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Rebecca Nestor @rebeccaclimate.bsky.social · 3h

15 November, 2-4 pm, North Wall Arts Centre, South Parade, Oxford, UK.

The RSVP link again: meetu.ps/e/PzNQC/H43G...

Rebecca Nestor @rebeccaclimate.bsky.social · 3h

This event may be of particular interest to you if you’ve previously attended a climate café listening circle and are interested in trying a new approach. If you’ve never been to a climate cafe you’re also welcome (find out more about climate café listening circles via @climatepsychol.bsky.social)

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Rebecca Nestor @rebeccaclimate.bsky.social · 3h

This event will be led by music therapist Jim Davey-Hewin, supported by me. It’s free to attend & there will be cake and hot drinks.
 Need to know: - 15 November, 2-4 pm
- North Wall Arts Centre, South Parade, Oxford
- No musical experience necessary
- Instruments will be provided
- Over 18s please

Rebecca Nestor @rebeccaclimate.bsky.social · 3h

We’ll improvise in a group and we might find new ways of exploring and understanding the potentially difficult, fluctuating or conflicting feelings that may arise. The only thing that matters in this space is the experience of making sounds together.

Rebecca Nestor @rebeccaclimate.bsky.social · 3h

Music has the capacity to embrace emotional complexity and contrast, enabling access to the truth of a feeling in a way that words cannot express. But don’t worry, this isn’t about performing - or even knowing how to play a musical instrument.

Rebecca Nestor @rebeccaclimate.bsky.social · 3h

I warmly invite you to a Climate Café Listening and Music Circle. This format is based on the usual climate café approach, but introduces something new - the chance to use musical instruments & your voice to express, explore & deepen feelings related to the climate crisis.

meetu.ps/e/PzNQC/H43G...

Climate café listening and music circle, Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 2:00 PM | Meetup

What do you FEEL about the climate crisis? It can be hard translating our feelings around this huge issue into words - language can feel clunky and slow while feelings migh

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Rebecca Nestor @rebeccaclimate.bsky.social · 3h

What do you FEEL about the climate crisis? It can be hard translating our feelings around this huge issue into words - feelings shift as we try to capture them. The words to describe what you’re feeling might not even exist.

What if you could experiment with sound & music as well as words ?

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 1d

There are four house martins feeding above my head. They’re six inches long and are about to travel 6,000 miles. That’s about 63 million times their body length. The lunatics.

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Inner Climate Response Alliance (ICRA) @innerclimate.bsky.social · 4d

Come and work with us at ICRA! We are looking for a youth coordinator and community resilience coordinator. Both roles are part-time, remote and UK based. More details here: climatepsychologyalliance.org/index.php/co...

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Rebecca Nestor @rebeccaclimate.bsky.social · 5d

Thrilled to bits that these roles are now available. Thanks to @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk for the generous funding

Climate Psychology Alliance @climatepsychol.bsky.social · 5d

Join our team! 4 p/t paid and 1 voluntary role for people who want to help shape the collective response to our worsening climate crisis:
climatepsychologyalliance.org/index.php/co...
Please share and help spread the word 🙏

#werehiring #charityjobs #climatejobs @innerclimate.bsky.social

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Hester Parr @hesterparr.bsky.social · 5d

Congrats to the organisers and was great to be asked to speak about the University of Glasgow’s ‘climate change and mental health network’

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 5d

There’s a great exhibition on now in the ARC at Glasgow Uni with photographs around the theme of climate and mental health assembled by our PhD students in sociology and climate and my esteemed colleague the anthropologist Dr Alicia Davis.

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Rebecca Nestor @rebeccaclimate.bsky.social · 5d

We particularly encourage applications from candidates who are from marginalised groups.

Most of the posts are U.K. based and require the right to work in the U.K. The CPA youth coordinator role is an exception to this - see application packs for more details.

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Rebecca Nestor @rebeccaclimate.bsky.social · 5d

✴️ Closing date 31 October 2025.
✴️ Interviews in November.
✴️ All roles available immediately, for one year in the first instance with the possibility of renewal.
✴️ We seek to acknowledge systemic oppression, challenge assumptions and support an inclusive and diverse community.

