Join a new generation of changemakers using empathic communication and digital creativity to shape a more just, diverse, and climate-resilient world.
This online course brings together young adults (18-30 years old) from across Europe and beyond, to explore how storytelling, digital technology, emotional wellbeing, and transgenerational collective action can transform the way we respond to the climate crisis together. It helps nurture connection to oneself, others and nature, as the foundation for impactful and meaningful climate action.
Why this course?
Because the world needs your voice, creativity and action now.
As global temperatures keep rising, amid climate anxiety, misinformation, and digital overload, this course helps you reclaim communication as a force for good. You’ll learn how to use creativity, ethical storytelling, and decentralized digital tools to inspire resilience, rebuild communities, and spark a deep transformation in society.
Who is it for?
For young adults (18–30 years old) who are based across Europe and beyond, and who:
- Care about the planet and want to act, but don’t know where to start.
- Feel frustrated, anxious, hopeless, or disconnected from the global climate conversation.
- Work or dream of working in sustainability, communication, or creative fields.
- Want to use digital media ethically, beyond algorithms and greenwashing.
- Believe in inclusion, diversity, and solidarity as the heart of climate action and resilience to the impacts of climate change.
Whether you’re an artist, activist, student, community organizer, sustainability professional or (aspiring) social entrepreneur — this course is for you.
What is it about?
The course comprises a six-part online learning journey combining climate resilience, digital transformation, and communication that fosters belonging. You’ll explore how to:
- Listen with empathy
- Tell powerful stories that connect and inspire action.
- Build communities of purpose and support.
- Mobilize ethical digital tools with reduced environmental impacts.
- Engage in peer learning, dialogue, and creative exercises.
In addition, two in-person workshops in Paris and Berlin will bring together diverse youth for deep dives into climate-resilient digital communication. We will introduce decentralized media, as well as discuss the real costs (and potential) of AI. Those in-person workshops are optional.
What will you learn?
By the end of the learning journey, you will:
- Understand how communication can make or break climate resilience.
- Learn to craft campaigns and digital stories that move people to take responsibility while fostering wellbeing and belonging.
- Explore decentralized, fair, and low-carbon digital tools.
- Connect with peers across Europe to co-create new projects.
- Feel empowered, hopeful, and supported to lead for transformation in a changing world.
We will give a certificate of completion to the participants that pass the final assessment and survey.
How is the course designed?
All our learning journeys are co-designed with the young adults we wish to support. Our co-design process with 8 young people took place from March to April 2026. It consisted of 3 workshops of 2 hours during which we discussed the key challenges, critical issues, engaging formats, and eye-opening experts that should be part of the learning journey. We are also integrating key findings of an open survey in the design of the course.
If you would like to fill out the survey, please click here.
Moreover, the learning journey is further developed in collaboration with the scientists, mental health practitioners, communication experts, artists and other knowledge holders who will be invited as speakers.
What will we discuss during the workshops?
Rebooting Connection will comprise 8 online workshops that will be facilitated every other Tuesday from September 22nd to December 1st, from 5-7pm CET. During the workshops, we will address:
- September 22nd: Why is connection the foundation of our resilience in a changing climate?
- October 6th: How are emotional and mental wellbeing critical to connect with others?
- October 20th: How can we develop climate stories and communication practices that foster connection?
- November 3rd: How can we use our digital tools and systems ethically to foster connection?
- November 17th: How can we bridge big divides by communicating differently?
- December 1st: How will you integrate what we have learned together in our life and work?
For each workshop, we will invite an inspiring scientist, practitioner, Elder, artist, or other knowledge holder to introduce the topic. Britt Wray, award-winning researcher and author working to advance solutions to the mental health impacts of climate change, will be joining us. She is the Director of CIRCLE at Stanford Psychiatry, a research and action initiative focused on climate-mental health in the Stanford School of Medicine, and is the Founder of Unthinkable, a non-profit on a mission to tackle the mental health crisis within the climate crisis.
Other speakers will be announced here soon.
How can you join?
The course is free and open to a maximum of 200 participants to foster exchanges and collaboration. The online learning journey will take place from September to December 2026, while the in-person workshops in Paris and Berlin will be scheduled between January and February 2027. Joining the in-person workshops is optional: we will tell you more in the course of the online learning journey.
We welcome donations from the participants who can afford to support our work and pay-it-forward.
If you would like to join the learning journey, please click on the button below to register.
What do participants in our former learning journeys say about us?
100% of our surveyed participants would recommend the learning journeys to friends and colleagues. One Resilient Earth has offered learning journeys to 2000+ young people to date.
“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.” (A participant in Mending Earth)
“From the beginning all throughout the end, the course was curated at a very inviting pace and structure. The first session was an impactful one, conceptualizing disasters – and how some of these significant events had taken place already. It really made it clear how we think we’re planning for the future, while we’re actually behind: it’s already happening and we can’t put it off any longer.” (A participant in A Festivals’ Deep-Dive into Climate Resilience)
“Thank you so much for your time, effort, and everything you did to make this possible! It was a really important experience for me to refocus and give meaning to my work, it was really inspiring! “ (A participant in Becoming Climate Artivists)
This project is implemented by the Colibris (France) and One Resilient Earth, with co-funding from the European Union through the Erasmus+ project.
This project is co-funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ programme. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s)only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.