Organisations Supported by the COIN Incubation Programme in 2004-2005

Date: Saturday June 16th 2007

Where: Oxford, Wesley Memorial Hall

Contact: Mim Saxl, mim@coinet.org.uk, 01865 727911

Fee: £35, with limited subsidised places available those on low pay or unemployed

To enrol: Contact Mim Saxl

In partnership with Oxfordshire ClimateXchange (www.climatex.org)

COIN learnt a lot from our first round of Action Groups, a number of which are still operating in Oxford. Having collated our experiences from 2006, we are launching a new round of Action Groups for 2007!

Do you want to join together with like-minded people, expand your knowledge of climate change, explore your mutual interests and take constructive action to deal with the problem?

If so - then you should come along to COIN's Action Group "matchmaking meeting", to be held on Tuesday June 26th, 6.30 - 9 pm, in Oxford Town Hall. Facilitated by COIN, this meeting will enable you to find people with similar interests to you - and help you form into groups to take real, positive action.

Action Group participants are expected to commit to regular monthly meetings - and we will meet back together again at
the end of the year to collate our experiences and discuss what we have learnt.

For further information, or to book your place at the matchmaking meeting (reservations are ESSENTIAL) - email matt@coinet.org.uk, phone 01865 727911, or visit www.coinet.org.uk/projects/action_groups

What COIN can offer

To find out about a specific training on the list, click its name at the top, and you will be taken to the appropriate section (Please note this is currently not working but should be possible shortly). Otherwise, please browse all the training and specialist speakers by scrolling down the page.

Should you require further details, wish to book a workshop or speakers, have requests or suggestions for other types of training/speakers you think we should be providing, please contact the COIN team by emailing info@coinet.org.uk, or calling us on 01865 727911.

Workshops and training:

1. Climate Change Speaker Training
2. Speaking about Climate Change to individuals
3. Communicating Climate Change
4. Counting the Carbs
5. World Roundtable - Solutions to Climate Change
6. All aboard the Climate Rollercoaster
7. Re:Versing the Damage: the poetry of climate change
8. Coming soon
9. Costs and booking

Specialist Speakers:

1. George Marshall: The Psychology of Climate Change: why do we find it so hard to take action
2. George Marshall: How you can Eco-renovate your house
3. Mark Lynas: Six Degrees - our future on a hotter planet
4. Steve Larkin: climate change performance poetry
5. Costs and booking

Workshops and training:

1. Climate Change Speaker Training

An intensive one-day training course that gives participants the text, information, skills and confidence to prepare and deliver a persuasive and empowering half-hour talk on climate change. See our Speaker Training page for more details on this particular training.

Available as a full-day intensive. Also available as a half-day overview.

2. Speaking about Climate Change to Individuals

This intensive one-day training course gives participants practice and confidence in directly engaging members of the public in personal dialogue about climate change. The training argues that there are four main personality types which each require a different approach and different arguments. Through group work participants develop a set of strategies for each personality type, identify the hooks that will initiate conversation, and develop a question-led approach on which to build the discussion.

Available as a one-day intensive training course, a half-day overview and a 30-minute presentation.

3. Communicating Climate Change

This workshop draws on the most recent academic research and case studies of public communication to identify the pitfalls and challenges in communicating climate change. The presentation argues that most current climate change communications fail to relate to people’s real concerns or aspirations and often leave people less willing to take personal action. The presentation includes: identifying the four different audiences; how to overcome denial; and the arguments that really work.

Available as a 2-hour and half-day workshop and as a 30-minute presentation

4. Counting the Carbs

Using a simple carbon calculator this highly interactive workshop gives participants an understanding of their own contribution to climate change and helps them to explore the challenges it poses for society and government. They discover how their emissions compare to the sustainable level, the average of other countries, and that of other participants. Through pair and group work they discover the reasons for their own emissions and develop key strategies that they can adopt straight away to reduce their own impacts. The workshop is surprising, eye opening, but ultimately hopeful, revealing that low carbon living is not only possible but is already being practiced by the people around us.

Available as half-day and two-hour workshop.

