Across the globe, our park systems, which serve as strongholds for intact ecosystems and as some of the last bastions of wilderness, are exhibiting the impacts of a changing climate. This is particularly significant because these emblematic sites serve as vital educational opportunities. While parks are uniquely positioned as prospects for promoting climate advocacy, it is important to recognize that our relationship with climate change and our connection to nature varies dramatically across different groups of people. Consequently, the effectiveness of climate-related educational efforts depends directly on strategic messaging that aligns with these distinctions. By using the Biophilia Hypothesis as a theoretical framework and employing the Biophilic Profile, an educational tool that explores our nuanced connection to nature, valuable patterns can emerge that offer insights into strategies to diversify climate messaging to better align with different people’s unique ways of knowing. This alignment can promote more effective, responsive, and meaningful climate campaigns and environmental education initiatives.

Participation in recreational activities in parks and protected areas can inspire both climate change awareness and advocacy by encouraging healthy engagement with nature. However, programming must align with the various ways we relate to nature to be effective. One strategy of alignment is to employ the Biophilic Profile tool, an education survey adapted from the Kellert-Shorb Biophilic Values Indicator (KSBVI). Emerging from the Biophilia Hypothesis, the KSBVI has been utilized by the authors to screen participants before programs to develop curricula that better cater toward participants’ preferred values. The activity guide we present here has multiple activities that can be facilitated in the field for a range of participants. Through the implementation of the Biophilic Profile tool, the authors have found a heightened awareness of nature-connectedness in participants and have been able to guide deeper conversations surrounding climate consciousness by effectively matching relevant activities that strengthen these relationships with nature.