A drop-in gathering for anyone anywhere who is interested in whether there is a place for playfulness in helping people think, feel and act on climate change. How might playfulness influence motivation? And how might we add some climate playfulness into our work, home lives and activism?

Each time we meet we will chew over all things playful, joy-inducing and experimental in the context of climate change. We might try out playful methods and climate games, hear from community members about their experimental projects, consider playful communications and activism, or explore playfulness as something that is resisted but can also be an act of resistance. Or something else.

We will meet on the first Thursday of each month (apart from August) at 1300 GMT.

6 June - Sustainable Stand Up with Belina Raffy 

Can climate change be funny? Join Belina Raffy, improv consultant and host of Sustainable Stand Up to explore how humour and improv can be used to help people communicate important environmental and social issues in ways that are loving, impactful and funny.

Belina is a global improv consultant, climate comedy teacher, and giggler. Since 2015, she has been delivering one of her favourite brainchildren - ’Sustainable Stand Up’ - a course which teaches people working on climate and social issues how to use a loving form of humour to think more expansively about the issues they care about, and to communicate them in a more engaging way. 

Belina has been designing and facilitating different forms of improv workshops for people working in sustainability since 2008 to help build collaboration, engagement, and our ability to engage with complex issues. She was on the board of the Applied Improvisation Network for six years, co-chaired many of their international conferences, and initiated a collaboration between the Applied Improvisation Network and the Red Cross Climate Centre.

Read her book, ‘Using Improv to Save the World (and me)’ about her experience of letting go of having a home and travelling to 11 countries around the world to facilitate applied improvisation workshops.

For anyone who has an interest in the idea of holding challenging things lightly (and still meaningfully). No need for any particular climate knowledge, nor do you need to be a high-energy joker. Playfulness comes in many forms :)

Expect a curious, non-judgemental, come-as-you-are and experimental vibe where we will explore opportunities to approach climate change in different ways than we may do now.

This meetup is run by Lucy Hawthorne of Climate Play, a facilitator and campaigner at heart, who uses play-learning to help make it safe light and fun to face climate change, so that people engage more deeply, honestly and creatively on it.

Sign up to our mailing list here https://www.climateplay.org/#contact a nd follow Lucy here https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucyhawthorne/

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The meetup is free to attend. However, if you want to support the development of Climate Play you can donate here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/climateplay