Research and resources, shaped by those doing the work

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We're a community of researchers, practitioners, and thinkers committed to disseminating climate psychology widely, not just within our own professional circles. Through our flagship journal Explorations in Climate Psychology, our podcasts and talks, our library, and the contributions of members from across the world, we work to build a shared understanding of how psychology can meet this moment.

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Explorations in Climate Psychology - the CPA journal

Navigating the inner and external work (relational and socio-political) that this moment calls on us to do, Explorations in Climate Psychology is CPA's flagship journal, published annually. We aim to be inclusive of the different ways people experience and engage with the climate and ecological crisis and welcome a wide range of forms: peer-reviewed research, analytical articles, reviews, interviews, reflections, testimonies, poetry, art, and lightly edited conversations.

Edited by CPA's Explorations Group, the journal explores current and emerging themes in the field, from climate grief and trauma to colonialism, decolonisation, the limits of Western rationality, and what it means to "stay with the trouble." The current editors of Explorations are noted in the latest issue.

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We welcome contributions from inside and outside the CPA Community.

Find the latest call out here and guidelines for contributions here. The journal is open access and contributions can be used and quoted as long as they are referenced.

The Explorations group also offers online events with authors and other leading voices, which explore journal topics further.

See what's coming up

If you are interested in joining the editorial team (we particularly welcome young people and those of the Global Majority), or wish to get in touch for another reason you can email them here.

Explorations: A journal of Climate Psychology

A biannual publication from CPA's editorial working group, tracking the pace, rhythms and voices of climate psychology as the field emerges. Contributions are welcome from practitioners, researchers, artists and activists alike.

What's in the journal

Explorations makes space for essays, interviews, testimonies, poetry and art alongside peer-reviewed research — different ways of expressing and engaging with the climate and ecological crisis, gathered from contributors across the UK and beyond.

Latest issue: Heavy weather: Exploring reactionary states of mind

Issue 8, Heavy Weather, is out now. Inside: explorations of the post-truth world, group narcissism, the unconscious, AI and power, and how each feeds the reactionary state of mind.

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We also publish pieces from our journal via our Substack account. You can connect with us there, just follow @climatepsychologyexplorations on Substack.

New to Climate Psychology? Start here

Climate psychology is a young field with deep roots. If you're new to it, the resources below are good places to begin: foundational guides, podcasts and videos, defining texts, and the essential reading that practitioners and researchers return to again and again.

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The Handbook of Climate Psychology

CPA's foundational guide to the field, freely available to download. The handbook introduces the key concepts, frameworks, and questions that shape climate psychology, and is used widely as an entry point for practitioners, researchers, and the curious.

Download the handbook
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Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

The course explores ideas from social theory, psychoanalysis, ecopsychology, eco-feminism and post-humanism to gain a deeper understanding of the climate and ecological crisis, its impact on our wellbeing and how to build psychological resilience. The course is endorsed and supported by the CPA.

Access it here

Climate Crisis Conversations

Our podcasts offers an accessible, conversational entry point into climate psychology, featuring CPA practitioners, researchers, and friends in dialogue about the climate and biodiversity crisis and the full range of emotional responses to it.

Motherhood and the Climate Crisis

Motherhood and the Climate Crisis

Dr Renée Lertzman on being an earthling, the climate crisis and falling in love

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On collective awakening, vulnerability, and falling in love with the world

Did we Care When Birds and Animals Died during the Sixth Extinction?

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What our relationship with animals reveals about facing extinction

What our members are sharing

Climate psychology is built collaboratively, by members for members and beyond. The work below reflects what people across our community are thinking about, researching, writing, and making right now. These are member contributions, not CPA publications, voices from across the alliance.

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Eco-somatics and Collective Imagination – Broadening Perspectives for Climate Transition Discourse

By Frederike Doffin — "I have been exploring how eco-somatics and collective imagination add different layers to the discourse on climate change and broaden perspectives by contributing through sensory approaches and body-based knowledge. I felt the need to complement predominant discourses on climate transition with practices that are situated in the body, in co-creativity with plants and which have the capacity to embrace subtle realms of more-than-human life forces..."

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Facing Our Climate Reality: Honest Briefings That Spark Community Action and Resilience

By Nick Drew — Nick Drew, from the Climate Psychology Alliance and a long-standing member of the Emergencies Partnership (EP) Mental Health Network, has written a powerful blog as a stark (but also hopeful) reminder that the UK is already living in a climate crisis, with record-breaking heat and rising risks becoming the new normal. Nick highlights urgent warnings from national reports, the surge of community screenings of the People’s Emergency Briefing film and the growing need for collective resilience. Nick’s message is clear: we must turn awareness into community‑level action because investing in preparedness now saves lives later but, thankfully, there are passionate and capable people who are feeling more capable and motivated to act (and that can grow).

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The Risk of Hope Matters of Consequence: Meaningful Conversations for Curious People

What happens when the emotional weight of the climate crisis feels too heavy to carry? In this deeply personal conversation Kate Adams, a performance maker, lecturer, and former co-chair of the Climate Psychology Alliance takes us inside the unseen world of eco-emotions and artistic resilience. The episode explores the systemic importance of vulnerability, the tension between grief and hope, and the quiet work of creating spaces where people can confront the emotional toll of the climate crisis without judgment.

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The Climate Crisis Digest is our monthly publication, usually a short piece written by members.

The name Digest reflects the psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion's insight that experience needs to be digested in order to be thinkable, especially when it is hard to bear (hence CPA's approach to difficult truths). The Digest style is not academic or polemical, more journalistic and exploratory in tone. That requires reflection by the author, to invite reflection in readers. Reflection here means inquiring into our emotional experience so as to more fully engage with the meaning of what is written.

