🧘 Train Your Mind
🌎 Save The Planet

A four-week mindfulness course for people working on climate change and sustainability.

Why this course?

Solving climate change will be the defining challenge of this century. And to solve it, we need millions of amazing people -- like you -- to get engaged and stay engaged. But to sustain our efforts over the long-run, we also need to take care of ourselves.

In the last decade, mindfulness meditation has exploded in the West and has helped millions of people improve their mental health and well-being. But building a meditation habit is hard, especially if your only support system is an app. Also, climate change poses many unique mental & emotional health challenges not addressed by mainstream resources.

That's why I created this course. I wanted to take my 7+ years of meditation experience and create a highly accessible course tailored to folks in the climate and environmental community. My hope is that by investing in ourselves, we can then be of greater service to others and this planet.

This course if for you if...

✅ You are actively working on climate change and environmental issues in some capacity
✅ You have been interested in mindfulness and meditation, but haven't yet made it a regular habit
✅ You want to learn how to better cope with difficult emotions like climate anxiety, grief, and overwhelm
✅ You want find a healthy and balanced approach to this important work, so you don't burn out
✅ You want cultivate more joy, hope, and gratitude to sustain you on this journey
✅ You want to connect with a community of peers who are walking a similar path
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What you'll learn and experience

🧠 The basic foundations of mindfulness and practical tips for incorporating it into your everyday life
🧘🏿 How to build a meditation practice and stick with it over the long-run
🌎 The unique ways that mindfulness can help folks in the climate movement become happier, healthier, and more effective, despite all the daunting challenges we face
💔 How mindfulness can support us with feelings like climate anxiety, grief, and overwhelm
🫶 Connection to a supportive community of like-minded peers throughout the course (and hopefully after, too!)

Course structure

This is a 4-week beginner-friendly mindfulness course that will be held over Zoom. Each week, we will gather for a 1-hour live session where we will learn something new, practice it together, and then discuss as a group.

Here is a sample schedule:
1️⃣ Week 1: Intro to the foundations of mindfulness, how it relates to climate change work, and what to expect in the weeks ahead
2️⃣ Week 2: Learn how to calm your busy monkey mind, so you can improve concentration, see things more clearly, and be more present
3️⃣ Week 3: Learn how to skillfully and compassionately manage difficult emotions, without being overwhelmed or turning away
4️⃣ Week 4: Integrate your learnings, envision your path ahead, and create a plan to maintain your meditation habit

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About your instructor

John McBride
I've been a regular meditator for over 7 years and seen first-hand the transformative impact that mindfulness can have on your life. It's benefitted not only my mental health, but also my relationships, personal growth, and professional development.

Now, I want to share these tools with more people. I’ve spent the last two years in Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s mindfulness teacher training program through the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley and Sounds True. I also spent three years working at Calm, the world's leading meditation app, where much of my focus was on helping make mindfulness more accessible for new audiences.

Recently, I decided to dedicate the next phase on my life towards solving the climate crisis. By day, that means working at a climate tech company. By night, that means sharing my passion for mindfulness with other folks in the climate movement.