To participate in our online facilitator workshop, you must be a current faculty or staff member at a college or university and feel committed to facilitating Climate Wayfinding on your campus in some form or fashion during the 2025-26 academic year. (We’ll get you ready to do just that!)

For faculty looking to bring this program into the classroom, it’s useful to already be teaching about climate change in some way. We warmly encourage applications from professors across academic disciplines and staff from student affairs, counseling/psychological services, sustainability offices, career services, and beyond. All career stages are welcome. As part of the program, The All We Can Save Project team will offer pre-reading to ground workshop participants in shared material and concepts.

We believe higher education has a central role to play in healing the climate crisis. Campuses are training grounds for emerging changemakers, and every day, faculty and staff are helping to grow and strengthen the climate community. More than ever, students need to develop the capacities to navigate this liminal time and make their unique contributions. By training faculty and staff as Climate Wayfinding facilitators, this program will be able to reach thousands of climate-concerned undergraduate and graduate students looking to do just that.

We also know that many higher education professionals are seeking renewal, deeper connection, and a space to clarify their own unique climate contributions. Core to Climate Wayfinding is helping faculty and staff find their own answers to the same question students are asking: “What can I do?”

Bringing Climate Wayfinding to life on your campus entails making the workshop content and experience accessible to students within your campus community. Depending on the specifics of your role, this could take a variety of forms. Faculty might thread Climate Wayfinding into existing courses or create new courses (e.g., full semester, summer, or J-term). Staff or faculty might run Climate Wayfinding as immersive workshops or thread elements of Climate Wayfinding into existing co-curricular programs.

We know that every campus community operates differently. Our facilitator workshops aim to support Climate Wayfinding coming to life in ways that feel most aligned with facilitators’ unique student body and the norms, practices, needs, and cultures of their specific institutions.

Climate Wayfinding helps students clarify their values and deepest motivations, discover their unique skills and superpowers, and identify what climate solutions most energize them. It also helps them engage with their climate emotions in generative ways and consider their unique contexts and communities for action.

We know jobs are top of mind for many students; while this program is not focused on career counseling, it lays a foundation that can be useful for clarifying career aspirations and supporting job search.

We also asked our student alumni this very question, and here’s what they shared with us…

• “You learn what motivates your climate action in a really heart-centered way.”

• “You learn not to be scared of your heavy climate emotions, but to embrace them and let them guide you to catalyze change.”

• “You learn about your own skills based on what comes naturally and feels authentically you. You learn to follow and trust what feels energetically true.”

• “You learn that connecting with a climate community can help combat the self-isolation that often accompanies climate doom.”

The purpose of this workshop is to equip facilitators to deliver the Climate Wayfinding content and experience to climate-concerned students. That begins with encountering it first as a participant, gaining “navigational” practices, frameworks, and resources for your own climate journey. Then, you will learn about our facilitation approach, begin to try it out, and get introduced to the digital resource hub that will support bringing Climate Wayfinding to life on campus (more on that below). Taken together, we hope you’ll depart the workshop feeling personally nourished and renewed by Climate Wayfinding and professionally energized and prepared to expand its reach to students who are seeking clarity, courage, and community on their climate journeys.

After the workshop, all trained facilitators will gain access to a digital resource hub with the full Climate Wayfinding curriculum, including:

• how-to guides for bringing Climate Wayfinding to life on campus through a range of modalities (e.g., full semester or short course, immersive workshop, or threaded into existing course or co-curricular program);

• detailed agendas, facilitator notes, and slides for all Climate Wayfinding sessions (designed for modularity);

• a suite of supporting materials (e.g., audio content, music playlists, writing prompts, discussion questions, and curated content for students to read, watch, and listen to).

In addition to the digital hub, our team will provide support and coaching throughout the 2025–26 academic year. This may take the form of online group sessions or personalized 1:1 support. We will also support program alumni in connecting with each other, and in sharing resources, ideas, and best practices.

We will make every effort to accommodate scholarship requests. But first, we encourage you to explore options for support from your institution. Thanks to the generous support of a donor, we have scholarship funds to support individuals who are a great fit for the program, but for whom the cost is prohibitive. You’ll be invited to share your scholarship request in the application.

Applications for our 2025 online workshop will officially close on Monday, November 25, but we’ll review and admit applicants on a rolling basis.

If we have additional questions about your application, we’ll reach out to request a short 15-minute interview. We’ll follow-up with an application decision by Friday, December 6.

Nope! Last spring, we ran three facilitator workshops and trained 73 educators from 63 diverse colleges and universities. These workshops marked a special evolution of the program; it was our first time offering workshops to train faculty and staff to bring Climate Wayfinding back to their campuses. After the success of our inaugural facilitator workshops, we’re thrilled to be training another cohort of facilitators in 2025.

Stay tuned. If this workshop isn’t a fit for you, please complete our Climate Wayfinding interest form and sign-up for The All We Can Save Project’s monthly newsletter to learn when future programs are announced.