To participate in our 2024 facilitator workshops, you must be a current faculty or staff member at a college or university and feel committed to facilitating Climate Wayfinding on your campus in some form or fashion during the 2024-25 academic year. (We’ll get you ready to do just that!)

It’s useful to have some climate knowledge coming into the workshop, but expertise in sustainability/environmental studies is not required. We warmly encourage applications from professors across academic disciplines and staff from student affairs, counseling/psychological services, sustainability offices, career services, and beyond. All career stages are welcome. As part of the program, The All We Can Save Project team will offer pre-reading to ground workshop participants in shared material and concepts.

We believe higher education has a central role to play in healing the climate crisis. Campuses are training grounds for emerging changemakers, and every day, faculty and staff are helping to grow and strengthen the climate community. More than ever, students need to develop the capacities to navigate this liminal time and make their unique contributions. By training faculty and staff as Climate Wayfinding facilitators, this program will be able to reach thousands of climate-concerned undergraduate and graduate students looking to do just that.

We also know that many higher education professionals are seeking renewal, deeper connection, and a space to clarify their own unique climate contributions. Core to Climate Wayfinding is helping faculty and staff find their own answers to the same question students are asking: “What can I do?”

Bringing Climate Wayfinding to life on your campus entails making the workshop content and experience accessible to students within your campus community. Depending on the specifics of your role, this could take a variety of forms. Faculty might thread Climate Wayfinding into existing courses or create new courses (e.g., full semester, summer, or J-term). Staff or faculty might run Climate Wayfinding as immersive workshops or thread elements of Climate Wayfinding into existing co-curricular programs.

After speaking with dozens of higher education professionals and running pilot workshops this year, we’ve learned that every campus community operates differently. Our facilitator workshops aim to support Climate Wayfinding coming to life in ways that feel most aligned with facilitators’ unique student body and the norms, practices, needs, and cultures of their specific institutions.

Climate Wayfinding will help students clarify their values and deepest motivations, discover their unique skills and superpowers, and identify what climate solutions most energize them. It will also help them engage with their climate emotions in generative ways and consider their unique contexts and communities for action.

We know jobs are top of mind for many students; while this program is not focused on career counseling, it lays a foundation that can be useful for clarifying career aspirations and supporting job search.

We also asked our student alumni this very question, and here’s what they shared with us…

• “You learn what motivates your climate action in a really heart-centered way.”

• “You learn not to be scared of your heavy climate emotions, but to embrace them and let them guide you to catalyze change.”

• “You learn about your own skills based on what comes naturally and feels authentically you. You learn to follow and trust what feels energetically true.”

• “You learn that connecting with a climate community can help combat the self-isolation that often accompanies climate doom.”

The purpose of this workshop is to equip facilitators to deliver the Climate Wayfinding content and experience to climate-concerned students. That begins with encountering it first as a participant, gaining “navigational” practices, frameworks, and resources for your own climate journey. Then, you will learn about our facilitation approach, begin to try it out, and get introduced to the digital resource hub that will support bringing Climate Wayfinding to life on campus (more on that below). Taken together, we hope you’ll depart the workshop feeling personally nourished and renewed by Climate Wayfinding and professionally energized and prepared to expand its reach to students who are seeking clarity, courage, and community on their climate journeys.

After the workshop, all trained facilitators will gain access to a digital resource hub, which will include:

• how-to guides for bringing Climate Wayfinding to life on campus through a range of modalities (e.g., full semester or short course, immersive workshop, or threaded into existing course or co-curricular program);

• detailed agendas and facilitator notes for all core Climate Wayfinding sessions (designed for modularity);

• a suite of supporting materials (e.g., audio and video content, music playlists, writing prompts, discussion questions, and curated content for students to read, watch, and listen to).

In addition to the digital hub, our team will provide support and coaching throughout the 2024-25 academic year. This may take the form of online group sessions or personalized 1:1 support. We will also support program alumni in connecting with each other, and in sharing resources, ideas, and best practices.

The workshops at Elohee and Omega are open to faculty and staff from all regions. The workshop at Bloom is only open to faculty and staff employed at colleges or universities in Canada.

The content and training provided at each workshop will be identical, so we invite you to consider what makes the most sense for you in terms of geography and dates. You will be able to select your workshop preference(s) in the application. If you’re able to attend multiple workshops, you’ll have the option to rank your preferences, and we’ll do our best to accommodate your top choice.

Each retreat center offers a mix of accommodation options (e.g., single or double occupancy rooms, private or shared bathrooms). Once admitted to the program, participants work directly with the respective retreat center to book the room option that best meets their needs and budgets. You can learn more about the specific accommodations on Elohee’s website, Omega’s website, and Bloom’s website.

We expect total housing costs for the 5-day/4-night workshop to fall within $750-$1300, depending on selection and availability. That cost includes all communal meals, beginning with dinner on day one, and use of campus amenities.

We ask that all participants stay on site, unless they live within a 30-minute commute. All workshop activities will take place on site; no day-to-day transportation is needed during the workshop itself.

We will make every effort to accommodate financial requests. To start, we encourage you to explore options for support from your institution. In addition, The All We Can Save Project has ear-marked some funds to support individuals who are a great fit for the program, but for whom the cost is prohibitive. If you need financial assistance, you’ll be invited to share your request and level of access to financial resources (see “Program Costs” section above) in the application.

Applications for our 2024 summer cohorts officially close on Friday, November 10, but we’ll review applicants on a rolling basis.

If we have additional questions about your application, we’ll reach out to request a short 15-minute interview. We’ll follow-up with all applicants with an application update by Monday, November 20.

Our 2024 workshops build on seven successful Climate Wayfinding cohorts to date, including two focused specifically on higher ed. 2024 marks a special evolution of the program; it is our first time offering workshops to train faculty and staff to bring Climate Wayfinding back to their campuses. As always, we request your openness and your thoughtful feedback along the way. Your input will help shape the Climate Wayfinding facilitator experience for future cohorts.

Yes! Dates and details to be confirmed, but we’re aiming for additional programs for higher-ed professionals in May and June 2025. Please sign-up for The All We Can Save Project’s monthly newsletter to learn when future programs are announced.