Designing a Climate of Care

How are climate change and nature loss affecting your wellbeing? What do they mean for your home, your work, or your family? How able do you feel to talk about these themes with people in your life, and in your local area? While the climate and nature crisis is impacting mental health and local communities worldwide, dedicated spaces to face and process these challenges are rare. On September 15, Tribe Porty will host an evening for Tribers and our extended community to connect over these themes and collectively design how we respond. The session will help us form a stronger connection with the Earth as well as with each other. We will begin with a ‘climate circle’: a confidential, safe space to share openly about our emotions, and listen deeply to each other, in response to the topic: 'what does thinking about climate change and nature loss bring up for you'? Participants are invited to share their stories and experiences, or simply to hold space for others to do so. During the circle, we speak in a sequence and refrain from dialogue and offering each other solutions, focusing instead on honouring what is present. There will also be opportunity to explore how we build agency, rooted in (self-)compassion. Following the circle, we will have space to reflect and discuss what we need as individuals and what we think the community needs on an ongoing basis. Your facilitator will be Rob Macquarie, a researcher and strategist specialising in climate resilience and the ‘just transition’ and a trained climate circle host. See more about Rob below. As a pilot event for the community, this is a pay-what-you-can event, with a suggested donation of £7.