Our Workshops
At Green Mind, our workshops are designed to be more than educational, they’re experiential. These sessions are rooted in emotional awareness, community healing, and accessible action. They are led by trained youth facilitators and supported by a team of educators, Indigenous advisors, and mental health professionals.
Whether you’re a teacher, summer camp leader, or community organizer, our workshops create spaces where youth are seen, heard, and inspired to lead with care.
Feel It to Heal It:
Understanding Eco-Emotions
● For ages: 10–17
● Length: 60–90 minutes
● Format: In-person or virtual
● Best suited for: Schools, wellness days, after-school programs, summer camps
This foundational workshop creates a safe, non-judgmental space for youth to name and explore the emotions they may be carrying about the climate crisis, fear, anger, sadness, helplessness. Using breathing techniques, storytelling, group reflection, and art-based activities, participants gain new tools to ground themselves and learn they’re not alone.
We introduce age-appropriate language to explain eco-anxiety, provide grounding strategies drawn from mindfulness and land-based practices, and encourage creative expression as a way to make sense of big feelings.
Youth will leave with:
● A deeper understanding of their own eco-emotions
● Practical tools to manage stress and worry
● A sense of relief in knowing others feel the same way
● An original art or writing piece reflecting their experience
What participants are saying:
From Worry to Action:
Turning Climate Anxiety into Impact
● For ages: 13–19
● Length: 90 minutes
● Format: In-person preferred, virtual available
● Best suited for: High schools, leadership groups, youth councils, eco-clubs
This session helps youth turn emotional overwhelm into purpose. We guide participants through a process of self-reflection, community mapping, and values-aligned brainstorming to imagine what “climate action” can look like in their context. Youth leave with the beginnings of their own project idea and a mini toolkit to keep building.
This session emphasizes that action doesn’t have to be big to be meaningful and that taking care of yourself is part of taking care of the world.
Youth will leave with:
● A customized plan for a local, personal action project
● New tools for pacing, self-care, and sustainable advocacy
● A stronger sense of what “activism” can look like beyond protest
● Access to follow-up mentorship opportunities
What participants are saying:
Stories That Root Us:
Climate, Identity, and Culture
● For ages: 14+
● Length: 75–90 minutes
● Format: In-person only
● Best suited for: Indigenous youth programs, cultural centers, older high school and postsecondary audiences
This powerful storytelling workshop invites youth to reflect on how their identities, cultures, and histories shape the way they experience the climate crisis. Through personal storytelling, land-based activities, and group dialogue, participants explore grief, connection, and resilience through the lens of culture.
We hold space for youth to explore their traditions, languages, relationships with the land, and how those roots can be a source of strength. Indigenous and diasporic frameworks are woven throughout, with the flexibility to adapt based on local cultural context.
Youth will leave with:
● A deeper sense of personal and cultural identity in relation to climate
● Reflections or stories they may choose to share in their community
● A sense of grounding in their history and community resilience
● New connections across diverse youth experiences
What participants are saying:
Future Seeds:
Imagining the World We Want
● For ages: 12–19
● Length: 75-90 minutes
● Format: In-person or virtual
● Best suited for: Classrooms, youth leadership programs, camp sessions, creative writing groups, climate clubs
This workshop flips the narrative on climate fear by asking one simple but powerful question:
What if we imagined a future worth growing toward?
“Future Seeds” invites youth to step into the role of visionary storytellers, artists, and dreamers. Instead of focusing solely on what’s going wrong, this session helps participants envision what a healthy, just, and sustainable future could look like, then gets them to build, draw, or write it into existence.
Participants work through a guided visualization activity and collaborative storytelling process that blends hope with grounded climate knowledge. Whether it’s redesigning their school as an eco-community hub, reimagining what mental health looks like in their town, or drawing a future where land, water, and people are in harmony, the focus is on planting mental seeds for transformation.
This is a highly creative, joy-centered space. It emphasizes that imagination is a radical act of resistance and that vision is a form of action.
Youth will leave with:
● A co-created piece of art or writing envisioning a sustainable, just future
● New ways to think beyond doom and focus on possibility
● A renewed sense of agency, curiosity, and optimism
● Tools to use imagination as a climate leadership skill
What participants are saying:
Bring a Workshop to Your Community
Ready to start a conversation about climate and mental health in your classroom, camp, or community space? Green Mind workshops are designed to meet youth where they are, with compassion, creativity, and care.
What You Can Expect:
● Facilitated by trained youth educators with lived experience
● Trauma-informed, inclusive, and culturally grounded
● Offered in both English and French
● Adaptable for schools, summer camps, cultural centers, and virtual settings
Whether you’re an educator, program coordinator, or community leader, we’re here to help you create a meaningful and supportive experience for the youth you serve.
Let’s co-create something powerful.
Fill out our Workshop Request Form or contact us at info@greenmindcanada.com to get started
—we’d love to hear from you.