Engaging all staff on climate connections in the legal sector
Offered optional climate education workshop to colleagues as an opportunity to zoom out and explore how climate change intersects with their existing work. It sparked ideas to bring this to more of the team to explore how to integrate climate work. Subsequently returned to deliver a session to the full team with their new CEO. Employees were invited to imagine how the organisation could be integrating the climate crisis more centrally. These initial ideas will be feeding into the next 3 year strategy.
Supporting a top UK university to scale up and deliver climate education
Running pilot workshops initially with engineering Masters Students, then various educators tasked with scaling climate literacy across the institution we ran training sessions to support and empower wider outreach. Participants reported, “One of the most inspiring things that I’ve experienced in my life and during my Master’s degree.”
This pilot has since continued and led to the largest rollout of Climate Fresk in the UK to date; with 400 students taking part in November 2023.
Deploying Train-the-trainer to scale climate education
Arkema, a specialty materials and coatings company recognized the value of a robust understanding of climate science through innovative workshop-based learning tools.
In order to scale climate education initiatives, we worked with them to develop an internal U.S. facilitation team to deliver the Climate Fresk workshop and further integrate climate education into their company culture.
The trained internal facilitators demonstrated a deep understanding of the Climate Fresk tool, climate change topics, and successfully engaged their colleagues in meaningful discussions. The company is now working towards climate literate teams, driving innovation, identifying market opportunities, mitigating risks, ensuring compliance, fostering collaboration, enhancing CSR, and developing adaptive strategies.
By empowering internal facilitators and leveraging internal resources, the company is effectively scaling climate education initiatives, fostering a culture of sustainability, and working towards achieving its climate education goals. This will set the stage for innovation in product development, further support ambitious company sustainability targets, and bring clarity to decision-making involving climate impacts and opportunities.
Reigniting the engagement and energy of Environment in the HSE agenda at the manager level at nuclear infrastructure group
Working alongside HSE Manager and engineer champion we tailored the Climate Fresk to engage a mix of engineers and managers to bring them up to speed on the complexity and interconnectedness of climate change. Equipped with the big picture, the team ideated how they could accelerate their environment agenda and recruit champions
The result was an enjoyable team session with high levels of engagement and enthusiasm from participants. They described it as “eye opening” and challenging their thinking. Systems thinking solutions ideas were generated as well as what individuals could do in their roles right away including “reevaluating HSE plan objectives.”
COVID-19 forced ERG to fundamentally rethink their plans. They needed to come together, learn and re-strategize quickly—without losing momentum.
Working with group’s leader, With Many Roots learned the needs of the Green Team ERG during planning calls. The participants included people with mixed knowledge levels, from founding to new members of the Green Team, making it a moment of learning for all and a powerful shared experience. A full group workshop was planned to allow time for the complexity of the science to sink in.
The collaborative nature of the workshop created a powerful shared experience among participants, allowing them to create a new strategy and approach for maximum impact across the company even while everyone was working remotely. The momentum of the Green Team had been restored and they were able to pivot their sustainability goals and strategies to meet the new complexities the company was faced with.
Engaging new volunteers in campaigning group with growing influence and reach
Setting a warm and informal tone from the outset the group worked together to complete the Climate Fresk, challenge their own knowledge, share their expertise and discuss how they could support their members.
Across the two workshops the majority of volunteers have now covered the basics, whilst many who had been working in the sustainability field for a while filled gaps in their knowledge. Volunteers who had not met due to Covid-19 were able to network informally.
Using engaging workshop to bring team up to speed with climate science and explore role of local storytelling
Joined by all the Media Team With Many Roots ran through the climate workshop and people brought in their expertise into the discussion. We focused on the role of storytelling and imagination in the debrief and on their role and responsibility as a local news outlet.
The result was that all members of the team who didn’t have a science background up to speed, and those with different specialties were able to see how the climate crisis intersects with various social issues. The work fed into a wider discussion on how to support their readers in joining the dots.