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Looking for ways to advance your climate adaptation work? Our virtual workshops connect you with experienced Adaptation in Action coaches who can help you plan, design and deliver stronger, more equitable adaptation projects.
Each session focuses on a specific challenge local governments and Indigenous communities may encounter when designing and implementing climate adaptation projects, such as engaging community members, integrating equity considerations, strengthening project planning and implementation, or exploring engineering and nature-positive solutions.
Submit your questions via the registration form about a climate adaptation project you're working on and get practical guidance from Adaptation in Action coaches. Sessions will explore questions submitted by participants, along with common challenges and opportunities identified by GMF's Funding and Outreach teams through their work with municipalities.
Whether or not you submit a question, you'll learn from real-world questions and experiences from municipalities across Canada and gain practical approaches to help move climate adaptation projects from ideas to action.
Submit your question by 9 a.m. ET on Monday, October 26, for the best chance of having it included in the session. Questions submitted after this date may still be considered.
Questions should relate to the design or implementation of a municipal climate adaptation project. Questions may be edited for clarity, combined with similar submissions or omitted to keep the discussion relevant to a broad municipal audience.
Each 1-hour session is free. Municipal staff are welcome to attend more than one session based on their project needs and interests.
Explore upcoming climate adaptation workshops
These sessions explore ways to make your climate adaptation work inclusive, culturally informed and grounded in meaningful community participation. You’ll learn approaches for advancing Reconciliation, building trust, strengthening relationships, applying equity principles, working respectfully with Indigenous communities, and turning community input into clear adaptation actions.
These sessions 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: Thursday, November 12, 2026
Time: 12:00 p.m. ET
Facilitator: SFU Centre for Dialogue
This session explores dialogue-based approaches to inclusive decision-making and 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, November 10, 2026
Time: 3:00 p.m. ET
Facilitator: Inclusive Kind
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.
- 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 methods
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Time: 10:30 a.m. ET
Facilitator: 4 Directions of Conservation
This session explores how Indigenous rights, values and knowledge can inform equitable climate adaptation. It 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.
- Combine Indigenous and Western knowledge to support project scoping, assessment and decision-making.
- Strengthen engagement methods with Indigenous communities, including early and ongoing involvement, relational approaches, and respect for Indigenous governance, knowledge sovereignty and ways of knowing.
Theme 2: Technical and strategic implementation
These sessions 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: Thursday, November 12, 2026
Time: 3:00 p.m. ET
Facilitator: Tamarack Institute
This session explores practical approaches to planning and delivering climate adaptation initiatives within municipal organizations. Participants will learn about practical techniques to strengthen project management and team collaboration to help navigate complex projects and support successful adaptation outcomes.
What you’ll gain:
- Strengthen trust, transparency, collaboration, and decision-making within project teams.
- Use practical tools to plan projects, manage resources and risks, and track progress toward measurable outcomes.
Note: this session will be delivered in a bilingual manner.
- Technical Solutions: engineering and nature-based infrastructure
Date: Monday, November 9, 2026
Time: 10:30 a.m. ET
Facilitator: Onterris
This session examines techniques—spanning groundwater, hydrology, ecological systems and river corridors—that can help communities design resilient, nature-based solutions.
What you’ll gain:
- Exposure to key concepts related to groundwater, hydrology, ecological systems, and river corridors.
- Perspectives on how nature-based approaches can contribute to climate resilience, notably in terms of flood management.
- Examples of nature-based solutions as well as the challenges and opportunities they present.
Session summary
| Session | Date | Time | Facilitator | Register |
| Technical Solutions: engineering and nature-based infrastructure | Monday, November 9, 2026 | 10:30-11:30 a.m. ET | Onterris | Register for this session |
| Indigenous knowledge and engagement | Tuesday, November 10, 2026 | 10:30-11:30 a.m. ET | 4 Directions of Conservation | Register for this session |
| Anti-Racism, equity and inclusion | Tuesday, November 10, 2026 | 3:00-4:00 p.m. ET | Inclusive Kind | Register for this session |
| Inclusive engagement through dialogue | Thursday, November 12, 2026 | 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. ET | SFU Centre for Dialogue | Register for this session |
| Project management for climate adaptation | Thursday, November 12, 2026 | 3:00-4:00 p.m. ET | Tamarack Institute | Register for this session |
Who should attend
These workshops are ideal for municipal staff 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.
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