A Climate Café offers something different from the usual gatherings of people with interests in climate change. Climate Cafés are facilitated – so you can be sure that there will be space for you to speak if you wish (it’s OK to be silent too). They are not designed to recruit you to do anything or to put you under any pressure. You can come to one or several climate cafés. There are no guest speakers, no talks, and no advice. Facilitators are trained (two at each event) through the Climate Psychology Alliance www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/

The idea behind them is that talking about climate change is really important – but feelings of guilt that we are not doing enough, or frustration that others are not doing enough, sometimes stop people from having conversations. The way climate change is politically polarised doesn’t help either. So a climate café provides a space in which we don’t focus on the climate science, or on climate solutions or climate policy, or on what we or others are doing or not doing. We just think and feel together about the climate crisis, and find words for what we’re feeling. Everyone is welcome, though we don’t advise children attending.

There will be hot and cold drinks and cake available to buy from the Wholesome Earth Café, who are our hosts.

Climate cafés are not drop-in events, and we limit numbers to 12, so please try to arrive in good time for the 5.30pm start. Of course we won’t turn you away if you’re a few minutes late and there are still spaces.