Climate Café Facilitator Training Aug 2025

Climate Café Facilitator Training is for anyone who wishes to facilitate Climate Cafés in their communities. The only pre-requisite for this training, is to have previously attended at least 3 Climate Cafés.

This training will include the following:

• The framework and psycho-social principles of Climate Cafés

• A short experiential Climate Café

• A discussion on what emotions can emerge in a Climate Café and the facilitator’s role

• Suggestions on how to set up and promote a Climate Café

This training considers the Australian context of the climate and ecological crises and the ongoing facilitator supervision required.

*All PSC events times listed are AEST/ADST timezone (Melbourne/Sydney) - if in another timezone please make sure you are aware of the correct start time, in advance.

Pre-requisites:

To attend this training session, you must have participated in at least 3 Climate Cafés beforehand. You will be asked to confirm details about those Cafés on booking, and those checkout questions will be checked before the zoom link is sent, closer to the event date. It's not essential that the Cafés you attended were run by PSC.

Links for upcoming Climate Cafés :

PSC Climate Cafes

PSC Members (log in required): Community Events List on the PSC Community Hub


Cost:

Standard registration: $190.00 (plus Humanitix booking fee)

PSC members: 20% discount on entering your member discount code at the checkout (< link accessible to logged-in members only)

Supported rate: (TBC - by request, see below)

If you want to do this training but are not in a position to pay the full cost, please contact outreach@psychologyforasafeclimate.org to outline your experience and reason for wanting to do the training, and to request financial support for a reduced price.

Further support after this training:

After completion of this training session participants are invited to join Climate Café Facilitator InterVision (pending places remaining in individual sessions.) 

Climate Café Facilitator Intervision is our program of ongoing peer-support sessions for Climate Café Facilitators and runs once a month, from February to November. 

Facilitators:

Christie Wilson, MA

Christie is a clinical and “climate psychotherapist” who supports climate leaders at the front line of the climate and ecological crises. She writes, facilitates and coordinates Climate-Aware Professional Development Programs for Psychology for a Safe Climate and supports mental health practitioners on their climate journey and bringing climate psychology into practice.

Sally Gillespie, PHD

Sally writes, lectures and facilitates workshops on climate psychology and ecopsychology. Her book Climate Crisis and Consciousness: Reimagining Our World and Ourselves explores the psychological challenges and developmental processes of climate engagement for individuals and societies. She is an active member of Psychology for a Safe Climate and the Climate Psychology Alliance.

Dr Beth Hill

Beth has a PhD in Anthropology researching the cultural and psychological dimensions of climate change, in particular how communities come to terms with what climate change means in their daily lives.  Beth trained with Joanna Macy in the Work that Reconnects. She facilitates workshops drawing on this approach, as well deep ecology, mindfulness and creative processes involving art and writing.