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.