The Personal Climate Strategy Workshop
30 days to get ready for a planet in crisis. Flash sale starts today!
I’d like to invite you to join me for a transformative encounter with planetary reality. I’ve designed a new workshop in practical climate foresight and effective personal ruggedization.
In just 30 days, you’ll gain the tools and insights to build your strategy for thriving in a time of chaos—a strategy built on science and foresight, grounded in your values, and ready to guide real-world action.
Registration is now open for my Personal Climate Strategy Workshop.
» Sign up by this Saturday, September 27th at 5pm Pacific, and get a 30% discount with coupon code PCSWFLASH at check-out.
THE PLANETARY CRISIS HAS SHIFTED GEARS
We are right now crossing many of the very thresholds we climate advocates fought for decades to avoid: global heat records shattering, billion-dollar storms and floods and wildfires intensifying, ice sheets breaking up, crops failing, droughts spreading, tipping points looming. Many climate impacts are arriving sooner than expected and combining to be worse than forecast.
Society, though, has failed to respond at the same pace. Emissions are still rising. Climate adaptation planning is slow and underfunded. Local governments are overwhelmed. Whole nations are rolling back their climate promises and cutting disaster aid. Economists and business leaders warn that continued delay brings financial instability and risks the economic futures of whole regions. Worse still, we see a swelling brittleness bubble of overvalued, climate-endangered homes and assets — a bubble that looks bound to burst.
We are living through the most rapid planetary destabilization humans have ever experienced. Even the best advice from ten or twenty years ago is now out of date.
YOUR LIFE IS HAPPENING IN THE EARLY DAYS OF A WORSENING CRISIS
If you’re like most informed, engaged, successful people, you know this crisis is real — but you’ve also seen it as something happening elsewhere, to other people. A cause to support, not a context to reckon with.
Now, the chaos is all around us. It’s the wildfire smoke turning your skies hazy orange, the sudden increase in your insurance premiums, the battered infrastructure and flooded roads that turn your commute into a gamble. It’s your retirement investments taking a climate hit. Your kids seeking reassurance. Your community struggling to recover after heavy weather.
The crisis is not an issue, after all, but an era. And this is only the beginning of that era.
We thought we had time. We’re discovering we don’t — that later is too late.
YOUR FUTURE IS NOW YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
We’re now on a collision course with planetary reality.
We’re not heading into a linear, manageable transition. We’re facing cascading failures, converging disasters, and compounding brittleness risks. We’re in a discontinuity, and past expertise and experience is a poor guide to what’s coming.
No one is ready. You can’t count on governments (or advocacy groups or churches or charities or anyone else around you) to protect your home, defend the systems you depend on and secure your future. You’ll need to act before bold government rescue plans, or climate-adaptation megaprojects, or large-scale supported relocation programs get up and running—because in many places, they may not be coming.
We have to ready ourselves for this new, deeply uncertain world. No one else will do it for us. As climate adaptation professor Jesse Keenan says, “You’re on your own.”
YOU FACE FIERCE COMPETITION FOR THE FUTURE YOU WANT
This crisis will be life-changing for many millions of us.
The more people understand this reality, the more people will look for safer places and sturdier communities.
Where we plant ourselves as the chaos intensifies is one of the most critical questions of our lifetimes. Nowhere is completely safe and no system is completely stable — but some places are a lot safer and more stable than others. In relatively safe places, we can build relatively successful and secure lives; in brittle, vulnerable places, we probably can’t.
Here’s the harsh truth, though: there’s not enough relative safety to go around. We face a closing climate relocation bottleneck, as more and more worried people scramble for a shrinking supply of places that can offer a durable future. Not everyone will get the future they deserve.
SUCCESS DEMANDS A STRATEGY
To get the future you deserve, you need a strategy. Specifically, you need a life strategy for making smart choices in unprecedented circumstances — a personal climate strategy.
The discontinuities that climate chaos brings will impact every aspect of your life — your family’s security and health; your career and household finances; your community and civic life; your investments and retirement planning. Every aspect of life needs to be at least reconsidered.
But there’s one place to start: WHERE we live.
The central pillar of good climate strategies is personal ruggedization. That means making smart decisions about where we choose to live, the systems we embed ourselves in, and the ways we work with others to improve our odds of a good future. It’s intelligent, purpose-driven engagement with deep uncertainties. It’s how we make ourselves at home on a planet none of us have ever seen before.
This is not survivalism. Personal ruggedization isn’t about buying more guns, bugging out or bunkering down. Instead, it focuses on serving what matters most to us, using reality-based strategies.
The good news? You can learn how to build a strategy based on personal ruggedization. Now’s your chance.
I TEACH PERSONAL CLIMATE STRATEGIES
Hi — if you don’t already know me, I’m Alex Steffen.
I’m an award-winning writer and thought leader with more than 30 years working at the forefront of the planetary crisis, helping people to understand what’s coming—and what we can do about it.
