This isn’t a typical nature walk. It’s a chance to slow down and reflect on our relationship to the living ecosystem.

• Embodied Walk – each step represents 1 million years
• Earth’s Revolutions – pivotal moments from the formation of the
• Moon through appearance of modern humans.
• Community and Personal Reflections – through your body, heart and head.

No science background needed, just bring your curiosity, comfortable shoes, some water, and an open heart. Dogs on a leash are welcome. Children are welcome – but please be sure that they can handle walking about 3 miles.

This walk is free.

👉 JOIN THIS INTERDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUE ON OUR FUTURE DIRECTION
During this session, we will explore:
🌏 How humanity can respond to the challenges of climate change
🌏 What we can learn from space science, philosophy, and inner inquiry
🌏 How to integrate diverse perspectives to navigate uncertainty
🌏 A shared dialogue to co-create our “Future Compass”

Event Details
*Date & Time: May 6, 2026 (Wed) 17:00–19:30 (JST)
*Location: Rikkyo University, Ikebukuro Campus
*Mckim Hall 3F, Room M302
*Fee: Free
*Capacity: 150 participants (first come, first served)

Speakers
◎Yuichi Tsuda: JAXA / ISAS, Professor
Project Manager of Hayabusa2
◎Tetsuya Kono: Professor, College of Arts, Rikkyo University
◎Gopi Patel: Spiritual Educator & Raja Yoga Meditation Teacher

1. イベント概要
気候変動、AIの進展、国際情勢の不安定化——
私たちは今、これまでにない規模の変化の中に生きています。
とりわけ気候変動は、社会・経済・価値観のあり方そのものを問い直す、
人類共通の課題となっています。

風はどの方向からも吹いています。
しかし、帆の張り方は選べます。

本セミナーでは、哲学・宇宙・内面という異なる視点を交差させながら、
「気候変動の時代に、私たちはどこへ向かうのか」を探究します。

2. なぜ今、この対話なのか
気候変動という問いは、
もはや技術だけでは応えきれません。
正解のない時代に、
私たちは内なる軸と、
他者と結び合う力を問われています。
異なるものが交わるとき、
新たな視座とつながりが生まれ、
未来への道が、静かにひらかれていきます。

3. プログラム構成
第一部｜視点をひらく
宇宙・哲学・内面から、気候変動時代の世界を見つめ直す
第二部｜対話する
それぞれの「進む方向」を言葉にする

4. このような方におすすめです
・気候変動の時代に、自分の役割や進む方向を考えたい方
・専門を越えて、思考を深めたい方
・対話を通じて、自分の考えを言葉にしたい方
・これからの時代における「判断の軸」を探している方

5. 登壇者
◎津田 雄一 Yuichi Tsuda
宇宙工学者｜JAXA 宇宙科学研究所 教授・副所長
小惑星探査機「はやぶさ2」プロジェクトマネージャとして、未知への挑戦を率い、ミッションを成功へと導いた。地球帰還後はプロジェクト全体の総括・後継計画の立案にも携わり、宇宙科学の新たな可能性をひらき続けている。多分野連携による新たな宇宙科学の発展に尽力。

◎ゴピ・パテル Gopi Patel
ラージャヨガ瞑想講師｜グローバル・リーダーシップ教育
インドにルーツを持ち、英国で育つ多文化的背景を持つ国際的教育者。
幼少期より内面探求を続け、現在は世界各地で活動している。
国連関連会議、コモンウェルス・ユースフォーラム、世界ユース会議などに招かれ、
若者やリーダーの育成に携わる。
49カ国に広がる国際ネットワークの形成に関わり、
多文化・多世代・多宗教の対話を通じて、内面の気づきを社会的な行動へとつなげるプログラムを展開。
持続可能な社会に向けた、新しいリーダーシップのあり方を提案している。

