A deep learning program for people seeking clarity, courage, and community on their climate journeys.
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“Each one of us is a node of possibility for climate healing, whoever we are and whatever we’ve got to give.”
Dr. Katharine Wilkinson, lead creator of Climate Wayfinding
“Each one of us is a node of possibility for climate healing, whoever we are and whatever we’ve got to give.” Dr. Katharine Wilkinson, lead creator of Climate Wayfinding
Our team is on a mission to make Climate Wayfinding available and accessible across higher education and beyond.
We’re currently training faculty and staff as facilitators to help students navigate this liminal time and their place in it.
How we find our way
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Explore climate emotions, values, and “superpowers”
We welcome and witness the essential emotions, core motivations, and guiding values that we bring with us into climate engagement, reflecting on what guidance they offer. We map and honor the skills or “superpowers” we want to contribute to collective transformation. -
Explore climate solutions, accelerators, and community
We scan the wide range of climate solutions and accelerators or “leverage points” for change, using our energy and curiosity to filter and gain focus. We survey our unique contexts and communities, to consider where we want to engage and who our collaborators could be. -
Create a personalized “climate compass” and plan
We weave together the threads of inquiry and discovery to each create a “climate compass” — a living navigational tool for our climate journeys. We plan next steps to deepen or enliven our climate engagement, taking action in our personal, professional, and political lives.
Who is this program for?
Climate Wayfinding is for people seeking clarity, courage, and community on their climate journeys.
✓ You’re grappling with how to be of use for climate healing or looking to find your place in climate engagement.
✓ You’re engaged already but feeling stuck, restless, or hungry for a deeper sense of purpose and contribution.
✓ You’re eager to grow your own capacities for finding your way or want to support others on their climate journeys.
By fostering space for individual and collective navigation amidst the climate crisis, this program is designed to meet all of those needs and more. All backgrounds, disciplines, and career stages are warmly welcome!
But…Climate Wayfinding isn’t for everyone. If you aren’t interested in deeper introspection or engaging in community, you won’t enjoy this program. If you’re looking primarily for climate 101, career counseling, technical content, or one-size-fits-all answers, you’ll be better served elsewhere.
What does the experience involve?
Climate Wayfinding participants engage in diverse modes of exploration and tap into multiple ways of knowing. The program weaves together the following elements:
✓ Curated read/watch/listen materials
✓ Grounding with music and poetry
✓ Questions to open and close group time
✓ Guided visualizations and meditations
✓ Prompts for reflection and free-writing
✓ Facilitated large-group discussion
✓ Independent small-group discussion
✓ Frameworks for exploration and synthesis
✓ Resources and activities to go deeper where desired
Hear stories from past participants
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Anya Gandavadi
“Even though I had the climate knowledge and the passion, I realized something was still holding me back from taking the climate action I wanted to take: fear, and the inner work I needed to do to actually sit with that fear and understand it. Climate Wayfinding gave me the space, tools, and supportive community to do this work. I feel a new steadiness. Steady in myself and in how I can best be of use in the climate movement.”
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Meghan Chapple
“I think so many of us — even when we aren’t talking about it — have this anxious part inside saying, ‘Get to net-zero by 2030. Fight all the wildfires. Do everything good for the climate, alone, right now… go!’ And we don’t know how to admit this to each other, much less how to unpack it so that it doesn’t freeze us in fear, in inaction, in isolation. We miss the ‘nourishment’ piece — making connections, playing to your strengths, and feeling the joy that comes from that. Climate Wayfinding gave me that nourishment and the skills to bring it into my own work.”
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Belinda Ramírez
“Educators like me need the tools of Climate Wayfinding to navigate the feelings side of climate work, for ourselves and for our students. So many students are flailing in the midst of the knowledge that we are in a climate emergency and yet many in power are not doing anything about it. How can we feel our way through those feelings together and keep going — because the world needs us?”
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Grey Kenna
“Climate Wayfinding taught me how to go where the energy is — to be honest with myself about what I actually enjoy and find energizing. And then to go and do that in service of the planet. I am an artist and a photographer. I no longer see that as separate from ‘more serious’ climate work. My contributions matter. It all matters.”
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Francisco Gallegos
“When I found Climate Wayfinding, I was really struggling with the disconnect between the urgency of the climate emergency we are in and my inability to talk about it in social spaces without being labeled ‘a really big bummer.’ I needed help learning how to talk about these emotions in productive and nourishing ways, without being naive or dismissive. Otherwise, I feared that every conversation would keep ending with, ‘We are all doomed,’ which is actually not what the science says. The solutions are out there. That’s the good news. But people need the emotional tools to even have the energy and clarity to act on them.”
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