Eco-Healing with Youth
Inspiring Emotional Resilience through Wildfire Interpretation and Climate Action in the Wake of Boulder Fires
A collaboration between Growing Up Boulder, the City of Boulder, CU’s Environmental Design program, and other partners, the Eco-Healing with Youth project facilitates youth engagement regarding educational media and programming, service-learning opportunities, and small-scale sustainable interpretive infrastructure for both the Marshall Fire and NCAR fire, in ways that respond sensitively to collective trauma and inspire hope for the future.
The Eco-Healing with Youth project objectives include:
The work will result in a collection of feedback that focuses on fire and restoration, climate change & resilience, and connection to nature. Resulting from the collected feedback, youth will develop conceptual designs for interpretive interventions (such as educational media and programming, service-learning opportunities, small sustainable interpretive infrastructure) along a trail in the Marshall Mesa area to tell these stories, deepen connections to place, and inspire informed climate action as well as support resilience for young people.
The Eco-Healing with Youth project objectives include:
- Elevating young voices in understanding and interpreting the range of experiences and emotions stemming from the Marshall Fire, the NCAR fire, and climate change in general
- Honoring and adopting best practices regarding collective trauma regarding the primary events (Marshall Fire, NCAR fire) and the secondary trauma of climate crisis/stress.
- Prioritizing diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice, surfacing underrepresented voices and welcoming traditionally marginalized communities
The work will result in a collection of feedback that focuses on fire and restoration, climate change & resilience, and connection to nature. Resulting from the collected feedback, youth will develop conceptual designs for interpretive interventions (such as educational media and programming, service-learning opportunities, small sustainable interpretive infrastructure) along a trail in the Marshall Mesa area to tell these stories, deepen connections to place, and inspire informed climate action as well as support resilience for young people.
