Event Details
Event Details
We all want to raise children who can cope well with the challenges ahead — yet for many families and communities, climate change remains a difficult topic to broach. Talking openly about it can help us navigate the mix of confusing emotions we and others may be feeling, and can open the door to meaningful, hopeful action.
Future Ready Families: Let's Talk Climate Change is a free, creative event bringing parents, caregivers, and their children together for activities, crafts, and conversation about how we care for the earth and each other — as a family, and as a community.
This event is made possible thanks to funding from the Columbia Valley Community Foundation's Small Neighbourhood Grant.
Session activities will:
normalize a range of climate emotions that adults and children may be feeling, connecting parents/caregivers with resources for navigating their own and their children’s climate anxieties and emotions.
encourage conversation about the shared and diverse concerns related to climate change and help participants identify possible action-taking that their families can take.
support participants to select possible actions that they find meaningful to them, with a focus on emergency preparedness, daily family living choices, and/or community connections.
10:00 – 10:15AM
Event kick off with meet and greet activities
10:15 – 10:30AM
Children and youth move to kid's activities in semi-separate space with an Early Childhood facilitator
10:30 - 11:00AM
Adults engage in small group conversation, explore the topic of climate emotions, and complete a climate action-taking activity
Children and youth engage in kid's activities including arts & crafts, games, and guided conversations about taking care of Earth, what is important to them, and how they can make a positive difference
11:00 - 11:15AM
Families reconnect to share thoughts and reflections, working together to identify meaningful action as a family
11:15 - 11:30AM
The event ends with participants contributing to community tree/garden, adding one inspiring idea or action they plan to take. Participants can explore a table of community resources for taking away helpful materials