Climate of Emotions: Youth-Led Resilience Activation

What if emotional intelligence was the climate solution we’ve been missing?
Climate of Emotions (COE) is where youth, emotional intelligence, and climate action come together to build resilience from the inside out. This immersive event helps transform climate burnout into connection, purpose, and action.

Join us September 22 during NYC Climate Week 2025 for a high-energy, hands-on experience that’s intergenerational, global, and led by youth changemakers. Check out ( https://youtu.be/dq545YZTjhQ ) for a quick glimpse of what COE feels like. COE blends music, storytelling, emotional intelligence, and community building for a revitalizing session to build resilience

WHY IT MATTERS
Eco-anxiety. Isolation. Burnout.
Youth on the frontlines of climate justice are carrying an emotional load — and we can’t build a livable future if we’re empty inside. Emotional resilience isn’t a “nice to have.” It’s a survival skill. And we’re done pretending we don’t need it.
In a global pilot last year, participants showed measurable reductions of “climate distress” and gains in “climate enthusiasm.” Science says COE works and it’s time to go bigger.

Research on the 2024 activation found that Climate of Emotions is an effective program model for supporting climate activists, leading to positive shifts in participants’ climate enthusiasm, isolation, anxiety, and powerlessness.

WHAT IS HAPPENING
The September 2025 COE event will include…
Emotional Intelligence Training
The Six Seconds team will guide participants through science-based EQ skills that help leaders respond (not react), to stay grounded, and lead with heart. What could you do with more purpose, self-awareness and empathy?
Story Exchange Circles (with Narrative 4)
This isn’t just storytelling. It’s radical empathy. In small groups, we’ll share personal stories to find allies, hold space for emotions, and spark deeper understanding. When we transform personal and collective narratives we build a foundation of empathy for inner sustainability.
Creative Expression Lab
Make some noise. Fill yourself with joy. Stomp, clap, clap as you co-create with guest artist Tammi Sakurai in an interactive body percussion session. Whether you’re an artist or not, this is your space to feel, imagine, and express climate emotions in bold new ways.
Resilience Building
Glow up your resilience. Emotions are your renewable resource, your inner fire. In this activation, you’ll tap into the spark that keeps you burning and you’ll contribute to a growing global study on emotional resilience and long-term outcomes for changemakers.
Climate of Emotions transforms eco-anxiety into eco-optimism, and cultivates flourishing to design sustainable networks for lasting climate solutions.

Through collaboration and connection with other participants, Climate of Emotions transforms eco-anxiety into eco-optimism, and cultivates innovative thinking to imagine and design sustainable networks for lasting climate solutions.

WHAT’S NEXT
After NYCCW, the journey continues. You’ll be invited to join and co-lead virtual COE sessions in October and November — and in 2026, apply for the COE Leadership Accelerator. You’ll also get access to the open-source COE Toolkit to bring this work to your community, and the chance to join collaborative global research on what really works to sustain changemakers.

WANT TO JOIN US?
Be part of something that’s real, activating, and radically hopeful.
Let’s reimagine what sustainable leadership can be with Climate of Emotions.