Climate Fresk for Teams
A facilitated, science-based workshop that helps teams build a shared, baseline understanding of climate change and its implications for organisations.
"Make 2026 the year you get climate literate"
Gautam Mukunda, Bloomberg columnist
Why this matters now
Climate change is increasingly shaping organisational decisions; across strategy, governance, risk, operations, supply chains, disclosure, and long-term planning.
Yet within many organisations, understanding often varies significantly. Some participants are highly familiar with climate-related issues, while others are engaging with them for the first time.
Increasingly, having baseline climate and earth systems literacy is no longer being treated as optional sustainability knowledge, but as part of informed governance, prudent strategic oversight, and long-term organisational decision-making.
Climate Fresk provides a structured way to build a shared, science-based baseline understanding of how the climate system works, why it is changing, and the causes and consequences of climate disruption, helping participants develop a common understanding and shared visual map of the climate system regardless of prior experience or expertise.
What is Climate Fresk?
Climate Fresk® is a globally recognised, science-based workshop built on the research of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
In a facilitated, team-based format, participants work together using 42 illustrated cards to map the cause-and-effect relationships driving climate change and its impacts on ecosystems, societies, and economies.
As participants progressively connect the cards, they collectively build a shared visual representation, or “fresk”, of the climate system.
Rather than passively receiving information, participants build understanding through collaboration, dialogue, and collective intelligence, helping complex climate dynamics become clearer, more memorable, and easier to discuss within a single three hour facilitated workshop.
The workshop is specifically designed to work across mixed levels of experience, enabling both climate newcomers and experienced sustainability professionals to build a shared baseline understanding together, so organisational discussions can begin from a more common foundation of climate knowledge and systems understanding.
A globally recognised workshop experienced by more than 2.3 million participants worldwide
How the workshop works
What your team will walk away with:
- A shared, science-based understanding of climate change
- Greater confidence engaging in climate-related discussions and conversations across the organisation
- Greater understanding of cause → effect → impact relationships across climate systems
- A stronger foundation for strategy, risk, and transition conversations
- A more common language and shared mental model across teams and functions of climate and the climate system
- Important organisational questions and implications for further exploration
What Climate Fresk looks like in practice
How Climate Fresk can support broader organisational work
By exploring the climate system in depth, participants experience how one major ecological limit connects with environmental, social, and economic outcomes, helping make the broader concept of operating within multiple ecological limits more tangible.
Testimonial
"Tom facilitated two Climate Fresk workshops with our students at St. Ignatius College, Riverview as part of our sustainability program. He engaged the students in exploring the science of climate change and understanding the connections between its causes and consequences. The boys really appreciated Tom’s facilitation and the opportunity to work collaboratively through the Fresk. It was a great addition to our sustainability program."
Stephanie Vardas, Geography Teacher & Sustainability Coordinator, St. Ignatius College, Riverview
Your facilitator:
certified & experienced
Climate Fresk workshops are delivered by Tom Foster, founder of EcoProsper Consulting and an accredited Climate Fresk facilitator, including additional PRO facilitator training for commercial workshop delivery.
Tom’s facilitation experience spans public workshops, community groups, student cohorts, and professional organisational audiences, enabling him to deliver engaging, well-structured sessions tailored to different participant groups and organisational contexts.
His background spans engineering, business, government, economic development, and the economics of sustainability, bringing both technical rigour and systems-level insight to each workshop.
Tom’s postgraduate studies in the Economics of Sustainability also inform EcoProsper’s broader focus on ecological limits, post-growth thinking, and long-term organisational decision-making.
Based in Sydney, Tom delivers workshops across Australia, either at your organisation or at a venue of your choosing. Tom holds a NSW Working With Children Check.
Who is this for?
Climate Fresk is designed for organisations and teams that are:
- exploring or already engaged in climate, sustainability, ESG, or sustainability-related certification initiatives
- preparing for strategy, governance, risk, or transition discussions that require a stronger shared understanding of climate and earth systems
- seeking to build a shared baseline understanding and common visual map of the climate system across teams with differing levels of prior climate knowledge and experience
- looking to strengthen organisational discussion, engagement, and alignment around climate and sustainability initiatives
The workshop can also be lightly tailored to support:
- organisational climate and sustainability initiatives
- onboarding and capability-building programs
- leadership off-sites and broader strategic discussions
Typical participants include:
- leadership teams, directors and boards
- sustainability / ESG teams
- strategy and transformation teams
- HR / People & Culture teams
- cross-functional groups
- climate-related advocacy networks and mission-driven organisations
- educators, universities, colleges, schools and senior students (age 15+)
Workshop format
FORMAT
- 3-hours
- 4–16 participants
- In-person facilitation
- Suitable for ages 15 and over
DELIVERY
- Delivered at your organisation or another chosen venue
- Available across Australia
- Sydney-based facilitator
FLEXIBLE ENGAGEMENT OPTIONS
- Light tailoring to your organisational context, priorities, or initiatives
- Workshops for a single team or cross-functional groups drawn from across your organisation
- Multi-workshop rollouts across teams, departments, or locations
- Small and micro-sized organisations can combine participants to host a shared workshop.
- Workshops delivered in partnership with organisations for their members, client communities, or conference audiences
Frequently asked questions
By exploring one ecological limit - climate - in depth, Climate Fresk can help make the broader concept of multiple ecological limits more tangible before participants move into Doughnut Design for Business, where they explore what operating within those limits could mean for their organisation.
Unlike many climate training programs where participants receive information passively, Climate Fresk uses a facilitated, collaborative, and highly visual format where participants work together to build and visualise the climate system themselves.
Through dialogue, collective intelligence, creativity, and facilitated discussion, participants develop a common understanding and shared visual map of the climate system in real time, rather than receiving information individually or passively.
It enables participants to contribute, share knowledge, and build a shared understanding together, regardless of prior climate expertise.
Sessions can be scheduled at times that suit your organisation, such as over lunch or late afternoon.
Its final discussion and action phase supports participants to explore practical responses and actions, which can also be lightly tailored to organisational context, priorities, or sustainability initiatives.
Facilitation emphasis can also be adjusted depending on organisational priorities, context and objectives.
• build shared baseline understanding of climate and earth systems across teams
• develop a common visual map of the climate system to support clearer organisational discussion and decision-making
• support sustainability, ESG, or certification initiatives and build broader internal engagement around them
• strengthen strategic conversations around climate risk and transition
• use one ecological limit - climate - as an entry point to understanding multiple ecological limits
• engage employees and build internal support for climate and sustainability initiatives
• support onboarding, capability-building, leadership off-sites, and broader organisational learning programs
For larger groups, multiple workshop sessions can be arranged to accommodate all participants, with up to 16 participants per session.
This approach is well suited to capability-building, onboarding, sustainability initiatives, and broader organisational engagement.