Wed 12 Nov
|Treo House
Finding Ease With What Is
Overwhelm, fear, grief - uncomfortable yet understandable feelings that come with working on the world's biggest problems. This workshop creates space to acknowledge our feelings and explore how to handle them.
Date & Time
12 Nov 2025, 18:00 – 19:30
Treo House, 1 Pickle Mews, London SW9 0FJ, UK
About
Have you ever felt weighed down by the scale, complexity and urgency of today's sustainability challenges? Have you ever wondered if the problems are just too big to solve?
These are very human responses to the challenges we are facing today. When we spend all day working on issues like climate change, humanitarian crises or poverty, it is understandable to feel sad, overwhelmed or fearful for the future. For those of us who work in this field, it's important that we acknowledge our feelings and learn how to handle them, in order to remain happy, healthy and impactful.
This 90 minute workshop offers an open, reflective and exploratory space to better understand your feelings associated to your work in sustainability and learn different approaches to help manage them.
We’ll explore:
Emotions that can arise in response to environmental and social issues and what these emotions are trying to tell us.
How to meet difficult emotions without judgment.
How to handle catastrophising or disempowering thoughts.
Daily practices for self-care and nervous system regulation.
By the end of the session, you’ll come away with:
A clearer understanding of how your emotions and thought patterns arise in response to the state of the world.
New practices to help you respond to difficult feelings with more calm, clarity and care.
Ideas for how to protect and sustain your energy over the long term.
This is the second session in a 4-part Authenticity series led by Heather at Treo House, helping you explore how to create change in a more authentic way. You’re welcome to attend any of the sessions as a one-off or join the full series. You can see more about the other workshops below:
About the facilitator: Heather Lynch
Heather Lynch is a coach, facilitator and speaker, who empowers changemakers to thrive authentically. She is the founder of Becoming the Change, a movement for changemakers feeling overwhelmed, disillusioned and worried about the future, who want to create meaningful and systemic change in a way that feels energising, fulfilling and easeful. Her podcast ‘On Becoming the Change’ is all about inner transformation for systemic change and she openly shares her journey of navigating the inner challenges and outer realisations that have led her on this path. She hosts gatherings and transformational experiences for like-minded changemakers in London and Surrey. She has 10 years experience working in sustainability and international development in corporates, start-ups and government, including being Head of Sustainability at Oddbox and Sustainability Consultant at PwC. Heather is an ICF-certified Transformative Coach, NLP Practitioner, and trained Climate Change Coach who integrates mindfulness and nature connection into everything that she does.