Elders Action Network

Building Bridges Workshop: Strategies for Productive Disagreement
2025-04-17 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom video conferencing
Thursday, April 17, 2025
12:00-1:30 pm PT / 3:00-4:30 pm ET
Do you often feel frustrated when you’re advocating for change with elected or appointed officials, or when you’re simply trying to have a civil conversation with a friend, family member, or colleague who disagrees with you? In this workshop you will learn skills to help you manage conflict more productively, from a global expert in negotiation and mediation, and get to practice them in real time for valuable feedback.
This special workshop will be presented online on April 17 from 12:00-1:30 pm PT / 3:00-4:30 pm ET. We urge you to attend the live event to benefit from opportunities to practice your listening and assertion skills, which will not be available on the recording. Please register by April 13 to assure your place in this invaluable training.
Our guest presenter Florrie Darwin, JD, has been teaching negotiation and mediation for 25 years, as a Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Law School, a faculty member of the Harvard Program on Negotiation, and a visiting professor at several European, Asian, and Australian universities.
In addition to her academic credentials, Florrie has facilitated workshops for professionals at various corporations—including Coca Cola, General Motors, and Johnson & Johnson—as well as lawyers from dozens of countries, physicians, Palestinian and Israeli educators, real estate professionals, and trade union leaders.
Her international experience includes creating and facilitating advanced negotiation workshops for the European Commission in Brussels, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the European Central Bank, and the United Nations. Through the international organization Seeds for Peace she has trained young Palestinians, Israelis, Indians, Pakistanis, and Americans in conflict resolution skills.
A donation of $10 or more is requested.
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Connect & Refresh with the Civic Values & Culture Team
2025-04-22 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Tuesday, April 22
12:00 – 1:00 pm PT / 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET

Join our Civic Values & Culture Team as we pause from our activism and release our serious concerns during this challenging year. Once again, we will come together to enjoy our virtual and restorative community. We will reaffirm the values that guide our collaboration:

Integrity & Authenticity
Deep Listening with Openness, Curiosity and Presence
Appreciation of Differences

Register below to receive the Zoom link. Email event host Therese Flaherty at theresef@eldersaction.org with any questions.
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Elders Climate Action April National Call
2025-04-22 19:00 - 20:15 (America/New_York)
Make Polluters Pay: Holding Big Oil Accountable for Climate Damages
National Call & Action Party
April 22
4th Tuesday of the Month
7PM (Eastern) | 4PM (Pacific)
8-8:15PM Action Party

Big Oil has known about the climate crisis for decades—and they lied about it to protect their profits. Now, a growing movement is demanding justice. Across the country, states and communities are turning to the courts to make polluters pay for the damage they’ve caused. New York and Vermont have passed first-of-their-kind Climate Superfund laws, forcing fossil fuel companies to cover the billions in climate damages they’ve created, and more states are following their lead. At the same time, lawsuits against Big Oil are gaining momentum, with cities and states seeking to hold these corporations accountable for their deception and destruction.
As Trump and the fossil fuel industry push an agenda of more handouts to polluters, we have an opportunity to take a powerful, populist stand: Big Oil made this mess, and they should clean it up. Jamie Henn joins us to share what’s happening and what we can do in our states and beyond to support the effort.

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We encourage you to join from your computer the best experience, many of our speakers share slides.

Jamie Henn is the executive director of Fossil Free Media, the home of the Make Polluters Pay campaign. Along with holding Big Oil accountable, Fossil Free Media provides communications support for the broader climate movement and leads other innovative campaigns, like Clean Creatives, which pressures public relations and advertising agencies to ditch fossil fuel clients. Before founding Fossil Free Media, Jamie was a co-founder and strategic communications director for 350.org, where he worked on the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline, the fossil fuel divestment movement, the People’s Climate Marches, the Global Climate Strikes, and more. He lives in Concord, NH with his wife and 4-year old daughter.

Get ready for the Action Party from 8-8:15 PM ET with the Climate Action Now (CAN) App.

Download the app now so you are ready for action! Scan the QR code using your phone or find Climate Action Now on your phone’s App Store and use ECA’s code 56 when you set up your CAN account.

