Many promising climate and nature projects are struggling to access capital, while investors are having trouble finding and funding them. Can responsible AI technologies help bridge this gap?

At the 9th GLF Investment Case Symposium, join leaders from across finance, business, technology, government and grassroots initiatives to explore how AI, information and partnerships can make sustainable investment faster, smarter and more effective.

We’re gathering alongside COP31 – and opening the doors for you to join online or in person – to ignite new investment strategies that benefit communities, nature and investors alike.

Session flow:
10 min – Grounding & Intro to Becoming Eco-Engaged
20 min – Peer Coaching (Round 1)
20 min – Peer Coaching (Round 2)
10 min – Reflections

*Developed by Professor Peter Hawkins and Renewal Associates with the Climate Coaching Alliance

Hey CCA Community,

Quick question: what do you say to Uncle Denier at Thanksgiving when he starts in on “climate’s always changed”?

If your answer is a nervous laugh and a plate refill, this workshop’s for you.

Ground. Story. Speak. A TEDx-Style Climate Communications Hour

In 60 fast, fun, genuinely useful minutes, you’ll walk away with:This isn’t a lecture. It’s interactive, it’s quick, and it’s built for coaches who want tools they’ll actually use.

Event description: 
For Climate Coaching Alliance coaches, built like a TEDx play space, not a lecture. Attendees ground briefly with an Inner Resonance practice, then move through a Learn-Do-Share cycles:

~ A 90-second grounding practice you can use with any client, any session, any moment things get heavy
~ The bones of your 60-second climate story that actually moves a room (not just informs it, moves it)
~ Your very own comeback listens for Uncle Denier, tested and Thanksgiving-approved
~ A structured 1-minute TEDx-style talk, built live, by you, in the room.                                                                                                                                    ~ The session moves to with the “Next Best Thing to Be/Do/Have.”                                                                                                                                           ~ We close briefly referencing the Climate Coaching Alliance’s 12×12 research project with FIREWORKS, a current finalist for the 2026 International Coaches Federation Social Impact Emerging Catalyst Award.

Outcomes:
By the end of this hour, attendees leave with three usable tools, not just inspiration:

• a 90-second grounding practice they can run before any hard climate conversation;
• a repeatable-in-sixty-seconds-flat-story structure they can teach a client to move a family, team, or board; and
• a “Denier Judo” technique for reaching climate skeptics without requiring them to already believe in climate change.                             

Underneath those three tools is the bigger promise, coaches leave able to widen who they serve, not just how they feel about serving them, with each tool framed as a billable offer they can use the same week. For those considering CCA membership, the session also offers firsthand proof that CCA’s coaching methods are backed by real research, via the 12×12 project’s status as a 2026 International Coaches Federation Social Impact Emerging Catalyst Award finalist. Several more reseach projects are currently underway.

Why now: Every coach needs a climate story. This is the hour you find or refine yours.

👉 [Sign up here.]

Takes 30 seconds, less time than it took Uncle Denier to say “well actually.”

Plugged IN, Charged UP,
Kat 

How is the shapeshifter alive in your work and life right now?

Where are you being asked to adapt, flex, or become something new?

Shapeshifting is a workshop for anyone standing in the middle of change and wanting to meet it with curiosity instead of resistance. Change and adaptability are often talked about as something to manage or push through. This session offers a different way. Through story, metaphor and the body, you will explore what it feels like to shift shape, without losing yourself in the process.

With a playful, embodied approach, we’ll explore:
– What does it mean to shapeshift in your own work or life right now?
– Where are you already shifting shape, whether you’ve named it or not?
– How can you connect to a steady centre you can shift from?
– What happens when you approach change as something curious and alive, rather than something to survive?
– What’s one real shift, or action, you want to carry out of the session?

There’ll be space to arrive, slow down and settle into the online space. You’ll be invited to explore the shapeshifting theme through a simple embodied exercise, then we’ll go deeper with the story of Wolfskin. Throughout you will have opportunity to reflect and ground the work back to your context. Whilst playful and rooted in metaphor, this session is designed to link these inner reflections to outer action.

An embodied workshop using the shapeshifter lens to explore change, weaving story and metaphor into real action.

How is the shapeshifter alive in your work and life right now?

Where are you being asked to adapt, flex, or become something new?

