Community Climate Coaches (CCC) help unlock the potential of local organisation and networks and organisations to collaborate on meaningful community-led action on climate, resilience and wellbeing. This training equips you with the skills, tools and confidence to facilitate conversations, host participatory processes and support communities to design their own pathways towards resilience.
The training blends in-person workshops with online sessions, combining personal learning with practical facilitation practice. You will develop your own resilience as a changemaker while learning how to work with others in creative, inclusive and impactful ways.
What You Will Learn
- How to build your own personal resilience and capacity to sustain this work
- Practical facilitation skills for hosting inclusive conversations and decision-making
- Coaching approaches to unlock potential in individuals and groups
- Tools for mapping community strengths and assets
- Techniques for visioning, backcasting and planning local climate action
- How to support communities through the six-phase CCC pathway, from personal resilience to scaling collective action
Could You Be A Local Host for a Community Climate Coaches Training?
Our normal model is that we work with a local host organisation, and run the Community Climate Coaches training as a partnership, working together to secure funding and around 20 participants, arranging a venue and food, and other course logistics.
Why Community Climate Coaching Matters
Addressing climate change and the multi-crisis is not just about technology or policy. It is about people — how we connect, collaborate and build shared visions for a more resilient future. CCC training develops the human side of community action on climate and the multi-crisis: the organising, listening, hosting and facilitation skills that enable change to take root in communities. We focus on building community-led collaboration to define a shared vision of a more resilient local future, and the power we have to take collective action to bring this about.
“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The CCC approach helps individuals and communities to navigate the waves of disruption, uncertainty and opportunity with balance, creativity and hope, and to move together in a direction of their own choosing.
Who Is This Course For?
This course is for anyone who wants to support action in their community, organisation or network on climate, wellbeing and resilience. You may be a community organiser, facilitator, activist, educator, wellbeing practitioner, permaculture designer, or simply someone motivated to help your community respond positively to the climate crisis.
No prior facilitation experience is necessary. The course will meet you where you are and help you grow the skills you need. This is not a course on climate science, its focus is to design and deliver a community engagement strategy that builds collective capacity and momentum for change over the long term.
Course Structure
- Blended format: in-person training (2–3 days) with online sessions before and after
- Location: Sussex (details to be confirmed)
- Dates: To be confirmed
The training follows the Six Phase CCC Pathway:
- Building personal resilience and capacity
- Building collective capacity for community engagement
- Connecting with place, nature and community
- Mapping community strengths and visioning resilient futures
- Hosting dialogue and nourishing initiatives
- Deepening participation and scaling innovation
What You Will Take Away
- A toolkit of facilitation and coaching methods
- A personal resilience map and strategies to sustain yourself in this work
- A workbook to embed your next steps and pathway ahead into your work or voluntary community activity
- Experience of hosting and participating in participatory processes
- A draft community engagement plan tailored to your local context
- Connections and agreed collaborative actions with a supportive peer network of other CCC trainees
Tutors
The course will be led by Steve Charter (UK CCC Coordinator) and a team of experienced Community Climate Coaches and community educators, with facilitation, coaching and systems design expertise.
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Booking
Register your interest now to receive updates about dates, venues and enrolment.