How can coaches meet the reality of the predicament we’re in with truth, love and compassion?
Zoe is one of 12 coaches interviewed for the Coaching for a Regenerative World CCA Pioneers 12 x 12 series. Please watch her interview first before joining the session.
Zoe Cohen is a collapse aware coach, citizen, mother and activist. As a highly experienced board-level director, and Master Coach, she combines her two greatest passions: acting for social and ecological justice, on our one, shared planetary home; with enabling and encouraging people to shine and to take action.
Zoe’s understanding of the existential threat we’re facing, combined with her love for nature and desire for justice for the next generation, the global south and all non-human life, in the face of decades of political and business inaction, drove her to take direct action. She joined Extinction Rebellion (XR) in early 2019. Amongst her actions, in April 2021, she and six other women carefully cracked windows at Barclays Bank UK headquarters in Canary Wharf. Barclays were the biggest fossil fuel funder in Europe, and also major funders of habitat destruction and plastic production globally. Zoe took this action as an act of love and as a nonviolent intervention to send a message to the Board members on the top floor of that building.
She and her co-defendants were found “guilty” of “criminal damage” in late 2022 and sentenced in early 2023. Zoe was given a 7 month prison sentence, suspended for two years.
Zoe will join facilitators Fiona Anderson and Katarzyna Schubert-Panecka for a conversation about how she navigates coaching, activism and being alive to the mess we’re in.
She’ll share her core values – truth, love, compassion and justice – and how knowing that “the ship has already sailed” to stop catastrophic climate impacts drives her to open up space to talk about and to act on the great amount that can still be done.
_____________________________________________________________________
If you value the work the CCA is doing, please help us fund the road ahead.
Additional Details
Event Timezone Reference - London
Presenter(s) Bio
Zoe Cohen With over 5000 hours as an accredited executive coach, team coach and coach supervisor, Zoe brings her values and experience to benefit individuals’ and teams’ performance through reaching new awareness, to achieve greater levels of trust, openness, clarity, mutual challenge, motivation and resilience.
Zoe is an award winning communicator and has spoken in the media on behalf of XR, Insulate Britain, Just Stop Oil, and Defend Our Juries campaigns, and as a member of Manchester Jewish Action for Palestine. She has been arrested eight times to date, latterly for resisting genocide and demanding the de-proscription of Palestine Action.
Dr Katarzyna Schubert-Panecka is an experienced international Business and Environmental Mediator (DACH | KNE) | (internationally certified) Mediator, Mediation Trainer and Supervisor (DACH), Executive, Climate and Team Coach (ICF | EMCC) | university teacher and mediation researcher regarding cross cultural understanding and cooperation.
Fiona Anderson is a member of the Political Pod Working Group and author of its monthly newsletter. She’s been a member of Extinction Rebellion since 2019. She is based in Devon in the Southwest of England.
Event Language - English
Posted By - Amel Sedaoui
Email - communications@climatecoachingalliance.org