Belina
@belinaraffy.bsky.social
Helps people who work on environmental and social issues to practice inspired co-creation, complexity pattern shifting, and use compassionate climate comedy. In the summer, helps scientists co-create leading edge responses to climate crisis. Loves dogs.
How many of my friends here have deleted their Facebook accounts? It is feeling so toxic on there.
December 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
How many of my friends here have deleted their Facebook accounts? It is feeling so toxic on there.
Got a course coming up about making progress with a wicked issue at work. Gain practical skills in complexity, compassion & comedy to make progress on your issue. Cours is once a week for 4 weeks. Starts 7 November. Places limited. Book now. It will be fab. www.gigglingwithearth.com/courses-and-...
Courses & Workshops - Giggling with Earth
www.gigglingwithearth.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Got a course coming up about making progress with a wicked issue at work. Gain practical skills in complexity, compassion & comedy to make progress on your issue. Cours is once a week for 4 weeks. Starts 7 November. Places limited. Book now. It will be fab. www.gigglingwithearth.com/courses-and-...
Anyone else curious what age BSky's partner thinks you are? lol
October 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Anyone else curious what age BSky's partner thinks you are? lol
I am excited to be part of a podcast episode coming up with the magical @jutrwolff.bsky.social. Launches tomorrow. #climatecomedy #improv #appliedimprov #compassion
September 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I am excited to be part of a podcast episode coming up with the magical @jutrwolff.bsky.social. Launches tomorrow. #climatecomedy #improv #appliedimprov #compassion
Just had a delightful conversation with Jude Treder-Wolff for her podcast Improv in Real Life. Can't wait for it to come out!
August 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Just had a delightful conversation with Jude Treder-Wolff for her podcast Improv in Real Life. Can't wait for it to come out!
Time to meet a cool human rights consultant at Bikini Berlin for brunch. What alliteration do you all have going on today?
August 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Time to meet a cool human rights consultant at Bikini Berlin for brunch. What alliteration do you all have going on today?
Third post today. Wanted: beautiful souls 2 join my upcoming climate (and social issue) comedy courses.
In Melbourne, Australia? Pick Fridays starting 12 September.
Fancy online so u can connect w amazing people around the world? Pick Mondays starting 15 September.
www.sustainablestandup.com#courses
In Melbourne, Australia? Pick Fridays starting 12 September.
Fancy online so u can connect w amazing people around the world? Pick Mondays starting 15 September.
www.sustainablestandup.com#courses
Sustainable Stand Up
We teach people a loving form of stand up comedy to illuminate climate and social issues.
www.sustainablestandup.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Third post today. Wanted: beautiful souls 2 join my upcoming climate (and social issue) comedy courses.
In Melbourne, Australia? Pick Fridays starting 12 September.
Fancy online so u can connect w amazing people around the world? Pick Mondays starting 15 September.
www.sustainablestandup.com#courses
In Melbourne, Australia? Pick Fridays starting 12 September.
Fancy online so u can connect w amazing people around the world? Pick Mondays starting 15 September.
www.sustainablestandup.com#courses
Second post today, because I am on a roll. If u are feeling overwhelmed, are glued to ur phone & the socials, and are feeling depleted & hopeless...get this book. It is beautifully written. I am right in the middle of reading it. Thinking of making it suggested reading for my climate comedy course.
August 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Second post today, because I am on a roll. If u are feeling overwhelmed, are glued to ur phone & the socials, and are feeling depleted & hopeless...get this book. It is beautifully written. I am right in the middle of reading it. Thinking of making it suggested reading for my climate comedy course.
Ok, I have been remiss in my BSky postings. If you are interested in climate comedy, here is the first of three postings today. Celebrating with Izzy, ecology lecturer at UCL, how bringing my Sustainable Stand Up course in for UCL students won a Sustainable teaching award.
youtu.be/qdvWqr5MNzA
youtu.be/qdvWqr5MNzA
youtu.be
August 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Ok, I have been remiss in my BSky postings. If you are interested in climate comedy, here is the first of three postings today. Celebrating with Izzy, ecology lecturer at UCL, how bringing my Sustainable Stand Up course in for UCL students won a Sustainable teaching award.
youtu.be/qdvWqr5MNzA
youtu.be/qdvWqr5MNzA
A sneak peak of the design for my interactive workshop just after the discussion & q&a with the fab Thomas Coombes. To book, go here www.dokumentale.de/de/programm/...
June 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
A sneak peak of the design for my interactive workshop just after the discussion & q&a with the fab Thomas Coombes. To book, go here www.dokumentale.de/de/programm/...
I wrote an invitation to my liberal friends who are so angry that they are blasting MAGA defectors. It is an invitation for alignment, rooted in compassion. open.substack.com/pub/belinara...
Welcome the defectors
An invitation to alignment in the storm
open.substack.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I wrote an invitation to my liberal friends who are so angry that they are blasting MAGA defectors. It is an invitation for alignment, rooted in compassion. open.substack.com/pub/belinara...
Lovely. No notes.
June 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Lovely. No notes.
In-person, in #Berlin next Friday, 13 June?
Thomas Coombes (the hope guy) & I are exploring The Power of Positivity: #Humor & #Hope in Communication.
After, I am giving a one hour, hands on workshop, sharing some of the magic of finding the funny.
Link is here: www.dokumentale.de/de/programm/...
Thomas Coombes (the hope guy) & I are exploring The Power of Positivity: #Humor & #Hope in Communication.
After, I am giving a one hour, hands on workshop, sharing some of the magic of finding the funny.