Shapeshifting is a workshop for anyone standing in the middle of change and wanting to meet it with curiosity instead of resistance. Change and adaptability are often talked about as something to manage or push through. This session offers a different way. Through story, metaphor and the body, you will explore what it feels like to shift shape, without losing yourself in the process.

With a playful, embodied approach, we’ll explore:
– What does it mean to shapeshift in your own work or life right now?
– Where are you already shifting shape, whether you’ve named it or not?
– How can you connect to a steady centre you can shift from?
– What happens when you approach change as something curious and alive, rather than something to survive?
– What’s one real shift, or action, you want to carry out of the session?

There’ll be space to arrive, slow down and settle into the online space. You’ll be invited to explore the shapeshifting theme through a simple embodied exercise, then we’ll go deeper with the story of Wolfskin. Throughout you will have opportunity to reflect and ground the work back to your context. Whilst playful and rooted in metaphor, this session is designed to link these inner reflections to outer action.

How do we cultivate the conditions that allow meaningful change to emerge in times of profound uncertainty and turbulence?

The Climate Coaching Alliance USA invites you to a conversation inspired by the recent work of Otto Scharmer, exploring ideas from his latest book and his recent conversations with the Mind & Life Institute and the Commonwealth Club World Affairs. Together, we will explore questions such as:

• What brings us to systems change work, and why does it matter to us?
• What resonated most strongly for us in Otto’s recent thinking?
• What does it mean to cultivate the “social soil” in which new possibilities for change can take root?
• How might the seven social soil practices help us in our work as coaches, facilitators, and change makers?
• What are “islands of coherence,” and how might they help us navigate turbulent systems and create conditions for transformation?
• How might these ideas connect with what we are already practicing in our own work and communities?

This will be a participatory conversation, with opportunities for personal reflection, small-group sharing, and collective exploration. We will draw on our own experiences as much as on Otto’s ideas, asking what these concepts might mean in practice for those of us working toward systemic and societal change.

Preparation
To make the most of our time together, we ask participants to engage with at least one of the following before the session:
1. Read Otto Scharmer’s latest book, Presencing- 7 PRACTICES FOR TRANSFORMING SELF, SOCIETY, AND BUSINESS; or
2. Listen to Otto Scharmer’s conversation with the Mind & Life Institute from 2025; or
3. Listen to his conversation with the Commonwealth Club World Affairs from April 27, 2026.

You do not need to be an expert in Theory U or Otto Scharmer’s work.
Come with your curiosity, your experience, and your questions.

Date: August 18, 2026
Time: 12pm PDT
Location: by Zoom
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/zAnKxTsNQLW8XRvzwTf1yQ

If you are a new CCA-USA member, feel free to join 15 minutes before the official start for a quick but warm welcome.

We look forward to exploring together how we might cultivate the social soil for the changes our world needs.

“When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.” ~Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize-winning chemist

Worum geht es?
Die deutschsprachige Climate Coaching Alliance Community wächst.

In den vergangenen Monaten haben wir Dialogräume zu Themen wie Regeneration, Wandel, Coaching und gesellschaftliche Transformation ins Leben gerufen und gemeinsam erforscht, welche Rolle Coaching in Zeiten von Unsicherheit, Krise und Übergang spielen kann.

Dieser Community Call richtet sich an alle, die die Climate Coaching Alliance besser kennenlernen, sich mit anderen Coaches und Wandelbegleiter:innen vernetzen oder erfahren möchten, wie sie sich in die Community einbringen können.

Was erwartet dich?
Einblick in die internationale Climate Coaching Alliance
Vorstellung der deutschsprachigen Community
Aktuelle Aktivitäten und Formate
Möglichkeiten zur Mitgestaltung
Austausch mit anderen Coaches, Facilitator:innen und Wandelbegleiter:innen
Raum für Fragen, Ideen und neue Impulse
Für wen?
Für Coaches, Facilitator:innen, Organisationsentwickler:innen, Führungskräfte und alle Menschen, die sich für Regeneration, Klimabewusstsein, gesellschaftlichen Wandel und die Zukunft von Coaching interessieren.

Egal, ob du die Climate Coaching Alliance bereits kennst oder zum ersten Mal davon hörst – du bist herzlich willkommen.

