Today’s newsletter was meant to be a simple invitation: join us at our London Climate Action Week events, starting with Inside Out: Strengthening Inner Resilience and Community Ties in the Polycrisis on Wednesday 24 June. Instead, we find ourselves writing about the exact thing the event is designed to help us hold: the lived, bodily experience of climate disruption arriving at our door.
With record-breaking temperatures of 37°C now forecast, and likely to feel hotter still in central London, we have to put participant safety first, so our events this week are likely to move online (scroll down for full event details). If you’ve registered, or are still deciding, please register anyway and we’ll confirm the format by email as soon as we can.
It’s interesting to observe (and feel!) that even for many of us well versed in the facts of the climate crisis, the emotional weight often only lands when the crisis stops being abstract. It might be a worry about whether it’s safe to send the kids to school, whether we’ll be stranded somewhere if public transport fails, or whether our friends and family who might need extra support are okay. The shift from knowing to feeling becomes unavoidable.
And as is quite widely known now, the hot summers we’re living through now will very likely be remembered as some of the coolest of our lifetimes. A new “plausible” Met Office scenario for June 2056 suggests a heatwave like this one could look mild by comparison, with peak temperatures of 45°C and nine consecutive days above 40°C.
This is why the inner work matters as much as the outer work - staying present with difficult feelings and supporting each other in that isn’t separate from the action we need to take together - it is a crucial part of it. So please join us this week, in whatever form the events take. More details of them below. We hope to see many of you there.
Wednesday 24 June, 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM - NOW ONLINE
Join the Climate Care Collaborative, Force of Nature, Inner Climate Response Alliance, Six Seconds, The Resilience Project, and Youth Climate Collaborative at London Climate Action Week for an interactive workshop that bridges inner and outer climate work. This session is designed to offer a soft place to tend to yourself, build resilience, meet allies, and nourish connections with other change-makers.
Wednesday, June 24, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Climate Youth Resilience is launching their Dance 4 Change project, in collaboration with Just Us and The Advocacy Academy, where they co-create pathways of joy in policymaking with young people at the center.
In this session, we will facilitate discussions on the issues at the center of young people’s movements, their hopes and dreams, and how we practically embed joy and belonging in our processes. Did we mention there will be dancing? 💃🕺No dance background is needed to join!
Wed 24 Jun 2026 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM - NOW ONLINE
The climate crisis is not only an environmental emergency — it is also a relationship and communication emergency.
People are not starting from the same place. Some deny the crisis. Some accept it but underestimate the timescale. Others do not yet grasp the scale of disruption climate impacts will generate here in the UK. And views are becoming increasingly polarised — even among those who agree there is a crisis but disagree on how to respond. Polarisation, in this context, is not just uncomfortable. It is dangerous: it blocks the collective action we urgently need.In this interactive two-hour session, participants will experience a sequence of short exercises that build the conversational skills needed to bring down the heat in the room, increase understanding, and connect in a way that enables collective action at many scales — families, communities, and institutions.
Looking for other LCAW events centering inner reslience and community? Check out our recent post here.
While we’ve been busy planning London Climate Action Week, regular events are continuing in the background:
Climate psychology workshops for the People’s Emergency Briefing are running multiple times every week, with around 40 workshops already delivered. This means over 350 people have facilitated or will be facilitating their PEB workshops with a better understanding of how to work with different emotional responses to the difficult information presented in the film.
If you’re interested in joining one of these workshops, first sign up to host a screening with the NEB, then book your place.
These workshops are designed by Linda Aspey of the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA) and delivered by trained CPA members. CPA is a partner of ICRA (the Inner Climate Response Alliance) which is part-funding these workshops.
ICRA Community Calls are for anyone interested anyone interested in inner work, climate resilience and community adaptation.
Whether you’re an inner work practitioner, community leader or resident looking to bring this work to your local area, join us for a informal gathering to meet others and help shape our growing community.
Find out more and book your free place
Events, workshops and other offerings - some from people already in the ICRA network, others from outside that we think you might be interested in.
