Women+ in Climate: Leading with Light

When women come together, there is an innate, unspeakable energy. It is a form of resistance, transformation, and healing from the patriarchy. Around the world women are both disproportionately impacted by climate change and leading the call to organize for climate justice. 

The path forward requires both resilience and community. Women+ in Climate is a gathering for women and gender-diverse leaders in climate and nature to align to their deepest wisdom in a heart-centered space, guided by love, connection, and justice. 

Our Vision
We envision a world where women are the light in the darkness, guiding humanity toward a future of belonging, equity, and care for the Earth. This gathering will create a nurturing space for connection, reflection, and collaboration among climate scientists, poets, artists, Indigenous leaders, policy-makers, philanthropists, and activists. 

The Invitation
This is more than a meeting. It is a sanctuary for those who labor for a just and sustainable world—a place to return to the womb of collective wisdom, to inhale deeply, and to find strength to stay in the work. 

About the Gathering

The Women+ in Climate gathering is an invitation to women and gender diverse climate and nature leaders to come together to learn from each other, lift each other up, share, rest, dance, play, and weave together our connections, work and collective efforts to weave a way forward. 

Hosted at Hollyhock, the gathering centers on a vision of joy, rejuvenation and connection for women and gender diverse climate & nature leaders, supported through programming to feed our head, heart, body and soul.  

Anchored by practices including meditation, dance, yoga, ritual, and land-based practices, the gathering aims to offer a sanctuary for women in the climate movement to reconnect with themselves, each other, and the Earth. The emphasis is on nurturing resilience and solidarity to face climate and biodiversity challenges together, and tapping into a collective energy and creativity that emerges when women gather.  

The goal is to share and learn from each other, dream together, and look into energizing a movement to protect and restore the earth. 

Through sharing space across diverse perspectives, the emergent agenda facilitates fresh perspectives and deepened relationships, opening the door to the strategies we need to address our planet’s crisis. 

Our Commitments

1. Heart-centred Leadership: Moving beyond strategy to center care, compassion, connection, and vulnerability as powerful tools for change.
2. Community as Strength: We cultivate a lasting network of mutual support, inspiration, and courage.
3. Justice and Liberation: Ensuring representation from racialized frontline leaders and honoring the interconnected struggles for equity, biodiversity, and climate justice.

Program Outcomes

Key outcomes focus on personal rejuvenation, strategic recalibration, and community building within the climate space. The program provides a platform for women and gender diverse leaders to:

• Engage in practices of healing, grieving, and self-care, nurturing both individual and collective well-being
• Share strategies, skills, and tools to advance climate work across diverse perspectives.
• Foster cross-sector collaboration, encouraging participants to step beyond their silos and weave together insights, surfacing core challenges and core solutions across fields.
• Plant seeds for united strategies and coalitions, bolstered by mutual support and resource-sharing

This gathering is ultimately intended to inspire and equip women and gender diverse leaders to return to their climate work with renewed vision, strength, and an interconnected approach that goes beyond conventional strategy, embracing collective wisdom and action.

Planning Team

• Co-hosts:

• • Tzeporah Berman, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative
  • Zainab Salbi, Daughters for Earth
  • Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN
  • Pat Mitchell and Hafsat Abiola, Project Dandelion

Presented by Hollyhock Leadership Institute