Climate Café Facilitator Training
Are you interested in becoming a Climate Café Facilitator? CPA-NA offers regular training workshops.
Workshops include learning the principle, process, and practicalities of this reflective group process for sharing climate emotions. The trainings also includes an experiential “taster” climate café for all participants.
If you'd like to experience a Climate Cafe (or another type of Climate Emotion Support Group) as a participant, check out the groups our members are offering. Here's the listing of current groups members are facilitating.
Anyone who has completed the Climate Café Facilitator Training knows how useful the "taster café" experience is in understanding the Climate Café process. If you've completed the training you may be interested in help facilitate a "Taster Climate Cafe" at an upcoming Climate Café Facilitator Training. It's a great way to get practice facilitating with a seasoned facilitator in a supportive, mentoring environment - and offer support new facilitators as they learn about the Climate Café experience.
"Taster Café" Facilitators Needed
Upcoming Facilitator Training
How to Facilitate and Host a Climate Cafe: An Online, Experiential Workshop
Climate Cafe: An Online, Experiential Workshop
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Saturday, March 16, 2024
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11:30 AM 12:30 PM
Date: March 16, 2024
Time: 11:30am - 1:45pm (Eastern Time), 8:30am - 10:45am (Pacific Time)
Tickets: $35 for CPA Members; $40 for CPA Non-Members;
A very limited number of hardship/lower rate tickets are available. Please contact info@climatepsychology.us for more information.
This workshop will support participants in developing the confidence to facilitate their own climate café. The workshop will include:
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An explication of the psycho-social principles on which climate cafes are based
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A short experiential climate cafe
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Suggestions of a toolkit of practical resources
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A discussion of practical aspects of organizing and facilitating
As the present and ongoing threat of the climate and environmental emergency becomes increasingly evident, we will need to find ways to process and bear the many complex and dysregulating emotional responses that emerge. Working with difficult emotions, rather than turning away, can facilitate learning new ways of being and foster capacities for engagement. Sharing thoughts, feelings, and experiences with others can additionally help build an essential sense of community, as well as greater emotional resilience.
While specifically not a clinical encounter, a climate cafe creates a simple, reflective, empathetic space where fears and uncertainties about the climate crisis can be safely expressed and held. There are no guest speakers or lectures at these cafes; advice and action are not the focus. Based on the model of death cafes, climate cafes have been utilized, increasingly, to help a variety of individuals and communities find ways to face and hold the unsettling realities of the planetary crisis.
This workshop will support participants in developing the confidence to facilitate their own climate cafe. It will include an explication of the psycho-social principles on which climate cafes are based, provide a short experiential climate café, suggest a toolkit of practical resources, and incorporate discussions on practical aspects of organizing and facilitating.
Facilitators:
Janet A. Castellini, LCSW, LCADC, NCPsyA is a modern psychoanalyst in private practice. She worked in the field of energy and environment education for 27 years, developing programs ranging from school energy efficiency to student EV conversion and competition. She has been a trainer, writer, fundraiser, project developer, evaluator, and developer of networks and collaborative teams. She uses her psychological training to assist people to build inner strength to deal with climate change and the other major crises of our time.
Liliane Mavridara MA, DipACLM, Dipl. ABT (NCCAOM) is a mind-body health professional, transpersonal therapist, and holistic consultant with over 20 years of individual and group facilitation experience in diverse interdisciplinary and cross-cultural settings.
Liliane consults and educates on the impact of environmental pollution and climate change on individual and community holistic health and wellbeing, and she leads and co-facilitates peer support circles and communities of practice that focus on social capacity skills building, including psychological flexibility, prosocial collaboration, and trauma-informed leadership. She is a Climate for Health Ambassador, a Climate Reality Leader, and a Climate Café Facilitators trainer with CPA-NA.
HEALTHCARE DISCLAIMER REGARDING EXPERIENTIAL COMPONENTS OF WORKSHOPS OFFERED BY THE CLIMATE PSYCHOLOGY ALLIANCE-NORTH AMERICA
This workshop will include experiential components in which participants will work in a group format to discuss their thoughts and feelings, facilitated by the workshop leader. Although the leader may be a licensed mental health professional, these group experiences are not therapy groups, and the facilitator will not engage in rendering any psychotherapeutic or healthcare advice, or advice of any kind for any individual or for their particular situation.
The Climate Psychology Alliance-North America does not provide medical, mental health or any other type of healthcare service. No diagnosis or treatment of, or advice regarding, any medical or mental health condition or illness of any participant can or will be offered. Participation in our workshops cannot substitute for, and is not an alternative to, medical or other healthcare diagnosis and treatment when a medical or mental health condition or illness is present. Participants are advised to seek diagnosis, treatment and advice regarding medical or mental health conditions or illnesses from physicians, psychotherapists and other licensed healthcare professionals.
Climate Cafés in the UK
The Climate Psychology Alliance in the UK also offers regular Climate Cafés to the public.
Upcoming UK Climate Cafés.
Click for dates and registration information.
