Are you an expert in one or more sustainability topics – biodiversity, zero waste, climate change, circular economy, ESG, urban planning, ecodesign, etc etc?
Do you sometimes need to explain your complex sustainability topics to stakeholders, give presentations or hold workshops?
Are any of these situations familiar to you?
- After a long explanation people still don’t seem to grasp what is the essence of the problem.
- People, who you want to get involved, are simply not at all interested in your topic.
- At a meeting/workshop people seemed to understand the topic well, but afterwards it turned out they hadn’t learned anything or had totally misunderstood your message.
If you answered “yes” at least 2 times, then this course is for you!
There are often logical reasons why people don’t understand or are not interested in sustainability issues and these can be connected to the ways we engage and teach them. The training course “From Expert to Trainer” tackles these reasons and introduces principles and practical tools to have a better impact in engaging with our audiences – be it stakeholders, business owners, other campaigners or someone else!
The topics of the training course:
- The basics of how learning and memory works
- How to take into account the needs of the learners and create motivating learning environment
- How to help change learners’ misconceptions
- How to better assess learning
- How to teach sustainability topics and skills effectively
- How to learn better when you’re in a position of a learner
The training course consists of:
- Online get-to-know-each other intro session – Feb 13th, 10-11 am CET
- 4 online sessions – Feb 27th, March 6th, 13th, 20th, 10am-1pm CET
- Onsite training days in Brussels – April 9th to 11th, full work days
- Individual reading and writing assignments (1-2h per week)
Requirements for participation:
- You work with some sustainability topic on expert level
- You have some experience in running workshops or training people on your sustainability topic
- You are fluent in English (written and spoken)
- You can participate at least 80% of all the sessions
- You are able to participate physically the training days in Brussels
- You are able to fund your participation fee and all related costs
Recommendations from former participants:
The training really helped me to get a good understanding about how learning works and how to best teach zero waste. It is also very transferable to other environmental topics and non-teaching situations, like discussions with politicians.
„This is the time that you have a feeling that old educational schemes have been outdated, but now you feel yourself how you can be a change.“
„Valuable content, dedicated trainers, convenient formula – and overall great experience. Thanks to this training I feel much more confident not only as an educator but also as a learner. I wish we had been taught that at school!“
„This training will inspire you to rethink all your former workshop concepts and focus on true learning.“
