For the past year, Team Braiding has been in a design challenge process to develop a prototype to encourage youth to become more actively engaged in creating and implementing climate adaptation strategies. The product was ‘Resilience!”, a mobile app that simultaneously addresses climate anxiety and climate action at the family level (kids and parents). The […]

Transformational change (or any change for that matter) can be scary; how scary really depends on the individual. Whereas incremental change does not boast the same level of scariness. Lonsdale et al (2008) show that the concept is defined in different ways. It basically means a restructuring or systemic shift in the status quo because

Assignment 5: Blog Post It’s February already! I’ve been immersed in mountains of work in my job, the GDCAL course assignments, and trying to be a good mother/spouse that there is little time left over for reflecting on the learning that we, the students, have been involved in. The latest outbreak of COVID-19 in Happy

Tiny Ecology Post 4 Fear. Fear provokes a reaction, a fight or flight response (PsychologyTools, n.d.). Being in a consent state of fear is exhausting. We all know what the impacts of being under stress all the time has on our bodies and minds (Harvard Health Publishing, 2020). As a mother, I try to teach