The Weather Within was created by Climate Mental Health Network in partnership with teens like you. Together, we built a space to help young people understand their emotions, support their mental well-being, connect with others, and find ways to move forward.

Climate change is exacerbating extreme weather events like hurricanes, floods, fires, and extreme heat, which can take a serious toll on people’s emotional wellbeing, especially youth. Explore our practical, age-appropriate resources to help adults support children and youth through dangerous weather events. These tools offer guidance on how to prepare and talk about what’s happening, process emotions, and build a sense of safety and resilience.

Climate change is reshaping maternal mental health, identity, and care — and the story is largely untold. This toolkit gives you the science, the language, and the sources to change that.

This toolkit brings the lessons learned from Vermont's 2023-2024 floods to communities everywhere. Start planning your hub today.

This four-course certificate program introduces you to key environmental and climate threats and their root causes and explores how these issues impact us emotionally, psychologically and socially. It presents 20 contemplative, meditation and community-building practices that can help us build our inner, community and planetary resilience in the face of deep environmental and social uncertainty. The program utilizes a range of self-awareness exercises through journal and embodied exercise prompts. It also offers the opportunity for you to join in ongoing research on environmental emotions at the Loka Initiative and the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

This self-paced course introduces Transformative Climate Resilience Education and supports teachers, educators, and facilitators in navigating the emotional, relational, and ethical dimensions of climate change and sustainability.

CLARITY is a European project that reimagines climate education by helping children and youth move from climate anxiety to resilience, connection, creativity and regeneration. Bringing together insights from psychology, pedagogy, arts and sustainability science, CLARITY places emotional competence, imagination, values and collective agency at the heart of learning. The project offers a practical toolbox of ready-to-use activities that support educators in creating caring, future-oriented and transformative learning environments, and complementary resources.

An online course for non-profit organisations, companies, or communities so that their members can acquire the knowledge, tools and the skills they need to grow their capacity to design meaningful climate resilience initiatives, while staying grounded and engaged in the face of uncertainty, resistance, and complexity. It helps reduce climate vulnerability at its roots—without burning out, becoming discouraged or losing direction. Offered on demand.

A free online course for young people who wish to use empathetic communication and digital creativity to open dialogue and foster collaboration to grow climate resilience in their own context. 

Futures Thinking and the Arts for Transformative Climate Action is an intensive online course for sustainability students, professionals and any curious citizen who wishes to grow their futures thinking skills to foster more collective and transformative action towards climate resilience. It's a recurring course, scheduled 3-4 times a year.

This self-paced course introduces Transformative Climate Resilience Education and supports teachers, educators, and facilitators in navigating the emotional, relational, and ethical dimensions of climate change and sustainability.

This self-paced course introduces educators to the CLARITY toolbox and its trauma-informed approach to climate education. Through practical activities and guidance, educators build their own skills while learning to nurture young people’s emotional competence, imagination, values and collective agency in the face of climate change.

For teachers and educators to support children and youth in shifting from climate anxiety, to resilience, connection, creativity and regeneration. Available in English, Swedish, Norwegian, Hungarian and Ukrainian.

Climate change is exacerbating extreme weather events like hurricanes, floods, fires, and extreme heat, which can take a serious toll on people’s emotional wellbeing, especially youth. Explore our practical, age-appropriate resources to help adults support children and youth through dangerous weather events. These tools offer guidance on how to prepare and talk about what’s happening, process emotions, and build a sense of safety and resilience.

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The Handbook of Climate Psychiatry and Psychotherapy is one of the first physician-authored books to reflect the daily work of psychiatrists on the effects of climate change. Designed for office- and clinic-based mental health clinicians, it addresses the psychiatric and psychological responses to climate change.

Climate change is the biggest threat of our century, one that will impact every aspect of children's lives: their physical, emotional, moral, financial, and social health and well-being. The relationship between the climate crisis and mental health in young people is therefore by definition multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural, requiring multiple perspectives on how to understand and guide younger generations.

In this guide by Dr. Larissa Dooley, we offer tools and practices for building emotional resilience — individually and in community with others — so we can face what’s to come with strength, and still live lives full of meaning, joy, and connection.

Meditation is a powerful tool for fostering personal resilience and is a cornerstone of The Resilient Activist’s programming for environmental advocates. Regardless of where individuals are in their meditation journey, they can benefit from these curated meditative resources, including introductory courses, educational articles, and guided meditation recordings.

This essay explores how quiet daily rituals and inner practices help one person stay grounded amid overwhelming global crises. Beneath an outwardly good life lies a shared, often unspoken despair driven by constant exposure to violence, instability, and loss. Drawing on wisdom from her grandmother, psychology, and the mindfulness teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh, the author argues that facing suffering directly—while cultivating presence, integrity, and small acts of service—is essential to sustaining hope. Though we cannot fix everything, developing strong coping skills allows us to hold both the beauty and pain of life and remain compassionate and engaged in a fractured world.

With essays by clinicians from both the Global South and Global North, Climate, Psychology, and Change is an anthology unlike anything you’ve read before: a necessary response, an urgent appeal, and a fearless look forward at how we care for our clients, eyes wide open, with compassion and skill in an uncertain world.

We are a bilingual organization based in Montreal, Quebec that offers support spaces, immersive workshops, and educational materials across Canada. We are structured as a community-university partnership, allowing us to foster a research-backed approach that is rooted in care and the needs of our community.

This book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers. Instead, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselves, our communities, and the living Earth, and to interrupt the modern behavior patterns that are killing the planet we’re part of.

Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) is an arts/research collective that uses their website as a workspace for collaborations around different kinds of artistic, pedagogical, cartographic, and relational experiments that aim to identify and de-activate colonial habits of being, and to gesture towards the possibility of decolonial futures.

This resource was developed with input from climate-impacted people as well as advocates, psychologists and campaigners with experience in supporting people with lived experience to be storytellers and change agents.