Climate Café Listening Circle - Helston Museum

A Climate Café Listening Circle is a simple, hospitable, empathetic space where fears, uncertainties and grief about our climate & ecological crisis can be safely felt and expressed. The model is one which has been adapted from Death Cafés by Climate Psychology Alliance.

This climate cafe is for anyone aged 18 or over.

We need the kind of exploration that listening circles provide as it becomes more evident that climate and ecological breakdown are not far-away problems but a clear and present danger to our own safety and wellbeing. People increasingly need to talk about what our changing world means for them 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 constructively and clear-sightedly, and to explore some complex feelings and thoughts which may often be taboo and hard to talk about.

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.

The listening circle is being hosted by Helston Climate Action Group and will be led by facilitators trained through Climate Psychology Alliance and the Cornwall Climate Café Community of Practice project, and is offered free of charge. If you feel you have benefitted and would like to make a donation to help us continue to offer these spaces, this will be gratefully received.

This climate cafe is being held at the Museum of Cornish Life, Market Place, Helston TR13 8TH.

Please note there is no parking at the venue. Please allow extra time to arrive.

The climate cafe will run from 10.30am - 12.30pm. Please note, this is a held space (rather than a drop-in session). Please come for 10.30am as we will be closing the doors to new arrivals at 10.45 to create a safe, supportive space for those attending.

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