Active Hope elicits our best response to crisis

19 June 2023  By Alison Maitland I’ve been facilitating “Active Hope” workshops for a wide range of groups over the past few months: diversity & inclusion professionals; climate campaigners; executive coaches, and more. I’ve experienced first hand how these...

Co-coaching for ocean conservation

28 Feb 2023 By Alison Maitland How can coaches best collaborate to bring diverse perspectives and extra value to organisations? Here are some thoughts based on an enjoyable assignment I carried out recently with fellow coach Max Comuzzi for Blue Ventures, a social...

Will fear or hope drive climate action?

My LinkedIn post from 9 November 2021 “We should stop competing with each other on the future of humanity and start working together like adults.” So said Paul Polman, campaigner and former Unilever CEO, on BBC Question Time, speaking from the climate...

Seven ways to find joy in climate action

LinkedIn post 4 May Is there room for joy in climate action? Anxiety, anger and anguish are often dominant as people face up to the enormity and seriousness of climate change. These are powerful emotions that must be recognised, acknowledged, expressed. But as humans...

Sustaining motivation in the face of setbacks

LinkedIn post 13 April Are you a change-maker? Do you get disheartened when progress is slow, when you see hard-won gains reversed, when the path ahead is blocked? Setbacks can be tough to bear, especially tackling urgent challenges like climate change, racial equity...