5. World Roundtable - Solutions to Climate Change

This workshop argues that we will need solutions to climate change at four levels - international, national, local, and personal- and helps participants to understand the opportunities for achieving coordinated action between all levels.
Working with the help of detailed briefing packs, participants work in small groups to draw up a detailed action plan for a specific sector of their choosing. They then share those proposals with the whole workshop and through group work identify the key obstacles to achieving their targets. The workshop encourages participants to explore their own ideas and concerns about climate change and realise that solutions are entirely possible given the political and social will to change.

Available as a half-day or one-day workshop.

6. All aboard the Climate Rollercoaster

Designed specifically for school children, but working well for all ages, this presentation encourages people to think of climate change in a very different and original way- as a scary but exciting ride. It helps the participants to face their fear, frustration and denial by pretending that they are on the ride, bending with the curves and screaming with the impacts. It argues that we need to accept that we are on the ride whether we like it or not, but that if we pull together and have the right attitude we can learn to accept and overcome this problem. This fun presentation is an excellent way to warm up an audience and has been used extensively with school groups in the Midlands.

Available as a half-hour presentation.

7. Re:Versing the Damage: the poetry of climate change

Details of this workshop will be available shortly.

8. Coming soon: we hope to add to our training and course in the near future, including a more practical course on Eco-Renovation, as part of our Ecovation project (see www.ecovation.org.uk) - please note that George Marshall currently offers a two-hour workshop or presentation on Eco-Renovation, listed under our Spealist Speakers section below.

9. Costs and booking: Costs for the workshops vary according to type of workshop - for quotes and bookings, please contact the COIN team by email on info@coinet.org.uk or by telephone on 01865 727911.

Specialist Speakers:

1. George Marshall: The Psychology of Climate Change: why do we find it so hard to take action

This acclaimed presentation by George Marshall, founder of COIN, argues strongly that “there is a profound disconnection between what we know and what we do about climate change”. It draws on key pieces of psychological and sociological research to argue that our lack of response to climate change is an explicable and predictable response to a problem that is challenging to our moral values and world view. It argues that there is a precedent in the collective denial of human rights abuses which provides strong lessons for how to communicate and engage with this problem.

Available as a half-hour presentation and a two-hour workshop.

2. George Marshall: How you can Eco-renovate your house

In 2000 George Marshall renovated his 1930’s terraced house to reduce its energy and water use by two thirds with cheap existing technology and imagination. The award winning website he wrote about the project, www.theyellowhouse.org.uk, has since been visited by over 600,000 people.
In this inspiring presentation George talks about the fun and frustration of eco-renovation, the practical tips, and the mistakes to avoid. He argues strongly that the national programme of eco-renovation needed to deal with climate change can also provide local employment and eliminate fuel poverty- but we need to move fast.

Available as a half-hour or hour presentation, or a two-hour workshop.

3. Mark Lynas: High Tide - our future on a hotter planet

Details will be available shortly.

4. Steve Larkin: climate change performance poetry

Details will be available soon.

5. Costs and booking: Speaker are available for a fee plus travel costs. For quotes and bookings, please contact the COIN team by email on info@coinet.org.uk or by telephone on 01865 727911.

Leo Hickman is returning to Oxford! Plus news of new Speaker Training dates confirmed, a new webpage dedicated to COIN workshops/training and specialist speakers, an intern recruitment update plus the COIN Staff webpage updated...

Leo Hickman will be launching his new book, 'The Final Call: in search of the true cost of our holidays' at the Vaults & Garden Organic Cafe on June 4th 2007, 7-9pm. Tickets (£5/£3 concs) will be available shortly from Blackwell's Bookshop Customer Services Desk. For more information, see our Projects drop-down and click on 'Speaker Events 2007'. Will at the Vaults will be serving up a selection of delicious organic food from 6.30pm, so please come hungry!

‘Excellent. One of the clearest and most sobering analyses I've ever seen of the environmental, social, and economic damage done by tourism...This is a necessary book.’Philip Pullman

The Speaker Training webpage has bee updated and we have new Speaker Training dates - one in Oxford on Saturday June 16th (note this date has changed) - and one in Exeter on Friday June 29th. Book now as places are limited! See our Projects drop-down and click on 'Speaker Training' for details.

COIN has a new webpage dedicated to the range of workshops and training we can offer, as well a growing number of specialist speakers. To find the page, go to the Projects drop-down and click on 'COIN workshops and specialist speakers'.

