UC Climate Resilience Initiative
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.