Climate Creative Wellness Workshop
Building Community through Art, Movement, and Mindfulness
Join Us for a Healing Community Experience
Feeling overwhelmed by climate news? You're not alone. This 3-hour workshop offers a supportive space to process climate emotions through creative expression, gentle movement, and mindful connection with others who care about our planet.
What to Expect:
✨ Opening Circle - Connect with fellow earth-lovers in a welcoming space
🎨 Climate Art Storytelling - Express your hopes and feelings through creative art-making (no experience needed!)
🌱 Gentle Movement & Meditation - Ground yourself with restorative practices and mindfulness
🤝 Community Connection - Leave with new tools, resources, and connections
🧠 Community Engaged Research - This is both an art program AND a research study focused on co-designing and co-creation of research and art for fostering resilient communities while building innovative solutions despite structural barriers.
This Workshop is For You If:
You feel climate anxiety, grief, or overwhelm
You want to connect with others who share your environmental concerns
You're seeking practical tools for emotional resilience
You enjoy creative expression and mindful practices
You want to transform eco-anxiety into empowered action
What's Included:
All art supplies provided
Take-home resource guide
An optional group photo and contact sharing
Light refreshments
A supportive, judgment-free environment
No Experience Required
This is a wellness workshop, not therapy. All activities are optional, and we welcome people of all artistic abilities, physical mobility, and climate knowledge levels. Come as you are!
What makes this workshop unique?
This is workshop is part of an art program AND a research study focused on co-designing and co-creation of research and art for fostering resilient communities while building innovative solutions despite structural barriers.
Participants, who opt in, will be a part of a community-engaged research program. Research participants will be provided with consent and survey forms at the beginning and the end of the workshop.
Participants do not have to contribute to the research to participate in the workshop.
What to Bring:
Comfortable clothes for gentle movement
Openness to learn, connect, and create
Water bottle (we'll have some available too)
About Your Facilitator Ryn Delpapa is an interdisciplinary artist with a global health background specializing in arts-in-health, climate storytelling, and mindfulness practices. They are passionate about supporting communities in building resilience and hope in the face of environmental challenges.
About Our Partners
Our event is hosted in partnership with Impact Hub Houston at The Ion. The overall program, Art for Climate Resilience, is funded in part by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.
Community Guidelines
We welcome all people regardless of background, identity, or climate knowledge. This is a space committed to respect, inclusion, and voluntary participation. We ask that participants:
Respect confidentiality within our group
Participate at their comfort level
Honor diverse perspectives and experiences
Support each other's wellbeing
This workshop focuses on wellness and community building. If you're experiencing a mental health crisis, please contact (713) 970-4483 NAMI Greater Houston or seek immediate professional support.