The Digest is edited by Thulsi Prabakaran.

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Library

Our library is a collection of open-access research and resources, written or recommended by CPA members.

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The Risk of Hope Matters of Consequence: Meaningful Conversations for Curious People

What happens when the emotional weight of the climate crisis feels too heavy to carry? In this deeply personal conversation Kate Adams, a performance maker, lecturer, and former co-chair of the Climate Psychology Alliance takes us inside the unseen world of eco-emotions and artistic resilience. The episode explores the systemic importance of vulnerability, the tension between grief and hope, and the quiet work of creating spaces where people can confront the emotional toll of the climate crisis without judgment.

Podcasts & talks
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The Risk of Hope Matters of Consequence: Meaningful Conversations for Curious People

Eco-somatics and Collective Imagination – Broadening Perspectives for Climate Transition Discourse

By Frederike Doffin — "I have been exploring how eco-somatics and collective imagination add different layers to the discourse on climate change and broaden perspectives by contributing through sensory approaches and body-based knowledge. I felt the need to complement predominant discourses on climate transition with practices that are situated in the body, in co-creativity with plants and which have the capacity to embrace subtle realms of more-than-human life forces..."

Articles & reflections
Go to resource
Eco-somatics and Collective Imagination – Broadening Perspectives for Climate Transition Discourse

Facing Our Climate Reality: Honest Briefings That Spark Community Action and Resilience

By Nick Drew — Nick Drew, from the Climate Psychology Alliance and a long-standing member of the Emergencies Partnership (EP) Mental Health Network, has written a powerful blog as a stark (but also hopeful) reminder that the UK is already living in a climate crisis, with record-breaking heat and rising risks becoming the new normal. Nick highlights urgent warnings from national reports, the surge of community screenings of the People’s Emergency Briefing film and the growing need for collective resilience. Nick’s message is clear: we must turn awareness into community‑level action because investing in preparedness now saves lives later but, thankfully, there are passionate and capable people who are feeling more capable and motivated to act (and that can grow).

Articles & reflections
Go to resource
Facing Our Climate Reality: Honest Briefings That Spark Community Action and Resilience
Youth & intergenerational

Youth & intergenerational Reading List

The sources on this list relate to youth & intergenerational. They are not freely accessible online - most require a library subscription, institutional access, or purchase.

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Therapeutic perspectives

Therapeutic perspectives Reading List

The sources on this list relate to therapeutic perspectives. They are not freely accessible online - most require a library subscription, institutional access, or purchase.

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Theory and frameworks

Theory and frameworks Reading List

The sources on this list relate to theory and frameworks. They are not freely accessible online - most require a library subscription, institutional access, or purchase.

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Nature connection

Nature connection Reading List

The sources on this list relate to nature connection. They are not freely accessible online - most require a library subscription, institutional access, or purchase.

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Nature connection Reading List
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Denial & avoidance

Denial & avoidance Reading List

The sources on this list relate to denial & avoidance. They are not freely accessible online - most require a library subscription, institutional access, or purchase.

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Denial & avoidance Reading List
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Climate and ecological emotions

Climate and ecological emotions Reading List

The sources on this list relate to climate and ecological emotions. They are not freely accessible online - most require a library subscription, institutional access, or purchase.

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Policy

Policy Reading List

The sources on this list relate to policy. They are not freely accessible online - most require a library subscription, institutional access, or purchase.

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Policy Reading List
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Hope & resilience

Hope & resilience Reading List

The sources on this list relate to hope & resilience. They are not freely accessible online - most require a library subscription, institutional access, or purchase.

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Hope & resilience Reading List
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Creative practice

Creative practice Reading List

The sources on this list relate to creative practice. They are not freely accessible online - most require a library subscription, institutional access, or purchase.

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Creative practice Reading List
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Climate justice & decolonising

Climate justice & decolonising Reading List

The sources on this list relate to climate justice & decolonising. They are not freely accessible online - most require a library subscription, institutional access, or purchase.

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Activism & collective action

Activism & collective action Reading List

The sources on this list relate to activism & collective action. They are not freely accessible online - most require a library subscription, institutional access, or purchase.

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Therapeutic Support

Therapeutic Support Reading List

The sources on this list relate to therapeutic support. They are not freely accessible online - most require a library subscription, institutional access, or purchase.

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Therapeutic Support Reading List
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Nature connection
Theory and frameworks

Descent in the Time of Climate Change

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One Resilient Earth

Grows the climate resilience of young people, sustainability professionals and educators through transformative learning journeys, climate emotions circles, and training on climate anxiety and trauma, including a dedicated CLARITY programme for teachers and educators.

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Climate Youth Resilience

A global initiative unlocking young people's resilience, capacities, insight and leadership in the climate crisis, offering tools, training and an Ambassador programme spanning community building, advocacy, policymaking and inner-led change.

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Climate Youth Resilience

Join our community of thinkers, researchers, and reflective practitioners

CPA is more than a publisher or a library. We're a working community of people thinking together about climate psychology. Our members participate in regular Thinking Spaces, contribute to research groups, edit the Explorations in Climate Psychology Journal, maintain the library, and bring their own work into shared conversation. Research at CPA is collaborative, generative, and grounded in practice.

Why join:

  • Monthly Thinking Space

  • Research Group

  • Opportunities to Publish

  • Intergenerational buddying

  • Student and Young Members Group

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The library is built by and for the climate psychology community. Use it, add to it, and help us grow it.

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