, as well as express their emotions and hurts caused by climate change and its effects. Sharing experiences is a powerful tool that strengthens our resolve, commitment and activism.

Sustaining Ourselves as Activists

To build and sustain a strong climate movement we must have a place to share and heal from feelings about the climate emergency, the damage we experience from oppression, and any discouragement we feel about taking needed action.

More bad news? (Science Day Listening circle)

Every day scientists give us new and more detailed information about the developing climate emergency, and much of it is bad news!  We need a safe place where we can express the many emotions that come up for us as we face what is happening. Simply talking about our feelings can take the sting out […]

African Listening Circle

Africa accounts for less than 4% of global emissions and yet is suffering the most. In this listening circle, African participants will have the opportunity to be listened to awarely about climate change in their countries.  Participants will be led by an experienced Listening Circle leader as they take equal turns to listen and be […]

Youth Listening Circle

Young People are often at the forefront of positive changes at any COP. Young people can find laughter in the face of crisis and stand strong for our future and the world we love. Facing climate change takes a toll on us. The COP is a stressful and overwhelming place and we need spaces to […]

Eliminating the Effects of Racism on Our Work to Sustain All Life

Racism has had a deeply damaging and divisive effect on everyone. Unless we address racism, it is replicated in any solutions we develop. Understanding and healing the effects of racism on us as individuals is a necessary step in creating a movement that can sustain all life and restore the environment.

Women and Climate Justice

The voices and leadership of women are key in the fight for climate justice. The climate emergency disproportionately impacts girls and women, racism and classism multiplies the impact. Women’s intelligence and understanding of the importance of relationships need to be at the center of climate solutions. Our panel of grassroots women leaders from around the world will discuss the tools they have used to overcome internalized sexism and claim their rightful place as leaders and activists in the climate justice movement.

Loss and Damage—from grieving to action (Finance Day Listening Circle)

Addressing the historic injustices that have resulted in the disproportionate impact of the climate emergency often brings up strong emotions. Having a safe and supported place to share those emotions lets us begin to heal the emotional hurts that interfere with our thinking about and acting to end these injustices. We are better able to […]

Introduction To The Tools Of Sustaining All Life

Participants will learn about our natural ability to heal from hurtful experiences using the process of emotional release. They will be paired together to listen to each other in equal turns with respectful, non-judgmental attention. In the safety and confidentiality of these short “sessions,” we can access past huts and current upsets, including experiences of […]

Youth at the Forefront of the Climate Movement: Mutual Support to Sustain Our Action

Young People are a revolutionary force and have been at the forefront of many important social movements, including the climate movement today. Young people can find laughter in the face of crisis and stand up for our future and the world we love. The lack of respect for young people’s thinking and leadership often leads to the important abilities we offer being underutilized and our voices being ignored.

Introduction To The Tools Of Sustaining All Life

Participants will learn about our natural ability to heal from hurtful experiences using the process of emotional release. They will be paired together to listen to each other in equal turns with respectful, non-judgmental attention. In the safety and confidentiality of these short “sessions,” we can access past huts and current upsets, including experiences of […]

African Listening Circle

Africa accounts for less than 4% of global emissions and yet is suffering the most. In this listening circle, African participants will have the opportunity to be listened to awarely about climate change in their countries.  Participants will be led by an experienced Listening Circle leader as they take equal turns to listen and be […]

Youth Listening Circle

Young People are often at the forefront of positive changes at any COP. Young people can find laughter in the face of crisis and stand strong for our future and the world we love. Facing climate change takes a toll on us. The COP is a stressful and overwhelming place and we need spaces to […]

Strategies to build solidarity: activism that works in the long term

Acting against the climate crisis requires coordinated actions. We can develop strategies that allow us to act even in the midst of disagreements or discouragement. There is much more that unites us than separates us, although it may be difficult to notice.

War and Climate Justice

Climate change has played a role in many recent armed conflicts and is projected to be an even more serious driving force of future conflicts. The world’s militaries are a major source of carbon emissions with their enormous consumption of fossil fuels and their sprawling industrial operations.

