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If not now, when? Liz Hall reports on the rise of climate crisis coaching, and Climate Coaching Action Day.
As recently as a few months ago, it was hard to get coaches excited about climate change in the context of their coaching practice. The stark and hellish images of Australia burning were a tipping point for many, however, amongst other factors such as widespread storms.
It seems that suddenly, there’s a real momentum building across the profession, with many coaches asking themselves, if not now, when? And what can I do?
Next month, (5th March) sees the first Climate Coaching Action Day take place. An initiative launched by Coaching at Work to inspire and equip coaching providers and others to engage more fully. The Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC) is one of many supporters including Climate Coaching Alliance and the EMCC. There is a host of events to choose from, either for your own CPD as a coach, or to take part in such as offering pro-bono coaching around the climate crisis in the Climate Coach Action Day Coachathon (see the calendar below for a selection of activities), or a 24-hour conversation around how coaches can respond to the crisis.
What is climate coaching? Actually, in some ways, it is just coaching. All the usual guidelines apply, such as meeting the client where they are, drawing on evidence-based approaches, ensuring you access supervision and so on.
However, there are specific things to think about such as ensuring you’re willing and able to work with what can be pretty intense emotions - your own included. Of course, this can be the case in all sorts of coaching engagements - but with climate crisis coaching, it’s very much part of the territory. There will be particular issues to think about too when working with clients who are already operating in areas such as sustainability and environmental activism such as avoiding burnout. Again, these aren’t issues solely found in climate coaching, but you’re very likely to be exploring resilience and overwhelm.
Below is a calendar of just some of the events coming up through Coaching at Work and other avenues to mark Climate Coaching Action Day and beyond to help you engage in climate coaching in all its facets and make a real difference.
Calendar of Climate Coaching Action Day Related Events
In the lead-up to the day
Coaching and climate change – what on earth can we do?
25 February
26 February
4 March (12.30-14.00 GMT)
On the day
5 March
After the day
10 March
April – date tbc
4 May
19 June
1 July
Get involved
If you’d like to brainstorm potential activities or other contributions to Climate Coaching Action Day, email liz@coaching-at-work.com
Join us on social media, to see what others are doing and share what you’re doing.
Facebook Climate Coaching Day group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ClimateCoachingActionDay/
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8869975/
Twitter @Climatecoachday
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