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 60-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 (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 the chance to process it, it can show 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
This 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.
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.
The team has since embedded a monthly internal reflective space, drawing on practices from the sessions.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is the largest conservation charity in Europe, and one of the largest wildlife conservation organisations in the world. They approached us after seeing a rise in wellbeing challenges amongst staff, understood to be a result of being exposed to the climate and nature crises in their jobs every day, as well as in their own lives as citizens.
We advised exploring ways to create safe spaces for people to share their feelings and responses; particularly because there can be unspoken pressure (or a perception of one) to stay optimistic and positive, despite the reality of environmental harms and biodiversity loss that they are faced with each day.
We delivered a programme that empowered the RSPB staff to manage and maintain these safe spaces themselves, incorporating delivering Climate Cafe experiences, delivering CC facilitator training, CPA co-facilitation of early cafes and longer-term facilitator support.
The self-selected group who received the facilitator training reported finding it helpful and thought-provoking. Staff felt supported and encouraged in the development of this initiative and the wellbeing benefits continue to ripple out through the wider team.
Data from participants is being tracked before and after attendance, they are seeing positive impact in the measure of eco-distress used of the CCLCs. Recently they have offered specific CCLC to colleagues impacted by wildfires on RSPB sites this summer, and as a follow up to organisation screenings of the Peoples Emergency Briefing film.
BBC Studios output includes the world-renowned Natural History Unit alongside The Science Unit and Documentary Unit, all of whom are informing and educating audiences around the world on the issues surrounding climate change and biodiversity loss. Staff working on BBC nature content are dealing with the realities of climate change every day, in addition to their exposure to the climate crisis as citizens. BBC Studios asked us to provide training and resources to help staff members experiencing climate anxiety.
We hosted a series of climate cafes for staff members at BBC Studios. These sessions were designed to create a chance to explore shared emotional experiences not only of the climate and ecological crisis, but also of the work the team has in common. They were repeated over a period of time to increase familiarisation with the idea and to give time to encourage attendance from different role holders in the organisation.
Team members reported that being able to speak honestly about climate distress in a professional setting led to them feeling more grounded in their work and less isolated in their feelings.
"I just wanted to feedback that the CPA event last week at York was fantastic and my inbox is full of praise for Gareth and Laura. They did a phenomenal job and folks were so grateful for the time and space to explore the topic. Many thanks for your help in arranging the session - huge appreciation from us at York."
"CPA ran a session for us focused on supporting team resilience and wellbeing while working on the challenging topic of climate change. Linda and Louise designed and delivered an extremely thoughtful session, tailored to exactly what we wanted to achieve. The team got a lot from the session and appreciated the supportive space created by the CPA team. This helped us build both our individual and team resilience, and the skills we developed are highly valuable in the work we do. I personally wouldn't hesitate to recommend CPA!"
“Our audience at the BIAZA Conservation Education Conference needed a deeper understanding of how people emotionally process climate and conservation challenges. CPA provided that insight brilliantly. Louise delivered the session with clarity and warmth. The climate psychology perspective completely reframed how we think about engagement and action collectively across zoos and aquariums.”
“The session brought us back down to earth to collectively process emotions like rage, guilt, fear, and hope, and reflect on how to channel them towards effective actions for mitigating ecological decline.”
“CPA contributed to the production of an audio about climate cafes for a new psychology module. Rebecca and Thulsi provided expert knowledge on a sensitive topic in a really accessible way for our students. They were so easy to work with and the whole experience was thoroughly enjoyable.”
“Linda has brought a huge amount of knowledge and experience to this work. The training that myself and colleagues received on how to facilitate the Climate Cafés was very thoughtful and thought provoking. I am so grateful to Linda and the CPA for their ongoing support and encouragement.”