I’ve framed insights now used by some of the world’s most innovative companies, leading governments and major foundations; advised global leaders; created the best-selling book Worldchanging, and written acclaimed essays on climate solutions and the future. I’ve discussed the planetary future in hundreds of media appearances and delivered major speeches at places like the United Nations, leading universities and major conferences (including two TED Global Talks with over 4 million views). I’ve also served on a bunch of boards and advisory committees.
What I’m most proud of, though, is having helped guide almost five hundred people through a process for evolving their lives to thrive in this chaotic future.
FROM OVERWHELM TO CONFIDENCE IN 30 DAYS
My one-month workshop — the only one of its kind — is your opportunity to work directly with me. Together, we’ll build the foundation for your personal climate strategy.
You’ll learn how to anchor the life you’ve built — your career, your family, your goals, your prosperity — on ground that can stand firm through the storms ahead.
You’ll be able to:
• Focus your energy on what (and who) matters most.
• Understand the key climate and ecological forces shaping your world — the patterns behind the chaos.
• Use foresight tools to assess and manage future disruptions.
• Make decisions grounded in clarity and prudence, not panic.
• Build a personal roadmap for smart, timely action that works for you.
Whether you’re preparing to relocate, climate-proofing your retirement, ruggedizing your home, pivoting your business, or simply trying to get ahead of the curve, you’ll come away with a robust strategy, tailored to your life. Your strategy will offer a platform for building the kind of life you want, despite escalating dangers.
This is your chance to get expert guidance, transformative insight, and a working strategic process.
This four-week intensive includes:
✅ Eight in-depth talks and discussions—live and recorded, so you can learn at your own pace
✅ A 90-minute wrap-up discussion to work through challenges in our personal climate strategies
✅ Breakthrough frameworks and tools to help you make sense of the BIG picture.
✅ A set of Personal Climate Strategy prompts
✅ Curated readings and essential resource guide
✅ Access to expert consulting
WHAT PARTICIPANTS SAY: THIS IS AN UNMATCHED OPPORTUNITY
Scores of participants have told me that this course has made a powerful difference in their lives. Families have moved away from danger, and started new lives in new communities. Folks have changed careers, made new investments, improved their retirement plans — and returned to civic engagement with renewed spirit. Above all, those I’ve worked with tell me they feel more at home in the world as it is now. They feel more centered, more confident in their ability to find answers, to make changes and to help others.
Action towards ruggedization is the antidote to climate despair — and climate foresight is the key to successful action.
WHAT WILL YOU GET AS PART OF THIS WORKSHOP?
Content Delivery: I’ll be hosting eight in-depth explorations of the fundamental strategic concepts you need, and the key steps to taking action on each. These will be presented on Zoom. Each call will be approximately 75 minutes long, followed by a brief Q&A.
Call Topics: Each session, I’ll lay out the big-picture context, then zoom in to focus on what you need to know and consider when making your personal climate strategy.
Topics will include Living in a Time of Discontinuity, Understanding the Triangle of Brittleness, Identifying Better Locations Before the Rush, Designing Your Strategy and Building Momentum to Act.
>> Please click here for the full Workshop Syllabus: Personal Climate Strategy Workshop Syllabus (Fall 2025)
Class Dates & Times: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:00pm - 1:15pm Pacific on October 7th, 9th, 14th, 16th, 21st, 23rd, 28th and 30th.
Bonus Call with Alex: There will be a 90 minute Wrap-Up Discussion call on November 6th via Zoom.
Follow at Your Own Pace: All calls are recorded and recordings will be shared with participants following each call. It’s okay if you can’t make every call. You may revisit the recordings for as long as I’m running these courses.
WORKSHOP BONUSES
Personal Climate Strategy Laser Prompts & Exercises
With each class, you will be given 1-2 thoughtful writing prompts to help clarify your thinking so that you can focus on what (and who) really matters, and strengthen the climate foresight skills needed to make smart decisions in a time of discontinuity. These are some of the same questions and exercises I’ve used to sharpen my own thinking and plan for our family. Now, I’m sharing them with you.
Curated Readings and Essential Resource Guide
There is a LOT of information to wade through out there, and you don’t need another “Top Climate Havens” article. That’s why I provide a curated short-list of key readings, podcasts, and other resources to help you get a firm grasp on the critical concepts and guide your decision-making.
Unlock access to expert consulting with me
All participants will gain access to my private consulting calendar and a 50% discount on a 50-minute consultation.
⚡️ FLASH SALE STARTS TODAY! ⚡️
Registration is now open for my Personal Climate Strategy Workshop. Sign up by 5:00 p.m. Pacific, this Saturday, September 27th, and get 30% off when you use coupon code PCSWFLASH at check-out.
(Full-price enrollment closes on October 5th, 2025! Space is limited.)
Ruggedize your life. Secure your future. Strategize success.
You’re not just preparing for yourself—you’re preparing to guide others who will look to you when things go wrong. After you’ve participated in the Workshop, you’ll be able to look back on 2025 proud that you took the time to prepare for the crisis that defines our era.
P.S.: Questions about the Workshop? Send us an email at Alison@Alexsteffen.com