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!
When you become a green belt, you'll be training new white belts and upgrading the skills of existing facilitators (white, yellow, or orange belts). You'll need to master the classic workshop, as well as the different workshop formats and their specific features, know how the association works and be able to coordinate/coach a deployment.
In the following order, you need to carry out these different missions.
The steps are planned in this order to help you make the transition from facilitator to trainer. Each stage will be an opportunity for you to exchange ideas with other fresco artists and to continue learning, which is the great strength of the Climate Fresk community!
If, during the course of your journey, your supervisor feels that you are not yet ready to validate a stage, in consultation with the community, he or she will guide you through the various ways in which you can improve to achieve the stage's objective. Not validating a stage is never definitive, it's a ‘not yet’ rather than a ‘no’.
1. Facilitate at least, 15 workshops
It's all in the title! This stage will be automatically validated as soon as your counter reaches this threshold. Trying out different types of facilitation and different formats (In-person/Online) will enrich your practice, so don't hesitate to co-present as much as possible!
2. Completing your assessment
The assessment enables you to take stock of your progress as a facilitator, and to check that you have tried out all the workshop formats, so that once your green belt has been validated, you will be in a position to talk about it to the faciliatator you will be training. Tell this to the green belt who will be interviewing you, and to the green belt who will be supervising your workshop.
3. Have an interview with a green belt
The purpose of the interview is to take stock of your career as a fresco artist, your involvement in the Climate Fresk project and to see how you see your future role as a trainer. Becoming a green belt means being able to train new facilitators, but also to support new facilitators in their first steps, which requires a good knowledge of how the association works, the different workshop formats and details of the path from orange belt to green belt with co-optations.
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 may postpone the interview if it finds that you have not met all the pre-requisites for starting your green belt course.
The interview is a time for sharing, so you can get feedback from a more experienced fresker and ask all your questions. It's a valuable opportunity to meet another fresker, grow and progress in your work as a fresker !
The green belt validates or refuses the assessment on the platform, depending on whether the pre-requisites for starting the course have been met. If they refuse, they will tell you what steps you need to take before you can reschedule an interview. A refusal is never definitive; it's a ‘not yet’ rather than a ‘no’.
4. Facilitate a workshop under the supervision of a green belt
The aim of the supervision is to check that your facilitation meets the requirements of the workshop and respects all the stages of the workshop. Supervision must involve leading an adult version of a workshop over 3 hours, either in person or , with a online Green Belt other than the one who conducted your interview.
Identify a Green Belt who is available to supervise you during a workshop, preferably a Green Belt you don't know by using the directory or this file
Talk to them before hand to agree a date for the workshop and how it will be organised.
Send her your report, after updating it if necessary. Also give her the name and contact details of the green belt who validated your interview, so that they can talk before or after supervising the workshop.
Make sure that you have organised everything you need to run your workshop calmly on the day (room, equipment, instructions for participants for a face-to-face workshop; video tool available for 3 hours, wall access for a remote workshop). If necessary, don't hesitate to ask questions to the green belt who will supervise you before the workshop.
On the day, you run the workshop in the presence of the Green Belt. The green belt will take notes to check that your presentation meets the requirements of the workshop and respects all the steps involved. The Green Belt may or may not give an immediate response, but it is common practice to allow time for reflection and to arrange a discussion after the workshop to give feedback and validate or reject the supervision.
The green belt validates or refuses the supervision from the platform. If it refuses, don't panic! It's never a definitive refusal, but an invitation to look more closely at certain points or approaches to facilitation. In this case, the green belt shows you the points to work on before you can reschedule supervision. You are invited to take the time to integrate the feedback given by the green belt and to put its advice into practice before requesting a new supervision.
5. Take part in a facilitation training as an observer
From this stage onwards, you need to take a step back from your work as a facilitator and take on the role of trainer. You will soon be training new facilitators, and now you need to understand how to pass on to them the information and good practice they need to get started in their own right.
Watch a facilitation training course to refresh your memory of how a facilitation training works. Don't hesitate to introduce yourself to the green belt who will be running the training and, if they are available, take some time afterwards to ask your questions. It's another valuable opportunity to exchange ideas!
You can even observe several facilitation training, as each trainer shares their feedback and has their own approach to leadership training.
This stage does not need to be validated by a green belt; it will be automatically validated by a blue belt when you supervise your training.
6. Participate in the briefing of the facilitation training material.
A blue belt will present the faciliation training material to a group of aspiring green belts in 2h 30 (the briefing is online only). This is a privileged moment of exchange with a blue belt, so you are invited to prepare yourself before the briefing and to come with all your questions.
Sign up for a briefing on the facilitation training material to familiarise yourself with the green belt tools.
This stage does not need to be validated by a green belt; it will be automatically validated when your training is supervised by a blue belt.
7. Lead a first facilitation training course in animation under the supervision of a blue belt
Once you have the tools you need to become a trainer, you'll have the final step on your path: being supervised during your first facilitation training by a blue belt. This is a tricky exercise and requires preparation beforehand, as you will be supervised on your first practice, unlike the workshop supervision. Don't hesitate to take the time you need to prepare, between the briefing and the supervision. The aim of this exercise is to make sure that you have adopted the trainer's stance, so that you can pass on everything that the neo-anims will need to get started as fresker.
Identify a blue belt available to supervise you, preferably a blue belt you don't know, by going through the directory, via the Telegram loop ‘Green belt validation_Find instructor’ or by using this file.
Talk to the Blue Belt beforehand to agree a date for the course and how it will be organised.
Prepare for your supervision with the blue belt: take some time beforehand to talk to the blue belt, ask any questions you may have, so that the blue belt can tell you what to expect from the exercise. You are invited to pass on the names and contacts of the Green Belts who validated your interview and workshop supervision. The Blue Belt will also send you the evaluation grid that will be used to supervise your training.
On the big day, you lead the facilitation training in the presence of the Blue Belt. The Blue Belt will take notes on the evaluation grid.
The Blue Belt will take a moment to give feedback on your facilitation training. The Blue Belt may or may not respond immediately, but it is common practice to leave time for reflection and to arrange a discussion after the workshop to give feedback and validate or reject the supervision. This is a valuable opportunity to learn about good practice from an experienced facilitation trainer.
The Blue Belt then validates or rejects the evaluation from the platform. If you find that you're not ready yet, don't panic! Non-validation is never definitive, it's a ‘not yet’ rather than a ‘no’, and above all an invitation to look more closely at certain points or approaches to training delivery.
At the end of this course, congratulations to you, you'll be added to the Telegram loop of trainers by the blue belt! A new stage in your adventure at the Climate Fresk will begin!
Don't forget that all these stages are necessary and are designed in this order to enable you to move from the role of facilitator to that of facilitation trainer. You'll have the support of many trainers along the way, who will give you their time voluntarily, so we urge you to make the most of this time and, when you become a green belt, to take the same care of the people you'll be supporting along the way!
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