Emotional Burdens of Oppression and the Climate Crisis

Living with these realities—both the experiences of domination and subordination resulting from oppression, and the existential threat resulting from environmental degradation and the climate crisis—has left us with emotional burdens. We humans came to this earth expecting a good world characterized by fairness, justice, and equity. Instead, we found a world filled with relationships of […]

No Human Enemies: A Strategy for Climate Justice Organizing

Successful climate justice organizing relies on an accurate and comprehensive analysis of the problems confronting humanity.We have exposed exploitative systems and oppressions as the root causes and threats to life on Earth. (For example, capitalism is an extraction economy based on greed, racism, classism, sexism, colonization, genocide, and war.) These systems and oppressions have successfully […]

No Human Enemies: A Strategy for Climate Justice Organizing

Addressing the climate crisis requires broad and powerful coalitions. However, oppression continually divide and separate people, making it harder to create and sustain these coalitions. In this workshop, we will move beyond the concept of “enemies” which fuels every form of separation. This workshop will explore an evolution in strategy for climate justice organizing that […]

Sustaining All Life Fundraiser (for COP27)

SECOND ANNUAL FUNDRAISER “’Fair Share’ in the Climate Emergency: Funding from the Global North to Solve the Climate Crisis,” Sunday, August 28, 1 – 2:30pm EDT An online fundraiser for Sustaining All Life . Support an international team working to solve the climate emergency and help us raise $100,000 to fund the delegation’s participation in […]

Tubig Climate Justice Gallery Opening

Our all volunteer team has experienced some challenges that has delayed the opening of our gallery but it is very close! Please check back in the next week or so, or feel free to contact us if you want to receive an email when it has launched. We hope to feature the artists and their […]

Forum: The Climate Crisis in Africa

Listening to one another’s experiences as Africans impacted by climate change is important. We need stories of hope, commitment and courage. Stories that will unite, inspire and rekindle our spirit, stories that also tell of our struggles as a continent in relation to Climate Change. This Forum welcomes African climate change activists to talk about […]

Taking Responsibility for Our White Racism in the Climate Movement

12.30 – 2 pm BST The workshop is at 277A Upper Street, London, N1 2TZ (next to Islington Fire Station). The venue is at the end of a passageway of Upper Street. The venue is equidistant between Angel (Northern Line), Essex Road (National Rail) and Highbury and Islington (Victoria Line and London Overground). Buses 4, 19, 30, 43 […]

Staying Hopeful While We Face the Climate Crisis

Those of us working to end the climate emergency face a very challenging situation. Climate change is accelerating as those currently with power to cause change fail to address the root causes. We must take actions to ensure our long-term survival as a species. We want to stay engaged in this challenge and thinking of […]

Subversive Catwalk: Women, Fast Fashion and Climate Justice

2.00 – 4.30 pm BST The workshop is at 277A Upper Street, London, N1 2TZ (next to Islington Fire Station). The venue is at the end of a passageway of Upper Street. The venue is equidistant between Angel (Northern Line), Essex Road (National Rail) and Highbury and Islington (Victoria Line and London Overground). Buses 4, […]

A Four Week Class on the Basics of Co-counseling for Climate Activists

Keeping hope and defeating burnout, while we work to save the planet, together. Class: Tuesday nights 6 – 8pm (PDT), May 3rd – May 24th Basics of Co-counseling for Climate Activists—A 4-week class Led by Lenore Kenny and Sue Oda Yoshiwara Email Sue Oda Yoshiwara at sueoda617@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link.

Earth Day Fair, April 2022.

Sustaining All Life will have a booth at the Earth Day Fair at Union Square in New York. We will have two in person Workshops, War and Climate Change and No Human Enemies: A Strategy for Climate Justice Organizing. More information coming soon.

An Introduction to Re-evaluation Counseling (Co-Counseling) for those engaged in the Climate Emergency

Introduction: 7:30-8:30pm (PDT), Wednesday April 20, 2022 Email Jayne Schauer at jschauer@rc.org to receive the Zoom link. Climate change has caused grievous damage to the Earth and all living beings. As we become more and more aware of this damage, and the inadequate human response to it, we are left with a range of feelings. […]

Voices from Women of the Global South

The voices and leadership of women are key in the fight for climate justice. The climate emergency disproportionately impacts women, and genocide, sexism, racism, and other oppressions multiply the impact. Women’s indigenous knowledge, intelligence and understanding of the importance of relationships need to be at the center of climate solutions. Women from the Global South […]

Women Expressing Climate Grief

Unhealed grief, fear, and anger about the climate emergency affect women activists’ initiative and our hope for the future.  Our unexpressed emotions interfere with our ability to bring our intelligence and energy to effectively respond to the climate crisis, racism, genocide and exploitation.  The opportunity to openly feel and express these emotions can unleash our […]

Artists’ Kitchen: Info Session & Support for Artists, 2B

Do you have a creative idea that may inspire our climate justice movements? Are you interested in making art with peer support? Curious about participating in the Tubig Artists at the Center project? Join the Artists’ Kitchen series! Meet with Sustaining All Life / United to End Racism artist leaders and peers to learn more […]

