COP31 Field Holding Orientation Call
In November, Collective Transitions’ co-founder, Luea, will travel to Antalya, Turkey to be with the Youth Negotiators Academy (YNA) at this year’s UNFCCC COP31. Luea has accompanied, trained and supported Youth Negotiators from over 90 countries since 2022 as part of the Youth Negotiators Team, helping to build their resources and skills leading up to the annual Convention of Parties. The multilateral event takes place this year between 9 - 20th November.
We hold a deep respect for, and dedication to, the care and the power of the work the YNA upholds each year in preparation for these UN negotiations, as well as during and after, as they help to shift and transcend deeply ingrained systemic patterns and dynamics, all within the great nuances and challenges the space throws up.
With this deep respect and our long-term partnership in mind, we would like to share a wider field-holding experience with you during COP31.
We invite all our fellow peer-practitioners to practice together, co-holding an intentional field of presence, coherence and grounding to help encourage steadiness throughout the YNA’s coming weeks.
Each year, the UNFCCC COP, held over two weeks, promises to be an intense, highly controversial and complex field; an extreme concentration of global macro-dynamics within a microcosm.
To navigate this with presence and rigour together we would like to create a field holding circle which:
Can witness what shows up and what wants to be acknowledged.
Recognises what calls to be worked in the depths.
Can receive and be available from a place beyond judgment.
Can help ground high charge and intensity, like a lightning rod.
Is both specific and unattached at the same time.
Would you like to join us with your own practice and ways of holding space? Find out more here.
Pre-COP orientation call
We will be hosting an orientation call via Zoom on October 23, 2026 at 18:00 (CET).
During this call we will explore what it means to hold a field together across distance, sharing stories from the past years, delving into what practices can be supportive and why, and how this work can generatively influence complex undertakings.
If you would like to join this call, please send an email to natalie[@]collectivetransitions.com.
We will then send you the log-in information and further details.