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Eco-anxiety, grief, and despair are natural responses to the interconnected crises we are facing in our world today.

In this section, you'll find resources to help you work with these emotions.

There a variety of offerings listed. Some invite you to explore on your own through simple tools like the Climate Emotions Wheel, self-paced courses, and podcasts. Others are shared experiences like peer-led groups, climate cafes, and small local circles where you can connect and share with like-minded others.

When you are ready, explore other Participation Pathways to take action and connect with others.

Resources

Climate Emotions Wheel (Climate Mental Health Network)

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A simple visual tool for naming and working with the many emotions the climate crisis can bring up, from grief and anger to hope and empowerment. Available in many languages, with worksheets, meditations, and guides for parents and young people.

Force of Nature

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Force of Nature is active in 70+ countries, helping young people turn climate anxiety into agency through a free three-part online programme, a podcast exploring eco-anxiety and activist burnout, and a global community offering free trainings and monthly calls for members aged 16–35.

The Work That Reconnects

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A global community practicing the Work That Reconnects, Joanna Macy’s group process for transforming despair and overwhelm into collaborative action. Find workshops and online events, a facilitator map, and a resource library of practices.

Francis Weller: Living a Soulful Life

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Frames our current era as a rough initiation—an upending experience of profound trauma and transformation that demands we reorient our ways of thinking, being, and relating. Through essays like “Some People Wake Up…,” “The Gift of Restraint,” and “Gratitude for All That Is,” Weller offers clarity and wisdom on how to face the sobering stakes of our time—while offering the nourishment and support we need to embody the new roles this initiation requires.

Good Grief Network

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Podcast and peer-to-peer support groups that meet online for ten weeks to process painful feelings about the state of the world, build community, and reorient toward meaningful action. Facilitated by trained peers; not therapy. (The 10-Step Program is sliding scale.)

Resources for working with climate emotions

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The climate crisis has many folks feeling on the edge. How can we cope, care, and heal? What do our emotions have to teach us? Can climate work and leadership grow from a more rooted, powerful place? The All We Can Save Project teamed up with Britt Wray of Gen Dread to develop this shortlist of resources created specifically for navigating the emotional terrain of climate.

Facing It

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A podcast about love, loss, and the natural world. The age of climate crisis is upon us, and grief and anxiety are on the rise. This podcast explores the emotional burden of climate change, and why despair leaves so many people unable to respond to our existential threat.

Active Hope Foundations Training

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A free, self-paced video course based on the book Active Hope by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone. It guides you through gratitude, honoring our pain for the world, seeing with fresh eyes, and going forth into action. Start any time, from anywhere.

Resources to Cope With Climate Anxiety and Grief

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In the face of the climate crisis it’s a natural response to experience anxiety, grief and many other feelings. The following resources are provided to increase understanding of the emotional and psychological impacts of climate change and to promote the range of coping strategies available.

Beloved Community Circles

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Network of small local and online groups of people who 1) practice mindfulness together, 2) care for one another, in times of joy and hardship, and 3) commit to taking mindful action together to address racial injustice and the climate crisis.

Climate anxiety: 21 resources to energise you into action

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Releasing the grip of climate anxiety isn’t always easy. Finding what works for you might take some trial and error. Greenpeace staff share tips and resources for managing climate anxiety.

Climate Psychology Alliance

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A UK-based community exploring the emotional side of the ecological crisis. Offers Climate Café listening circles, parent circles, youth spaces, and up to three free one-to-one sessions with a therapist for adults experiencing eco-distress, including activists.

Renee Lertzman

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Renee Lertzman is a climate psychologist and environmental strategist who asks: what does it mean emotionally and cognitively to confront global systemic ecological crises, and how can we help engage and mobilize response?

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