Nature Connection/Spiritual Connection/ Indigenous Pedagogy/Sustainability Lens
Be the Change Earth Alliance
BTCEA empowers youth and educators to address climate change through education, storytelling, and collective action. Its programs build emotional resilience, climate justice awareness, critical thinking, and leadership skills, helping primary and secondary students across BC create hopeful, sustainable, and community-focused responses to environmental challenges.
EcoHope
EcoHope is a student-focused initiative at Dalhousie University that helps students cope with eco-anxiety through nature-based activities, community building, and evidence-based interventions that foster resilience, agency, and hope for a sustainable future.
Youth Climate Lab
The Youth Climate Lab empowers youth to actively participate in climate decision-making through programs focused on healing, community, and resilience. Using storytelling, art, and participatory design, YCL supports BIPOC youth and climate activists by addressing eco-anxiety, burnout, and mental health in the climate sector.
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Wellness Impact Lab
Wellness Impact Lab (WIL) is a student-focused organization that promotes mental health, climate resilience, and collective action through research, community programs, and wellness initiatives. Through Climate Cafes and mindfulness-based wellness series, WIL helps participants build emotional resilience, reduce stress, and foster sustainable social change.
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Psychiatree
Psychiatree, founded by Dr. Nate Charach, supports people experiencing climate distress through empathy-based group psychotherapy inspired by Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects. Using reflective discussions and experiential practices, the organization helps individuals process eco-anxiety, build resilience, and foster meaningful personal and collective change.
Climate Sanctuary
Climate Sanctuary is a peer-support initiative founded under Sustainability Studio to support people engaged in climate-related work. Through monthly restorative circles, participants share emotions surrounding ecological crisis in a compassionate space focused on connection, grief, empathy, and collective resilience.
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Officially Annette Dubreuil - PUPA Focusing.
Annette Debreuil’s organization teaches Gendlin’s Focusing through peer-to-peer sessions where a “focuser” and “listener” explore emotions for healing and increased agency. It integrates grounding practices, nature-based imagery, four-element centering, and empathy circles. Services include courses, one-on-one sessions, and professional training for facilitators.
GrowTH Therapeutic Horticulture Learning Network
GrowTH (formerly Root in Nature) trains educators, therapists, and community leaders in therapeutic horticulture to support youth mental health and eco-anxiety. It offers courses and nature-based tools that build emotional regulation, resilience, and climate coping skills, helping young people transform eco-grief into hopeful, grounded engagement and action.
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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health is a Canadian mental health research and clinical organization focused on youth climate-related distress, developing the Active Hope intervention using Photovoice, conducting large student health surveys, and scaling evidence-based supports and clinician resources nationally.
TDSB Riverdale Collegiate Institute Grade 12 Environment and Resource Management Students and Teacher Paul Hackl
https://www.camh.ca/
At Riverdale Collegiate Institute, educator Paul Hackl and Grade 12 students explore climate change through hands-on, career-focused projects in Environment and Resource Management. The course empowers students to design and evaluate real-world climate adaptation and mitigation solutions while promoting sustainable social, environmental, and political action.
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BC Parks Foundation
BC Parks Foundation leads Canada’s PaRx nature prescription program, encouraging outdoor time to improve mental and physical health. Through initiatives like Learning by Nature and Spark Grants, the Foundation connects youth and communities with nature, promotes environmental stewardship, and supports equitable access to outdoor wellness and conservation opportunities.