Kate Adams - performance maker, lecturer, and co-chair of the Climate Psychology Alliance - talks with host Michael Hanf about how creativity and vulnerability can help people navigate the emotional weight of the climate crisis. They discuss the physical toll of unprocessed emotion, the shame and guilt that can paralyse action, and the spaces Kate creates for people to confront these feelings without judgement - a conversation about grief, hope, and the risk of engaging with what we cannot fix.
Matters of Consequence: Art, Climate Psychology, and the Courage to Feel
2026
Kate Adams - performance maker, lecturer, and co-chair of the Climate Psychology Alliance - talks with host Michael Hanf about how creativity and vulnerability can help people navigate the emotional weight of the climate crisis. They discuss the physical toll of unprocessed emotion, the shame and guilt that can paralyse action, and the spaces Kate creates for people to confront these feelings without judgement - a conversation about grief, hope, and the risk of engaging with what we cannot fix.
Kate Adams
At the Climate Psychology Alliance, I'm a facilitator, speaker, researcher and board member, and I'm also involved in the coordinating and finance groups. Outside CPA, I'm a performance maker and a lecturer at the University of Salford, and currently studying part-time for an MSc in Wildlife Biology and Conservation. What really interests me is how creativity, climate psychology and the sciences can come together to help us explore how we live with and respond to the climate and ecological crisis. Genuine collaboration is at the heart of everything. I facilitate workshops, talks and reflective spaces that support people to engage with climate emotions and psychology in ways that feel meaningful, connected and constructive. The question that continually sits with me is: what helps us stay present with uncertainty while nurturing resilience, imagination and a deeper relationship with the living world?
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