Elders for Sound Democracy - A Conversation for Democracy
2025-04-23 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
What Can I Do to Make a Difference?
Join with like-minded elders in “A Conversation for Democracy”
As Cory Booker reminded us: “I do not know what John Lewis would have… done [if he were here]. I do know he would have done something….” This Spring, many of us are trying to figure out what [and/or what else] we can do to make a difference.
Several of us who have been active in Elders for Sound Democracy want to:

Welcome elders who are exploring ways to support democracy
Share a number of ways in which we are trying to support democracy
Brainstorm together for new ideas and approaches to support democracy

JOIN MEETING

Elders for Sound Democracy - Youth Civic Engagement Action Team
2025-04-23 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Youth Civic Engagement Action Team
This Spring a few determined elders are pioneering strategies to overcome the long-term challenges of encouraging civic engagement among high schoolers and supporting voter registration drives. We are beginning now to engage educators and leaders this summer for student-led drives – supported by The Civics Center – in the Fall.
Join us on Wednesdays: April 23, May 7 and/or May 21 at 2:00 pm ET / 11:00 am PT.
For more information, email Therese at: theresef@eldersaction.org
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Exploring Elderhood
2025-04-25 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Session One: Friday, April 25
Session Two: Friday, May 2
Session Three: Friday, May 9
10:00 – 11:30 am PT / 1:00 – 2:30 pm ET
Join us in this journey into what it means to be an Elder in a time of immense change. If you are new to Elders Action Network or want to rediscover your purpose, inner joy, sense of our interconnectedness or where to get into action, this is the journey for you.
We will explore together the redefinition of who is an elder, what it is the earth is calling us to be and why our heart, mind and soul are needed to create a new future for all life on this planet.
You will be introduced to the essence of elderhood, experience processes that will allow what is deep within you to come to the forefront, feel a sense of community and ways to get into action.
This is a three-week journey with each session running 90 minutes. There will be pre-work before each week.
Space is limited, so please register early.
Suggested donation: $55
This is a suggested amount and participants are free to offer more or less depending on their individual financial situation. We do not want financial considerations to be a deterrent to participation, and it is not necessary to make a donation in order to register.
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Nonnas watch party meeting
2025-05-06 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Elders Action Network is excited to share a wonderful opportunity for you to bring families, friends and communities together and share a moment of laughter, fun meaningful conversations.
Consider hosting a Nonnas Watch Party?
A coalition of the Grandmother Collective, CoGenerate, Generations United, and 1Community have come together to encourage families and communities worldwide to host Nonnas watch parties between May 9 through June 30. From cozy living rooms to bustling community centers, watch parties will create of a global movement celebrating food, traditions, and the wisdom of older women.
Nonnas is a new film which releases on Netflix on May 9, 2025. This heartwarming film, featuring stars like Vince Vaughn, Susan Sarandon, Linda Cardellini, and Lorraine Bracco and draws inspiration from Staten Island’s renowned restaurant, Enoteca Maria.
How do I host a watch party?
Join us on Tuesday, May 6 at 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET for a chat on zoom during which we’ll share info on how to host a watch party and direct you to all the resources you will need.
Why host a watch party ?
In today’s fast-paced and often isolating world, social connection and community are more essential than ever for our emotional and mental well-being. As we spend more time working remotely, living far from family, and interacting through screens we become more distant from each other. These gatherings can provide a space for connection and spark meaningful conversations.
Plan to join us on May 6th to find out how you can be part of building community in this fun and unique way.
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Host a Nonnas Watch Party
2025-05-09 00:00 - 2025-06-30 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Elders Action Network is excited to share a wonderful opportunity for you to bring families, friends and communities together and share a moment of laughter, fun meaningful conversations.
Consider hosting a Nonnas Watch Party
A coalition of the Grandmother Collective, CoGenerate, Generations United, and 1Community have come together to encourage families and communities worldwide to host Nonnas watch parties between May 9 through June 30. From cozy living rooms to bustling community centers, watch parties will create of a global movement celebrating food, traditions, and the wisdom of older women.
Nonnas is a new film which releases on Netflix on May 9, 2025. This heartwarming film, featuring stars like Vince Vaughn, Susan Sarandon, Linda Cardellini, and Lorraine Bracco and draws inspiration from Staten Island’s renowned restaurant, Enoteca Maria.
How do I host a watch party?
Click here for information and all the resources you will need to host a watch party.
Why host a watch party?
In today’s fast-paced and often isolating world, social connection and community are more essential than ever for our emotional and mental well-being. As we spend more time working remotely, living far from family, and interacting through screens we become more distant from each other. These gatherings can provide a space for connection and spark meaningful conversations.

