Climate Cafe
Once every two months my friend and colleague Aaron Stern and I co-facilitate an online Climate Cafe. A Climate Cafe is an informal, open, respectful, confidential space to share emotional responses and reactions related to the climate crisis. It will be a small group and everyone will have a chance to share what they are feeling in the moment about the climate crisis. We’ll then have a chance to respond to each other. It lasts for 1.5 hours.
A Climate Cafe is a “brave space” for exploring thoughts, feelings, and experiences rather than what we are DOING about the climate crisis. There are lots of conversations about the actions we can take, but there are few places where we can be with each other and acknowledge our feelings. Being able to feel the anxiety, dread, sadness, anger, etc with others strengthens our capacity to have these emotions and not become completely overwhelmed by them. Overwhelm can lead us to inaction, shut-down, and avoidance at a time when it’s imperative that we work to find our strengths, to face this enormous crisis together with active hope and resilience.
Next Climate Cafe is Wednesday October 30, 2024 from 7 to 8:30 PM EST. Sign up to attend using this Eventbrite Link.
You can find other online Climate Cafes by checking out the Climate Psychology Alliance in UK. The Climate Psychology Alliance in North America also has an excellent list of resources to help support people processing their climate emotions.
Climate Fresk
Climate Fresk is a French-based NGO, with the aim to make climate science more accessible using graphs and data from the UN’s climate scientists, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The Climate Fresk workshop turns climate science into a game. You will work as a team to find the cause & effect relationships between 42 cards. Together you will build a collage explaining climate change. The workshop includes conversations about the drivers of climate change, the impacts, and solutions. To learn more about Climate Fresk the organization and the workshop, check out their website. You can attend Climate Fresks online or in-person.
Stay connected by sending me an email if you’d like to be informed about future Climate Fresk workshops.
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