In this article, we explain what the fresker's journey is, and what steps need to be taken to progress on it.
📝 What is the Fresker’s Journey?
The aim of the fresker's journey is to enhance progress for the entire community by setting essential steps and fostering the exchange of good practices between facilitators of different level of experience.
Each belt comes with a set of rules to access the upper level and its benefits.
Your progression is automatic up to the orange belt , through the number of workshops that you facilitate. Beyond that, you need higher level belt validations to progress in your journey.
⚪ White Belt
Welcome to the journey!
You have just been trained to facilitate, you automatically become a White Belt.
🟡 Towards the Yellow belt
Once you are trained to facilitate , you have all the bases to get started. Co-facilitate or facilitate a workshop, and you will automatically become a yellow belt!
Additionally, if you want to feel more comfortable and get familiar with the community, you can follow the tips below.
Strengthen your climate culture
Consult the resources available on the platform:
(Re)Do the Training session MOOC
Join the community
Join Telegram chat loops that interest you
Follow public pages on Facebook, Linkedin, Instagram to talk about us in your network and raise awareness among more people!
Join your local group
Follow the private group Climate Fresk Facilitators Community on Facebook
Make yourself known to your local or country coordinator
Respect the user license
Facilitate! 😉
Organise and facilitate workshops by yourself, with your friends, your family, your colleagues, or with through the association, in pairs with another facilitators if needed, by registering for a opportunities!
Fill in your counter
Don't forget to fill in your counter!
🟠 Towards the Orange belt
You will automatically pass the orange belt when you have facilitated or co-facilitated 10 workshops.
With experience, you will improve quickly! You can also follow these tips to deepen your knowledge and giving vitality to the project.
Strengthen your climate culture
Follow a Expert Fresk
Browse sources tagged in yellow from the media libraries
Read the IPCC report –Summary for policymakers
Vary your facilitation
Co-facilitate workshops with White Belt facilitators.
Run several tables in parallel (start with 2, then 3!)
Animate a Quiz Fresk
Animate a Junior Fresk (preparing with the MOOC Junior)
Take part in the community
Update your LinkedIn profile and mention that you are a Climate Fresk facilitator
Organise community events
🟢 Towards the Green Belt
Here, the journey gets a little tougher… As it should! By becoming a green belt, you will be able to train new white belts, but also apply for paid opportunities in organisations.
In the following order, you need to carry out these 5 missions.
1. Facilitate 15 workshops
Everything is in the title! This step will be automatically validated as soon as your counter reaches this threshold.
2. Lead a workshop while being observed by a green belt
Identify a green belt available to observe you during a workshop. You can directly ask a green belt you know or use the directory
On the big day, you lead the workshop
The green belt validates or refuses the evaluation directly on the platform
3. Have an interview with a green belt
Identify a green belt available to conduct this interview of approximately 1 hour. You can directly ask a green belt you know, use the directory or this file
Complete your self assessment to prepare yourself for the green belt questions
The green belt validates or refuses the evaluation directly on the platform
4. Participate in a facilitation training as an observer.
Observe a facilitation training, to refresh your memory on the training process
Participate in a briefing on the training support to familiarise yourself with the tools of the green belt
5. Conduct a first facilitation training while being observed by a blue belt
Identify a blue belt available to observe you. You can directly ask a blue belt you know or use the directory or even use this file.
On the big day, you lead the facilitation training
The blue belt validates or refuses the evaluation directly on the platform
If you fail one of the assessments, no worries, you can listen to the advice you get, then try again later with someone else.
Strengthen your climate culture
At the same time, you can deepen your knowledge by browsing this resources.
Read the IPCC report
Browse sources tagged in orange from the media libraries
Organise an Expert Fresk
Do or redo the Facilitation Training session MOOC , the MOOC Junior and the MOOC 1 – CLIMATE
Read and understand the rule of three
🔵 Towards the Blue belt
You have already come a long way and you are now at a highly strategic level, because it is partly the mobilisation of green belts that gives our community of facilitators its strength!
In the following order, you can carry out these 4 missions.
1. Conduct 20 facilitation trainings
In different contexts, and we invite you to vary the formats (classic or post-MOOC).
Please note that the detailed journey in your facilitator profile presents the steps in the wrong order. The one below is the definitive one, the route to your facilitator space will be updated soon
2. Attend a first interview with a blue belt
Identify a blue belt available to conduct this interview of approximately 1 hour. You can directly ask a blue belt you know or use the directory or even use this file.
The blue belt validates or refuses the evaluation directly on the platform
3. Attend an second interview with another blue belt
Identify a blue belt available to conduct this interview of approximately 1 hour. You can directly ask a blue belt you know or use the directory or even use this file.
The blue belt validates or refuses the evaluation directly on the platform
4. Co-supervise a first training session, in pairs with a blue belt
Identify a blue belt available to evaluate a training with you from a green belt (see step 4 of the transition from green to blue). You can directly ask a blue belt you know or use the directory or even use this file.
On the big day, you observe and evaluate the training
The blue belt validates or refuses the evaluation directly on the platform