This online workshop will focus on the rise of the nationalist right in the West and how those identifying with its politics talk and feel about the climate crisis. Populists like Reform UK want to make climate change a divisive ‘wedge issue’, as they did with BREXIT. How do we hold conversations in this climate of polarisation? How do we engage with ordinary citizens who don’t appear to think like we do without ‘othering’ them and pushing them further away?
Speakers will include:
Toby Chown: Heavy Weather: Exploring Reactionary States of Mind
Toby is a dramatherapist, clinical supervisor and writer. He is a member of the team that publishes CPA’s bi-annual Explorations in Climate Psychology magazine.
George Marshall: Melting the poles: finding narratives that overcome political polarisation on climate change.
George is the founder of Climate Outreach and the author of Don't Even Think About It: Why our Brains are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
Susanne Moser: Understanding and navigating the shadows of our time: A personal reflection on what’s happening in the US
Susanne’s work in the US over the past 30 years has focused on adaptation to climate change, climate change communication, transdisciplinary engagement at the science-policy interface, and psycho-social resilience.
Chris Shaw: What We (Don’t) Talk About When We Talk About Climate Change: How Class, Silence, and Experience Speak Louder Than Words.
Chris works as a consultant specialising in communicating with groups left out of the mainstream climate story and is Research Associate with the Working Class Climate Alliance
The event will be chaired by Rachel Cakebread and Paul Hoggett
CPA Members £30; Non members £50; Concessions £10