Climate change is not just an environmental problem, it’s a human one. Yet as humans, we are not changing fast enough for ourselves and our planet. Our sense of powerlessness and the belief that our actions won’t make a difference is holding us back from taking action and working on the psychological dimension of change could make the difference to moving us forward.
In this transformative book, climate change coaching trailblazers Charly Cox and Sarah Flynn explain why changing for our climate is so hard and why coaching offers a key to affecting behaviour. With practical, easy-to-grasp skills that shift mindsets and motivate action they show how to build connection using a coaching approach, to overcome resistance and empower people to embrace change.
If people often tell you “What difference can I really make?” or “How can we possibly succeed?” then Climate Change Coaching will help you:
•Understand the psychological barriers to change, and how to address them
•Gain practical, connection-building skills to have more impact in every conversation
•Build stronger, more trusting relationships to make long-term change more likely
•Develop a new perspective on how individual change leads to systems change
•Discover how to help organisations succeed at change and what creates social change
•Learn to coach and support yourself to manage stress and avoid burnout
Whether you are changing an organisation, engaging a community, or coaching individuals, this book will change the way that you connect and how you influence. With example conversations and real-life stories from 40 practitioners from the worlds of sustainability, business, academia and coaching, it will show you how coaching skills are being used individually and organisationally to galvanise climate action.
“This practical guide fills many of the gaps, with tools that can help us become better allies to each other in supporting the personal and systemic shifts needed in our time.”
Chris Johnstone, co-author of Active Hope and trainer at ActiveHope.Training
“Climate Change Coaching is an invaluable resource for anyone working in sustainability today.”
Patrick Burgi, Co-Founder of South Pole
Charly Cox is an award-winning climate change coach and Founder of Climate Change Coaches. A professional coach for ten years, Charly specialises in developing leaders in environmentally focused businesses. She has a background in the creative sector and worked for seven years in West Africa.
Sarah Flynn is a psychologist and coach who supports sustainability professionals to thrive as they create change in the world. With a background in research, she specialises in the psychology of change and resilience, and teaches on the topic of ‘Resilience for Sustainability Professionals’ at Cambridge University.
Charly and Sarah are both International Coach Federation Professional Certified Coaches and trained Organisational, Relationship and Systems Coaches.
Climate change is not just an environmental problem, it’s a human one. Yet as humans, we are not changing fast enough for ourselves and our planet. Our sense of powerlessness and the belief that our actions won’t make a difference is holding us back from taking action and working on the psychological dimension of change could make the difference to moving us forward.
In this transformative book, climate change coaching trailblazers Charly Cox and Sarah Flynn explain why changing for our climate is so hard and why coaching offers a key to affecting behaviour. With practical, easy-to-grasp skills that shift mindsets and motivate action they show how to build connection using a coaching approach, to overcome resistance and empower people to embrace change.
If people often tell you “What difference can I really make?” or “How can we possibly succeed?” then Climate Change Coaching will help you:
•Understand the psychological barriers to change, and how to address them
•Gain practical, connection-building skills to have more impact in every conversation
•Build stronger, more trusting relationships to make long-term change more likely
•Develop a new perspective on how individual change leads to systems change
•Discover how to help organisations succeed at change and what creates social change
•Learn to coach and support yourself to manage stress and avoid burnout
Whether you are changing an organisation, engaging a community, or coaching individuals, this book will change the way that you connect and how you influence. With example conversations and real-life stories from 40 practitioners from the worlds of sustainability, business, academia and coaching, it will show you how coaching skills are being used individually and organisationally to galvanise climate action.
“This practical guide fills many of the gaps, with tools that can help us become better allies to each other in supporting the personal and systemic shifts needed in our time.”
Chris Johnstone, co-author of Active Hope and trainer at ActiveHope.Training
“Climate Change Coaching is an invaluable resource for anyone working in sustainability today.”
Patrick Burgi, Co-Founder of South Pole
Charly Cox is an award-winning climate change coach and Founder of Climate Change Coaches. A professional coach for ten years, Charly specialises in developing leaders in environmentally focused businesses. She has a background in the creative sector and worked for seven years in West Africa.
Sarah Flynn is a psychologist and coach who supports sustainability professionals to thrive as they create change in the world. With a background in research, she specialises in the psychology of change and resilience, and teaches on the topic of ‘Resilience for Sustainability Professionals’ at Cambridge University.
Charly and Sarah are both International Coach Federation Professional Certified Coaches and trained Organisational, Relationship and Systems Coaches.
Preface by Charly Cox
Foreword by Kimberly Nicholas, Climate Scientist and Author, Under
the Sky We Make
Introduction
PART A - what on earth does coaching have to do with climate
change?
Chapter 1 - A human problem with a human solution
Chapter 2 - How change works - and what that means for the climate
crisis individually, relationally and systemically
Chapter 3 - Empowerment and belief - a model for resonant
action
Chapter 4 - Coaching for climate action - what is climate change
coaching?
PART B - transform the way you communicate
Chapter 5 - Climate change coaching basics
Chapter 6 - How to make and break influence
Chapter 7 - Making it okay to talk about climate change
Chapter 8 - When there’s too much “not enough”: dealing with
scarcity
Chapter 9 - Overcoming overwhelm
Chapter 10 - Understanding intrinsic values to overcome resistance
to action
Chapter 11 - Defining a dream to run towards not a nightmare to run
from
Chapter 12 - Setting goals and getting into action
Chapter 13 - Rage against the machine: turning anger and blame into
forward energy
Chapter 14 - Making space for climate grief
PART C - A coaching approach in systems change
Chapter 15 - How to help organisations to commit to change
Chapter 16 - How to bring people with you in change
Chapter 17 - The challenges of landing big climate ambitions
Chapter 18 - How the cumulative acts of individuals build to create
social change and paradigm shifts
PART D - Coach yourself: how to sustain yourself
while catalysing climate action
Chapter 19 - How to thrive not survive
Chapter 20 - When the going gets tough - how to recover from stress
and burnout
Chapter 21 - Loving, grieving and hoping
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