COIN has now closed the application process for Interns and hopes to announce its new interns once the recruitment process is complete at the end of the month.

The COIN Staff webpage is now up-to-date - take a look and meet our new Executive Director, Tim Baster, by clicking on 'Staff & Volunteers' in the About Us drop-down.

Old May news

The COIN/Agora Speaker Series is launching May 10th in Bristol - see NEW Speaker Events 2007 in the Projects drop-down for details. It should be a great and very interesting series!

The COIN/Ruskin course was a great success and we are doing another such course from the 23rd-25th of July.

Thanks to those who have applied to be a COIN intern. The application process is now closed. We will be in touch shortly and should recruit by the end of the month.

Having received near 200 applications for 5 posts for new Speaker Training Facilitators, we are now closed to new applications.

Many thanks to all those who have applied and please bear with us as we trawl through the applications.

The Oxford March 10th Speaker Training is now full. Join the waiting list for cancellations or sign up for the next speaker training on April 30th in London.

If you wish to join a waiting list for the next Speaker Training in Oxford or anywhere else in the UK, email Mim and let her know.

On April 30th, there will be a speaker training in Partnership with Talk Action, so come along to that if you haven't made the Oxford course!

Would you like to organise a speaker training at your place of work or in your geographical area? COIN is looking for new cities to host the training, and can also tailor the training to the needs of a business or organisation.

Get in touch! mim@coinet.org.uk

The next London Speaker Training, in partnership with Talk Action, has been confirmed. It is to take place on Monday 30th April 2007, at St Ethelburga's. For details, please see the Speaker Training page listed in our Projects drop-down.

New Speaker Training web page created

The COIN Speaker Training is now really taking off, with participant waiting lists building up around the country, and trainings happening monthly or more. We have created a Speaker Training page in our Projects section, which gives you information about the programme, details of up-coming trainings, and how to enrol.

Upcoming Speaker Trainings:

• West Wales ECOcentre, 8th March 2007
• Oxford, 10th March 2007 ** FULL **
• London, 30th April 2007

ENROL NOW as places are limited

General Speaker Training queries

Mim is now a full-time member of the team at COIN and is ready to answer your Speaker Training queries. Contact her on T. 01865 727911 or email her at mim@coinet.org.uk.

If you missed the COIN/Ruskin course in April, don't worry, another is coming your way!

After the sucess of 'Climate Change: the most urgent issue of our time', April 19th-21st 2007, COIN and Ruskin are busy developing a second course which is to take place in July, from the 23rd to the 25th. Places are limited, and so again, we recommend that you book early.

As a taster, here are some of the comments made by students at the April course:

• 'Thank you got being the leaders in providing a course on climate change, it has helped see the problem in resolvable terms.'
• 'This should provide all with the passion to create less carbon footsteps and try to carry others on the way!' (Karina Easdown)
• 'At times deeply disturbing, but infused with the message that with greater understanding comes a growing sense of optimism – and hope! We can do it!' (John Walker)
• 'A very revealing amount of information, essential and valuable.'
• 'A useful consolidation of my knowledge.' (Tim Nicholson)
• 'It was informative, friendly and eye-opening. It made me aware of many mistakes, which I make unconsciously and don’t realise the effects.'
• 'Empowering and informative, thank you.'

For more information and a booklet detailing Ruskin Summer Courses, please contact Ruskin's Short Course Office on 0870 0660854, or write to Short Course Office, Ruskin College, Walton Street, Oxford OX1 2HE.

Past courses:

'Climate Change: the most urgent issue of our time', April 19th - 21st 2007 - details of the course

• Are you concerned about your impact on the environment?
• Do you want to get the facts straight about climate change?
• Do you want to know what you can do to help and how to make a difference?

Britain’s first and only two-day intensive course for the public on climate change, this course will tell you everything you need to know about climate change and what you can do about it.

Key speakers from the environmental movement will work with you, offering a range of practical suggestions and sharing their knowledge. Oxford leads the way in climate change debates, and this is your chance to get involved.

Come along and make a difference!

