Expressing Climate Grief
Barbara Love
In our workshops we share our perspective on current environmental issues and how we have used the tools of Re-evaluation Counseling to free ourselves and others from emotional hurts that have interfered with our thinking and functioning. Our workshops are interactive, giving participants the chance to share their experiences and be listened to.
Overview of Workshop:
Unhealed grief, fear, and frustration about the climate crisis affects our initiative and hope for the future. Unexpressed emotions interfere with our ability to bring our intelligence and energy to effectively respond to the climate crisis. The opportunity to openly express emotions about the damage to the earth and its inhabitants can release enormous thinking and action.
Workshop Goals - In this workshop we will:
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Listen to each other in groups and pairs with awareness and caring
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Learn the approaches used by Sustaining All Life and United to End Racism to heal from the emotions we experience in reaction to the climate crisis, increase our effectiveness in the climate justice movement, and prevent burnout.
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Learn tools to take back to our home communities and organizations to help others notice, feel, and release their climate grief and other emotions, and reclaim initiative and energy to effectively and appropriately respond to the climate crisis.
90 minutes total
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Has anybody here felt:
These feelings, and many more, are natural to us as humans. We get to feel these feelings. If we do, it can loosen up our courage, unleash our energy, and give us space to do the work that we want to do to stop this climate emergency. If we don’t, then ----- In this workshop, we will spend some time feeling those feelings; and describing a process that you can use to continue this feelings upload when we get back home, and a way to share this process with others. |
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10 min |
1. Native Land and occupation 2. Introduce Team leader, Workshop Team and UER/SAL 3. Talk about language liberation; interpreting; 20 minutes of silence 4. Describe our goals in this workshop and what we will do today. 5. Brief description of RC, UER/SAL, and RC theory about unexpressed grief, and tools for releasing grief and other emotions. |
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10 min |
Mini-session 2 minutes each way:
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25 min |
(3 people x 5 min each) Introduce each team member. Each speaker describes
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Q & A for Speakers |
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10 min |
Possible demonstration with a participant: 4 min |
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5 Min |
Mini-2 min @ |
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Highlights |
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Close |
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END |