Craft and Connect: Eco-Reflections Series

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Text over a purple and white floral background: Find Your Environment Presents: Craft & Connect - Eco Reflections Series, Spring 2026

Join Find Your Environment for a series of Craft & Connect events, bringing together U of A students and local environmental organizations for hands-on activities and career conversations.

Enjoy free pizza and creative crafts while learning how to approach emotions and thoughts relating to climate change during our Craft and Connect “Eco Reflections” series! Each event provides spaces for students to explore how they are experiencing current societal and cultural contexts of environmental issues while getting creative! Our upcoming events feature the opportunity to contribute to current U of A research and connect with CAPS counseling!

Learn about our FREE upcoming events and how to get involved by exploring the different Craft & Connect sessions below!

Craft and Connect Events

Craft and Connect: Climate Postcards

Wish You Were Here: Climate Postcards

Create a postcard that shows off your unique perspectives on climate change while contributing to research led by U of A research scientist Gigi Owen, PhD.!

Text over floral green and white background: Craft & Connect - Ecotherapy Pathways with CAPS & painted pots with succulent planting, 6-7:30 p.m | 3.05.26 | ENR2 N595, CAPS Counselor Heather Straight CAPS counselor Mia Zamora; Image: Headshots of Heather Straight and Mia Zamora

Craft and Connect: Ecotherapy Pathways with CAPS

Explore ecotherapy through pot painting and succulent planting while learning tools to approach tough emotions on environmental issues with U of A CAPS counselors Mia Zamora and Heather Straight!

Text over floral blue and white background: Craft & Connect - Holding Earth A creative exploration of eco-emotions and connection to nature, community, and self, 6-7:30 p.m | 4.02.26 | ENR2 N595, Facilitator Maria Renée Johnson; Image: Headshot of Maria Renée Johnson

Craft and Connect: Holding Earth

Pause and safely explore climate- and eco-related emotions through mediation and creative practice with Maria Renée Johnson as your guide!