Climate Crisis Café

Understanding climate change can bring feelings of grief, uncertainty, anger, and anxiety. If you’ve found yourself carrying these emotions, you’re not alone. While these are personal feelings, they need not be isolating. Coming together to share our experiences and reconnect with the living world can help transform feelings of despair into resilience, hope, and purposeful action.

This fall, the Centre for Integral Ecology is hosting the Climate Crisis Café, a series offering space to connect, reflect, and respond alongside others who share a deep concern for the future of our common home. Through guided conversation, creative expression, and time spent on the land, participants are invited to explore their relationship with the ecological challenges of our time in a supported space.

Drawing on insights from psychology, contemplative practice, and the Ignatian tradition, each session offers practical ways to navigate eco-anxiety while cultivating resilience, meaning, and connection. Weather permitting, every gathering will also include time outdoors on the 600 acres of forests, fields, wetlands, and farmland cared for by Ignatius Jesuit Centre.

By nurturing connection with ourselves, one another, and the living world, we can discover that even in uncertain times, hope grows through community, compassion, and shared action.

Inspired by the generosity at the heart of the Ignatian tradition, IJC offers some of its programs by donation. We invite those with limited financial means to contribute whatever they can, while those who are able to give more help make these programs possible for others. Every contribution, whatever its size, is gratefully received.