Past participants say:
‘My mindset was that nothing could be done to improve the situation because of the complexities of the issues. My mindset has been changed.’
Ian Probert

‘I have gained confidence… A great course! Great food! Great tutors!’
Gary Seeney

‘I leave having gained more confidence in debate, and better able to take part in debates with the knowledge gained.’
Peter Hall

Topics will include:

• the evidence for climate change
• who is responsible for climate change and what are people willing to do?
• influencing others and the problems surrounding this
• what do emissions mean?
• what you can do now, soon and within a lifetime;
• green lifestyles

Speakers will include:

• Mark Lynas, leading journalist, activist and author of acclaimed book High Tide and new book Six Degrees: our future on a hotter planet
• Jo Hamilton, Climate-X-Change, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University
• Ian Christie, independent advisor to Climate and Sustainable Development Unit at DCLG, to the Sustainable Development Council and associate of the Green Alliance
• George Marshall, COIN
• Dr Kate Rawles, college lecturer (at St. Martin's College, Ambleside), environmentalist and cyclist

And others to be confirmed!

Participant profile:

You do not need to have any prior experience or knowledge - this is a safe, supportive and fun course for anyone with an interest in making a difference.

How to book:

To book, call 0870 0660854 or contact the Short Course Office, Ruskin College, Walton Street, Oxford OX1 2HE; an application form can also be downloaded from the Short Courses web page (www.ruskin.ac.uk/courses/short_courses.php)

Fee:

This course is free to those on benefits; £36 for those who have not had previous experience of Higher Education and £150 for those who have had Higher Education; for non-residential participants, the fee is £75 - please specify when making a booking if you wish to be a non-residential participant, as it will be assumed that participants are mostly residential.

For more information, please contact Mim Saxl at COIN on 01865 727911, mim@coinet.org.uk

Thursday March 15th

COIN presents the launch of Mark Lynas' new book, 'Six Degrees', at the Holywell Music Rooms (Oxford), 7-9 pm.

Tickets available on the door or in advance from the Customer Service Desk at Blackwells Bookshop (01865 333623 or customers.ox@blackwells.co.uk), at a rate of £5 (£3 concessions) - buy four tickets and get an extra one free! Tickets on sale from Blackwells beginning on Monday 19th February.

For more details about Mark Lynas' work, please see www.marklynas.org

For further information, please see the New Speaker events 2007 page in our Projects drop-down or contact Mim Saxl at mim@coinet.org.uk.

Climate Change: the most urgent issue of our time

19 –21 April 2007

Places limited! Book now!

A collaboration between Ruskin College and COIN

• Are you concerned about your impact on the environment?
• Do you want to get the facts straight about climate change?
• Do you want to know what you can do to help and how to make a difference?

Come to Britain’s first and only two-day intensive course for the public on climate change! This course will tell you everything you need to know about climate change and what you can do about it.
And to participate, you do not need to have any prior experience or knowledge - this is a safe, supportive and fun course for anyone with an interest in making a difference.

For more information on course content and how to apply, please go to our Projects drop-down and select Ruskin College Climate Change Course.

Hammer and Tongue presents

Re: Versing the damage

part of the COIN speaker series

Thursday Jan 18th 7:00 - 9:00pm

The Vaults and Gardens Cafe (Radcliffe Square, Oxford)

£3/£2 to cover costs.

Is the artist ignoring climate change?

Having challenged poets, writers, visual artists and songwriters with an
email entitled "Versing the damage" asking what if anything they have done to tackle climate change, Steve Larkin presents the responses, and reveals how new generations of artists are "Re: versing the damage".

With performance from Alan Buckley, Mark Brown, Lizzie Mc, Steve Larkin and many more. First come, first served - to be assured of a place, please arrive early.

Are you concerned about climate change?
Would you like to gain speaker skills and influence others to take action?

COIN/TalkAction: Climate Change Speakers Training Day, 2007.

Thursday 1st February 2007, 10.00-16.00

Please see www.talkaction.org for further details.

Previous participants views:

'An impressive day of training. Really good confidence building and
networking. Thank you'
Nicola Baird, Editor of Friends of the Earth's magazine 'Earthmatters'.

'Really enjoyed the day. A fantastic course'
Liz Harrop, Wiltshire Wildlife Trust.

'A fantastic day that gives you confidence to go and talk to people
about climate change.'
Anna Portch, Eco-Active.