Elders for Sound Democracy Community Meeting
2025-05-14 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Barbara McQuade, author of Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America, will speak about disinformation in our politics and government and what we can do about it.
McQuade is a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, and a co-host of the Sisters in Law podcast.
Barbara L. McQuade is a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, where she teaches courses in criminal law, national security, and data privacy. She is also a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

From 2010 to 2017, Prof. McQuade served as the U.S Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. She was appointed by President Barack Obama and was the first woman to serve in her position. Before becoming U.S. Attorney, Prof. McQuade worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, a lawyer in private practice, and a judicial law clerk. She and her husband have four children and live in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
She has been recognized by The Detroit News with its Michiganian of the Year Award, the Detroit Free Press with its Neil Shine Award for Exemplary Regional Leadership, and Crain’s Detroit Business as one of Detroit’s Most Influential Women.

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Healing Our “Generational Legacy”
2025-05-20 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by Sage-ing International and EAN
Tuesday, May 20
10:00 am – 12:00 pm PT / 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET
An Elder is a person who deserves respect and honor, and whose work is to synthesize wisdom from long life experience and formulate this into a legacy for future generations.
–The Live Oak Project, Debbie and Barry Barkan
For many of us in our 60s, 70s, and 80s, the state of the world causes us great concern. Whether it be climate change, democracy, growing inequity, or any number of issues, this is not the world we want for those we love – yet this is our “generational legacy” – a world that is in crises.
As individuals, we are likely engaging in our individual practices and reflections as we become elders, harvest our lives, create our legacies, mentor others, and more. But how do we go forth acknowledging the concerns of our “generational legacy?”
In this webinar, we will apply Joanna Macy’s teachings of “Active Hope” as a process that we can use when hope feels elusive. Honoring our concerns, we will acknowledge what is true in our world, explore our resilience, and discover the power of constructive, collaborative action as we go forward into the future.
Facilitated by Lynne Iser and Rabbi Mordechai Lieblin.
Lynne Iser, the Founding Director of the Spiritual Eldering Institute, along with Reb Zalman. She currently works with Elders Action Network, “building a movement of elders addressing the social and environmental issues of our time,” and continues to teach Sage-ing and the Deep Ecology work of Joanna Macy, in webinars and retreat centers.
Rabbi Mordechai Liebling was the founding director of the Social Justice Organizing program at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and most recently served as the Senior Advisor to POWER Interfaith, the largest faith-based community organizing network in PA. He is the Vice-Chair of Faith in Action which organizes in 22 states and 12 countries.
Fees
Supporter – $45
Basic – $40
Reduced – $35
To request one of the limited number of scholarships or with any questions, please email Rosemary Cox, r.cox@sage-ing.org.
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Elders for Sound Democracy - A Conversation for Democracy
2025-05-21 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-06-25 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-07-23 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-08-27 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
10:00 – 11:00 am PT / 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET
What Can I Do to Make a Difference?
Join with like-minded elders in “A Conversation for Democracy”
As Cory Booker reminded us: “I do not know what John Lewis would have… done [if he were here]. I do know he would have done something….” This Spring, many of us are trying to figure out what [and/or what else] we can do to make a difference.
Several of us who have been active in Elders for Sound Democracy want to:

Welcome elders who are exploring ways to support democracy
Share a number of ways in which we are trying to support democracy
Brainstorm together for new ideas and approaches to support democracy

register

After registering, you will receive an email from Zoom (no-reply@zoom.us) with a unique link to join the event. Please check your email inbox.

Unlocking Your Purpose
2025-05-27 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by Sage-ing International and EAN
Four Tuesdays: May 27, June 24, July 22, August 26
10:00 – 11:30 am PT / 1:00 – 2:30 pm ET
This series is based on the 4th Edition of the book, The Power of Purpose, written by Richard Leider and David Shapiro. Using a highly interactive format, Richard and Gary will invite participants to explore the role of purpose in their lives.
Fees
Supporter – $95
Basic – $75
Reduced – $40
To request one of the limited number of scholarships or with any questions, please email Rosemary Cox, r.cox@sage-ing.org.
REGISTER

Connect & Refresh with the Civic Values & Culture Team
2025-05-27 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Tuesday, May 27
12:00 – 1:00 pm PT / 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET

