Transformations through workshops, training, daily practices, lessons from experience, better understanding.

WHAT IS THIS PROGRAM?

Our world today begs some big questions. What is the focus for life if not accumulating stuff and wealth? What are the things that really matter? How can we cultivate those things within ourselves? How do we relate to those strong feelings and habits within us that encourage us to keep consuming in a way which is devastating the planet? Are there practices, such as contemplations, rituals or meditations that will help us break those habits? What “system” of thought can we replace the system we’ve been used to all these years? 

Take the Jump aims to provide some suggestions and support in answering these questions, and ultimately providing us with the inner tools to help us break our habits and start to live and feel differently.

  1. Inner Climate Mondays: a weekly, rolling online workshop.

  2. New Take the Jump shifts around resilience

  3. Resources: Resources and tools we can use in our own lives


INNER CLIMATE MONDAYS

What are Inner Climate Mondays?

At Take the Jump, we believe that tackling the climate crisis isn't just about changing what we do, but also about understanding what we feel. The state of the world directly shapes our inner world, and learning to navigate this is a vital part of the transition.

That’s why we created Inner Climate Mondays—a weekly, rolling online workshop. It’s a dedicated 90-minute space to pause, connect, and explore the emotional, spiritual, and cultural impacts of the times we live in.

Each week, we gather to share the load. Using different perspectives and practical tools, we create a supportive community where feelings of anxiety, grief, anger, or overwhelm are not just welcome, but are the very starting point of our conversation.

This space is for you if:

  • You feel the weight of the climate crisis and want to process it with others.

  • You're seeking a space to move beyond facts and figures to explore the emotional heart of the issue.

  • You want to understand your feelings—from grief to hope—and learn how to channel them into meaningful action.

No need to book. Just turn up and find clarity, connection, and strength in a community that feels as deeply as you do.

When: Monday evenings for up to 90 minutes from 6.30pm (UK time)

Where: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6099535395?omn=87597878198

NEW Take the Jump shift: Inner Resilience

Take the Jump is working on two new shifts to reflect the fact that in our changing world, building resilience is no longer an option. One shift will be on ‘Practical Resilience’, and one on ‘Inner Resilience’. Here’s a snapshot of what’s being developed. More to follow soon!

INNER CLIMATE RESOURCE LIBRARY

Here is a list of resources, books, apps, and thinkers to support us on our journey.

Books - Adults

  • Joanna Macy books - including World as Lover, World as Self A deeper dive into the Buddhist philosophy and systems theory that underpins Joanna’s work. Coming Back to Life describes The Work that Reconnects for facilitators. Active Hope A primer on the ideas of the Work that Reconnects

  • Thich Nhat Hahn - Zen and the art of saving the planet Facing the climate crisis with mindfulness and compassion (see also the course link below)

  • Paul Levy - Wetiko: Healing the mind virus that plagues our world. See blog ‘Wetiko in a nutshell’ listed below for an introduction

  • Rob Hopkins - Unleashing the Power of Imagination to create the future we want

  • Connirae Andreas - Coming to Wholeness ‘is based on the spiritual teaching about awakening - but goes farther to offer a method that’s specific, precise and universally accessible. You don’t need to have spiritual interest or beliefs to benefit.’

  • Gabor Mate - The Myth of Normal ‘Mate connects the dots between the maladies of individuals and the declining soundness of society, and offers a compassionate guide for health and healing.’

  • Dougald Hine - At Work In The Ruins. Finding our place in the time of science, climate change, pandemics and all the other emergencies ‘Through our over-reliance on the single lens of science, Dougald writes that we are blinded to the nature of the crises around and ahead of us, leading to ‘solutions’ that can only make things worse…He offers guidance…to ultimately, help us find the work that is worth doing, even in the ruins.’

  • Vanessa Machado-de-Oliveira - Hospicing Modernity - Parting with harmful ways of living ‘This book is not easy; it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers. Instead [we are challenged] to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselves, our communities, and the living earth, and to interrupt the modern behaviour patterns that are killing this planet.’

  • Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer An exploration of mutual care and balance drawn from traditional indigenous wisdom, the plant-world and western science. 

