The next online Active Hope Course begins in Sept 2025
ACTIVE HOPE COURSE
Leading through Climate Change
This course is for people wanting to address Climate Change, to make a positive difference for future generations of life. We are in a climate and environmental crisis. There is an urgency to act! ………yet action without reflection, calmness and clear thinking can be wasteful and burn yourself and others up.
We will explore how you can successfully energise and empower yourself and others, thrive, within complexity, and have a clear moral compass that you implement courageously?
To book on the course email or to discuss a tailor made course for your organisation coaching@jhodder.co.uk
The target audience for the course is leaders and people interested in increasing their effect in ESG. It is for people who may be struggling with the complexities of Sustainability and who want to make an impact. This course will enable participants to identify the positive disruptions and opportunities available to them to do, and to plan creative ways forward.
The key point of difference about this course is that it safely unlocks people’s emotions around the climate crisis. Unless we have spaces to feel our responses to the destruction in our world we can easily feel paralysed or numb – and not take the necessary action to prevent more harm. The course also unleashes people’s passion and energy to take action. It creates a powerful community of peers (action learning groups) to experiment with ways to have impact, and to hold each person accountable.
Some participants come who are actively engaged in dealing with environmental / social issues already and need space and time to care for themselves in these liminal times, to avoid burnout.
“I found this course literally changed my life! Instead of waiting and hoping for change outside my control, for instance in the form of legislation change, I realised I could make a difference - however small. If you’re keen to make your difference, this might just help.”
“Sustainability is meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own
needs
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We will explore tools to help us to be present, and to remain open and loving as we move through this crisis. We will envisage how to work together to shape the world of tomorrow. For example, we may do a Council of All Beings, when we each talk about our experience of living through these times; each of us speaking as a being from the more-than-human world.
We will move through the 4 stages of the spiral of Joanna Macy:-
Gratitude - What do I love / care about
Facing Difficult Thoughts and Feelings - What is endangering what /who I love / care about
Seeing with new eyes - Viewing the present reality from different perspectives e.g. through my great great grandchild’s eyes
Taking Action - Experimenting, Inspiring, Challenging and Empowering each other
Outcomes of the course:-
Reconnecting with one’s values and purpose
More clarity about how purpose in business, work, life and legacy can be more aligned
Learning to come from gratitude and to realise the deep interconnectedness of all life
Gaining tools to e.g. communicate well, manage oneself and others, work in a safe and collaborative group, creatively reflect and to come up with fresh ideas, work through the spiral
Approaches to maintain a sustainable life for oneself and others
Identifying evaluating and prioritising actions to take into one’s life and to maintain a work-life balance
Re-energising by being in a group that supports and challenges on the issues that you deeply care about and that holds you to account on your objectives
A sense of belonging that supports well-being and ease
Next course Dates starting SEPT 2025
The courses are run online or face to face. There are 6 sessions of 2 hours and they take place every one or two weeks.
This course is highly interactive and is based on the work of Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone. The group will be facilitated by Jeannie Hodder, an experienced Leadership and Climate Change Coach and Facilitator.
Contact me for more details if you want to know exact dates.
Payment
I have different rates for participants funding themselves and for those that are sponsored by their organisation.
Spaces are limited so booking is essential.
how to book / more information
Email Jeannie: coaching@jhodder.co.uk and please include a few sentences about why you want to join
and what you hope to achieve from joining the group.
“I came out of the course feeling more empowered and determined, and with more awareness of the importance of acting for our planet, even in small ways.”
What does the word “Hope” mean when we talk about Active Hope?
Active Hope is a practice. It is something we do rather than have. It is a process we can apply to any situation, and it involves three key steps. First, we take in a clear view of reality; second, we identify what we hope for in terms of the direction we’d like things to move in, or the values we’d like to see expressed; and third, we take steps to move ourselves or our situation in that direction.
The guiding impetus is intention; we choose what we aim to bring about, act for, or express. Rather than weighing our chances and proceeding only when we feel hopeful, we focus on our intention and let it be our guide in what we do.*
Jeannie has trained with Joanna Macy and is qualified to facilitate Active Hope groups.
*From Active Hope- How to Face the Mess We’re in with unexpected resilience and Creative Power by Chris Johnstone and Joanna Macy 2022
“The course acted as a catalyst, helping me acknowledge and release negative emotions around the topic of climate change so I could move forward with greater conviction and positivity.”