Climate Café Listening Circle — Kestle Barton (+ optional Workshop!)

Join us for an immersive and relaxing day at Kestle Barton, where nature and art meet. Stay for the full day, or just book the part you fancy via the links below.

10.30am - 12.30pm: Climate Cafe Listening Circle

Spend time with others who care! A chance to share feelings and anxieties about the climate crisis. To listen and be heard in a peaceful, held space.

12.30pm - 2pm: Lunch

Stick around to eat together (bring your own packed lunch), visit the Kestle Barton gallery and gardens, walk around the meadow & woods, or grab a cake & coffee from the gallery honesty cafe

2pm - 4pm: Songwriting with Nature Workshop

Time to get creative! No prior experience needed & all welcome. Explore songwriting through group song and foraging for inspiration. Led by Elowen Waters.

More details & book tickets for the workshop via THIS LINK

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About the Location

This Climate Café Listening Circle is being held at Kestle Barton, in the pavilion in the orchard. This beautiful wooden and canvas shelter is a lovely peaceful space, where we can take time out and get away from it all for some reflection, listening and sharing. It is a short walk from the gallery though the garden and orchard, on uneven ground. Please let us know if you have any accessibility needs and we will try our best to support you.

Address Kestle Barton, Manaccan, Helston, TR12 6HU

what3words address: ///lawful.arts.widen

You might want to allow time afterwards to visit the garden and the art gallery, or take a walk down to Helford village.

Time

Please gather at the gallery entrance from 10.15am and we will walk down to the pavilion together at 10.30am, ready to start the Climate Café once everyone has settled in. (Please note, this is a held space, rather than a drop-in session).

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Not been to a climate cafe before? Here's some information that might be useful...

What is a Climate Café Listening Circle?

A Climate Café Listening Circle is a simple, hospitable, empathetic space where fears, uncertainties and grief about our climate & ecological crisis can be safely felt and expressed. The model is one which has been adapted from Death Cafés by Climate Psychology Alliance.

This listening circle is for anyone aged 18 or over.

Why do we need Climate Cafés Listening Circles?

We need the kind of exploration that listening circles provide as it becomes more evident that climate and ecological breakdown are not far-away problems but a clear and present danger to our own safety and wellbeing. People increasingly need to talk about what our changing world means for them in terms of impacts at personal, family and societal level. We need to imagine it in some detail so as to be able to think about it constructively and clear-sightedly, and to explore some complex feelings and thoughts which may often be taboo and hard to talk about.

What happens during a Climate Café Listening Circle?

The focus of discussion is participants’ thoughts and feelings about the climate and ecological crisis. There are no guest speakers and no talks, and it is an advice-free zone.

The listening circle will be led by facilitators trained through Climate Psychology Alliance and our Community of Practice project, and is offered free of charge thanks to funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, distributed by Transition Together.