Help small groups to face the climate crisis together

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The crisis is too big to face on your own. The Living with the Climate Crisis programme enables facilitators to support small groups to talk, feel, reflect over time, and build the inner and relational resources to sustain action, alongside others doing the same.

Facilitating a Living with the Climate Crisis group

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The Living with the Climate Crisis programme offers facilitators a set of materials with training or mentoring available, to take small groups through a shared journey: facing the reality of the climate crisis honestly, sitting with the difficult feelings it brings up, and from that grounded place, finding a way to respond together.

The programme is rooted in psychological understanding. It draws on what we know about how humans process loss, fear, and overwhelm, and how groups can hold each other through difficult truths in ways individuals can't manage alone. Across the sessions, the group builds shared language for climate feelings, explores what's getting in the way of action, and develops practical and emotional tools to make their contribution to the climate movement.

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You can run workshops online or in person, and the programme is flexible enough to be adapted to your group's context, whether that's a community group, a workplace team, a faith community, or an existing circle of friends.

How the programme works

Living with the Climate Crisis is designed as a series of group meetings, each with a clear focus and a set of activities, conversations, and reflections.

A series of sessions

Most groups meet over several weeks, working through the programme together as a closed cohort. The repeated meetings give participants time to build trust and go deeper.

A facilitator (or two)

Facilitators don't need to be therapists, just people with facilitation experience who are committed to holding the space well and guiding the group through the material.

Free, downloadable materials

The complete Facilitator's Guide and all session materials are available to download for free. Anyone can use them. The programme was developed by Rosemary Randall, Daniela Fernandez-Catherall and Rebecca Nestor, drawing on years of climate psychology practice, and is offered as an open resource for the climate community.

A grounded framework, not a script

The materials provide structure without being rigid. Facilitators are encouraged to adapt the programme to their group's specific needs, context, and pace.

Download the free facilitator's guide

Want to facilitate a group?

You don't need to be a therapist to facilitate Living with the Climate Crisis. You need warmth, commitment, and a willingness to hold space for difficult feelings. On request CPA can run experiential introductory workshops for people who want to facilitate, alongside ongoing mentoring and support for those already running groups.

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WHAT'S AVAILABLE

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Introductory workshops

Experiential, in-depth workshops (on request) for people who wish to facilitate. You'll work through the programme as a participant, build confidence in the materials, and join a community of fellow facilitators.

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Ongoing community

Facilitators stay connected through CPA's broader community of practice.

Free materials

Downloadable materials including a facilitator's guide, participant handbook and powerpoint slides.