Workshops: Implementing stronger climate adaptation projects with expert guidance

Looking for peer-supported ways to advance your climate adaptation work? Our virtual workshops—led by experienced Adaptation in Action coaches—offer guidance to help you plan, design and deliver stronger adaptation projects.

Each session focuses on a specific challenge municipalities face, such as engaging community members, integrating equity considerations, strengthening project planning and implementation, or identifying nature-positive solutions. You’ll learn approaches that can help you avoid common pitfalls and take the next steps from ideas to action.

The workshops are organized into two themes. Each 90-minute session is free and open to all municipalities, including those that haven’t applied for Adaptation in Action funding. Participants are welcome to attend more than one session. 

Explore upcoming climate adaptation workshops

These workshops explore ways to make your climate adaptation work inclusive, culturally informed and grounded in meaningful participation. You’ll learn approaches for building trust, strengthening relationships, applying equity principles, working respectfully with Indigenous groups and turning community input into clear adaptation actions.  

These workshops emphasize how to meaningfully involve community members, integrate diverse perspectives and ensure your climate adaptation work is inclusive from the outset.

Inclusive engagement through dialogue 

Date: Monday, February 2, 2026

Time: 1:30 p.m. ET

Facilitator: SFU Centre for Dialogue

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This session introduces dialogue-based approaches to inclusive decision-making and explores how participatory engagement can strengthen trust, build relationships and support collaborative climate adaptation implementation.

What you’ll gain:

• Identify meaningful opportunities for participatory, inclusive decision-making.
• Understand how dialogue shifts engagement from transactional to relational and fosters collective action.
• Build skills to enhance accessibility, address participation barriers and navigate complex conversations.

Anti-Racism, equity and inclusion  

Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Time: 12:00 p.m. ET

Facilitator: Inclusive Kind

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This session explores how anti-racism, equity and inclusion (AREI) connect to municipal climate adaptation work and offers practical approaches for building buy-in, strengthening inclusive engagement and applying an equity-informed lens across projects and processes.

What you’ll gain:

• Understand how AREI principles relate to climate adaptation across municipal roles.
• Explore foundational AREI concepts and identify opportunities for authentic buy-in.
• Engage communities in more inclusive and accessible ways.
• Apply equity-informed approaches to data collection and use.
• Identify simple actions to begin integrating a AREI lens in your own projects.

Indigenous knowledge and engagement 

Date: Thursday, February 5, 2026

Time: 1:30 p.m. ET

Facilitator: 4 Directions of Conservation

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This session explores how Indigenous rights, values and knowledge can inform equitable climate adaptation. It introduces the Two-Eyed Seeing approach and offers practical guidance for building respectful, reciprocal relationships with Indigenous Nations and communities.

What you’ll gain:

• Understand how Indigenous rights, values and knowledge inform climate adaptation.
• Learn what Two-Eyed Seeing is and when to use it.
• Combine Indigenous and Western knowledge to support project scoping, assessment and decision-making.
• Engage early and honour Indigenous protocols and governance.

Inclusive engagement process design

Date: Friday, February 6, 2026

Time: 11:30 a.m. ET

Facilitator: LURA Consulting

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This session offers guidance on designing and facilitating engagement that is inclusive, purposeful and action-oriented.

What you’ll gain:

• Clarify engagement purpose and how input will inform decisions.
• Identify who needs to be involved, including those most affected by climate risks.
• Plan welcoming and accessible engagement activities.
• Use simple facilitation techniques to support participation from everyone.
• Turn community input into clear actions for adaptation project design and implementation.
• Choose a realistic 30-day action to make future engagements more inclusive.

These workshops focus on strengthening your technical foundations and project management skills to plan and deliver effective climate adaptation projects. You’ll explore practical tools and frameworks to improve project management and integrate nature-based solutions.

Project management for climate adaptation  

Date: Friday, January 30, 2026

Time: 1:30 p.m. ET

Facilitator: Tamarack Institute

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This session introduces a systems-thinking approach to climate adaptation and explores ways to strengthen team collaboration and apply strategic clarity tools throughout project planning and delivery.

What you’ll gain:

• Understand climate adaptation through a systems-thinking lens.
• Strengthen trust, transparency and collaboration within project teams.
• Use strategic clarity tools for planning and project management.

Note: this session will be delivered in a bilingual manner.

Nature-Positive Solutions 

Date: Monday, February 9, 2026

Time: 2:00 p.m. ET

Facilitator: Montrose Environmental Solutions

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This session examines how natural systems influence climate risk and explores how techniques—spanning groundwater, hydrology, ecological systems and river corridors—that can help communities design resilient, nature-based solutions.

What you’ll gain:

• Understand how risk assessment techniques apply to nature-based systems.
• Learn how groundwater and hydrology support ecological resilience.
• See how river and ecological systems are interconnected and can be protected.
• Understand how upstream, conveyance, downstream and river corridor designs can help reduce flood risk. 

Workshop summary

Who should attend

These workshops are ideal for municipal staff, elected officials and project partners involved in local climate adaptation work—particularly those interested in improving collaboration, equity integration and project delivery.

Workshops may be delivered in English or French, depending on the coach. Simultaneous interpretation (SI) will be provided in all workshops to ensure bilingual participation.