Gemeinsam erkunden
Wir verstehen die Climate Coaching Alliance als einen Raum für gemeinsames Lernen, gegenseitige Unterstützung und kollektive Intelligenz.

Vielleicht möchtest du einfach zuhören.

Vielleicht suchst du Austausch.

Vielleicht hast du Lust, künftig Gespräche, Lernräume oder Community-Aktivitäten mitzugestalten.

Dieser Abend bietet die Gelegenheit, miteinander ins Gespräch zu kommen und herauszufinden, was entstehen möchte.

Wir freuen uns auf dich!

Johanna Hallbauer
Koordinatorin der deutschsprachigen Climate Coaching Alliance Community

English Event Description
Climate Coaching Alliance – German-Speaking Community
Open Community Call
Get to Know and Co-Create the German-Speaking Climate Coaching Alliance
📅 September 17, 2026
🕕 6:00–7:00 PM (CEST)
💻 Online via Zoom

What is this about?
The German-speaking Climate Coaching Alliance community is growing.

Over the past months, we have been creating spaces for dialogue around regeneration, coaching, climate awareness, systems change, and the role of coaching in times of uncertainty and transition.

This Community Call is for anyone who would like to learn more about the Climate Coaching Alliance, connect with like-minded practitioners, and explore opportunities to engage with the community.

What to expect
An introduction to the international Climate Coaching Alliance
An overview of the German-speaking community
Current activities and upcoming initiatives
Opportunities for participation and co-creation
Exchange with coaches, facilitators, leaders, and change-makers
Space for questions, ideas, and new connections
Who is this for?
Coaches, facilitators, leadership practitioners, organisational development professionals, educators, and anyone interested in regeneration, climate-conscious coaching, systems change, and the future role of coaching in society.

Whether you have been part of the Climate Coaching Alliance for years or are hearing about it for the first time—you are warmly welcome.

Exploring Together
We see the Climate Coaching Alliance as a space for shared learning, mutual support, and collective intelligence.

You may simply want to listen.

You may be looking for connection and inspiration.

Or perhaps you feel called to help shape future conversations, learning spaces, and community initiatives.

This call is an opportunity to meet, connect, and discover what might emerge together.

We look forward to meeting you.

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This session will bring together two PhD researchers exploring, from different angles, how coaching, embodied practice, nature connection and inner development may contribute to the deeper forms of transformation called for by the climate and polycrisis.

A lot of marketing advice treats your business like a machine you must feed every single day. Post more, sell harder, chase the algorithm. For climate coaches, that approach feels misaligned at best and extractive at worst.

There’s another way.

In this practical session, marketing strategist Jen McFarland of Women Conquer Business will show you how to think about your online marketing the way you’d tend a garden. You plant a few good things, you care for what you own, and you let the right work grow over time. No hustle, no funnels that make you cringe, no posting yourself into burnout.

Together, we’ll explore:

• What slow marketing is, and why it fits values-driven coaches better than ‘the hustle’ (that doesn’t work anyway)
• The assets you actually own versus the platforms you only rent
• How search and the occasional podcast guest spot can feed your garden while you rest
• A weekly rhythm built around your capacity, not someone else’s idea of what you ‘should’ do
• How to talk about your work without feeling icky, pushy, or out of integrity

This session is designed for climate coaches who want to be found without selling their souls to social media. Wherever you are in your business, you’ll walk away with a calmer, kinder way to market that respects both your values and your energy.

Please note that we’ll open the Zoom room 15 minutes before start to welcome new CCA-USA members.

In this nature-inspired Inner Development Goals (IDGs) session, we will explore the theme of Inner Compass within the BEING dimension. 

Hosted by the CCA-Nature pod’s IDG Community of Practice, we invite you to join us as we reflect on moments when we have lost our way, learn from nature’s wisdom and explore practices that help us rediscover with our own inner compass. 

Through guided reflection, dialogue, and stories from the natural world, we will explore what helps us stay aligned with our values, purpose, and deepest knowing, especially when the path ahead is unclear.

Outcomes:

• Explore the concept of an Inner Compass through the lens of nature
• Learn from nature’s examples of wayfinding and reflect on how these insights can inform our lives.
• Reconnect with personal sources of guidance such as values, intuition, relationships, purpose and/or connection with nature