◎河野哲也 Tetsuya Kono
立教大学 文学部 教授｜哲学・倫理学・対話実践
専門は哲学・倫理学。立教大学文学部にて教鞭をとりながら、
「哲学対話」を教育・社会の現場に広く展開してきた実践者。
正解のない問いに向き合い、他者とともに考える力を育むことを重視し、
学校教育・公共空間・ワークショップなど多様な場で対話の実践を行っている。
分断が進む現代において、思考と関係性をひらくための対話の可能性を探求し続けている。

6. このフォーラムの特色
・哲学 × 宇宙 × 内面という異分野の交差
・知識だけでなく「考える力」と「選ぶ力」を育む対話
・気候変動という文明課題を、自分ごととして捉える場
・未来の方向性を言葉にする実践型フォーラム

7. 期待されること
・気候変動の時代における「自分の進む方向」を見つめ直すきっかけ
・異なる視点からの新しい気づき
・対話を通じた思考の深まりと、行動へのヒント

8. 開催概要
📅 日時：2026年5月6日（祝・水）17:00–19:30
📍 会場：立教大学 池袋キャンパス
マキムホール3階 M302（定員179名）
🎓 対象：立教大学生、一般
💴 参加費：無料

主催：学術知共創プログラム
「身体性を通じた社会的分断の超克と多様性の実現」
（担当：立教大学 河野哲也）
共創：Climate Coaching Alliance Japan （担当：臼井）

In collaboration with the ‘coaching in and with Nature Pod, this powerful embodied experience takes participants on an 4.6km walk through 4.6 billion years of Earth history – exploring the place of the human in the more-than-human world.

Join us in a transformational journey bringing the rational and somatic together. It is an invitation to view the world differently, encouraging positive action and advocacy for a regenerative earth and helps put into context humanity’s rich heritage. This experience gives an insight into the interconnectedness of all life and a sense of timefulness through an immersive walk in nature

We are walking 4.6km in the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens in Scotland, where the diverse plants, trees and water features give their gifts and expression to understand Earth’s story. There will also be mindfulness and nature practices throughout the walk to connect deeply with nature and understand our relationship and appreciation for the long arc of deep time and the impact humans have had in such a short part of that time.

This walk is in collaboration with Drylaw walking group from Drylaw Community Centre in North Edinburgh, a community centre supporting local people through social, cultural, economic and environmental events and sessions.

The walk is free to join and all are welcome with routes that are physically accessible throughout!

We are meeting at 10am at the East gate in Inverleith Road. Please let Hazel know if you are joining so we don’t leave without you.

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If you value the work the CCA is doing, please help us fund the road ahead.

Join us in presence and attunement for this 75-minute session including a guided compassion practice and deep listening/sharing circle, facilitated by Heather Monro and Mark McMordie.

The purpose of the Compassion Special Interest Pod is to provide a secular Compassion Community of Practice (CCoP) as a way of co-regulating and processing difficult emotions that arise within the Ecological Awareness Cycle. The CCoP serves as both an antidote to empathic distress fatigue and climate-related burnout in the coach, and their clients in turn, and also develops qualities beneficial to the coaching relationship and better coaching outcomes.

Inclusive and accessible to all.

We look forward to welcoming you.

With Warm Wishes

Heather, Liz, Lindsay and Mark

The event is hosted by SCC Representatives Eve Turner, Hetty Einzig and Uma Arora, and features panelists Linda Aspey and Alice Howard-Vyse (see biographies below). Linda and Alice will share about the Work that Reconnects (WtR), which helps to support and mobilise us to reconnect with what is really important, to face reality, and to reframe passive hope into active engagement during these troubling times. It was originally developed by inspirational eco-philosopher Joanna Macy in the late 1970s for activists, bringing together aspects of deep ecology, systems theory and Buddhism. 

The Work is structured around the Spiral Journey, a framework that invites participants to explore their lived experience with honesty and care—acknowledging both gratitude and pain—while developing new perspectives and a deeper sense of connection. Rather than relying on passive optimism, Active Hope reframes hope as a practice: something we do, individually and collectively, through values-led choices and courageous conversations.

