Calder Valley Climate Cafe Listening Circle

Join us at Calder Valley Climate Cafe for a listening circle. Adapted from the Death Café model, a climate café is a simple, hospitable, empathetic space where fears & uncertainties about our climate & ecological crisis can be safely expressed. Tickets are available on a free/pay what you can/donation basis. The circles are not for profit and run by volunteers, and any donations will go towards room hire for this and future listening circles in the valley.​ As we wish to keep the circles small, tickets are limited. If you aren't able to come this time, please do follow us on Eventbrite and keep an eye out for when other listening circle events are being held. If there is interest, we wish run the circles on a regular basis. Why do we need Climate Cafés? As it becomes more evident that climate and ecological breakdown are a clear and present danger to our safety and wellbeing, we increasingly need to talk about what our changing world means for us in terms of impacts at personal, family and societal level. We need to imagine it in some detail so as to be able to think about it clearly and constructively, and to explore some complex feelings and thoughts which may often be taboo and hard to talk about. With sturdy enough support structures in place, most people can sustain challenging feelings without either dissociating and numbing or going into blind panic. They can engage with difficult truths whilst staying connected and grounded. A climate café aims to be such a structure - a container that is strong enough to allow the exploration of fear, anxiety, and other emotions such as anger, helplessness, sadness, grief or depression. What happens during a Climate Café? The focus of discussion is participants’ thoughts and feelings about the climate and ecological crisis. There are no guest speakers and no talks, and it is an advice-free zone. Whilst the climate and ecological crisis is usually the main focus of the café we realise that other related preoccupations need a space to be explored. This can happen here too. Our cafés are open to anyone aged 18 or over who is worried about the climate and ecological crisis. This session will be facilitated by Karen Moore and Amelia Scanlan. Both are trained to facilitate climate cafe listening circles by the Climate Psychology Alliance, and are volunteers attending as members of the Calder Valley community. For more information about the Climate Psychology Alliance, follow this link: https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/