Rebecca Nestor @rebeccaclimate.bsky.social · 5d

The roles:

1. Administrative coordinator
2. Inner Climate Response Alliance youth coordinator
3. CPA youth coordinator
4. Inner Climate Response Alliance community resilience coordinator
5. Co-Treasurer (voluntary role)

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Rebecca Nestor @rebeccaclimate.bsky.social · 5d

Thrilled to bits that these roles are now available. Thanks to @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk for the generous funding

Climate Psychology Alliance @climatepsychol.bsky.social · 5d

Join our team! 4 p/t paid and 1 voluntary role for people who want to help shape the collective response to our worsening climate crisis:
climatepsychologyalliance.org/index.php/co...
Please share and help spread the word 🙏

#werehiring #charityjobs #climatejobs @innerclimate.bsky.social

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Climate Psychology Alliance @climatepsychol.bsky.social · 12d

“Our well-being is foundational for the work we do in the world.” adrienne maree brown

If you're aged 18-25 join our free, online Support Space for warm care, deep listening and resilience building for living in a time of crisis.

More info and booking: bit.ly/46recKY

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Climate Psychology Alliance of North America @climatena.bsky.social · 17d

New CE alert!
www.climatepsychology.us/cpa-workshop... #mentalhealth #climatechange #disastermentalhealth

Breath-Body-Mind for Stress & Trauma Due to Climate Change, War & Disaster — Climate Psychology Alliance North America

Join us in learning practices for self-care, stress relief, emotion self-regulation, mental focus, energy, and awareness of self and others.

www.climatepsychology.us

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Climate Psychology Alliance of North America @climatena.bsky.social · 29d

“Mutual Aid organizations are rising to meet community needs, filling the widening gap left in the US by our rapidly unraveling social safety net. Explore how mental health professionals can fit into this vital work, expanding our clinical skills beyond the therapy room into frontline communities.”

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 7d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 7d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 7d

On reports the Home Secretary plans to grant police more powers to prevent ‘repeated protests’, Greenpeace UK:

“Protest works because it is repetitive. If police had told the Suffragettes or civil rights activists ‘you’ve made your point,’ they would never have won the victories we all enjoy today"

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Rebecca Nestor @rebeccaclimate.bsky.social · 11d

This important conference coming up in November at Birkbeck will bring together mental health professionals in witnessing and responding to the genocide in Palestine. @climatepsychol.bsky.social will be attending.

www.eventbrite.com/e/mental-hea...

Mental Health Conference for Palestine: Living through the Unimaginable

A conference to bring together mental health professionals in witnessing and responding to the genocide in Palestine

www.eventbrite.com

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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 11d

MPs are incredibly busy.

That’s why this essential briefing on the #climate & #nature crisis needs under 2 hours of their time👇

What will they gain?

✅ How to dispel polluter myths
✅ Demonstrate a strong commitment to protecting our future
✅ Arm themselves to make sound decisions

National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 19d

📢 Britain faces a climate & nature emergency.
On 27 Nov, top experts will brief 800+ leaders from politics, business, culture, faith & media.

An unfiltered overview of the latest threats & solutions.
Only by facing it can we rise to the challenge.

Check if your MP is coming: www.nebriefing.org

National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats arising from the climate & nature crisis to an invite-only audience. Westminster Central Hall, 27 November. Has your MP confirmed yet?

www.nebriefing.org

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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 11d

#envhum

Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 12d

Part-time RA role in my Leverhulme project "Reframing Ecoanxiety". Ideal for PGRs in the social sciences and environmental-medical humanities looking for flexible, remote work. Oppts for career advacement detailed. Right to work in the UK required. Apply by October 17th for a start November 1st.

CASUAL ACADEMIC - Research Assistant

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

durham.taleo.net

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 15d

Here is the deal:

Capitalism wants you to manage your feelings, suppress them during the work day - and then we feel dysregulated and unsettled (or worse) when they return to us at force at night - and then we try to escape them.

There are other ways to consider our emotional response

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 18d

This starts next week - plenty of seats open - including 3 free seats.

From a past participant:
“Martha offers a little toolbox: ways to notice messages from our emotions that we’ve been habitually overlooking, and strategies for how to listen to those messages...”

Riding the Roller Coaster Workshop: — What A Shrink Thinks

or grown-ups who have feelings

www.whatashrinkthinks.com

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