Climate Fresk

Want to help tackle climate change but don’t have the time to become a climate scientist?

PLAY YOUR PART IN THE CLIMATE TRANSITION BY JOINING THE CLIMATE FRESK MOVEMENT!

In just 3 hours, the collaborative Climate Fresk workshop will teach you the fundamental science behind climate change and empower you to take action. Workshop scheduling is underway, here at Western Michigan University.

What is Climate Fresk?

Climate Fresk is a powerful tool for providing a quality climate education. It is an internationally adopted, interactive, and highly engaging experience that introduces participants to complex causes and consequences of climate change. Climate Fresk is accessible to anyone and can be scaled quickly within an organization or community. In order to take action and build solutions, we first need to understand the problem. Please take a minute and explore Climate Fresk.

How to Participate

Western Michigan University collaborators are hosting Climate Fresk workshops at WMU between November 11 and November 17. You can participate in a workshop as a guest by signing up at the link below. If you find that workshops are full, please check again later. Collaborators will open additional workshops in the weeks ahead.

When?	Where?	Who?	Status?
Nov. 11, 8 –11:30 a.m.	WMU Office for Sustainability	22 student or faculty guests	Sign up now as a guest
Nov. 11, 12:30 –4 p.m.	WMU Office for Sustainability	22 student or faculty guests	Sign up now as a guest
Nov. 16, 12:30 – 4 p.m.	WMU Office for Sustainability	XYZ student, faculty, or staff guests with Jeff S.	Sign up opening soon
Nov. 17	TBD	TBD	TBD

Why?

WMU study abroad students have participated in Climate Fresk workshops while visiting the circular economy professionals at Hewlett Packard in India. Student feedback is often that “you need to bring this experience to WMU!”

Who?

The WMU Center for Sustainable Business Practices at the Haworth College of Business, Haenicke Institute for Global Education, Office for Sustainability, and Climate Change Working Group are collaborating on this climate change literacy, education, and solutions initiative. Guest trainers from Hewlett Packard will lead early workshops and will train new Climate Fresk facilitator trainees in closed sessions on November 12 and 13.

Can I be trained as a facilitator?

Collaborators are in the process of scheduling 20 WMU trainees, but are prepared to expand the invitation beyond WMU to other local sustainability and climate change educators and professionals. This collaborative Climate Fresk initiative will give students from any academic program access to future workshops led by trained WMU facilitators. Newly trained Climate Fresk facilitators will be encouraged to schedule additional workshops and 'train-the-trainer' sessions after November 17, so workshop opportunities for all will grow beyond WMU through this year and beyond!