Join our Civic Values & Culture Team as we pause from our activism and release our serious concerns during this challenging year. Once again, we will come together to enjoy our virtual and restorative community. We will reaffirm the values that guide our collaboration:

Integrity & Authenticity
Deep Listening with Openness, Curiosity and Presence
Appreciation of Differences

Register below to receive the Zoom link. Email event host Therese Flaherty at theresef@eldersaction.org with any questions.
register

Elders for Sound Democracy Community Meeting
2025-06-18 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Wednesday, June 18, 10:00 – 11:30 am PT / 1:00 – 2:30 pm ET
The ESD Leadership Team recognizes the serious threat that disinformation poses to our democracy. The Disinformation Action Team has diligently researched the techniques and amplification methods that drive disinformation across social media platforms to address this challenge. Our mission in this first campaign is to empower social media users, particularly those in the 18 to 35-year-old group, to think critically about the information they encounter.
Join us on June 18 to learn about the launch of the ESD Disinformation Action Team’s social media campaign! Hear about and contribute ideas for our strategies to counter disinformation and discover ways you can get involved in this critical movement.
Let’s take action to combat disinformation and protect the integrity of information in our communities and beyond. Together, we can make a difference.

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Resilience and Acceptance in the Face of Collapse
2025-06-18 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
We are offering a course for people to gather and learn, to grieve, to plan, and have the space to speak our truths together. It focuses on inner resilience, adaptive responses, collective acceptance of the climate crisis and provides a worldview pertaining to a new and different future.

This is a free, nine-session online course starting on Wednesday, June 18 at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm ET. Registration will begin on May 14.
After the course attendees will be able to:

Define collapse.
Articulate their own understanding about the Great Unraveling and at what stage of awareness they are.
More freely navigate their emotional responses to a collapse.
Name and put into practice several tools for inner resilience.
Describe and weigh out the benefits of localization for outer resilience.
Live in greater balance and harmony with all the spirits which create and support life.
Identify the benefits of acceptance most pertinent to them and their life circumstances.
Meetings are 1 ½ hours. Preparation: 2-3 hours a week

REGISTER (Maximum 25 participants)

Message From the Course Developers
“With great sadness and great love, we are convinced that this is a time of unraveling…biodiversity loss, ocean degradation, urban flooding, political strife, climate crisis and migrations, economic and political instability, food shortages, wildfires, soil degradation.
We have two choices: turning away or turning toward. For a long time, we have learned to turn our eyes away and live as we have always lived.
With these moving thoughts from the Developer’s in mind: We believe that closing our eyes has not served us. It’s time to turn towards—wake up and see what is happening in the world and in ourselves, in the ways we relate to the entire Community of Life. Turning toward takes courage, honesty and love.”
This course is not about traditional resilience solutions. Instead, the course leads participants through a process of opening their eyes in awareness and turning towards what-is with ever-deepening acceptance, through wise responses to our predicament.”

Elders for Sound Democracy - Youth Civic Engagement Action Team
2025-06-24 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Youth Civic Engagement Action Team
For three years, Elders from EAN and ESD have supported the programs of The Civics Center by writing letters and postcards (over 55,000 to PA and AZ parents in 2024), researching, and helping to connect high schools across the country with the free resources offered by The Civics Center.
If you would like to learn more or consider getting involved, join us on Tuesdays, June 24, July 22, and/or August 26 at 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET.
For more information, email Therese at: theresef@eldersaction.org
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Elders for Sound Democracy Community Meeting
2025-07-16 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Wednesday, July 16, 10:00 – 11:30 am PT / 1:00 – 2:30 pm ET
Our internal research following the November election suggested a sentiment among voters that underweighted core democratic values, and we concluded that disinformation and political corruption were key factors in the results, which were largely unfavorable to democracy. In our last two community meetings, we’ve focused on disinformation, including the work of our Disinformation Action team.
At our July meeting, the Countering Political Corruption team will highlight major problems related to political corruption in our democracy and suggest some potential solutions. For issues needing a rapid response, our Defend Democracy Now team will outline its strategy. We’ll discuss actions each of us can take to help restore integrity and work toward a government that’s more of, by, and for the people, as our founders envisioned.
Please join us to hear about our research and plans, contribute your ideas, and discover ways you can get involved in this critical moment. Together, we can make a difference.

