CERI Climate Cafés
2025 monthly series
What is a climate cafe?
Climate Cafes are physical or virtual spaces for community members to share experiences and feelings related to this polycrisis. We may be meeting on campus, in an actual cafe, a park, a conference room, a workspace, or really any gathering space that people choose to come together.
A Climate Cafe is a welcoming, inclusive, facilitated and on-off process in community, offering space to explore our personal impact in regards to this crisis and to practice deep listening to both others and ourselves. By courageously speaking up about our climate feelings, we normalize them for ourselves, but also become an active participant in breaking the collective silence. There is no other agenda, no pressure to take action, no need to bring solutions. No expectation to do or fix.
Just an open invitation to share for a while with others who also care.
To learn more, check out our recent blog post on Climate Cafes.
2024 Dates
We are excited to announce that we will offer two online climate cafes in collaboration with our Australian partner Psychology For A Safe Climate. Christie Wilson and Eva Jahn will be co-facilitating this international cafe in November and December.
November 14th at 4-5:30pm MST / November 15th at 10-11:30am AEDT
December 12th at 4-5:30pm MST / December 13th at 10-11:30am AEDT
2025 Dates
Stay tuned for our 2025 Climate Cafés.
They will be offered monthly at different days and times of the week to accommodate different timezones, working and school schedules and overall preferences.
Our virtual JANUARY CERI Climate Café will be facilitated by our faculty Kristan Childs and Eva Jahn
Date: January 17th
Time: 10-11:30am PST, 11-12:30am MST, 12-1:30pm CST, 1-2:30pm EST
Ticket prices
Our Climate Cafes are donation-based and free for those who are in need of that option.
Please choose the payment option that most accurately expresses your current financial situation.
CERI runs on the big hearts and passion of our faculty and is mostly volunteer-based.
To sign up, follow the link to our registration page and choose the day(s) that you would like to join us.
“Essentially, at the core, we come to a Climate Café out of love: love we are searching for in ourselves, the love that we hold for family, friends, community, the love we have for other beings and ultimately, if we allow ourselves to feel it … the love to protect life.''
— C.Wilson, 2024