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The climate crisis isn't just a strategic challenge. It's an emotional one. It surfaces in burnout, difficult internal conversations, and trying to do the right thing without quite knowing how. We bring climate psychology into your organisation with the warmth, depth, and rigour this moment asks for.
A CPA talk is often the first way organisations encounter our work. Our speakers are climate-aware practitioners, researchers, and facilitators who can bring depth and emotional intelligence to any forum, from a 30-minute lunch and learn to a keynote, panel, or full speaker event.
Talks can be combined with reflective exercises, climate café-style listening, or nature-connection work to make space for participants to engage emotionally as well as intellectually.
The psychology of climate change: why it's so hard to face, and what can help
Eco-anxiety, climate grief, and the full range of climate emotions
Building emotional resilience for climate work
Supporting young people, parents, and educators through climate distress
Burnout, sustainability, and the long haul of climate action
Climate justice and the psychological aspects of decolonising and intergenerational awareness
Denial, disavowal, coping and defences in the face of difficult truths
Staying with the trouble: thinking, feeling, and acting through the crisis
Lunch and learns (30 to 60 minutes, often online)
Keynotes and conference talks
Panel discussions and Q&As
In-house staff sessions
Public-facing speaker events
Working on climate or with the environment is heavy. Whether your team is researching climate science, campaigning, implementing sustainability strategy, or simply trying to operate with integrity in a heating world, the emotional load is real. Without space to process it, it shows up as burnout, conflict, paralysis, and people leaving the work altogether
CPA offers dedicated emotional support spaces and bespoke workshops for organisations, including:
Reflective practice for teams doing climate-facing work, ongoing or one-off
Coping and resilience workshops tailored to your team's context
Emotional support spaces and listening circles for staff processing climate-related stress, grief, or burnout
Burnout prevention and recovery sessions for activists, campaigners, and frontline workers
These spaces aren't about productivity hacks or wellness theatre.
They're about having room to feel what we actually feel, alongside others, with skilled facilitators holding the space.
Beyond talks and support spaces, CPA offers consultancy to help organisations integrate an understanding of the psychological and emotional responses to the climate crisis and climate justice into the fabric of how they operate. That means culture and internal practice, strategy and policy, and external messaging.
This is slower, deeper work. It might involve sitting with leadership teams to think through difficult decisions, helping your organisation develop its own language for climate distress, or working alongside you to embed psychological understanding into your sustainability strategy.
Areas we consult on:
Integrating psychology informed climate-aware practice into organisational culture
Embedding climate justice, inter-generational awareness and decolonial thinking into strategy and operations
Supporting leadership teams navigating the emotional dimensions of climate decision-making
Developing internal communications that hold complexity rather than flatten it
Building organisational resilience for the long crisis ahead
CPA designs and delivers bespoke training and professional development for organisations whose people need new tools, skills, or frameworks for navigating climate work. Our training is experiential, grounded in climate psychology, and shaped to your team's specific role and context.
Facilitation skills for staff who need to hold difficult conversations about the climate crisis
Navigating challenging conversations with colleagues, stakeholders, or the public
Working with young people through a climate psychology-aware approach, for educators, youth workers, and frontline staff
Climate psychology-informed communications for staff developing public-facing messaging
Resilience and self-care for teams in high-stakes climate work
Climate justice, anti-racism, and decolonial frameworks for organisations doing the inner work alongside the outer
All of our training centres climate justice, anti-discrimination, and decolonial thinking as integral to the theory and practice of climate psychology.
Every organisation comes to us with a different question.
Some want a single talk to open up a conversation and some need ongoing support. These case studies show what that can look like in practice.
A series of reflective sessions for a sustainability team carrying the weight of their work.
A global beauty business approached CPA after their internal sustainability team raised concerns about burnout. The team was leading ambitious climate work across the company, but was running on empty. Leadership wanted to create space for staff to process what they were carrying, without it becoming another performance task.
We designed a series of three reflective practice sessions held over three months. Each session combined climate café-style listening with structured reflection on the team's specific context. Sessions were facilitated by two CPA practitioners with experience in organisational settings, and held online to accommodate the team's distributed working pattern.
Team members reported feeling more grounded in their work and less isolated in their feelings. Several described it as the first time they'd been able to speak honestly about climate distress in a professional setting. The team has since embedded a monthly internal reflective space, drawing on practices from the sessions.
Equipping campaigners with the inner resources for the long haul.
A global beauty business approached CPA after their internal sustainability team raised concerns about burnout. The team was leading ambitious climate work across the company, but was running on empty. Leadership wanted to create space for staff to process what they were carrying, without it becoming another performance task.
We designed a series of three reflective practice sessions held over three months. Each session combined climate café-style listening with structured reflection on the team's specific context. Sessions were facilitated by two CPA practitioners with experience in organisational settings, and held online to accommodate the team's distributed working pattern.
Team members reported feeling more grounded in their work and less isolated in their feelings. Several described it as the first time they'd been able to speak honestly about climate distress in a professional setting. The team has since embedded a monthly internal reflective space, drawing on practices from the sessions.
Helping student counsellors meet the rise in eco-distress with confidence.
A global beauty business approached CPA after their internal sustainability team raised concerns about burnout. The team was leading ambitious climate work across the company, but was running on empty. Leadership wanted to create space for staff to process what they were carrying, without it becoming another performance task.
We designed a series of three reflective practice sessions held over three months. Each session combined climate café-style listening with structured reflection on the team's specific context. Sessions were facilitated by two CPA practitioners with experience in organisational settings, and held online to accommodate the team's distributed working pattern.
Team members reported feeling more grounded in their work and less isolated in their feelings. Several described it as the first time they'd been able to speak honestly about climate distress in a professional setting. The team has since embedded a monthly internal reflective space, drawing on practices from the sessions.
"We funded CPA's youth programme through our family foundation because we believe young people deserve spaces where their climate feelings are taken seriously. The work CPA is doing is irreplaceable, and we're proud to support it."
"Thank you so much for facilitating this space. It is very deeply appreciated and has nourished a space for processing the tucked-away pain of traumatic experiences from different points of my climate activism journey, as well as nurtured a sense of social connection to comrades and fellow human beings; from strangers to friends."
“I felt like I was listened to and encouraged to express my feelings, regardless of what they were”
"It was a good balance of information, practical tools, advice & reflection/sharing space. I liked having the wellbeing exercises to do in the session, as I often struggle to get myself to do them on my own, and to have someone guide with that. - Deep Resilience for a World in Crisis workshop participant "
"I'm extremely grateful for the weekend. This..held space for grief and healing is exactly what is needed in activism, and I wish for a world where everyone has access to beautiful support like this. Thank you for a wonderful and restorative experience."
"As a therapist, CPA has been the professional home I didn't realise I needed. It's where I do my deepest thinking."
"I came looking for support and found a community. CPA gave me language for feelings I didn't know how to name."