If you have something you’d like us to share with the community in next month’s newsletter, drop us a line at hello@innerclimateresponse.org.
The Eternal Song Film and Discussion Series
A discussion series on ‘The Eternal Song’, a series of twelve deeply moving films which invite us into a space of remembrance, honouring Indigenous resilience and sacred wisdom, while bearing witness to the intergenerational trauma of colonization, cultural erasure, and ongoing inequities. Online, 25 June, 7.00-8.30pm BST | Find out more
The Spiral Calls – Stepping Into Your Facilitation Path
A free 90-minute introductory session about the Work That Reconnects Spiral Journey Facilitator Development Program, titled “The Spiral Calls“. We will be exploring the structure, rhythms, and spirit of the program — including mentorship, practice facilitation, and the inner work that supports wise and grounded leadership. Online, 27 June, 9.00-10.30am BST | Find out more.
We could have prepared, but we didn’t. What’s the response? | with David Shukman
Join The Climate Majority Project for a breakfast webinar conversation between David Shukman, former BBC Science Editor and author of the new book The Response, along with Rupert Read of the Climate Majority Project and special guests. Online, 1 July, 8:15-9:45am BST | Find out more.
Hosting & Facilitating a Climate Café Listening Circle
Help build emotional resilience in your own community by learning to host and facilitate a Climate Cafe Listening Circle in this three-session programme from the Climate Psychology Alliance. Online, starts 9 July | Find out more
Generation Regeneration Online Global Summit
Free 3 day summit from Future of Cities to help you reconnect with yourself, your place, and your people. Online, 10-12 July | Find out more
Imagining Thrutopias II
A gathering to explore how we might navigate toward the best possible futures that are realistically achievable amid instability, collapse, and uncertainty. Rather than treating utopia as a perfect destination, the residency frames “thrutopia” as an ongoing, adaptive practice that embraces imperfection, drawing inspiration from thinkers like Ursula Le Guin and Octavia Butler. East Sussex, 23-28 September | Find out more
Active Hope + Work That Reconnects Facilitator training
A nine-month blended programme building capacity for Active Hope and facilitation of the Work That Reconnects in Ireland. For facilitators, community leaders, activists, and changemakers across Ireland who are working within the complex realities of social, ecological, and economic uncertainty. South Galway, Sept 2026 - May 2027 | Find out more
Active Hope free online training
A free seven-week online course that takes you on a journey through seven areas that can nourish our ability to make a difference in the world. Find out more
Other useful links
PAID OPPORTUNITY | Climate Action Fund Panel Member
The National Lottery Community Fund is recruiting 2 young people aged 18–30 to help decide how millions of pounds are invested in community climate action across the UK.
💷 £1,962 a year plus travel and subsistence
⏳ 9 days a year, initially for up to 2 years
💻 Most meetings online, with one in-person meeting annually
✅ No previous panel experience required
Apply with a short statement of up to 800 words explaining your experience, perspective and why the role matters to you.
⏰ DEADLINE 11.59pm Friday 3 July 2026. More info.
Subsidised training and workshops available for schools, NHS services and non-statutory services
Thanks to funding, the Climate Psychology Alliance is offering the following at subsidised rates:
- Training for teams on understanding and meeting children and young people's psychological and emotional needs in a time of climate and polycrisis
- Bespoke workshops for groups of young adults, aged 16-25 eg. Building resilience in a time of climate and polycrisis.
More information and express your interest here.
That’s it for this month’s newsletter. If you are out and about in the next few days at London Climate Action Week or elsewhere, please do take care and equip yourself with the knowledge to help others if needed.
Warm wishes, The ICRA team
The Inner Climate Response Alliance is a partnership between the Mindfulness Initiative, the Climate Psychology Alliance and the Climate Majority Project, funded by the National Lottery Climate Action Fund. We’re not here to deliver practices ourselves, but to create space for people to work together - connecting inner work practitioners with grassroots and community climate efforts, supporting groups to experiment with practical approaches, and raising public awareness of why inner and relational resilience matter.
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