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Exploring Elderhood
2025-07-22 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Session One: Tuesday, July 22
Session Two: Tuesday, July 29
Session Three: Tuesday, August 5
10:00 – 11:30 am PT / 1:00 – 2:30 pm ET
Join us in this journey into what it means to be an Elder in a time of immense change. If you are new to Elders Action Network or want to rediscover your purpose, inner joy, sense of our interconnectedness or where to get into action, this is the journey for you.
We will explore together the redefinition of who is an elder, what it is the earth is calling us to be and why our heart, mind and soul are needed to create a new future for all life on this planet.
You will be introduced to the essence of elderhood, experience processes that will allow what is deep within you to come to the forefront, feel a sense of community and ways to get into action.
This is a three-week journey with each session running 90 minutes. There will be pre-work before each week.
Space is limited, so please register early.
Suggested donation: $55
This is a suggested amount and participants are free to offer more or less depending on their individual financial situation. We do not want financial considerations to be a deterrent to participation, and it is not necessary to make a donation in order to register.
register

Connect & Refresh with the Civic Values & Culture Team
2025-07-22 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Tuesday, July 22
12:00 – 1:00 pm PT / 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET

Join our Civic Values & Culture Team as we pause from our activism and release our serious concerns during this challenging year. Once again, we will come together to enjoy our virtual and restorative community. We will reaffirm the values that guide our collaboration.

Integrity & Authenticity
Deep Listening with Openness, Curiosity, and Presence
Appreciation of Differences

Register below to receive the Zoom link. For more information, email Therese Flaherty at theresef@eldersaction.org.
register

Elders for Sound Democracy Community Meeting
2025-08-20 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Wednesday, August 20, 10:00 – 11:30 am PT / 1:00 – 2:30 pm ET
Join us on August 20 as we welcome back David Pepper—lawyer, author, political activist, adjunct professor of election and voting rights law, and former state party chair. A graduate of Yale University (BA) and Yale Law School (JD), David returns to share insights from the newly released Second Edition of Saving Democracy: A User’s Manual—a practical guide for resisting autocracy and advancing democracy, especially at the local and state levels.
David is also the author of the influential non-fiction book, Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines (2021). He has written four political thrillers: A Simple Choice (2022) The Voter File (2020) The Wingman (2018) The People’s House (2016) In addition to his books, David is an active voice on democracy issues, posting daily on Pepperspectives Substack and regularly appearing on Substack Live in interviews with fellow experts on resisting autocracy. This event will be a timely and important conversation. Join us to discover concrete, practical ways each one of us can help defend and strengthen democracy—starting right in our own communities.
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Connect & Refresh with the Civic Values & Culture Team
2025-08-26 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Tuesday, August 26
12:00 – 1:00 pm PT / 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET

Join our Civic Values & Culture Team as we pause from our activism and release our serious concerns during this challenging year. Once again, we will come together to enjoy our virtual and restorative community. We will reaffirm the values that guide our collaboration.

Integrity & Authenticity
Deep Listening with Openness, Curiosity, and Presence
Appreciation of Differences

Register below to receive the Zoom link. For more information, email Therese Flaherty at theresef@eldersaction.org.
register

Future Design Group
2025-09-10 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Wednesday, September 10
Second Wednesday of each month
4:00 – 5:00 pm PT / 7:00 – 8:00 pm ET
At this meeting, the team will share updates on workshops and projects as well as marketing opportunities and ways you can get involved in spreading the word about Future Design in your area.
Register below to receive the Zoom link. For more information, email Teri Whitehair at teriw@eldersaction.org.
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Elders for Sound Democracy’s Defend Democracy Team
2025-09-15 10:30 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Monday, September 15
10:30 – 12:00 pm PT / 1:30 – 3:00 pm ET
Our meetings take place on the first and third Monday of each month.
Topic: Defend Democracy Now!
Our country is at a pivotal crossroads. Which path will we follow?
Our current government is undermining the institutions of democratic self-government, suppressing our freedom to think/speak/learn/and dissent, and restricting people’s right to vote. ESD’s Defend Democracy team plans actions we can take to push back against these authoritarian threats.
History has shown that, if we want to keep our republic, we can’t wait for someone else to do it for us. We must take vigorous action ourselves.
Please join the discussion. Bring your ideas, your energy and your passion. For more information, email Ken Barnes at kbarnes@kenbarneslaw.com.
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Elders for Sound Democracy Community Meeting Co-sponsored by Elders Climate Action
2025-09-17 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Wednesday, September 17, 10:00 – 11:30 am PT / 1:00 – 2:30 pm ET
Co-sponsored by Elders Climate Action
Join us on September 17 for another session of our Democracy Forum Speaker Series, Democracy on the Line: November 2025, featuring leaders of two of our partner organizations—The Center for Common Ground and The Environmental Voter Project (EVP). They will highlight the actions we can take to support their efforts to increase voter turnout among infrequent voters who care about the environment and those who may need information about voting, to make a meaningful difference for this fall’s election and in future. ESD partnered with both of them during the 2024 national elections, and ECA has a history of collaborating with EVP.
Featured Speakers

