OUR MISSION
To develop and promote climate resilience education and resources within the UC community and disseminate these to the wider public nationally and internationally.
We live in a rapidly changing world experiencing the climate crisis first-hand through frequent disasters such as wildfires, floods and weather extremes, all coinciding with geopolitical instability (“the polycrisis”).
To navigate this new world and build a meaningful future, new life-skills and training are urgently needed. In this course, students directly learn from world leaders delivering online mini-lectures, complemented by in-person experiential sessions co-led by expert UC professors as lecturers and facilitators, contemplative education advisors, and mindfulness-trained teachers, at each of the 10 UC campuses.
Students gain invaluable resilience skills, building both inner and outer strengths. Inner skill-building encompasses several contemplative practices including mindfulness and compassion. Outer skills build on the science of personal and social resilience and climate action; students must engage in a collective action project in groups, building a sense of belonging, and motivating empowerment and self-efficacy.