Turn Climate Grief into Global Youth Action

November 2020 report - Turn Climate Grief into Global Youth Action

Hello friends!

As we are getting closer to World Children’s Day, we wanted to update you with the progress we’ve made over the last few months.

We have been able to get our new Green13 activities fully translated in Arabic, French, Italian, Chinese and Spanish. In addition, we have been able to get some of our activities translated into 9 more languages. These are: Bosanski, Croatian, Lithaunian, Portuguese, Romanian, Albanian, Turkish, Japanese and Korean. The Green13 Kit is now ready to be used in virtual and in person POP-UP events. 

With the help of our Super Mentors, we have also been hosting virtual POP-UP Festival trainings across the world. We have successfully conducted trainings in multiple languages and regions so that our hosts around the world can prepare for the event, learn what to expect and the best ways to conduct such sessions.

We’re so excited to reach out to as many children around the world as possible and provide them wellbeing resources. We’d really appreciate you spreading the word and encouraging people in your network to be part of the festival. Please feel free to share POP-UP festival registration page (see link below)

Thank you for being a part of our POP-UP community and helping us increase children’s wellbeing around the world. 

Warmly,
Patty Freedman

Links:

• Free activities for kids mental health and wellbeing

July 10, 2020

Hello friends, 

We wanted to take some time to share an update with you about what’s been going on with the POP-UP festival Green 13 project over the last quarter. 

Green 13 resources help children (and their adults) grow the capabilities for tapping into emotions for positive climate action -- and for better coping with climate grief &  eco-anxiety. Green13 POP-UP kit, will support 5 million people to participate in climate action awareness activities to increase climate resilience for kids.

Green13 POP-UP kit is a collection of climate-focused POP-UP activities grounded in research, brain-based learning and fun. The content focuses on five key factors kids need to cope with climate grief:

• open conversations about feelings related to climate crisis
• practice emotional intelligence skills to understand and navigate these feelings
• grow climate resilience assets to increase wellbeing
• take small activation steps to increase self-efficacy
• support young people to be able to share their perspectives to increase connection 

In April we held a virtual conference “Climate of Emotions: Supporting Youth Wellbeing” (2.5k views) Check it out the livestream replay on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpkEW1CE7nI&t=974s

The Climate of Emotions Conference focused on bringing together leaders, activists and NGOs ready to talk about eco-anxiety and the critical moment for climate change.  Participants learned about the role emotional intelligence skills can play in activating change through networks of community and effective leadership.

In addition, we created a second video “Emotions for the Climate: Pandemic lessons on engaging climate grief & purpose” to share the take-away message that we need to be more emotionally resilient in order to navigate emotions to take action on the climate crisis. Check it out the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bw2UMdFKHw

We’d like to thank you for supporting us and look forward to a busy summer of creating Green 13 content for the 2020 POP-UP Festival.

Warmly,

Patty Freedman 

Links:

• virtual classes to grow your emotional intelligence
• get signed up for POP-UP Festival