Link is here: www.dokumentale.de/de/programm/...
The Power of Positivity: Humor & Hope in Communication
Erlebe, wie kraftvolle Geschichten voller Hoffnung und Humor die Informationsflut durchbrechen.
www.dokumentale.de
June 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
In-person, in #Berlin next Friday, 13 June?
Thomas Coombes (the hope guy) & I are exploring The Power of Positivity: #Humor & #Hope in Communication.
After, I am giving a one hour, hands on workshop, sharing some of the magic of finding the funny.
Link is here: www.dokumentale.de/de/programm/...
Thomas Coombes (the hope guy) & I are exploring The Power of Positivity: #Humor & #Hope in Communication.
After, I am giving a one hour, hands on workshop, sharing some of the magic of finding the funny.
Link is here: www.dokumentale.de/de/programm/...
Got my second (seasonal) office going this morning. Going through the lovely, powerful stuff I have been learning in the Human Systems Dynamics Professional certification course. Extraordinary body of work and so aligned with what I have been doing. Happy morning everyone xx
June 3, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Got my second (seasonal) office going this morning. Going through the lovely, powerful stuff I have been learning in the Human Systems Dynamics Professional certification course. Extraordinary body of work and so aligned with what I have been doing. Happy morning everyone xx
Interesting piece just out by Al Jazeera English on that town that the orange cheeto dropped the 'Mother of All Bombs' on in Afghanistan in 2017.
Oh, what could we experience if power was with the peacemakers instead of with the traumatised bullies?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZsb...
Oh, what could we experience if power was with the peacemakers instead of with the traumatised bullies?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZsb...
How the Afghan village hit by a 10,000kg bomb is coping now | The Take
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
www.youtube.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Interesting piece just out by Al Jazeera English on that town that the orange cheeto dropped the 'Mother of All Bombs' on in Afghanistan in 2017.
Oh, what could we experience if power was with the peacemakers instead of with the traumatised bullies?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZsb...
Oh, what could we experience if power was with the peacemakers instead of with the traumatised bullies?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZsb...
Our sold out Sustainable Stand Up course show at UCL (University College London). Been running this compassionate climate comedy course for 10 years. Delightful to work with these undergrad and grad students. Pic of me by Fang, one of the students.
May 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Our sold out Sustainable Stand Up course show at UCL (University College London). Been running this compassionate climate comedy course for 10 years. Delightful to work with these undergrad and grad students. Pic of me by Fang, one of the students.
Just came back from exploring Cambridge with my fella. It was here that he cracked the science of how to shift slash-and-burn farmers in the humid tropics to regenerative, organic agroforestry. The Inga Foundation work is so extraordinary & healing for the planet.
May 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Just came back from exploring Cambridge with my fella. It was here that he cracked the science of how to shift slash-and-burn farmers in the humid tropics to regenerative, organic agroforestry. The Inga Foundation work is so extraordinary & healing for the planet.
I am sitting w a question inspired by Glenda Eoyang in our Human Systems Dynamics course here in Singapore. What happens in the sustainability space if we stop trying to force things into the stable space, but instead get good at making wise actions and adapting in the unstable & emergent space?
March 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I am sitting w a question inspired by Glenda Eoyang in our Human Systems Dynamics course here in Singapore. What happens in the sustainability space if we stop trying to force things into the stable space, but instead get good at making wise actions and adapting in the unstable & emergent space?
Berlin to London. London to Bristol Parkway. Bristol Parkway to the bird reserve Slimbridge. Let’s do this! :)
February 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Berlin to London. London to Bristol Parkway. Bristol Parkway to the bird reserve Slimbridge. Let’s do this! :)
Felt drawn to make this aide-memoire for chapter one’s Training in the preliminaries’ :) Who else has worked with these slogans?
February 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Felt drawn to make this aide-memoire for chapter one’s Training in the preliminaries’ :) Who else has worked with these slogans?
Why didn’t we elect @warren.senate.gov for president again? She is awesome and fighting the good fight.
February 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Why didn’t we elect @warren.senate.gov for president again? She is awesome and fighting the good fight.
When you spend most of your dream trying to bring water to a desperate out- of-water fish, and you finally find a container filled with water to put it in, it’s time to drink more water in real life.
February 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
When you spend most of your dream trying to bring water to a desperate out- of-water fish, and you finally find a container filled with water to put it in, it’s time to drink more water in real life.
Cold enough to have skaters on the lake today. The upside of all this uncertainty is my meditation practice and nature communing have gone up. What are you doing to keep yourself grounded and centred? Expansive even?
February 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Cold enough to have skaters on the lake today. The upside of all this uncertainty is my meditation practice and nature communing have gone up. What are you doing to keep yourself grounded and centred? Expansive even?
When you find out that the compassionate climate comedy course you created and have been running for 10 years is eerily resonant with two seminal (10th and 12th century) Buddhist texts. Who here is ready to ‘resolve to begin’? :)
February 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
When you find out that the compassionate climate comedy course you created and have been running for 10 years is eerily resonant with two seminal (10th and 12th century) Buddhist texts. Who here is ready to ‘resolve to begin’? :)
Today's self-care involved padding around the corner to my favourite local cafe, and having a matcha latte, a piece of divine espresso cake, and reading the book on compassion that arrived today in the post. Looking for gems to put in my course starting 15 April. :)
February 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Today's self-care involved padding around the corner to my favourite local cafe, and having a matcha latte, a piece of divine espresso cake, and reading the book on compassion that arrived today in the post. Looking for gems to put in my course starting 15 April. :)