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. 

We offer workshops, training and support to equip you and your community with psychological resources and strategies to adapt, thrive and respond to the reality of climate change. 

The study of environmental emotions and related mental health impacts is a rapidly growing field, but most researchers overlook a closely related concern: reproductive anxiety. Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question is the first comprehensive study of how environmental emotions influence whether, when, and why people today decide to become parents—or not.

A podcast about all of the thorny emotions that come along with the climate crisis—from anxiety and sadness to motivation and hope—and how they are shaping fundamental questions about whether, when, and how to have children. 

The Self-help and self-paced workbook for affected youth will contribute to youth’s coping skills, being widely accessible and introducing method and tools for dealing with climate anxiety. The workbook can be used as part of the support groups or as a stand alone resource. It is co-designed and created with affected youth, youth workers, and mental health professionals.

Climate Junction is a unique collection of information and thinking about climate and mental health and a vision for change.

Damiana is a living laboratory building bridges of solidarity and coherence through mutual support and collective care. We are an emerging ecosystem of culturally diverse, intergenerational, and multidisciplinary women united by a deep commitment to protecting of life on earth and cultivating ecologies of care.

Featured in Psyche, this article delves into normalizing feeling troubled by the climate crisis. 

In the face of tremendous ecological changes, environmental crises, and social inequity, our God-talk must reveal our profound interconnectedness with Earth and all its inhabitants. Grace Ji-Sun Kim offers a transformative vision of divine presence that calls us to active, restorative justice.

Good Grief Network (GGN) is a peer support non-profit serving individuals and communities experiencing eco-distress and collective trauma from social and ecological injustices to build collective resilience transforming emotional overwhelm into meaningful action.

A trusted source for current research and thinking on how psychological factors drive the climate crisis, how the worsening crisis affects us psychologically, and what we can do about it.

Climate Mental Health Network crafted this updated 40-page resource to answer concerns we’re hearing from parents, caregivers and teachers all over the country. It includes practical tips on preparing for extreme weather and taking climate action; and conversation guides for raising resilient kids in a fast changing world. Special sections cover kids zero to 18, neurodiversity, mental health, and different identities.

An interview with environmental psychologist Renee Lertzman where shares her compassion-based approach to talking about the climate crisis with others.

An newsletter about how 'motivational interviewing' can open up productive conversations about the climate crisis that get past people's defences.

The Resilience Project is a youth-driven organisation, weaving spaces of peer-support, intergenerational mentoring and emotional resilience. They run successful Resilience Circles, a Resilience Fellowship, and Community Programs for youth that spread resilience tools and community connections across the youth climate movement.

Real good news, not just feel good news, featuring sustainable stories of progress for the planet.

Climate cafes are human-centric, emotions-friendly meetings where people can safely express whatever climate emotions they are holding. They are validating permission-giving spaces that help people work through their fears and frustrations while witnessing what others are also holding, alleviating isolation. Search online for “your city + climate cafe” to find a climate cafe near you, or sign up for an ongoing virtual series run by the Climate Psychology Alliance.

Intrepid activist and psychologist Margaret Klein Salamon created Climate Awakening as a series of ongoing group sharing and listening sessions that anyone can drop into virtually to unpack and explore climate emotions. As their website says, "talking about climate emotions is a powerful political act that also makes you feel better".