Climate café listening and music circle

Jim Davey-Hewins and Rebecca Nestor are delighted to invite you to join us at a first-of-its-kind Climate Cafe Listening and Music Circle. To receive details of the venue, please DM Rebecca or email [email protected].

In a first of its kind, this ‘climate café listening and music circle’, based on the usual climate café approach, will also include opportunities to use musical instruments and the voice to express, explore and deepen feelings related to the climate crisis. Music has the capacity to embrace emotional complexity and contrast, with its very ambivalence enabling access to the truth of a feeling in a way that words cannot express. We hope that through group improvisation participants may find new ways of exploring and understanding any potentially conflicting or painful feelings.

This event, facilitated by Rebecca Nestor and music therapist Jim Davey-Hewins, may be of particular interest to anyone who has previously attended a climate café listening circle and is interested in experiencing this new approach. People who do not have this previous experience are also welcome, and are encouraged to find out more about climate café listening circles on the Climate Psychology Alliance website (https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/index.php/component/content/article/climate-cafe-listening-circle?catid=13&Itemid=101)

There's no charge. We will provide cake and hot drinks. Please try to arrive at 14.15 to give us all time to settle in together and start at 14.30 (though we won't turn you away if you're a few minutes late!). We will end the session by 16.30.

No musical experience is necessary and instruments will be provided.

Age limit of 18+.