The Climate Wisdom Lab for Educators is a professional development program for faculty and staff of higher education institutions designed to support institutional efforts to prepare students for sustainable engagement with climate change, structural oppression and inequality, and other systemic challenges.

The Climate Wisdom Lab is designed to help institutions and educators address the psychosocial impacts of climate change, injustice and inequality by integrating emotional-affective learning into new and existing curricula. The Lab helps prepare participants for the new realities facing higher education by:

• enabling awareness, identification, and mitigation of mind states and psychosocial reactions to structural stressors, such as climate injustice, environmental degradation, and structural oppression;

• providing critical tools for developing and maintaining individual, organizational, and social resilience in the midst of dramatic systemic disruption;

• helping participants learn how to help students respond to their emotional experience of climate disruption; and

• creating a collaborative, creative process for piloting innovative pedagogies that better respond to the unique existential demands of this historical moment on the next generation of leaders.

The program is typically offered as a two-day, in-person workshop, and can also accommodate virtual delivery and alternate lengths.