Cambridge Climate Cafe

Listening Circle

Climate Cafes offer a supportive space for people to express what they feel and think about climate issues, reflect together and listen to one another. The cafes are led by facilitators, so you can be sure there will be space for you to speak if you wish to. All welcome.

Upcoming dates

Saturday 11th October

Saturday 15th November

Saturday 13th December

3-4.30pm for all cafés – doors open at 2.45pm

Venue: Mill Road Community Centre, 6 Hazell St, Cambridge,
CB1 2GN. (Citibus 2, or 10 minute walk from station)

Cost: Free but donations welcome to cover costs

Please book in advance: http://www.eventbrite.com/o/104016587731

Cambridge Climate Therapists is a group of qualified therapists and psychological practitioners concerned with climate issues. We offer our time voluntarily to the community.

For more information, please visit http://www.cambridgeclimatetherapists.org

What now? What next?

We are facing an ongoing struggle to comprehend the complex impacts of climate change on ourselves and the world. Some of us might turn to activism, some might feel like retreating into denial or despair, while others feel fearful and uncertain. We offer a safe space for people to share their concerns, their hopes, their fears in a series of 9 weekly sessions, starting in mid February 2025 (exact dates to be confirmed).

The group will be facilitated by two experienced therapists from Cambridge Climate Therapists, and the meetings will be held on Monday evenings at the Friends’ Meeting House, Handside Lane, Welwyn Garden City AL8 6SP.

To find out more, or to register your interest, please contact:

Jacqui Davis jacquidavis99@gmail.com Tel: 07831 682185

Isobel Urquhart isobelurquhart@btinternet.com

Monthly Climate Cafe

The Cambridge Climate Therapists with collaborators run monthly Climate Cafes at the Mill Road Community Centre

We think that Climate Cafes offer something different from the usual climate events. They are facilitated – so you can be sure that there will be space for you to speak if you wish to. The idea behind it is that talking about the feelings we have about Climate Change is important. A Climate Cafe is not a recruitment event and neither will it be focused on actions. It’s a safe feeling and thinking space.

They are facilitated by Daniela Fernandez Catherall and Sue Lewis, members of Cambridge Climate Therapists. To book a place please use the links below:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-cafe-cambridge-tickets-816445449317?utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-cafe-cambridge-tickets-816449471347?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Living with the Climate Crisis

Join Ro Randall and Daniela Fernandez-Catherall from Cambridge Climate Therapists for the online launch of Living with the climate crisis on Monday 17 April 19.00-20.30 UK time – find out more and book here.

These new materials provide guidance for a series of group meetings which help people respond to the climate crisis, both personally and collectively. They focus on:

support and understanding
communication
finding pathways to carbon reduction and community and political action

At the launch, authors Rosemary Randall, Rebecca Nestor, Daniela Fernandez-Catherall and Andy Brown will introduce the new materials, talk about the thinking behind the project, and answer your questions.

The groups provide a space for people to talk, to share, to express what they feel and to reflect. They offer tools, ideas and skills. They emphasise our shared humanity, our interdependence and the need for a collective response. They are rooted in psychological understandings of our distress, of our difficulties in communication and of each person’s need to find a place in a bewildering array of possibilities for action.

The project is run by the Climate Psychology Alliance on a dedicated website, https://livingwiththeclimatecrisis.org, where you can view, read and download the new materials free.

This launch event is part of the ongoing support and development that the Climate Psychology Alliance will provide to facilitators who wish to use the materials and run groups.

Please share and circulate this information to your networks.

Climate Listening Bench

Climate Listening Bench – offers people an informal opportunity to sit down and talk to our climate listeners. Contact us if you would like us to bring the Listening Bench to an event you are holding. From time to time we also set the Listening Bench up in venues around the city, most often in New Square. Dates appear on the Home Page and on the Events Page

What now, what next?

This is a group for people who wish to meet with others to explore and reflect on their personal experience and feelings about the climate and biodiversity crises. Details of the next group will appear on the Home Page and on the Events Page.

Green Week COP 26 at Wolfson College 18th-25th October

We took our Listening Bench to Wolfson College on Monday 18th October as part of their Green Week/COP26 event.

Our Climate Listening Bench project, inspired by the Zimbabwean Friendship Bench initiative, offers a friendly empathic ear to anyone worried or upset about the climate crisis. Over the summer you may have seen a couple of our trained psychotherapists sitting on a bench at different open green spaces in Cambridge. During Green Week, the Listening Bench was made available at various times at a suitable site within Wolfson College.

And on Friday 22nd October from 10.30 to 12.30, Ro Randall and Daniela Fernandez Catherall offered a workshop, “Coping with the Climate Crisis”, in the large seminar room at Wolfson College.