Artists’ Kitchen: Info Session & Support for Artists, 2A

Do you have a creative idea that may inspire our climate justice movements? Are you interested in making art with peer support?Curious about participating in the Tubig Artists at the Center project? Join the Artists’ Kitchen series! Meet with Sustaining All Life / United to End Racism artist leaders and peers to learn more about […]

Artists’ Kitchen: Info Session & Support for Artists, 1B

Do you have a creative idea that may inspire our climate justice movements? Are you interested in making art with peer support?Curious about participating in the Tubig Artists at the Center project? Join the Artists’ Kitchen series! Meet with Sustaining All Life / United to End Racism artist leaders and peers to learn more about […]

Artists’ Kitchen: Info Session & Support for Artists, 1A

Do you have a creative idea that may inspire our climate justice movements? Are you interested in making art with peer support?Curious about participating in the Tubig Artists at the Center project? Join the Artists’ Kitchen series! Meet with Sustaining All Life / United to End Racism artist leaders and peers to learn more about […]

We Want to Live: Our Water, Art & Climate Justice Movements

Ending the climate emergency that threatens all life on the planet requires masses of people coming together to put our creative minds in action towards climate solutions. Artists and our art are powerful. We connect, communicate, inspire, mobilize and transform the world. Artists and our art play a critical role in the collective effort to […]

The Impact of the Climate Crisis on Frontline Communities

Location: QUAKER MEETING HOUSE 38 Elmbank Crescent Glasgow G2 4PS (wheel chair accessible) and Online This forum presents activists from frontline nations, tribes, and communities in Africa, the Americas, and other communities. They will speak from their personal experiences at the forefront of the climate emergency and COVID pandemic that threatens their very existence. The […]

Sustaining Ourselves as Activists and Organizers

Activists and organizers are more important than ever. To build and sustain a strong environmental movement, we need to have a place to share about the impact of the climate emergency on ourselves and about any discouragement we feel about taking action. We need support to maintain and build our connections with each other and […]

Jews and Climate Justice: Building a United Front

Jews have a long history of bold action for justice. To help to create a sustainable future, Jews must build alliances with all peoples. However, the long history of anti-Semitism, racism, and genocides against many peoples has damaged and divided us. We need to understand and heal from the damage to build the relationships we need […]

Voices From the Frontlines: The Impact of the Climate Crisis on Frontline Communities

Location: Quaker Meeting House 38 Elmbank Cres, Glasgow G2 4PS (wheel chair accessible) and Online Hosted by: COP26 Coalition People’s Summit for Climate Justice This forum presents activists from frontline nations, tribes, and communities in Africa, the Americas, and other communities. They will speak from their personal experiences at the forefront of the climate emergency […]

Staying Hopeful While We Face the Climate Crisis

Location: Multicultural Centre, 21 Rose Street, Garnethill St. Glasgow G3 6RE (not wheel chair accessible) Hosted by: COP26 Coalition People’s Summit for Climate Justice  Register at: Eventbrite The climate emergency is upon us and rapidly escalating. We hear daily news of current harmful impacts and dangerous predictions for our future. People at the forefront of the […]

Eliminating the Effects of Racism in Climate Activism

Racism has had a deeply damaging and divisive effect on everyone. It shapes and perpetuates the inequities of our society. It has become part of our social institutions. Unless we address racism, it is replicated in any solutions we develop. Understanding and healing the effects of racism on us as individuals is a necessary step […]

Sustaining Ourselves as Activists and Organizers

Location: Garnethill Multicultural Centre, 21 Rose St, Garnethill St, Glasgow G3 6RE (not wheel chair accessible) Activists and organizers are more important than ever. To build and sustain a strong environmental movement, we need to have a place to share about the impact of the climate emergency on ourselves and about any discouragement we feel […]

Making a Family Friendly Environment

Online Event Sustaining All Life/United to End Racism is offering a playful and supportive setting where we can have fun together while looking at the topic of climate change.  Now is the time to celebrate our wonderful sustaining planet and our connection to it. We will create a zoom space for young people and parents, […]

We Want to Live: Our Water, Art & Climate Justice Movements

Ending the climate emergency that threatens all life on the planet requires masses of people coming together to put our creative minds in action towards climate solutions. Artists and our art are powerful. We connect, communicate, inspire, mobilize and transform the world. Artists and our art play a critical role in the collective effort to […]