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  • Faith-based responses to disruption and distress from global heating

    Faith-based responses to disruption and distress from global heating

    This year I learned that in many religious communities the idea that humanity is in ‘apocalyptic’ or ‘end’ times is becoming widespread. Although not unusual in the history of humanity, today that view relates to environmental change. Whether such a perspective leads to more or less ‘prosocial’ responses will influence how any future breakdowns occur.… Read more

  • Coaching in a time of polycrisis: enabling post-heroic leadership of adaptive communities

    Coaching in a time of polycrisis: enabling post-heroic leadership of adaptive communities

    As more people experience anxiety from a polycrisis of intersecting societal disruptions, some even anticipate societal collapse, while the unfortunate have already been experiencing breakdowns in their own societies. In such circumstances it can be normal to look to people in senior positions to solve the problems. Conversely, if we currently hold a senior position,… Read more

  • Deep Adaptation in the Caribbean

    Deep Adaptation in the Caribbean

    In this month’s Deep Adaptation Q&A, host Katie Carr speaks with Jessica Canham about Deep Adaptation in the Caribbean and possible implications for elsewhere. Jessica is a member of the Deep Adaptation Forum, a film-maker. She is based in her ancestral island home of Dominica, in the Eastern Caribbean. She shares about her experience of… Read more

  • Grateful for Meg Wheatley

    Grateful for Meg Wheatley

    I recently gave a talk to the Climate Coaching Alliance about how to support people, professionally, who are beginning to integrate an awareness of the bad-to-worse scenarios of climate chaos into their work and lives.… Continue reading Grateful for Meg Wheatley → Read more

  • Don’t be a climate user – an essay on climate science communication

    Don’t be a climate user – an essay on climate science communication

    Sometimes the latest climate science is miscommunicated in ways that reduce pressure on the establishment. Here is what to do about that. … Continue reading Don’t be a climate user – an essay on climate science communication → Read more

  • What has the UN Disaster Risk Reduction agency got to do with you?

    What has the UN Disaster Risk Reduction agency got to do with you?

    I was interviewed this week by the Independent newspaper about why more than 100 scholars from around the world issued a public letter to delegates at the UN’s event on disaster risk reduction. This provides more depth than my opinion piece in the newspaper. Q – What was the impetus behind this letter? Jem –… Read more

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