Support

Climate Anxiety Is Real and So Are We!

This is a safe space for all the feelings and emotions to face the climate catastrophe with Hope, Courage, and Love.

Come share and build community. This is a critical space for learning, connecting, and increasing our resiliency. This is a safe space to share your fears and hopes about this challenging time we live in. We build a better tomorrow today and we will take bold, courageous, loving steps to protect our planet and our humanity when we can have a supportive community.

Families For a Future is building a youth-led, family centered, intergenerational movement in LA, to address the water crisis & climate catastrophe. We use tools of cultural liberation & healing justice (dance, music, meditation, visual arts, performance arts.) All we do is rooted in strengthening community bonds and includes healing, service and action. We inspire, with courageous love, the creative disruption necessary to break us free of the status quo and the constant march towards complacency.

**The Support Group is on hold and will resume Tuesday, August 23, 2022, when we will provide 2nd and 4th Tuesday 8:30-9:30 Zoom call. Come when you can, the door always open!

For our first session, we will focus on the phrase – “It is always darkest before the dawn.” It also means it will be darkest before it gets better and it will be harder before its easier.

– What does this mean to you in this time? how does it apply to the climate crisis?

– How do we increase our resiliency?

Share sign – New Normal – Uncertainty is the new normal, Accept the new reality, Adapt to the new normal

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[/vc_column_text][/vc_accordion_tab][vc_accordion_tab title=”Session 2 Tuesday May 10th 8:30p-9:30p” title_color=”#ffffff” background_color=”#e06797″][vc_column_text]A week after our last support group a Colorado Buddhist set himself on fire to express his deep distress about the climate crisis and the lack of action. While there is a contextual history for self-emulation, tonight we are going to talk about how we return/maintain ourselves and our actions from a place of hope, courage, and love.

What kind of acts come up from a place of Courage, Hope, and Love?
What is the difference between intentions and consequences?- Do we need to be responsible if our actions allow others to find justification to harm them selves?- Many youth today are taking there own lives or contemplating it
How do we not fall into acts of despair or desperation as we become more desperate to see change?
What does it take to maintain hope, love, and courage when the world has failed?
What is the role of community/support group?

We don’t get to live in the light anymore. We have to live within the darkness that has been made by the failure of the adults and leaders. Now we have to be the light within the darkness. We must make our own light so others can help to make it bigger.

article on Colorado Buddhist

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/25/politics/supreme-court-climate-activist-dies-fire/index.html[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]A week after our last support group a Colorado Buddhist set himself on fire to express his deep distress about the climate crisis and the lack of action. While there is a contextual history for self-emulation, tonight we are going to talk about how we return/maintain ourselves and our actions from a place of hope, courage, and love.

What kind of acts come up from a place of Courage, Hope, and Love?
What is the difference between intentions and consequences?- Do we need to be responsible if our actions allow others to find justification to harm them selves?- Many youth today are taking there own lives or contemplating it
How do we not fall into acts of despair or desperation as we become more desperate to see change?
What does it take to maintain hope, love, and courage when the world has failed?
What is the role of community/support group?

article on Colorado Buddhist

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/25/politics/supreme-court-climate-activist-dies-fire/index.html[/vc_column_text][/vc_accordion_tab][vc_accordion_tab title=”Tuesday May 24th 8:30-9:30p”][vc_column_text]GETTING STARTED (20 MIN) UPDATED (5-24-22)

WELLNESS ACTIVITY-

Shell Consultant Quits after 11 years- https://www.democracynow.org/

FAC. INTRO- Group leader (background/role)-

GROUP PURPOSE- This space is for the community to have community. In todays world our change work cannot only be about the world around us. We have to adapt and increase our capacity for resiliency. And it is our responsibility to treat people like whole beings. Not issues. So we want to talk about it so we can be about it. Why we believe hope and inspiration is the greatest need at this time. We have to remind ourselves we are more than extinction. Organically build this model together and our ultimate to increase our resiliency and capacity to continually & always courage, love, hope.

GROUP GUIDELINES- (Get input on guidelines -get feedback between session)

This a safe space for all voices
Be lean of expression
Generative conflict and discomfort are also part of being in a safe space
hold tightly to your values and loosely to your ideas
Please be aware of how much space you take up and stretch yourself out of your usual comfort zone.

This space holds our fear of the unknown, our hopes, and our confusion. And most of all collectively weave together the path that we can walk with hope, courage, and love.

MIDDLE (35 MIN)

Today want to provide a more open format- there is a lot we are facing at this time, the climate is one component, and yet there is much more. We thought today we would open the space for talking about what’s weighing on your heart.

What’s alive in you at this time?

Emotional ability to hold all our truths- beautiful, sad, ugly, hard= all of it is us

Small to big (3 billion youth under age of 25 on the planet today- the future is with the youth! And the truth tellers)

WRAP UP (5 MIN)

1 word check out- After today’s support group I feel?
Centering Activity: read Quote (Octavia B.)
- I got my dignity, I have a right to be here, I got a history, I got a future, I got a purpose

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