Climate Change Coaching
The Power of Connection to Create Climate Action
This 280-page book offers practical, easy-to-grasp coaching skills that build connection, shift mindsets and motivate people to act and embrace change. Includes real life stories from 40 practitioners who have galvanized climate action using coaching skills.
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Climate change and coaching are made for each other. While activists can raise general awareness, coaches are key to enabling leaders to focus on making climate change happen. Future generations will judge the coaches and coaching organisations of today on how we meet that challenge.
David Clutterbuck
Special Ambassador, European Mentoring and Coaching Council
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Have you ever had a conversation that inspired and energised you to play your part well in responding to an emergency? If so, perhaps the person you were talking with had read this book or drawn on the understanding it shares.
The human change dimension is so often a missing piece of the jigsaw in responding to our climate crisis. The practical guide fills many of the gaps, with tools that can help us become better allies to each other in supporting the personal and systemic shifts needed in our time.
Chris Johnstone
Co-Author of Active Hope
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Climate Change Coaching is an invaluable resource for anyone working in sustainability today. It provides practical techniques that get us to the heart of what is holding back progress, and tools to enrol others in our vision of change. For professionals engaged in tackling the biggest challenge ever faced by humanity, it also teaches us how to coach ourselves to build our resilience and prevent burnout. Climate Change Coaching gives us powerful relational tools to complement our technical abilities, to help us move faster and farther, together.
Patrick Bürgi
Co-founder, South Pole
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Tip #1 to galvanize climate action: belief is the secret sauce of change
To celebrate the launch of our book Climate Change Coaching: the power of connection to create climate action series, we have created this series of 5 actionable ways to galvanise your and others climate action. If you’ve ever had a conversation about climate change with another person, it’s highly likely you’ve heard someone say “what’s…
Tip #2 to galvanize climate action: neutralizing scarcity is a superpower
How many times have you felt frustrated by the lack of political will to curb greenhouse gas emissions, or experienced the fierce grip of panic when thinking that we have just a few years left to limit global warming to 1.5°C? We’re sure that just like us, you’re familiar with that voice of scarcity that…
Tip #3 to galvanize climate action: resistance is code for what we care about
More often than not, when we come across someone who dismisses our ideas out of hand, we judge them for being obtuse and begin to see them as problematic and a roadblock. In the context of climate change, our response can be even stronger, when we feel the heavy breath of urgency on our necks. …
Tip #4 to galvanize climate action: climate grief is a door to love
Keeping climate grief at arm’s length may be one of the biggest barriers to climate action we know. Many sense, even if only subconsciously, that to fully engage emotionally in the climate crisis, would mean to open our hearts to deep pain, hopelessness, and grief for what we have lost, are losing and may lose…
Tip #5 to galvanize climate action: rest is essential to climate action
At the start of a new year, it’s tempting to dream big, create ambitious goals, and jump straight into action. And if you have the energy and motivation for this, fantastic! But for those who haven’t hit the pause button recently and have been pushing on through, something else might be needed first. Climate work,…