live training

Climate Fresk: climate and sustainability workshop

Target Audience:

All VIB staff

Location:

Brussels - VUB Campus Etterbeek

Duration:

18 March 2024, 9h - 12h30

General context

The Climate Fresk is a LEARNING workshop led by a community of Freskers, based on a game with 42 cards taken from the scientific reports of the The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The game raises AWARENESS about CLIMATE CHANGE in a playful and collaborative way.

In the face of this emergency, everyone must be able to understand climate change, make sense of the information, form an opinion, accept the necessary changes for the preservation of life on the planet and act quickly!

Objectives

Climate Fresk allows, in a short time, to:

raise awareness on the complexity of climate change
give an overview of this vast issue
provide understanding to act efficiently

In addition to providing scientific knowledge, Climate Fresk contributes to developing creativity and soft skills.

Approach

Participants gather around a table in teams of 4 to 7 people. They discover the cards representing the different components of climate change and work together to connect them in order to highlight the links between cause and effect. A Fresker supervises one or more teams and guides them using a collective intelligence approach. The Fresker then facilitates an exchange to debrief and explore individual and collective solutions and broaden reflection beyond climate issues.

The three phases:

REFLECTION
Discover, question, understand and connect the cards to co-construct.
CREATIVITY
Make connections between the cards, take ownership of the fresk and illustrate it in a context of team spirit.
DEBRIEF
Exchange mindfully on how participants feel, their point of view, and come up with individual and collective solutions to broaden reflection beyond climate issues.

Event intended for

The Fresk is suitable for all audiences and all levels of understanding. It addresses both novices and the more aware who wish to deepen their knowledge on climate issues.

Extra information

This training is only open for VIB participants and is free.
Note that upon no show without valid justification a fee of € 100 will be charged and you will be blacklisted for the VIB training program for 1 year. Click here for more information.
This course is also organized in Ghent

Trainers

Xavier Criel - X4Resilience

Xavier Criel is a senior management consultant who worked for high-risk companies across Europe and South-East Asia. He advised and trained executives and management on managing man- made crises and natural disasters in VUCA circumstances to assure business resilience. Through workshops and serious gaming, he transformed hundreds of business leaders and managers into engaged and confident crisis managers. As a result, the teams took ownership and created their tools & best practices to improve organisational resilience.

The winner of 2 awards from the International Emergency Managers Association, including the global Partners in Preparedness Award.

Today he works towards assuring the safety and security of the current and future generations by educating, engaging and inspiring people to mitigate and prepare for the most significant crises for humanity: climate and biodiversity. As an EU Climate Pact Ambassador and sought-after facilitator and trainer of the Climate Fresk game, he educates organisations and the public about climate change, biodiversity, the SDGs and impactful actions.

https://climatefresk.org/

Contact Xavier Criel - X4Resilience :

xavier@x4resilience.com