THE COURSE

HOW IT WORKS

THE 5 PHASES

PHASE 1 - BUILDING AND DECORATING THE FRESCO

This phase is pretty straightforward. Directly inspired from the Climate Fresk workshop, participants assemble the 68 cards by batches of about ten of them.
This is the longest phase, as this workshop is very deep.

There is a total of 6 batches, presented in order, and cards are dispatched to all participants:

Note that this fresco is particularly complex and long. As so, you should expect it to be done in over an hour and a half, not less, unless you have experts in your group. Note: there are clues on each card to better help thinking and workshop fluidity, within texts, but also within title colors.

In the end, once it's done, each group needs to present a quick narration of the fresco, under 5 minutes, to sum up everything.

PHASE 2 - SUBTITLING CARDS AS YOU WOULD PREFER

In order, from leftmost card to rightmost card, participants get to choose an alternative, personal title or subtitle for each card, once for each group. 

Rotating who names the card, one person at a time.

They can write down those subtitles directly under the cards.

They should also try to circle cards in groups, and give a name to each group of cards they circled. This is totally free and depends on participants' views, the correction only proposes an idea.

This should take an expected 30 minutes to complete, and rarely goes under this timing.

PHASE 3 - ROUND TABLE OF FEELINGS

Starting with whoever wants to start and go first, participants get to express themselves about what they just learned, think and what's in their minds.

The facilitator workshop leader should simply give a voice to each person, and about the same timing, if possible.

This phase should last about 15 minutes, but is very important, and can totally be extended to double at least if participants want to discuss more about anything regarding the workshop contents.

PHASE 4 - ONE CARD, ONE IDEA: GIVE YOURSELVES A TRY

In this fourth phase, for each card, participants get to collectively pick up an idea that comes to their minds in order to help other people better get involved. This can be ideas like following online courses, acting by reducing their ecological footprints, speaking about creating laws, etc.

In other words, every card should lead to an inspiring idea for participants, so that they see that collective brainstorming is the way, that working with mutual aid and assembling actions together is the key.

Participants usually need about 45 minutes to complete the fresco again in order. This should be timeboxed as they usually do it faster and got a very good big picture of everything at this point.

PHASE 5 - WHAT'S NEXT? GOING FURTHER

As all those topics are complex, participants are given a few key ideas to keep going further once the workshop is complete:

This last phase can be done under 15 minutes, and is the only time when the animator speaks continuously. But once it's done, it's totally free to keep discussions on. The only limit will be everyone's own time constraints! :)