These in-their-own-words pieces are told to Patricia Lane and co-edited with input from the interviewee for the purpose of brevity.

Jashan Gill helps young people process the emotional toll of climate change. As director of operations for Green Mind Canada, the 23-year-old from Brampton, Ont., works to normalize conversations about climate anxiety and provide youth with tools to transform worry into wellness and action.

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We believe the climate crisis is as much an emotional and mental health crisis as an environmental one. Through workshops, art therapy videos, children's books and trauma-informed, culturally grounded toolkits, we support young people and children with processing their feelings without shame or dismissal and without pressure to save the world. 

Our work is grounded in youth voice, science and the honoured teachings of Indigenous knowledge keepers, whose practices of land-based stewardship, circle dialogue and collective care sit at the very heart of what we do.

We have partnerships with school districts in Toronto, Hamilton and Vancouver to facilitate in-class conversations with kids. We have published three children's books to provide stories of children contending successfully with climate........

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