We are offering a deep learning journey for aspiring leaders in climate resilience and regeneration. Online learning will take place from September 2025 to January 2026, and is open to 200 committed humans between 18 and 35 years of age.
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 will the learning journey look like?
The learning journey will consist 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 7th, 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 will invite an inspiring scientist, practitioner, Elder, artist, or other knowledge holder to introduce the topic. As of today, we can confirm the participation of Jennifer Uchendu (Sustyvibes and the The Eco-Anxiety Africa Project), Giovanna de Oliveira Andreotti (Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures, Rewiring 4 Reality) and Jo McAndrews (Climate Psychology Alliance).
We will provide live emotional support to our learners, as well as opportunities to develop their emotional (co-)regulation skills between workshops.
In between workshops, learners will also have 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 will be invited to implement their learnings locally in between workshops and connect with others to deepen and expand their understanding.
Who is the learning journey for?
We are inviting 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 will you learn during the learning journey?
You will gain 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 should also become apparent.
Some of the key competences and capacities that you are likely to develop 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. You are welcome to learn from this approach and replicate it in your own context.
At the end of the learning journey, we will give a certificate of completion to the participants that pass 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 which remains open. You are welcome to share with us what and how you would like to learn about climate resilience and regeneration, by filling out the survey here.
The early 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 will be further designed in collaboration with the scientists, regeneration practitioners, artists and other knowledge holders who will be invited to introduce the various topics. Their names will be announced soon!
How can you join?
The learning journey is free and open to a maximum of 200 participants. We welcome donations from the participants who can afford to further support our work and pay-it-forward.
If you would like to join the learning journey, please click on the button below to register.
This project is co-funded by the Deutsche Postcode Lottery.