Research and resources, shaped by those doing the work

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We're a community of researchers, practitioners, and thinkers committed to disseminating climate psychology widely, not just within our own professional circles. Through our flagship journal Explorations in Climate Psychology, our podcasts and talks, our library, and the contributions of members from across the world, we work to build a shared understanding of how psychology can meet this moment.

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Explorations in Climate Psychology - the CPA journal

Navigating the inner and external work (relational and socio-political) that this moment calls on us to do, Explorations in Climate Psychology is CPA's flagship journal, published annually. We aim to be inclusive of the different ways people experience and engage with the climate and ecological crisis and welcome a wide range of forms: peer-reviewed research, analytical articles, reviews, interviews, reflections, testimonies, poetry, art, and lightly edited conversations.

Edited by CPA's Explorations Group, the journal explores current and emerging themes in the field, from climate grief and trauma to colonialism, decolonisation, the limits of Western rationality, and what it means to "stay with the trouble." The current editors of Explorations are noted in the latest issue.

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We welcome contributions from inside and outside the CPA Community.

Find the latest call out here and guidelines for contributions here. The journal is open access and contributions can be used and quoted as long as they are referenced.

The Explorations group also offers online events with authors and other leading voices, which explore journal topics further.

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If you are interested in joining the editorial team (we particularly welcome young people and those of the Global Majority),  or wish to get in touch for another reason you can email them here.

A journal of climate psychology

Published regularly, featuring essays, research, and creative work from contributors across the UK and internationally. Each issue explores innovative forms of thinking and writing, navigating the relational and socio-political dimensions of the climate and ecological crisis.

Latest issue: Heavy weather: Exploring reactionary states of mind

Issue 8 is out now. In it you'll find explorations of the post-truth world, group narcissism, the unconscious, AI and power, and how these contribute to the reactionary state of mind.

Explorations: A journal of Climate Psychology

Published regularly, featuring essays, research, and creative work from contributors across the UK and internationally. Each issue explores innovative forms of thinking and writing, navigating the relational and socio-political dimensions of the climate and ecological crisis.

We also publish pieces from our journal via our Substack account. You can connect with us there, just follow @climatepsychologyexplorations on Substack.

New to Climate Psychology? Start here

Climate psychology is a young field with deep roots. If you're new to it, the resources below are good places to begin: foundational guides, podcasts and videos, defining texts, and the essential reading that practitioners and researchers return to again and again.

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The Handbook of Climate Psychology

CPA's foundational guide to the field, freely available to download. The handbook introduces the key concepts, frameworks, and questions that shape climate psychology, and is used widely as an entry point for practitioners, researchers, and the curious.

Download the handbook
Free Open University course

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

The course explores ideas from social theory, psychoanalysis, ecopsychology, eco-feminism and post-humanism to gain a deeper understanding of the climate and ecological crisis, its impact on our wellbeing and how to build psychological resilience. The course is endorsed and supported by the CPA.

Access it here

Climate Crisis Conversations

Our podcasts offers an accessible, conversational entry point into climate psychology, featuring CPA practitioners, researchers, and friends in dialogue about the climate and biodiversity crisis and the full range of emotional responses to it.

Ecocide and the life of Polly Higgins

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Remembering the lawyer who fought to make ecocide a crime

Climate change, grief and hope

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Why is it so hard to face climate change?

What our members are sharing

Climate psychology is built collaboratively, by members for members and beyond. The work below reflects what people across our community are thinking about, researching, writing, and making right now. These are member contributions, not CPA publications, voices from across the alliance.

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Climate and ecological emotions
Climate justice & decolonising

Hosting and facilitating a Climate café listening circle (CCLC) training

Do you want to help build resilience in your community? Climate Cafe LIstening Circle (CCLC) Training builds the confidence, skills, and peer community to facilitate your own circles. Delivered as a structured programme over three sessions in closed cohorts, with ongoing supervision and support afterwards.

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The Climate Crisis Digest is our monthly publication, usually a short piece written by members.

The name Digest reflects the psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion's insight that experience needs to be digested in order to be thinkable, especially when it is hard to bear (hence CPA's approach to difficult truths). The Digest style is not academic or polemical, more journalistic and exploratory in tone. That requires reflection by the author, to invite reflection in readers. Reflection here means inquiring into our emotional experience so as to more fully engage with the meaning of what is written.

The Digest is edited by Thulsi Prabakaran.

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An invitation into heartbreak

Jul/Aug 2020
Articles & reflections
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An invitation into heartbreak
2020

A self-determination theory approach to understanding stress incursion and responses

2011
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A self-determination theory approach to understanding stress incursion and responses
2011

A radical nature-based agenda would help society overcome the psychological effects of coronavirus

Oct 2020
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A radical nature-based agenda would help society overcome the psychological effects of coronavirus
2020

A new climate for psychotherapy?

2005
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A new climate for psychotherapy?
2005

A breath of fresh air? ‘Towards an ecopsychotherapy’: by Mary-Jayne Rust, London, Confer Books, 2020, £12.99 (Paperback), ISBN: 978-1-913494-12-4, (ebook), ISBN: 978-1-913494-13-1, 151

2020-11-14
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A breath of fresh air? ‘Towards an ecopsychotherapy’: by Mary-Jayne Rust, London, Confer Books, 2020, £12.99 (Paperback), ISBN: 978-1-913494-12-4, (ebook), ISBN: 978-1-913494-13-1, 151
2020

'It helped me sort of face the end of the world': The role of emotions for third sector climate change engagement initiatives

2015
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It helped me sort of face the end of the world': The role of emotions for third sector climate change engagement initiatives
2015

#FeministFridays with Sarah Liberty & Sally Gillespie PhD, Climate Psychology Expert, on the Mental Health Impacts of Climate Chang‪e

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FeministFridays with Sarah Liberty & Sally Gillespie PhD, Climate Psychology Expert, on the Mental Health Impacts of Climate Chang‪e
Hope & resilience
Youth & intergenerational
Climate and ecological emotions

One Resilient Earth

Grows the climate resilience of young people, sustainability professionals and educators through transformative learning journeys, climate emotions circles, and training on climate anxiety and trauma, including a dedicated CLARITY programme for teachers and educators.

2024
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One Resilient Earth
2024
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Hope & resilience
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Climate Youth Resilience

A global initiative unlocking young people's resilience, capacities, insight and leadership in the climate crisis, offering tools, training and an Ambassador programme spanning community building, advocacy, policymaking and inner-led change.

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Climate Youth Resilience

Join our community of thinkers, researchers, and reflective practitioners

CPA is more than a publisher or a library. We're a working community of people thinking together about climate psychology. Our members participate in regular Thinking Spaces, contribute to research groups, edit the Explorations in Climate Psychology Journal, maintain the library, and bring their own work into shared conversation. Research at CPA is collaborative, generative, and grounded in practice.

Why join:

  • Monthly Thinking Space

  • Research Group

  • Opportunities to Publish

  • Intergenerational buddying

  • Student and Young Members Group

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