Living with the climate crisis is heavy. Young people carry more than their fair share.

Eco-anxiety, climate grief, rage, exhaustion: if you're a young person feeling any of this, it makes sense. These are understandable reactions to climate breakdown and the polycrisis. Whether you're looking for support or looking to get involved, you are very welcome here.

Support and training made for young people

Support and training made for young people

Spaces where you can turn up as you are and be with others who get it.

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Support spaces

Facilitated group sessions where young adults can talk openly about how the climate and related crises are affecting them.

Workshops

Themed sessions exploring our psychological and emotional reactions to climate breakdown, burnout, resilience and ways to develop agency.

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Training

Opportunities for young people who want to learn how to hold space for others, including introductory facilitation skills and peer support training.

Retreats

Our annual in person retreat offers a weekend of rest, nature connection and workshops, to help to process the feelings and the challenges of environmental work and activism.

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Free one-to-one therapeutic support

Browse our One-to-one Support Directory and book up to three free sessions with a climate-aware practitioner - for anyone 18 and over experiencing eco-related distress.

Find out more about climate-aware therapeutic support
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How to find what you need

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Find something that fits

Browse our events calendar for upcoming support spaces, workshops, and training.

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Book your place

All of our youth offerings are free or low-cost. Book through the event listing, and you'll get everything you need to know beforehand.

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Show up as you are

No prep needed. No right way to feel. Just come, listen, share what you want to share, and meet others who get it.

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Stay connected

Come as regularly as you want. Or join CPA and our Student and Young Members Group to be a part of our community.

Reading and resources for young people

Curated guides, articles, and external links to support you

We've gathered resources to help you make sense of what you're feeling and find your footing. Some offer tools for working through eco-anxiety and climate grief. Some connect you with communities of young people who get it. All have been chosen with young people in mind.

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Dare to Care

A guide for making sense of climate emotions aimed at teenagers and young adults, with reflective exercises by Klara Wrusch.

Climate feelings: Blob climate action

A great resource for all ages, offering a compelling and accessible way to have conversations about climate emotions. Developed by Ian Long from blobtree.com and Jo McAndrews from the Climate Psychology Alliance. 

ActiveHope.Training

A free online active hope course based on Joanna Macy's Work that Reconnects. Explore ways you can make a difference whilst practising self and other care. This training is for all ages, and is suitable for young people.

Gen Z Zine: Climate emotions and action

This resource by the Climate Mental Health Network has useful activities and information to help you reflect upon and live with understandable feelings that come with connecting with the climate emergency. There's also a series of videos you might value

Get to grips with climate grief

In this podcast, CPA member Caroline Hickman speaks with Force of Nature founder Clover Hogan about children and young people's experiences of grief relating to climate breakdown

Access our library for more resources and links to other organisations where you might find support or connection.

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Want to get more involved?

A lot of our young members didn't come to CPA looking to contribute. They came looking for support, and found that being able to support others was part of how they found relief. These are some of the opportunities membership offers.

Student and Young Members' group

A dedicated community within CPA where students and young people at CPA connect, organise, and support each other. It's intergenerational, justice-focused, and shaped by members.

Intergenerational Exchange Programme

Rather than a formal mentoring programme, this is about mutual exchange between young and older CPA members. Share perspectives, experiences, questions, and hopes to build more meaningful relationships within CPA.

Events and Training for Members

Member-only sessions including skill-building, reflective spaces, a research group and opportunities to get involved in running events.

Supporting others

If you've been supported by CPA and want to pay it forward, there are pathways into facilitation, peer support, and community-building. We'll help you find your footing.

Find out more and join CPA as a student or young member

Our offerings for young people are led by CPA Youth Coordinators Ronke Ayoola, Saleh Mohamed and Gareth Morgan. They are joined by members of our Youth Support Team and our active Student and Young Members' Group who support the development of these offerings.

Testimonials

In their own words

"Really appreciate the easy and broad access to opportunities, resources and networks - thank you!"

Young member

I loved the mixture of sharing and exercises. Felt really connected which is impressive given we’re on Zoom

Youth Support Space participant

"I like the openness of the space not only in terms of being a safe space, or a courageous space, to share what I feel but also with the activities to facilitate expressions of these feelings such as music, journals, movements etc."

Youth Support Space participant

"Thank you so much for facilitating this space. It is very deeply appreciated and has nourished a space for processing the tucked-away pain of traumatic experiences from different points of my climate activism journey, as well as nurtured a sense of social connection to comrades and fellow human beings; from strangers to friends."

Retreat participant

“I felt like I was listened to and encouraged to express my feelings, regardless of what they were”

Support Space for Young Adults participant

"It was a good balance of information, practical tools, advice & reflection/sharing space. I liked having the wellbeing exercises to do in the session, as I often struggle to get myself to do them on my own, and to have someone guide with that."

Deep Resilience for a World in Crisis workshop participant

"I'm extremely grateful for the weekend. This..held space for grief and healing is exactly what is needed in activism, and I wish for a world where everyone has access to beautiful support like this. Thank you for a wonderful and restorative experience."

Youth Retreat participant