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CLIMATE COACHING ACTION DAY – 12 MARCH 2025

by | Mar 11, 2025 | Articles, Climate change, Climate Coaching Action Day

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

By Liz Hall

Join us to celebrate and promote climate coaching worldwide! 

 

This will be the sixth Climate Coaching Action Day since Coaching at Work launched the annual March initiative in 2020, with the aim of celebrating and inspiring coaching with the climate crisis in mind, be that implicitly or explicitly.

 

On the day – 12 March

Coaching at Work half-day conference – Shifting sands: Adapting coaching in the climate crisis 

Join us on a journey to explore what it means for you to coach in these times.

Perhaps you’re feeling unsettled given the global context. Maybe you’re considering making changes in your practice, sensing that business as usual may no longer cut it but you’re not sure what that looks like or means for you. 

Maybe you’ve started taking steps – baby, middling or giant – towards aligning your work with the challenges of our time. Perhaps it feels hard, lonely, heartbreaking, hope-inducing or joyful, or all of the above – and more. Wherever you are, we welcome you into a space of enquiry, practice and connection.

 This free Coaching at Work conference to mark Climate Coaching Action Day will feature an opening space with live music, networking and a grounding practice, and two 90-minute workshops, building on one another. 

Programme (UK time)

09:30: Welcome and official Climate Coaching Action Day opening session with Liz Hall, leadership/ executive coach, trained mindfulness and compassion teacher and the editor of Coaching at Work. Mindfulness and compassion practice. Live improvised jazz with accomplished pianist and coach Jane Brendgen

10:00-11:30: Coaching in the poly crisis, a workshop with John Gray, who coaches primarily in the not-for-profit sectors and for climate and social justice, and is a co-founder of Castle Crag coaching consultancy and Wendy Robinson, a chartered psychologist, accredited  executive coach (AC) and coach supervisor (CSA).

11:30-11:50: Break and networking   

11:50-13:20: Embodied adaptive coaching, an enquiry and workshop with Liz Hall and Jane Brendgen, an executive and therapeutic coach, supervisor, psychological safety team facilitator, columnist for Coaching at Work, and author 

13:20-13:30: Take aways and Close

Coaching at Work pre-recorded talks

On 12 March, we will release two more podcasts recorded to mark Climate Coaching Action Day: 

  • A conversation between Coaching at Work editor Liz Hall and Emma Pearson, executive coach, OD consultant and founder of Kaleidoscope Development, about where grief shows up in coaching, why we might want to pay attention and the polycrisis
  • A conversation between Coaching at Work editor Liz Hall and psychotherapist Charlotte Hastings, author of Kitchen Therapy, about how exploring and healing our and our clients’ relationships to food can help us reconnect to nature 

 

Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC)

10:30-11:30: Working with strong emotions: navigating eco-anxiety to empower climate action

This webinar (which will be recorded)  explores the role of emotional literacy in climate leadership, examining how developing the capacity to recognise, understand and process emotions can not only build resilience but also transform despair into hope and action. 

The panel of experts features George Warren, AoEC faculty, executive coach, supervisor, mentor coach and podcast host at the AoEC, Steffi Bednarek, author, climate psychology consultant, psychotherapist and founder/director at the Centre for Climate Psychology, Bec Davison, systemic host and coach at Rippleshift, and Caroline Hickman, psychotherapist, university teaching fellow, writer and psychosocial researcher on climate change.

The panel will discuss strategies for supporting clients, teams and organisations in navigating the emotional aspects of climate change. They will also delve into the unique role of coaches and leaders in facilitating emotionally literate dialogues about the climate crisis and how this can lead to more sustainable and climate action.

To register: https://bit.ly/3CYArvW

 

Positivity Coaching

18:00: Climate Coaching Cinema. An interactive online gathering where coaching meets film and climate awareness.

How to take part:

  • Select a film clip that has inspired you regarding sustainability or environmental awareness.
  • Prepare a short comment on why this clip is powerful and how it can shift perspectives on climate action

The session:

  • Participants will watch impactful film/documentary clips that highlight climate change, human responsibility, and sustainability
  • Through a coaching lens, participants will reflect on how these messages inspire action.

Use the power of film to create change!

 

Around the day (UK time)

The Climate Coaching Alliance’s Community Festival will include the following: 

6 March 

8.30-10.00: An interview with Peter Hawkins in which he will talk about his recently published book Beauty in Leadership and Coaching. He will focus particularly on how it opens our hearts to experience how we and the ecology are one.

Beauty in Leadership and Coaching explores how leaders and coaches can contribute to the urgent task to transform human consciousness to address the great interconnected chall. 

 

16.00-17:00: Nora Bateson: ‘A Taste of Warm Data’ 

In this two-hour session, Nora Bateson will host an exploration rooted in theories that are often left out elements of systems thinking that inform her Warm Data work. Participants will get a taste of the Warm Data online practice, People Need People (PNP), to experience new kinds of unscripted and unexpected conversations opening fresh perceptions towards emerging territories of responsiveness where the value is in the relationships. 

 

7 March 

13.00-14.30: JGSG (Joint Global Statement Group on Climate): “How is the coaching profession evolving its approach towards having a more positive impact on the climate and ecological crisis?”  

 

This session explores some of the thinking that has led to the evolved version of the JGSG – a collaboration of 13 coaching, coaching psychology, mentoring and supervision professional bodies and communities looking at the climate and biodiversity crisis and our profession’s role – and what our role as practitioners can be. 

The original statement was drafted in 2020 and first published in May of that year (https://www.jgsg.one) during the Coronavirus epidemic (https://bit.ly/3QqTguz) or on the CCA website.  Since then, eight further bodies have joined: BPS DoCP, CCA, COMENSA, EASC, GSN, IAC, IOC and ISCP.  

 

8 March 

16:00-17.30: Climate Outreach: Re-writing the climate story

A conversation with Rachel Orr, CEO of Climate Outreach, setting out to answer the question: how can we effectively engage people with climate change?

 

13 March 

08:30-10:00: Creating community

How can coaching play a role in re-kindling the fire – strengthening our sense of community and belonging? In this session Lydia Stevens will discuss lessons from her and Jackie Arnold’s experience of creating a digital global community.  Jackie will interview
Dr Wassim Dbouk about his community-building strategies. Participants can explore how to support interconnectedness.

 

14 March

12:30-14:00: Synergies between DEI and Climate Action 

Hosted by Mano Ramakrishnan and Shola Awolesi, this session seeks to explore the deep connections of DEI and climate action, to spark conversation around concrete actions to deepen our understanding of DEI and grow our impact as climate coaches, and to nurture peer networks.

 

25 March 

18.30-20:00: Move to Nature’s rhythm – Earth listening circle with conscious movement

Hosted by Muriel Bauer, this session kicks off a new series of Earth Listening Circles, a safe and nurturing space for self-expression and to honour the Earth through movement, reflection and mindfulness, including conscious movement and somatic practices.