What we’re about
Climate Cafés are an incredibly simple idea. They’re opportunities to meet with facilitators and talk about our responses to climate change. The organisers provide a space, facilitators, and some cake; you arrive at the start time (good to be prompt if you can), get yourself a hot drink and join in. You can come to one Climate Café or several. You don't need to be a climate activist. Low Carbon Oxford North hosts and facilitates the Climate Café; we won’t be giving out any information or expecting you to change your lifestyle or opinions, or do anything except listen and talk with each other.
Climate Cafés are an initiative from Low Carbon Oxford North. We have noticed that it can be difficult to talk about climate change with friends and family, and Climate Cafés are designed to provide a space to do just that - with no pressure, and no judgement. See you there!
Have you attended one or more of our climate cafés in the past? We would love to hear your thoughts about your experience. Here's a link to a short feedback form that you can use to let us know what you liked or found valuable about the experience, and what was more difficult. You can also use the form to tell us if you'd like to get involved in organising or facilitating climate cafés.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Climate café listening and music circletbd in North Oxford - contact Rebecca for details, Oxford
Jim Davey-Hewins and Rebecca Nestor are delighted to invite you to join us at a first-of-its-kind Climate Cafe Listening and Music Circle. To receive details of the venue, please DM Rebecca or email rebecca@rebeccanestor.co.uk.
In a first of its kind, this ‘climate café listening and music circle’, based on the usual climate café approach, will also include opportunities to use musical instruments and the voice to express, explore and deepen feelings related to the climate crisis. Music has the capacity to embrace emotional complexity and contrast, with its very ambivalence enabling access to the truth of a feeling in a way that words cannot express. We hope that through group improvisation participants may find new ways of exploring and understanding any potentially conflicting or painful feelings.
This event, facilitated by Rebecca Nestor and music therapist Jim Davey-Hewins, may be of particular interest to anyone who has previously attended a climate café listening circle and is interested in experiencing this new approach. People who do not have this previous experience are also welcome, and are encouraged to find out more about climate café listening circles on the Climate Psychology Alliance website (https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/index.php/component/content/article/climate-cafe-listening-circle?catid=13&Itemid=101)
There's no charge. We will provide cake and hot drinks. Please try to arrive at 14.15 to give us all time to settle in together and start at 14.30 (though we won't turn you away if you're a few minutes late!). We will end the session by 16.30.
No musical experience is necessary and instruments will be provided.
Age limit of 18+.
- The climate crisis: what can I do?Friends Meeting House , Oxford OX1 3LW
Are you feeling concerned, anxious, or even despairing about the climate crisis? Wondering whether there is anything meaningful you can do to contribute to climate action? Join the Oxfordshire Climate Cafés team for a new free workshop, designed to help you find a way to take action.
The workshop will help you to:
- face your feelings about what is happening in our world, and get support for them
- explore your strengths and abilities
- decide, if you wish, what your best contribution to climate action could be
The workshop is a new design based on expert materials produced by the Climate Psychology Alliance ('Living with the Climate Crisis') and will be run as a pilot by experienced facilitators.
Hot drinks and biscuits provided. We will ask you for feedback afterwards in order to help us finalise the workshop.
