Free Eco-Anxious Storytelling Workshop
Learn how to use storytelling to befriend your eco-emotions and wrap them in a meaningful context.
Online – 9:00am-10:30am PST, June 25,2025
Join us for an upcoming workshop where you can
- Explore your climate emotions and learn about the role our feelings play in building capacity for change.
- Connect around our fears and concerns for our collective future, and hear about stories and tips for channeling our anxiety into action.
- Hear from climate storytellers and local climate action champions about their experiences, and leave with a stronger sense of how to get involved in solutions.
Follow the Feeling: Eco-Anxiety through the Lens of Story
Eco-anxiety is on the rise, but we’re not in this alone.
This workshop explores eco-emotions through the lens of story. As a Story Strategist with a passion for climate justice, Rachel Malena-Chan brings insights about how she befriended her own eco-anxiety, and how she helps others use their personal and public climate stories to foster change.
Through facilitated activities and prompts, Rachel will walk through practices for sitting with, sharing, and moving through our eco-emotions. Leave this workshop better-equipped to find your place in a bigger, brighter climate story.
Agenda:
- Introductions
- 5 things I’ve learned befriending my eco-anxiety
- Follow the feeling writing activity & discussion
- 5 tips for connecting to and through our eco-emotions
- Q&A
Speaker Bio:
Rachel Malena-Chan (she/her) is the Creator of Eco-Anxious Stories, where she brings together her passion for storytelling and her commitment to social and ecological justice. Rachel has been offering professional Story Strategy services for a decade now, using narrative frameworks to help people reflect and communicate meaningfully. Her background is in Population Health, and she often finds herself at the intersection of communications, climate change, and community engagement. She lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – Treaty 6 and the Homelands of the Métis.
Want a head start?
Here are a few ways to get the wheels turning.
Video 1: Caring at (what feels like) the end of the world
Optional Journal Prompt: Reflect on how climate change makes you feel. Where are the connection points between caring for ourselves, each other, and the world around us?
Optional Journal Prompt: Reflect on how climate change makes you feel. Do you ever feel lonely in your grief and anxiety about the state of the world?