  • Wake up to your life - Ken McLeod A guide to basic Buddhist philosophy and practice focuses on attention, demonstrating how to incorporate this important principle into daily living.

  • Fazlun Khalid - Signs on the Earth. Islam, Modernity and the Climate Crisis - reconsiders prevailing models of ‘development’ and instead draws inspiration from the realm of the sacred. One of the world’s leading Muslim environmentalists.

  • Glenn Albrecht - Earth Emotions. You can also find talks and interviews on the web by Glenn.  Glenn coined the word “solastalgia” to refer to the pain we experience when places that we love are harmed or threatened. 

  • Gaylon Ferguson - Natural Bravery



Books - Children

  • Pari Thomson. Greenwild - The World Behind the Door (8 years and above)

  • Joseph Coelho A Year of Nature Poems (8 years and above)

  • Earthwise: Environmental crafts and activities with young children

  • Jane Goodall - Pangolina

  • Christopher Lloyd and Mark Ruffle - Humanimal - Incredible ways animals are just like us!

  • Christopher Lloyd - It’s Up to Us. A children’s Terra Carta for nature, people and planet


Courses


Videos


Organisations or communities in this space


Apps

  • Headspace A good app for anyone who is new to meditation and mindfulness. Limited free content and then paid.

  • Plum Village Zen Meditation app

  • Sounds True An easy way to access much of the material on the website (see below).

  • Smiling Mind Australian app with meditation programmes from age 3+ to adult

  • Insight Timer - A great free meditation app with extensive free material

  • Binaural Beats- BrainwavesCan use a variety of sounds (e.g. stream, birds, windchimes) to create your own meditation mix 


Podcasts and recordings


Websites


Centres running retreats and courses (UK)


Articles and blogs


Papers


Other thinkers and teachers to explore:

  • Ellen Emmet - body-work and non-duality

  • Cynthia Bourgeault - Christian mystic

  • Peter Fenner - non-duality and the art of awareness


If you think that we have missed something important off this list, please let us know team@takethejump.org

















OLD CONTENT:

Jump Tool: Learn and develop

Keep your JUMP practice active and continue to deepen your understanding. As the JUMP grows we’ll use this space to highlight tools, workshops and training to help with your Jump. Also articles, evidence and background information to keep up-to-date. On topics including how to approach making the different shifts, where consumerism comes from, how to avoid advertising, greenhouse gas impact etc.

Jump Tool: Nurture inner transition & mindset shift

Watch this space.

Taking the JUMP begs some big questions. What is the focus for life if not accumulating stuff and wealth? What are the things that really matter? How can we cultivate those things within ourselves? How do we relate to those strong feelings and habits within us that encourage us to keep consuming in a way which is devastating the planet? Are there practices, such as contemplations, rituals or meditations that will help us break those habits? What “system” of thought can we replace the system we’ve been used to all these years? 

Take the Jump aims to provide some suggestions and support in answering these questions, and ultimately providing us with the inner tools to help us break our habits and start to live and feel differently.

More soon.

Jump Tool: Expand the jump lifestyle.

Taking the JUMP will impact your lifestyle for the better. You’ll experience new ways of doing things, find new connections and shape new priorities. You may feel inspired to link the 6 shifts to the wider lifestyle shifts with which we aim to improve our lives. For instance other aspects of living with less stuff and more joy, such as work life balance.

More to follow.

Jump Tool: Deepen the 6 shifts

Taking the JUMP and adopting the 6 shifts is the most impactful thing you can do to stop ecological breakdown. For those who want to go even further or have finished the JUMP and are ready for the next step, there are other steps you can take (though from a climate point of view you will have done the biggest things through Taking the Jump). 

To develop a deeper understanding of your life locally, globally, environmentally and socially, Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL) has free resources available for you to use. In time, we’ll understand how the DEAL approach can assess the impact of the shifts and broaden them.

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 TAKE THE JUMP

Even if you can’t keep to it 100%, you can still take the JUMP and just do your best.

Just start! Take the JUMP by choosing how long you want to try the shifts for: