Clients

We help colleges, universities, and other academic institutions develop programs and curriculum that prepare their students, faculty and staff to thrive within the complex affective realities of a climate changing world.

Academic institutions are beset by unprecedented challenges. While such institutions have traditionally focused on pedagogy about content-delivery and assessable “deliverables,” they are also in the unique position to engage the climate leaders of the future. Institutions seeking to be responsive to emerging social and environmental crises can prepare now by developing programs and processes that can address the full range of student and staff responses to these unfolding crises.

Our programs support colleges, universities and other scholarly institutions, and co-curricular institutions there-in seeking to:

• improve student, faculty, and staff well-being.

• assess the affective impacts of their current course offerings.

• develop institutional resilience in the face of current and emerging challenges.

We do this through socio-affective learning programs that help our partners:

• improve alignment between institutional mission, culture, and practices.

• enable awareness and transformation of psychosocial responses to structural stressors.

• create course offerings that support students’ sense of agency and engagement.

• find purpose and meaning through long-term climate engagement.

• design and implement programs designed to inspire the next generation of climate justice leaders.

Academic institutions have a rare opportunity to respond to the climate crisis and related socio-cultural disruption with innovative pedagogy that can help prepare students to find purpose and meaning through long-term engagement with the most significant challenges of our time. Our programs help them do just that.

Program Spotlight:

Climate Wisdom Lab

The Climate Wisdom Lab is a professional development offering designed to help faculty develop courses that prepare students for sustainable engagement with climate change, structural oppression and inequality, and other systemic challenges. The program supports awareness of participants’ specific affective experiences, builds understanding of the complex psychosocial dimensions of climate change and other stressors, assesses the hidden affective implications of existing course offerings, and creates a collaborative creative process for developing innovative new offerings and teaching modules that respond to the unique demands of today’s educational environment.

Contact us to find out how the Climate Wisdom Lab can help your institution educate the next generation of climate leaders:

We help government agencies, non-profits, corporations, and other organizations mitigate the internal impacts of structural stressors and climate trauma, and to build internal capacity for long-term resilience.

Organizations inhabit social systems that are negatively affected by persistent climate stress. For many organizations, these relatively new challenges often occur against a backdrop of significant workplace stress, an issue recognized by the World Health Organization as a global epidemic. 

We support organizations seeking to:

• improve employee and stakeholder well-being.

• improve workplace environment.

• improve productivity.

• reduce turnover.

• reduce healthcare costs.

We do this through programs that help our clients:

• develop and maintain a clear sense of purpose.

• create alignment between organizational mission and its culture and practices.

• develop values and norms that will attract, value, and retain a diverse workforce.

• engender safety and trust.

• enhance internal and external communications.

Climate change presents a unique opportunity to improve the well-being of employees, clients and other stakeholders while simultaneously responding to the challenges of global environmental degradation. Organizations that invest in climate resilience can not only reap a range of measurable benefits today, but they will be best positioned to thrive in the climate changing world of tomorrow.

Contact us to learn how we can help your organization become climate resilient.

We help communities deal with the existing impacts of climate distress, while enhancing their capacity to implement climate solutions and to respond resiliently to future impacts.

At the community level, the acute traumas and persistent chronic stress of climate change and other structural stressors can exacerbate existing social problems and reduce community members’ capacity to cope with them, while simultaneously increasing the risk of new problems arising. Failure to proactively address these convergent challenges can contribute to reductions in community members’ sense of safety, well-being, and belonging; reduced awareness and concern for the environmental impacts of personal actions; excessively inflexible rules and regulations; and persistent inability to arrive at just and equitable outcomes.

Communities that act preventatively can experience:

• increased experience of just and equitable social outcomes.

• improved safety and social trust.

• increased contribution to climate mitigation efforts.

• increased connection and integration between social actors.

We support these efforts through programs intended to:

• enhance capacity to recover from disaster and structural stressors.

• improve governance and responsiveness.

• rewrite outdated social and cultural narratives.

• expand the degree of social connection across the community.

Contact us to learn more about how climate resilience can help your community.

One-on-one and family-oriented resilience guidance that empowers clients to cope with current climate impacts, build resilience for future impacts, and to find growth and meaning in the midst of on-going climate adversity.

The human impacts of climate disruption occur at all levels of society, but they begin at the foundation - individuals and families. Climate disruption combines with other structural and personal stressors to cause immediate biological reactions and negative psychological impacts that, if unchecked, can lead to destructive personal coping behaviors and breakdown across all aspects of personal life. Even worse, the narratives of the dominant culture call for denial, shame and disassociation in response to these impacts, suggesting that they arise out of the individual’s own failings rather than from our inherent sensitivity to and connection with a world beset by catastrophic climate change and other noxious systemic problems.

Our one-on-one and family coaching and mentoring provides guidance and support for clients seeking to:

• understand the root causes and systemic effects of the climate crisis.

• learn tools, techniques, and practices for building awareness of, and regulating personal responses to, the psychological and physiological reactions to structural stressors and climate trauma.

• build maps of meaning that empower growth and transformation in response to personal and global challenges.

• identify, interrogate and replace ineffective socially-conditioned narratives and values.

• find purpose and discover a path toward leadership in the transition to a just, equitable, and regenerative world.

• be a part of the solution to the climate crisis.

Learn more about how you can discover your path to transformative climate leadership here: