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Sidewalk Talk Community Listening Project Volunteer Shirt!
Gildan Ultra Cotton T-shirt
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About this campaign
We are a 100% volunteer organization. When you purchase a shirt you are supporting the continued efforts of this project by hundreds of people who are invested in learning deep listening skills to bring community kindness and increase mental health in our cities!
Note: We get lots of calls asking "when will my shirt arrive?" Note the delivery date in your order confirmation. Custom Ink requires we reach a minimum shirt order by the close of this current fundraiser. If we don't reach the minimum, your money gets returned. If we do, your shirt will get printed and arrive 10 days after the close of this campaign. Check your email. They are really good about updating you! And check your email! : )
On May 7th 2015, in for 2 hours in 12 locations throughout San Francisco 28 listeners set up chairs and signs, offering to listen to any passerby who wanted to be seen and heard if only for a few minutes.
We didn't know exactly what was going to happen when we set up our chairs and offered our listening ears. That's what was so exciting this project. We wanted to take this risk because we could feel a collective stir to evolve the way we interact around mental health, connection and community and we wanted to be part of it.
The result?
People took us up on the offer! And even those who didn't sit were visibly impacted (joyous, relieved, confused, anxious) by our presence. The mediagot interested and joined us with microphones and cameras. People from cities all around the country started asking us how they can make Sidewalk Talk happen in their communities. We had really landed on something.
Immediately after our first event we were contacted by Brooke Dooley producer of the film Listen who wanted to bring Sidewalk Talk to the streets of LA before the end of Mental Health Awareness Month. On May 26th, just a few weeks later, Sidewalk Talk LAwas born which grabbed the attention of the Los Angeles mayor's office and the LA Times.
Today?
Traci Ruble and the team at Psyched in San Franciscoare now producing Sidewalk Talk while Lily focuses her energies on her new podcast, "A Therapist Walks Into a Bar". Lily still listens from time to time and writes for Psyched Magazine. Sign up to become a Sidewalk Talk Volunteer here: SIDEWALK TALKor lead one in your own city.
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I am a Couple and Marriage Family Master's student at Adler University in Chicago. Some fellow student's have started a Sidewalk Talk- Chicago group at my school so I am purchasing a t-shirt in order to be part of it.
I love story and connecting and building community. This is an amazing idea. I'm excited to participate!
I love the idea of just listening! We all want to be heard.