We offered a deep learning journey for aspiring leaders in climate resilience and regeneration. Online learning took place from September 2025 to January 2026, and was open to 200 committed humans between 18 and 35 years of age. You can still access all the recordings of the workshops on our learning community platform!
Why this deep learning journey?
As global temperatures keep rising, we need to acquire the knowledge, tools and skills to limit and deal with the damage that climate change is already doing to our health, our families, our communities and our ecosystems. We also need to develop the capacities to continue engaging with climate change, in a world that is marked by multiple crises, polarization, volatility and uncertainty.
Growing climate resilience requires emotional wellbeing, as well as creativity, courage, accountability, and collaboration. It also requires re-building supportive communities and regenerating ecosystems. In turn, this entails transforming how we understand ‘youth leadership’ and ‘climate leadership’ through novel ideas, transnational dialogues and responsible experimentations.
One Resilient Earth is bringing together passionate humans to share their experience and insights into how we can mend the Earth and, more importantly, allow Earth to mend herself. Yet, we need a large group of aspiring leaders from around the world to be on board, so as to learn from ever diverse questions and stories of climate resilience and regeneration.
What did the learning journey look like?
The learning journey consisted of a series of interactive online workshops, scheduled monthly from September 2025 to January 2026.
- September 16th, 5-7pm CET: Meeting climate chaos: Why leading for climate resilience today?
- October 14th, 5-7pm CET: Beyond burning out and shutting down: How can we sustain emotional wellbeing while pursuing transformative change?
- November 4th, 5-7pm CET: Facing the systems that harm us: How can we decolonize and ground our approach to climate resilience leadership?
- December 2nd, 5-7pm CET: Looking within: What could be your role in co-creating just, climate-resilient and regenerative futures?
- January 13th, 5-7pm CET: Growing movements: How will we continuously regenerate ourselves, our communities and our ecosystems in a world of climate instability?
For each workshop, we invited an inspiring scientist, practitioner, Elder, artist, or other knowledge holder to introduce the topic. We were honoured to welcome Kahontakwas Diane Longboat (Indigenous Elder), Elizabeth Wathuti (Green Generation Initiative, , Jennifer Uchendu (Sustyvibes and the The Eco-Anxiety Africa Project), Giovanna de Oliveira Andreotti (Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures, Rewiring 4 Reality) and Shermon Cruz (Center for Engaged Foresight, UNESCO Chair).
We also provided live emotional support to our learners, as well as opportunities to develop their emotional (co-)regulation skills between workshops. Emotional support was provided by Jo McAndrews (Climate Psychology Alliance) and Elizabeth Kasujja (Award-winning mental health CEO and co-founder Clear Yo Mind).
In between workshops, learners had access to our online learning and community platform to dive into complementary learning resources, view recordings of the sessions, find information about opportunities for volunteering, and connect with other participants in the learning journey.
Learners were also invited to implement their learnings locally in between workshops and connect with others to deepen and expand their understanding.
Who was the learning journey for?
We invited 200 aspiring climate resilience leaders between 18 and 35 years old, as well as educators and multipliers working with young climate leaders
This learning journey is for you if…
- You are concerned about climate change and its impacts, whether you’ve been campaigning for years, studying in a related field, or are just beginning to engage;
- You are drawn to rethinking leadership, questioning its definition as a position of power, and opening up to practices of care, collaboration and emergence;
- You want to face the emotional challenges of climate instability and learn how to navigate grief, anxiety, frustration… and hope in a supportive community;
- You are eager to explore how climate resilience connects with justice, and want to challenge environmental racism, colonial patterns, and extractive systems;
- You recognize that regenerating ecosystems and taking care ourselves are deeply intertwined, and want to deepen your connection to nature and community;
- You are willing to play, imagine, un-learn, and re-learn, bringing your whole self into the process, including your creativity, vulnerability, and voice;
- You feel the need for a global, caring community to learn, reflect, and take action with. You are ready to engage with openness, humility, and mutual respect.
What did participants learn during the learning journey?
They gained a deeper understanding of climate impacts, climate vulnerability as well as transformative and regenerative approaches to climate resilience building. The role of transdisciplinarity and the complementarity of diverse knowledge systems in climate resilience building became apparent.
Some of the key competences and capacities that participants developed during the learning journey include: critical thinking, systems thinking, deep listening, emotional literacy, emotional (co-)regulation, accountability, authenticity, futures thinking, curiosity and openness to emergence, creativity, and a capacity to collaborate.
The great majority of participants in our previous learning journeys also reported feeling better emotionally and more inspired, which is inherent to the transformative learning approach we implement.
At the end of the learning journey, we gave a certificate of completion to the participants that passed the the final assessment and survey.
How was the learning journey designed?
All our learning journeys are co-designed with the young adults we wish to support. Our co-design process with 8 young people from Africa, Asia, America and Europe took place from April to May 2025. We also integrated the key findings of an open survey.
The results of the survey are available on our ‘We are One Resilient Earth’ learning community platform, which you are welcome to join here.
Moreover, the learning journey was further designed in collaboration with the scientists, regeneration practitioners, artists and other knowledge holders who were invited to introduce the various topics.
What were the results of the learning journey?
At the end of the leaning journey, surveyed participants rated the journey 8,96 out of 10, and 100% of them would recommend it to friends and colleagues. Some participants left the following feedback:
“It felt so encouraging… to be in this container with very motivated, like‑minded, and also active young people… and to feel like, oh yeah, we’re not alone at all.”
“Just an immense thank you! Since my master’s program I have not been in an immersive and diverse space such as this one and it has filled me with such heart-mending experiences. I always leave these sessions with so much hope and a feeling that I am supported in the world. I really appreciated the care team’s involvement in the journey. That is something that I have not experienced before.”
“There’s something undeniable that I want to take action, I want to go in a different direction… it’s just given me a bit more fuel to do that, and just a sense of community, and a sense of urgency and, like, yeah, we can do it.”
This project is co-funded by the Deutsche Postcode Lottery.
