Climate Fresk for the Earth Observation team at the European Space Agency
What an incredible experience last week! Joy van Breda and I delivered a Climate Fresk workshop for the Earth Observation Future Missions &...
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The Climate Fresk is a 3 to 3.5-hour interactive and collaborative workshop that helps you better understand the fundamental science behind the causes and consequences of climate change and empowers you to take action. No knowledge or skills are necessary, the Fresk is open to all, and it’s fun!
The workshop guides you through the findings of reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global authority on climate science. The workshop was designed by climate educator Cédric Ringenbach in 2018 to help make the latest IPCC report more accessible.
You can join the 1.9 million participants globally (167 countries, 45+ languages) that have already followed the workshop, and walked away with a deeper understanding of our climate, a stronger connection to the social issues of climate change, and clear ideas about the difference they can make.
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🧠 The first half of the workshop is an interactive card game. The 42 cards contain the causes and effects of climate change, and you will co-construct a fresco that reveals how human activity leads to major impacts on the planet and human systems.
🎨 Afterwards, you will make the fresco your own by illustrating it and giving it a title – free your artistic soul!
❤️ The story of the climate emergency can be a difficult one to hear and evokes emotions. Therefore, we will sit with that difficulty and share the impact of what we’ve discovered. This will help us overcome despair and overwhelm, get into motion, and move towards action.
🗣 The final part of the workshop is a group action brainstorm. Everyone will work together to open up on ways and strategies of meaningful and impactful climate action – think big! This part can be tailored to your business/sector or community context so you can find the most relevant and specific paths to take.
The workshop is not a lecture; it’s an interactive workshop. We, as facilitators, will guide everyone on the journey and offer new insights and a broad perspective on the state of the planet we call home and the actions we can take to protect it. The goal is that you will feel empowered and leave with a new energy and commitment to make sustainable change.
So, what’s needed? Three hours of your time, and 4-7 participants per group. Depending on the setting and context, we can facilitate several groups simultaneously and work towards actions collectively.
3 — 3.5 hours
in-person or online
4 — 28 participants
English or Dutch
Join us for a collaborative experience designed to raise awareness, foster systems thinking, and inspire meaningful action on today’s global challenges. From universities to corporate settings, we’ve facilitated sessions that dive into the interconnectedness of social and ecological issues, helping participants see the bigger picture of our planet’s state and understand what each of us can do to protect our shared home.
We’ve already brought the Climate Fresk to climate conferences like SB60, universities including the VU University of Amsterdam and Stockholm University, and organisations such as JDE Peet’s, Velux, TNO, ABN AMRO Bank, and the European Space Agency. We’ve selected some highlights to show what a session can look like and the benefits it brings to teams and events. For more inspiration, take a scroll through our full highlights archive.
Whether you’re hosting a company gathering, conference, or community event, we can tailor our workshops or events to engage your group and spark impactful conversations. With options for online or in-person facilitation, we’ll help bring planetary awareness and systems thinking to your organisation or event. Get in touch to create something meaningful together!
We’ve got you covered. Below, we have listed some of the upcoming general public Climate Fresk workshops that you can join. Check our workshop and events page for the whole list of upcoming collaborative workshops where creativity, learning, and system thinking come together. Whether you’re looking to deepen your understanding of certain topics, connect with like-minded individuals, or discover something new, the workshops we facilitate have something for everyone.
Some of the general public workshops we facilitate require a small fee. For the Climate Fresk workshops this fee goes directly to the association making the tools available to spread global climate literacy. We don’t receive any payment for general public workshops like these – we facilitate them voluntarily. If the fee withholds you from joining one of our general public workshops, please message us, and we will work something out! Climate and planetary education should be available to all!
The events below will direct you to the event-page providing more information on the event and the registration link.
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