Climate Fresk

Take part in a 3-hour interactive workshop to understand the causes and consequences of climate change and how to take action.

Join other students and staff from across the University of York to learn about the causes of climate change and how to take action through small group discussion, reflection on emotions and collaborative action planning.

This collaborative workshop uses an interactive card game to make the fundamental science behind climate change accessible and empowers participants to take action. Climate facts are sourced from scientific publications found in the IPCC reports: these are the same reports that inform global political and economic decision-making at the highest level.

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What is Climate Fresk?

The Climate Fresk NGO has been working to bring people and organisations on board with the climate transition since the end of 2018. They do this by enabling the rapid growth of climate education and shared understanding of the challenge that climate change represents.

Climate Fresk workshops teach participants how climate change works and empower them to take effective action as a citizen. Since its inception, their workshops have had over 1.7 million participants in 162 countries, and taught in 45+ languages. At York, we have a team of over 30 trained facilitators who run workshops on campus.

How to get involved

Want to help tackle climate change but don’t have the time to become a climate scientist? Join our Climate Fresk community to play your part in the just transition. There are 4 ways to get involved:

Engage

Take part in an open interactive workshop. In 3 hours you will work with others to get to grips with the climate crisis and what we can do about it. No background knowledge needed. Book the Climate Fresk workshop by visiting our events page.

Skill up

Train to become a Climate Fresk facilitator and maximise your impact. Climate Fresk is used in 160+ countries and once trained you can run your own workshops. To become a facilitator you need to have participated in a Climate Fresk workshop. Book facilitator training here.

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Book a workshop for your group, team or department (minimum 5 participants) to get to grips with climate change and group action. To arrange a date contact esay@york.ac.uk.

Maximise your impact

Once trained as a facilitator, register with esay@york.ac.uk for paid and volunteering opportunities and join our growing community!

Our team of facilitators

We have built a team of dedicated Climate Fresk facilitators across the University community who lead regular workshops for staff and students. Our facilitators are a mix of undergraduate and postgraduate students, and staff members at the University.

Interested in becoming a facilitator? Email esay@york.ac.uk to express your interest (before training to become a workshop facilitator, you first need to have attended a workshop yourself).

Become a facilitator

Interested in facilitating change in your department?

You can use Climate Fresk as part of student induction and community building events, as a way of teaching climate change and identifying subject or discipline-specific actions, and as a way of bringing staff together to identify actions that can be taken within departments or teams.

Interested in embedding sustainability and climate conversations into your department? Request a Climate Fresk workshop for your department, team, or as part of a student module.

Email esay@york.ac.uk to request a workshop.

Climate Fresk

Learn the causes and consequences of climate change and take action

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