In this SCC Roundtable session, we invite you to experience WtR with a view to drawing on it as a framework, insight and set of resources you can use in your own client coaching work. It will also deepen our individual and collective capacity to work with climate related emotions, complexity and uncertainty, and strengthen our ability to journey together as a collaborative in these uncertain times.”

Event Hosts – Eve Turner, Hetty Einzig and Uma Arora

Panelists – Linda Aspey and Alice Howard-Vyse

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SCC Roundtables are 90-minute sessions designed to provide a collaborative learning space where practitioners from the SCC Signatory professional bodies gather to discuss topics that are timely and important in the global coaching and mentoring community. Anyone with interest in the topic is invited to freely attend.

As a Signatory of the SCC, the event is freely offered to our members to increase your knowledge on this important topic. You are invited to register for the event at: https://www.sustainabilitycoachingcoalition.org/events/

Across African cultures, eclipses have long been perceived as moments when normal order is suspended – times of prophecy, recalibration and deep listening. In this spirit, our online gathering will explore how climate coaches are called to work with polarities and paradoxes in an age when inherited paradigms dominate.

Whether juxtaposing ancient wisdom and cutting-edge technologies, individual agency and collective responsibility, hope and grief, masculine and feminine – climate coaching increasingly requires the capacity to hold complexity without collapsing into simplistic narratives or false solutions.

This session invites coaches into a reflective and relational space to explore how we can move beyond “either/or” thinking and cultivate a “both/and” approach that honours multiple truths, diverse worldviews and the deep interdependence of people, planet and future generations.

PLEASE NOTE: The annular eclipse will reach its peak at 12:13 UTC (2:13pm SAST) on Tues 17 Feb with a duration of just over two minutes. This is NOT a total eclipse, so at no time during this occurrence will it be safe to look at the sun without proper eye protection. Do not look directly at the sun or you could injure your eyes.

When: Tuesday, February 17th (3pm EST, 2pm CST, 1pm MST, 12 PST)

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/eSpOXgS0TIi1tKFrk-Finw

New members are invited to join 15 minutes before the official start of the meeting for a welcome and a quick orientation.

Here is the full agenda for our meeting:

-Welcome to New Members! (15 min before main meeting starts)
-Opening Connection
-Who is CCA and what is our Mission
-Global Update
-Coaching Support: This meeting is a dedicated space to support each other as coaches. It’s a safe space for inner work so that we can bring more of ourselves to our outer work. Types of support we can offer one another include thought partnering, coaching, and mentoring. We will break out into smaller coaching clusters. We invite you to bring your whole self to this meeting. Please be ready to give and receive support as you feel called to do so. This is truly a space for you to be nurtured and supported in your own work as a climate coach.
-Wrap Up (Impressions, Quick Poll)

Our meetings are designed for you to be able to jump in anytime. They are a space for nurturing, support, and collaboration. Wherever you are at in your climate coaching journey, you are welcome here!

For questions about the upcoming meeting, please email Kelly at kelly@kellygreencoaching.com or Tamara at tamara@changingyourclimate.com

We look forward to gathering with you!
CCA-USA Team

The reality is neither. Whether we’re coaching from nature or perturbing the hierarchy, the predator is a great analogy. It lives deep inside the ecology, essential to it and reliant on it,  shaping and being shaped by everything around it.

Sense a little deeper and you’ll be getting close to the Peak Experiences Maslow researched and what his Grandson subsequently shared. Where false polarities soften, time loosens into presence and the world reveals itself as meaningful and beautiful.

Those are some of the realities that let 147 governments and the UN endorse “spiritually reconnecting humans and nature”.  They are experiences we can curate and coach from too — restoring creativity, easing stress, and deepening our presence.

Come along and try reconfiguring the hierarchy in meditation, and through a peak nature experience, travel with and as the dragonfly through time.

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If you value the work the CCA is doing, please help us fund the road ahead.