Supporting professionals to act and adapt in a changing world
The Centre for Climate Psychology cultivates the human capacity to navigate systemic change.
A new framework for greater agency in social transformation
Join Steffi Bednarek, Dr. Richard Schwartz, Vanessa Andreotti, Nora Bateson, and David Kitchings on the first cohort.
We support professionals to develop the psychological and systemic literacy and resilience required for meaningful change to take root
Core Contributors
We are honoured to bring you some of the leading thinkers at the intersection between systemic and psychological wisdom.
IFS for Social Transformation
Join us for the 1st cohort of this unique online training programme, bringing the transformative model of Internal Family Systems (IFS) to the field of social transformation.
Developed and piloted by Steffi Bednarek in 2025, this course will be co-delivered with Dr. Richard Schwartz (the creator of IFS), Vanessa Andreotti, Nora Bateson, and David Kitchings.
In this course, you will learn to apply IFS principles to social transformation work.
Starting Autumn 2026.Join the waitlist and be the first to know when it goes live.
Meet our Founder
Steffi Bednarek explains what our work is about and why it matters.
“This is more than a book. It is a treasure of radical ideas and profound insights. It is a book of wisdom!”
—Satish Kumar
Where our story began
It all started with a conversation between Steffi Bednarek, Bayo Akomolafe, Francis Weller, Sally Weintrobe and Mary-Jayne Rust about what it means to be human in an era of global disruption, when our familiar ways of being reflect the same unsustainable systems that erode our ecosystems.
Soon, that book became the foundation of the Centre for Climate Psychology. Learn more about the book and discover our origins.
Why Now?
In a time that Margaret Atwood calls the "everything crisis”, many professionals are under intense pressure and face a high risk of burnout.
Psychological and systemic capacities are not optional extras. They are essential skills that enhance decision-making, collective resilience, and social impact in a time of upheaval.
Why Us?
We offer online learning with thought leaders in their fields and design learning journeys that are responsive to the reality people are facing.
Our aim is not to create better coping strategies for an unsustainable world, but to support the emergence of wise, psychologically literate ways of leading, relating, and acting in times of transition.
IFS for Social Transformation
Join us for the 1st cohort of this unique online training programme, bringing the transformative model of Internal Family Systems (IFS) to the field of social transformation.
Developed and piloted by Steffi Bednarek in 2025, this course will be co-delivered with Dr. Richard Schwartz (the creator of IFS), Vanessa Andreotti, Nora Bateson, and David Kitchings.
IFS sees people — and societies — as a collection of “parts”, each with unique roles. It teaches that leading from your core “self” (calm, compassionate presence) can heal both personal and systemic wounds. In this course, you will learn to apply IFS principles to drive collective healing and justice, showing how self-awareness and empathy fuel meaningful social change.
Starting Autumn 2026.Join the waitlist and be the first to know when it goes live.
What People Are Saying
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"This course was transformative. It helped me understand the inner patterns shaping my work in social change, and to unlock new opportunities to support my clients. Steffi’s extraordinary gift for holding space made it feel safe, deep, and genuinely expansive."
Genevieve Nathwani, Coach for systemic change (IFS for Social Transformation)
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"The Grief Ritual Training organised by Centre for Climate Psychology has been life changing. Francis Weller's teachings have provided an important professional threshold in my own capacity-building and my apprenticeship with sorrow has probably only just begun."
Participant in 3 month Grief Ritual Training
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"This programme offered rich perspectives, practices and deep discussions. The facilitators' extensive experience, open-mindedness and capacity to nurture imagination has left me with much to absorb, reflect on and bring into my own work."
Mark Goldthorpe - founder & editor, Climate Cultures (Imagination and Climate Change)
Online Lectures
Rewatch inspiring conversations with some of the greatest thinkers, from the comfort of your home.
In this thought-provoking, live-recorded conversation, Adam Kahane, Dave Snowden, and Steffi Bednarek explore the core themes of Collaborating with the Enemy. They examine why collaboration is increasingly difficult in a polarized, complex world, and why it is more necessary than ever amid converging, interconnected crises. This lecture is captioned and accompanied by a PDF transcript.
In this conversation with Bill Plotkin, we explore maps and tools that support the development of mature adults and genuine elders who are capable of long-term stewardship, ecological thinking, intergenerational responsibility, and the kind of grounded authority that does not depend on performance or validation. Bill lays out the important distinction between healing and wholing, which is at the core of Animas Valley Institute’s philosophy and approach.
In this wide-ranging and intimate conversation, poet Alice Oswald, theologian Rowan Williams, scholar-musician Valentin Gerlier, and cultural strategist Alan Boldon gather to explore the role of imagination in times of planetary emergency. These are thinkers and makers who have long walked the edges of language, myth, and meaning—each bringing their own craft and care to the question of how we respond, feel, and create in the face of ecological unraveling.
Rather than offering easy answers or policy solutions, this dialogue dwells in the deeper work: what it means to see clearly, to listen to what’s missing, and to remain in relationship with the unknown. “To imagine,” Oswald says, “is the way we are when we are using the whole of our apprehension.” Williams adds, “We have to arrive where we are—because our problem is we’re not where we think we are.”
Expect a conversation that is both poetic and precise, gentle and unflinching. It asks what happens when we stop treating imagination as decoration or escape, and instead recognize it as “a kind of starting point… a tuning in to seeing the world more accurately.”
Join the conversation, and begin listening more deeply to what our time is asking of us.
This bundle includes 5 hours worth of lectures, including Q&A with soul activist, author, and now retired psychologist, Francis Weller. Get the lectures “Facing the World with Soul and Why it Matters”, “An Apprenticeship with Sorrow”, and “In the Absence of the Ordinary”, for only £30 instead of £45.
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Many funding initiatives focus on technical solutions. Hardly any invest in the human and relational conditions that determine whether those solutions can take root. This work is foundational but underfunded.
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