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.
We host and facilitate the Climate Café, often with support from local climate community groups; 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. 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!
Climate Cafés in Oxford originated with Low Carbon Oxford North and they are now run and hosted across the UK and elsewhere, with facilitator training provided by the Climate Psychology Alliance.
You can follow us on Instagram and Facebook as well as joining this group. And here are some links to further info about climate cafés:
Oxford Clarion guest article on climate cafés by one of our facilitators Karen Dauncey
BBC Oxford coverage of climate cafés
Climate Psychology Alliance description of climate cafés
Upcoming events
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Climate café listening and music circle
The North Wall Arts Centre , South Parade Summertown, OX2 7JN, GBWhat do you FEEL about the climate crisis? It can be hard translating our feelings around this huge issue into words - language can feel clunky and slow while feelings might shift and fade as we try to capture them. The words to describe what you’re feeling might not even exist!
So… what if you could experiment with sound and music as well as words ?
We warmly invite you to the second Climate Cafe Listening and Music Circle.
This format is based on the usual climate café approach, but introduces something new - the chance to use musical instruments and your voice to express, explore and deepen feelings related to the climate crisis.
Music has the capacity to embrace emotional complexity and contrast, enabling access to the truth of a feeling in a way that words cannot express. But don’t worry, this isn’t about performing - or even knowing how to play a musical instrument!
We’ll improvise in a group and we might find new ways of exploring and understanding the potentially difficult, fluctuating or conflicting feelings that may arise. The only thing that matters in this space is the experience of making sounds together.
This event will be led by music therapist Jim Davey-Hewins and climate cafe facilitator Rebecca Nestor. It’s free to attend and there will be cake and hot drinks.
Need to know:
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No musical experience is necessary
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Instruments will be provided
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Over 18s please
This event is open to all. It may be of particular interest to you if you’ve previously attended a climate café listening circle and are interested in trying a new approach. If you’ve never been to a climate cafe you are also welcome, and you might be interested to find out more about climate café listening circles on the Climate Psychology Alliance website
Please arrive in good time (13.45 if possible) to give us all time to settle in together and start at 14.00.
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Climate Café at Common Ground, Little Clarendon Street
Common Ground Workspace, 37 Little Clarendon Street, Oxford, GBWelcome to our monthly climate cafes: gentle facilitated spaces where we share our feelings and thoughts about the climate crisis.
We think our Climate Cafés offer something different from the usual gatherings of people with interests in climate change. They are facilitated – so you can be sure that there will be space for you to speak. They are not designed to recruit you to do anything or to put you under any pressure. The idea behind them is that talking about climate change is really important – but it is often made more difficult by our feelings of guilt that we are not doing enough, or frustration that others are not doing enough. So we provide a space in which we don’t talk about what we or others are doing or should be doing. We just talk about climate change and how it is making us think and feel.
Everyone is welcome. There's no charge. We provide the cake and we invite you to buy your own hot drink. Climate cafés are not drop-in events, so please try to arrive in time for the 14.30 start (though we won't turn you away if you're a few minutes late!).
Age limit of 16+.
These climate cafés are hosted by Low Carbon Oxford North. Read more about climate cafés in The Guardian or in Rebecca Nestor's blog post or in this BBC article.
1 attendeeClimate Café at Common Ground, Little Clarendon Street
Common Ground Workspace, 37 Little Clarendon Street, Oxford, GBWelcome to our monthly climate cafes: gentle facilitated spaces where we share our feelings and thoughts about the climate crisis.
We think our Climate Cafés offer something different from the usual gatherings of people with interests in climate change. They are facilitated – so you can be sure that there will be space for you to speak. They are not designed to recruit you to do anything or to put you under any pressure. The idea behind them is that talking about climate change is really important – but it is often made more difficult by our feelings of guilt that we are not doing enough, or frustration that others are not doing enough. So we provide a space in which we don’t talk about what we or others are doing or should be doing. We just talk about climate change and how it is making us think and feel.
Everyone is welcome. There's no charge. We provide the cake and we invite you to buy your own hot drink. Climate cafés are not drop-in events, so please try to arrive in time for the 14.30 start (though we won't turn you away if you're a few minutes late!).
Age limit of 16+.
These climate cafés are hosted by Low Carbon Oxford North. Read more about climate cafés in The Guardian or in Rebecca Nestor's blog post or in this BBC article.
1 attendee
Past events
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