Centre for Climate Psychology
Nurturing collective wisdom in times of collective upheaval
Psychology in times of ecological disruption
The Centre for Climate Psychology offers online training, workshops and events that bring regenerative disturbance to embedded habits of thinking whilst nurturing collective resilience, trauma aware leadership and psychological adaptability in a time of global upheaval.
Largely invisible cultural assumptions act like an adhesive glue, that moulds everything into the same familiar patterns. Changing the way we see things is therefore one of the most powerful leverage points for systems change.
We recognise that our lives and our Psyche are interwoven with the anima mundi - the soul of the world.
Our mission is therefore to foster a rich diversity of psychological and soulful responses to the metacrisis - responses that go beyond the mere correction of what is visible and measurable on the surface and transcend the narrow aim of functioning symptom-free within the dominant paradigm.
Featured Events
What would a soulful response to these circumstances look like? What practices and perspectives can support us leaning into the world? How do we keep our souls alive?
We will touch upon ways to cultivate a robust interior life rooted in imagination, creativity, fertile stories, ritual, self-compassion, and the vital necessity of friendship and living community.
Join us for a live lecture with soul activist and renowned author Francis Weller as we wonder aloud, what facing the world with soul might look like in these tenuous, uncertain times.
Are you conflicted about the demands of your career path and your personal values and concerns in a time of ecological collapse?
Are you confused about how best to respond?
Are you asking what a meaningful life looks like in the context of the climate crisis?
Join climate psychologist, Steffi Bednarek, & climate journalist, Matthew Green, to explore these dilemmas in a small group of professionals from diverse backgrounds at The Conduit, London on Sat 7th Dec 2024 10am - 4.30pm.
This presentation will explore the elements of an Apprenticeship with Sorrow. Through the rites of grief, we are ripened as human beings. Grief invites gravity and depth into our world, urging us to understand it not only as an emotion but as a core faculty of being human. This apprenticeship is, at its heart, about crafting elders capable of meeting the pain and suffering of the world with a dignified and robust bearing. This is soul activism—intended to foster deep cultural change.
Get involved
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Soul Activism and the Wild Edge of Sorrow
Psychotherapist and author Francis Weller will be offering an online workshop and a talk series in the autumn of 2024 as well as a Grief Ritual Leadership Training in 2025.
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Internal Family Systems for Social Change
A 6-part online workshop introducing the IFS model for social transformation with climate psychologist Steffi Bednarek
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Transcending Double Binds
Online workshop that supports changemekers to navigate and transcend the insidious double binds that are inherent in the role. Facilitated by Bec Davison and Steffi Bednarek.
Watch the Replay
1378 people signed up to join Steffi Bednarek, Bayo Akomolafe, Nora Bateson, Thomas Hübl, Francis Weller, Caroline Lucas, James Vaccaro, and Deepa Mirchandani for an unusual book launch.
Many thanks to Kosha Joubert and the Pocket Project for hosting the event.

Contributors
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Thomas Hübl
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Bayo Akomolafe
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Francis Weller
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Mary-Jane Rust
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Sally Weintrobe
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Chris Robertson
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Steve Thorp
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Shelot Masithi
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Wendy Greenspun
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Nontokozo Charity Sabic
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Malika Virah-Sawmy
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Trudi Macagnino
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Haweatea Holly Bryson
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Rhys Price-Robertson
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Mark Skelding
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Keith Tudor
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Glenn A. Albrecht
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Steffi Bednarek
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Peter Philippson
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Inna Didkovska
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Sally Gillespie
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Rosemary Randall
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Vanessa Andreotti
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Rene Susa
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Cash Ahenakew
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Sharon Stein
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Chief Ninawa Inu Huni Kui
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Rebecca Nestor
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Gillian Ruch
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Julian Manley
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Bec Davison
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Sophy Banks
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Harriet Sams
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Matthew Adams
Support next steps
We aim to create free online events, that connect people in unexpected, trans-disciplinary, cross-boundary, cross-sectoral and inter-generational ways, nurturing mutual learning experiences that weave back together what has been torn apart.
Even a small donation helps to resource the work that is necessary to get this going. Your generosity and support is hugely appreciated.