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Shared Mental Models

Whether you’re mapping a system, aligning a strategy, or just trying to get unstuck—drawing helps. The act of sketching something out, together, might be what gets you moving again.

Shared decision-making is one of the most challenging parts of collective action and coalition-building. In this guide, we share proven practices that help coalitions and teams make important decisions together.

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Activate Your Climate Goals

Our Climate Activation Sprint combines agile methodology, design thinking, and facilitation best practices to help companies and coalitions achieve climate goals.

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Activating Teams for Climate Action

Climate action is fast becoming part of everyone’s job. To get this work truly activated and operationalized, we have to create high-functioning cross-functional teams.

Moving beyond buy-in to activation

What’s clear is that commitments are only a starting point. We need more action, and we need it now.

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Regeneration and Resilience: The Story Behind Workshop

How a series of life changes and a unique flower shaped our mission to confront the climate crisis head-on

How might we make convening on climate action more accessible, inclusive and activated?

Last week was my first time at Climate Week NYC, but I walked away with a sense of missed opportunities. We can do better, and it feels important that we do. So, how might we?

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How to keep your workshop on the rails

Here are five ways to keep a workshop running smoothly (or really, any meeting).

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How to prepare for a super productive workshop

At this point in my career, I’ve led hundreds of meetings, focus groups and workshops. I’ve learned by doing.

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Staying activated and hopeful when the world is on fire

How will I show up in this moment, in this time, to be an activating agent for climate action?

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Using small moves to reinvigorate progress on climate goals

This is not the time for 3-year initiatives, time-intensive custom builds, and 6 months of Discovery. We don’t have time to waste.

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Workshop's origin story

Workshop was co-founded in 2015 by Anna and Ben Adlard, who are partners in life and work.