The Resilience Project

Where do you take your climate worries, your faith, your doubts or your spiritual longing? And who can you share them with? Join an online gathering on hope across generations, faiths and the living world, in collaboration with elin kelsey. It’s for young and the young at heart, of every belief or none. Whether you're Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Indigenous, Muslim, animist, secular, spiritual but not religious, or anyone who loves the living world. Expect small group story sharing, time to reflect and wisdom circles with young people and faith, Indigenous and multispecies leaders. 📅 Wednesday 11 November, 3–6 pm CET Save your place: https://lnkd.in/e2EM4ixN #BarcelonaClimateWeek #BrusselsClimateWeek

A 2021 survey in The Lancet Planetary Health asked 10,000 young people aged 16 to 25 across 10 countries about climate change, and 59% said they are very or extremely worried. Those numbers are a reminder that this is not a rare feeling, and that many of us could use a place to talk about it honestly. Following this World Mental Health Day, were happy to share that Climating° and The Resilience Project are partnering on Dear Diary. This is an open call for diary entries about climate anxiety (or other climate emotions), where you can write about how it feels, how you cope, and the moments of hope you may have found along the way. Nothing will be judged, ranked or turned into a contest. You decide whether your entry is shared and whether your name is included. We wanted to create a place where you can be honest without feeling that your experience has to be fixed or compared with anyone elses. Submissions are open until 25 October. The details are in the slides, and the QR code on the last slide will take you to the form. #WorldMentalHealthDay #ClimateAnxiety #DearDiary #TheReslienceProject #Climating°

Supporting others through big feelings while holding your own is one of the hardest parts of purpose-driven work. It’s also rarely something people are trained for. That’s why we’ve created Leading Through Uncertainty: Emotional Literacy for a Changing World, a new half-day training for staff in purpose-led organisations. Designed and delivered alongside climate-aware psychotherapist Parker Bowling, LCSW, who brings deep experience of the particular pressures facing people working for social and environmental change. You’ll explore: 💬 How to have supportive conversations about mental health and wellbeing 💚 Simple ways to run activities that help people make sense of their emotions ✏️ Evidence-informed tools to help staff look after themselves 🌍 How to build a culture of care that lasts Want to bring it to your team? Find out more: https://lnkd.in/e8Nn5ef9

A new report from the United Nations Youth Office makes a clear case; young people's mental health can't be separated from the world they're living in. With the report calling for a shift towards community-based approaches, we're glad to see "care, connection, and community" declared central to young people's well-being, alongside the importance of youth-led models rooted in lived experience. At The Resilience Project, our programmes are built on exactly this, with many of them led by people who first joined as participants. Through our train-the-trainer model, young people work with us to co-create spaces where they can support each other and take action together. Seeing this recognised at a global level is a reminder of just how much these spaces matter. We hope to see this lead to more support for them, so that more young people can find the community they need. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/egVqJyEr

📣 Do you know a young person (16-25, based in the UK) with something to say on climate, democracy or justice? 📣 OPENx is TEDxLondon's fully sponsored programme for exactly that. Fifteen will be selected for speaker training and mentoring, with a route to the TEDxLondon stage in 2027. Applications close 15 October. Learn more at openx.tedxlondon.com

Looking for your next step in climate work? We've rounded up funding, jobs and opportunities so you don't have to go hunting 🌍 Our latest round up features opportunities from People & Planet, Planet Forward, ECOMIND, Green Earth Action Foundation, Climate Psychology Alliance, Save the Children UK and more! Explore our round-up: https://lnkd.in/eNDTGwjK

Our 2026 Resilience Circles have officially kicked off across East Africa, and we're so excited to see so many young people coming together to talk about climate and build a caring community! 👀 So, what is a Resilience Circle? 👀 A Resilience Circle is a supportive space for young people, co-hosted by two young leaders from our Resilience Fellowship. In the first stage of the Fellowship, these leaders learn practical tools to look after themselves so they can keep showing up for the causes they care about. They also learn how to pass those tools on to others. Resilience Circles are where Fellows get to work that train-the-trainer magic, sharing what they've learned with their own communities. That means the impact of the Fellowship keeps growing, reaching more young people and helping young leaders avoid burnout so they can keep going. 👉🏾 Subscribe to our newsletter to hear about more opportunities for young people and purpose-driven professionals to learn tools for staying in the work and creating lasting change: https://lnkd.in/eufg_Mj5

"I don't naturally rest. I earn rest." Sound familiar? That's what our 2026 Resilience Fellow, Peris Mutena realised about herself after she took part in our Resilience Residential - 5 days, fully off-grid learning tools to avoid burnout while building community with other like-minded young changemakers. Before joining us, she went through her to-do list, then went through it again. Every task done, every loose end tied. But looking back now, she sees this as her mind looking for permission to stop. In our latest blog, Peris traces where that comes from and what she learned at our residential that's helping her to let go of the need to seek permission to pause. Read Peris' full piece here: https://lnkd.in/eEE42wwC