Wayfinding Climate
In today’s uncertain and warming world, leaders in climate need to be skilled in the technical as well as the human. While technical skills regarding climate exceed our human skills, it is on the human aspects where climate action largely stalls. This is the gap we address in Wayfinding Climate.
Like the wayfinders of old, we support you in navigating the complex oceans of climate change communications and engagement.
Wayfinding Climate is part training part community of practice.
Hosted virtually, these sessions draw on cutting-edge research on the human dimensions of climate change and provide training in the human skills needed to engage in complex, uncertain social contexts.
This is designed for climate actors in any sector–such as, in non-profit organizations, the private sector, and in public institutions at all levels of government (municipal, provincial and federal); academics and students who may be interested in applications of climate psycho-social research in practice.
You will come away with new ideas and vantage points on the social dimensions of climate change, and learn unique, practical tools for engagement – tools that go deeper than and beyond messaging tactics and campaign slogans. You will also come away with deepened connections and insights from diverse climate actors: This is a space for learning, unlearning, community and strategy.
Wayfinding Climate launched in the fall of 2024 running a series of monthly sessions through the Spring of 2025 focused on:
How to work with climate emotions and ensure people feel they matter
The role of worldviews in finding a way through polarized discourses
The values that surround climate and how to diminish the gap between what people value and how people act
Five distinct climate change discourses that influence peoples perceptions of global warming and how to intervene in a ‘discourse-informed’ manner
This fall, we will continue to bring together climate actors to learn, connect and inquire into new action pathways to meet the current moment.
Wayfinding Climate
Spring 2026
The Spring Sessions will take place on Wednesdays from 3-4:15pm Pacific Time on the following dates:
February 11
March 11
April 15
May 13
For the Spring Sessions, we will be joined by guests who bring unique and impactful frameworks and approaches to addressing the human dimensions of climate change. We will also continue to workshop current challenges and explore case studies to support the application of what we are learning together. Read on for more details about upcoming sessions.
February 11, 2026: Dr. Grace Nosek
On February 11, we will be joined by Dr. Grace Nosek, an author, organizer, and scholar focusing on challenging climate misinformation, protecting the right to peaceful protest, and building robust democracy. She centers justice, joyful community, hope, agency, civic engagement, and systems change in her activism and scholarship. Grace has never met a dance party she didn’t want to join.
In this session, Grace will share her vision and practice for a joy-based climate engagement, drawing from her experience of turning her PhD on climate misinformation into a young adult fantasy novel and her many years as a youth climate organizer. She will talk about holding space for grief and love in climate engagement, and leave you with seeds of possibility and resilience to guide your own life and work.