Andrea Miller, The Center for Common Ground – Reclaim Our Vote

A Black- and women-led, nonpartisan voting rights organization, The Center for Common Ground empowers Black, Indigenous, and other voters of color to overcome barriers to voting. The Reclaim Our Vote campaign dramatically increases voter participation and ensures communities can make their voices heard.

Shannon Seigal, Environmental Voter Project (EVP)

EVP focuses on turning environmental concerns into electoral power. By identifying environmentally conscious but infrequent voters and encouraging them to vote, EVP has a nine-year history of strengthening pro-environment voter turnout to advance environmental policy and justice.
Learn about the impact of these vital efforts—and discover how you can volunteer to help protect democracy this November.
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Resilience and Acceptance in the Face of Collapse
2025-09-23 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
A free, nine-session online course starting on Tuesday, September 23 at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm ET. It focuses on inner resilience, adaptive responses, collective acceptance of the climate crisis and provides a worldview pertaining to a new and different future.
After the course attendees will be able to:

Define collapse.
Articulate their own understanding about the Great Unraveling and at what stage of awareness they are.
More freely navigate their emotional responses to a collapse.
Name and put into practice several tools for inner resilience.
Describe and weigh out the benefits of localization for outer resilience.
Live in greater balance and harmony with all the spirits which create and support life.
Identify the benefits of acceptance most pertinent to them and their life circumstances.
Meetings are 1 ½ hours. Preparation: 2-3 hours a week

REGISTER (Maximum 25 participants)

Message From the Course Developers
“With great sadness and great love, we are convinced that this is a time of unraveling…biodiversity loss, ocean degradation, urban flooding, political strife, climate crisis and migrations, economic and political instability, food shortages, wildfires, soil degradation.
We have two choices: turning away or turning toward. For a long time, we have learned to turn our eyes away and live as we have always lived.
With these moving thoughts from the Developer’s in mind: We believe that closing our eyes has not served us. It’s time to turn towards—wake up and see what is happening in the world and in ourselves, in the ways we relate to the entire Community of Life. Turning toward takes courage, honesty and love.”
This course is not about traditional resilience solutions. Instead, the course leads participants through a process of opening their eyes in awareness and turning towards what-is with ever-deepening acceptance, through wise responses to our predicament.”

Elders for Sound Democracy - A Conversation for Democracy
2025-09-25 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
10:00 – 11:00 am PT / 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET
What Can I Do to Make a Difference?
Join with like-minded elders in “A Conversation for Democracy”
As Cory Booker reminded us: “I do not know what John Lewis would have… done [if he were here]. I do know he would have done something….” Many of us are trying to figure out what [and/or what else] we can do to make a difference.
Several of us who have been active in Elders for Sound Democracy want to:

Welcome elders who are exploring ways to support democracy
Share a number of ways in which we are trying to support democracy
Brainstorm together for new ideas and approaches to support democracy

register

After registering, you will receive an email from Zoom (no-reply@zoom.us) with a unique link to join the event. Please check your email inbox.

Connect & Refresh with the Civic Values & Culture Team
2025-09-25 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Thursday, September 25
12:30 – 1:30 pm PT / 3:30 – 4:30 pm ET

Join our Civic Values & Culture Team as we pause from our activism and release our serious concerns during this challenging year. Once again, we will come together to enjoy our virtual and restorative community. We will reaffirm the values that guide our collaboration.

Integrity & Authenticity
Deep Listening with Openness, Curiosity, and Presence
Appreciation of Differences

Register below to receive the Zoom link. For more information, email Therese Flaherty at theresef@eldersaction.org.
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