Katharine K. Wilkinson, "Climate Wayfinding: Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home" (Amber Lotus Publishing, 2026)

About this episode

Katharine K. Wilkinson discusses her book 'Climate Wayfinding' and offers insights on navigating climate action and personal healing.

When maps come up short and the path ahead is uncertain, how do we find our way? Visionary climate leader Katharine K. Wilkinson offers a compassionate and empowering guide to navigating from ache to action, doubt to possibility. Through transformational programs and books, including the national bestseller All We Can Save, Wilkinson has inspired hundreds of thousands of climate journeys. In Climate Wayfinding: Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home ( Amber Lotus, 2026) she shares a proven process for looking inward with care, outward with curiosity, and forward with courage. Ultimately, readers chart a course toward playing their unique part in our collective healing. With her singular blend of warmth and rigor, Wilkinson lights the way through stirring personal essays, interwoven with the wisdom of other climate leaders and the beauty of poetry, art, and song. A book to sit with and savor, Climate Wayfinding also invites engagement with journaling prompts, practical exercises, and guides for conversation. Whether steeped in climate or newly curious, readers will discover something grounding and generative in these pages. The terrain ahead is calling—and we have…

People in this episode

Host: Marshall Poe

Guest: Katharine K. Wilkinson

Topics covered

• climate change
• personal growth
• environmental healing
• activism
• literature

Keywords

• climate wayfinding
• healing
• climate action
• personal essays
• journaling prompts

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amber Lotus Publishing

Books & works: Climate Wayfinding: Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home, All We Can Save, Project Drawdown

Places: Time

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