1. Up-coming courses

Thursday 7 May, 5pm, London: Climate Change for Trade Unionists (open to any trade union member). Click here for further information.

2. What the course involves

Course level: Intermediate

This engaging and informative course deals with a common personal challenge: how to persuade family, friends and workmates that climate change is real and serious. It argues that people form their views and beliefs from the attitudes of their peers and so short interactions between people who know each other can be an immensely powerful tool for creating change.

During the training, participants draw on their own experiences to develop some ground rules for successful engagement. They develop tactics for targeting their arguments and discover what language to use for different personality types.

The course pays particular attention to finding ways to deal with the main counter arguments that people use, including those that out rightly deny the existence of climate change.
This course combines the psychological and communication research of COIN’s specialist courses around a theme that relates directly to people’s day-to-day experience.

'I'm now ready to argue.' Siobhan Buttimer, Administrator

‘Thank you for an enjoyable, informative and easy-to-handle course for improving one’s confidence on communication on climate change.’ Jeremy Hunter

3. Run this training near you!

Like all of COIN's trainings, we are keen to run this training as widely geographically as possible. It is a relatively new course, and has been run in partnership with The Environment Council, DEFRA and PCS Unions and we're looking for further partners. Join this list and work in partnership with COIN to host a training in your area - you can do this as an organisation, but we are also happy to work with individuals - so if you're interested, please do contact us! Email richardc@coinet.org.uk or give Richard a call on 01865 403331 to find out how a partnership works - we can email you a copy of our Partnership Protocol which clarifies roles for an effective relationship.

4. Contact COIN

Contact info@coinet.org.uk for more details, or ring us on 01865 403331.