The People’s Emergency Briefing is creating conversations in communities and workplaces across the UK and increasingly internationally, helping people understand what the climate and nature crisis means for our lives, livelihoods, economy and security.
Again and again, one question follows: “what can we do?“
That conversation is now taking place inside organisations too.
Businesses, charities and public bodies are exposed to many of the risks explored in the film, through their people, supply chains, operations, customers and communities. But they also have agency: the ability to prepare, adapt, collaborate, innovate and influence the systems of which they are part.
The role of the People’s Emergency Briefing is not to tell an organisation what its strategy should be. It creates the conditions for a different conversation.
By bringing people together around a shared understanding of the evidence, a workplace screening can help colleagues explore what that evidence means for their organisation: where they may be vulnerable, where greater resilience may be needed, what opportunities may emerge, and what responses are within their sphere of influence.
This is where anyone who shares a passion for environmental justice and resilient communities, and also supports or is associated with larger organisations, charities and public sector bodies in any capacity, has an important role to play.
How do we help take the conversation from the screening room into senior leadership discussions, risk and resilience planning, business models, products and services, without prescribing the answers?
And how do we move beyond resilience as simply protecting individual organisations, towards something more collaborative: organisations working with employees, suppliers, customers and communities to strengthen the resilience of the wider systems on which we all depend?
Perhaps the opportunity for ASP and ORB members is not to provide the answer, but to help organisations ask better questions, and then support them as they explore the pathways forward.
ASP is collaborating with ORB (Organisation for Responsible Businesses) and NEB to host a series of events that will:
- Raise our awareness of the NEB messages and objectives
- Identify the benefits to organisations to create more resilient strategies based on the opportunities as well as the threats
- Develop ways in which we can encourage organisations to engage with the NEB/PEB initiative and create facilitation/consultative offerings to support them.
November: raising awareness; identifying the potential
In the first event Donna Okell Director of Business at NEB updates us on their aims and progress to date building on the NEB in November 2025 and the current national PEB film initiative.
Linda Aspey presents how to create “safe places” using her Climate Psychology process
Anna Frizzell shares her approach to using the PEB film to address the corporate response of the RNLI
And Stuart Dainton, Land Manager for The National Forest, shares his perspective on this initiative.
This will be followed by an open discussion in which business leaders/owners, consultants and facilitators assess what potential there is for them to use this platform to create new initiatives within their own organisation and /or client base.
Considering:
What is the potential?
How do we feel PEB’s initiative could help us?
What do we want to do?
December: reflection
Take the time to reflect on the barriers and opportunities the film presents for creating action in organisations and businesses.
January: creating the actions
We meet again in January to explore how that potential could be turned into meaningful projects, sharing ideas and possibly identifying collaborative approaches that participants can take back to their clients.
Considering:
How do we support our organisations and clients to take full advantage of the PEB initiative?
How can collaboration improve our impact?
Contributors
Donna Okell Director of Business, National Emergency Briefing
https://www.linkedin.com/in/donnaokell
Linda Aspey Director of Psychology, National Emergency Briefing | Trustee, Climate Psychology Alliance, ASP Member.
And other ASP members:
Stuart Dainton: Head of Land Management and Estates, The National Forest Company, and ASP Member
Anna Frizzell: Sustainability Manager at the RNLI and ASP Member
Registration
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