Our Mission
Empowering individuals, organizations, and communities to Build Resilience So They Can Thrive In a climate changing world.
Climate change is an urgent crisis that is symptomatic of deeper underlying problems, the impacts of which affect us all.
Emergent Resilience develops and provides research-based offerings that help our clients thrive in the midst of dramatic global change. We help anyone build climate resilience, especially those whose work involves climate change, such as scientists, regulators, lawyers, advocates, activists, and more.
Our programs:
address current and potential climate distress at all levels of our partners’ ecosystems.
empower efforts to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis and other structural stressors.
enable everyone to contribute to the emergence of a better future.
Climate Wisdom Labᵀᴹ
Our flagship program is the Climate Wisdom Lab, an experiential and highly interactive workshop that prepares participants for sustainable engagement with climate change, structural oppression and inequality, and other systemic challenges by enabling awareness of participants’ unique experience of climate change and social disruption and helping participants develop specific and practical capacities and skill sets that are essential for engaging with and thriving amidst the dramatic ecological, social, and political changes of our time.
Who We Work With
We help colleges, universities, and other educational institutions develop programs and curriculum that help their students, faculty and staff thrive within the complex psychological and mental health realities of a climate changing world.
We support government agencies, non-profits, corporations, and others seeking to mitigate the impacts of structural stressors, and to build internal capacity for long-term resilience.
We help communities address the current impacts of climate distress, while enhancing their capacity to implement local climate solutions and to respond resiliently to future impacts.
Client Spotlight
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Mass. Attorney General’s Office
- Energy and Environment Bureau
STanford University
University of Oregon
University of Vermont
Our Programs
We offer a range of programs that can be customized to our partners’ needs. Our work is informed by climate psychology, systems theory, neurobiology, trauma theory, deep ecology, organizational management theory, and contemplative practice, as well as our clients’ unique needs and the broader socio-political environment.
Headlined by our Climate Wisdom Labᵀᴹ, our programs help institutions, organizations and communities address psychosocial responses to structural disruption and catalyze transformational change.
Workshops, seminars and other events that foster awareness and empower engagement with the mental and emotional challenges of a climate changing world.
Multi-day experiences that nurture climate resilience through dialogue, experiential learning, skill instruction, nature connection, and mindfulness practices.
Program Spotlight
Esalen Institute
Big Sur, CA
San Francisco Zen Center
San Francisco, CA
University of COlorado - Boulder
Boulder, CO
Washington State University
Pullman, WA
What People Are Saying?
“I am beyond grateful that I got to attend such an amazing and life changing event.”
“Calming, inclusive, inspiring.”
“So important for healing, repair, and moving towards action.”
“I really appreciated how organized, thorough and thoughtful the facilitators were; and I can’t say enough about the community-building aspects woven into the entire workshop. Amazing participants, too!”
“Powerful and informative.”
“There is great value in sharing our emotional experience of national and community crises such as the pandemic, racial injustice, and climate change. It is a comforting and rejuvenating experience.”
“Deeply nourishing and connecting.”