Ocean fresk, waste fresk, climate fresk
Act! with Surfrider offers in-company CSR fresks to immerse your employees in major environmental challenges. Designed as collaborative and visual workshops, our fresks help raise awareness of the complexity of climate change, plastic pollution or the fragility of the ocean and coastlines.
Far from traditional top-down conferences, the fresk is a participatory tool based on collective intelligence and active understanding. It’s ideal for companies looking to strengthen their teams’ CSR skills while promoting team cohesion.
The fresk is an ideal format to raise awareness in depth while mobilizing teams in a meaningful and friendly way. It helps:
Our environmental fresks are adapted to your needs: global awareness, specific focus (plastic, climate, ocean), short or long sessions, small or large groups.
They can be integrated into a seminar, CSR day or training course. The format is flexible and customisable to maximise impact.
Each CSR fresk is a powerful trigger for action. Participants gain a better understanding of the issues and leave with practical ideas to take action, both individually and collectively.
This eco-friendly team-building activity can be the starting point of a more structured CSR approach.
CSR fresks offer solid knowledge on complex topics like climate change, plastic pollution or coastal degradation. Participants leave with a global, interconnected vision of environmental challenges, useful to feed your CSR strategy.
By proposing an engaging and educational CSR activity, you value your employees, strengthen cohesion and build a shared sense of purpose. The fresk becomes both an HR tool and an environmental lever.
Fresks or “collages” allow participants to discover an environmental topic by mastering it. The collective intelligence facilitation method aims at avoiding a vertical descent of knowledge and, to allow everyone to find their position in the exercise. By tracing over the links, participants can put things into perspective and have a global understanding of the issues.
The Climate Fresk, created by Cédric Ringenbach in 2018, initiated the creation of numerous other fresks on other topics. We are proposing the Ocean Fresk, the Waste Fresk and the Climate Fresk.
Entertaining. Your collaborators are going to have a good time.
Scientific. All the data is from IPCC reports (UN/UNFCCC) or other scientific reports.
Creative. Groups are given carte blanche to innovate and create their own mural with their creative ideas.
Visual. A picture is worth a thousand words !
Collaborative. It is a great collective intelligence tool.
Simple. The workshop only requires one 2m2 table per group !
The Fresks are collaborative workshops composed of 5 to 18 people (approximately 1 to 3 tables of 5-6 people) facilitated by a facilitator.
“Awareness is a key step for a large organization to adapt to a fast changing world; the Climate Fresk is an excellent tool to understand the causes and impacts of climate change.” Aymeric Olibet, sustainable business BNP Paribas Fortis
“ The Ocean Fresk is evidently one of the best educational tools to understand how oceans function holistically, the threat they endure but also what they can provide us if we protect them” Fanny Agostini, Thalassa
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The Plastic Pollution Fresk by Surfrider is a collaborative and engaging workshop designed to raise awareness among participants about the environmental and economic challenges associated with plastic use.
And most importantly, the Plastic Pollution Fresk is an original Surfrider creation !
Ice breaker: Introduction to the workshop objectives and rules.
Exploration and creativity: Participants, working in groups, receive cards representing different stages and impacts related to plastic. Together, they position and connect the cards to understand the overall system, adding titles and colored arrows.
Presentation and discussion: Once the fresk is completed, participants engage in a discussion to share their emotions, discoveries, and emerging thoughts.
Debrief and solutions: Participants are encouraged to identify and propose solutions to reduce plastic footprints at both individual and collective levels.
The ocean is an excellent awareness medium. As a source of emotion and inspiration but also a climate regulator, an economic pillar and a wealth of natural resources, the ocean is an essential stakeholder in our societies' environmental transition. The Ocean Fresk is a collaborative workshop which provides a better understanding of the marine world. It also provides key tools to engage in the protection of our blue planet.
1. Understand what the Ocean brings us and the threats it faces.
2. Unite everyone’s efforts around a topic which affects us all.
3. Act by relying on collective intelligence to encourage everyone to act and initiate a transition at every level.
Alice VITOUX, Freelance project director - Sustainable Development - Ocean & Climate impact expertise. Ocean Fresk creator and Climate Fresk senior team leader. Surfrider Foundation Europe Paris Branch board member - INSA Lyon engineer - Project management and +10 management
“After over 10 years in the media sector, I am now invested in project management related to the ecological transition. Fascinated and engaged in the environmental cause, and in particular ocean, I have decided to create the Ocean Fresk to raise awareness in a friendly way, with a systematic approach, while providing tools to take actions!”
1. Distribution of several decks of cards in each group.
▫ Each card represents an item related to the Ocean.
▫ A card = a photo on the front and an explanation on the back.
2. The team has to understand the card and discuss how to place it and link it to other cards based on its type, causes and impacts.
3. At the end, each group has retraced the Ocean’s main themes and interconnections.
→ 3 possible formats from 30 mins to 3 hours.
→ 1 facilitator for 3 tables of 6 participants (18 participants in total)
The Waste Fresk game is a collaborative tool which allows one to discover the complexity of waste treatment, what it becomes and its impact on the environment.
Waste is a concept with which we are familiar. However, the waste we have in our trash cans is only the tip of the iceberg. The Waste Fresk offers you an opportunity to discover this iceberg in its entirety and to apprehend the impact of the different steps in waste management and its implications.
Do you know what our sorted waste becomes? Do you know what scoria or lixiviate are?
With the Waste Fresk, discover the different ways of treating our litter (biowaste, plastics, electronics, …), its impact and its link to climate change. Become familiar with composting concepts, methanization, waste exportation etc. And finally, discuss solutions toward zero waste.
Following this Fresk, you will become an expert in waste management!
1. Intro (icebreaker / discussion / rule explanations)
2. Game in 5 decks and arrow tracing
3. Conclusion: debrief, solutions and discussion
→ Format of 2 hours to 2.5 hours.
→ 1 facilitator for 3 tables of 6 participants (18 participants in total)
A fun and uniting workshop to understand the scientific basis of climate mechanisms.
→ 1 million players around the world already!
1. Finding links: as a team, identify causal links between the different cards and consequently you co-build an actual climate change mural.
2. Creativity: The second part gives participants the opportunity to express themselves by decorating their murals with colored arrows, by choosing a title, by leaving key messages, and by drawing mitigation and adaptation solutions…
3. Restitution: The facilitator gives a global review, and each group explains their title, an important fact or link, as well as their mitigation or adaptation solution… The Climate Fresk can be displayed and remain as an educational billboard in your building.
4. Debrief: The session ends with a discussion with the entire group to bring up climate questions, as well other environmental questions and prioritize solutions in your organization.
→ 1h, 2h, or 3 h of workshop
→ 1 facilitator for 3 tables of 6 participants (18 participants in total)
A CSR fresk is a participatory workshop based on card analysis and collective thinking, designed to understand environmental issues in their entirety. It combines awareness-raising, knowledge-sharing and discovering levers for action.
The fresk helps build a shared environmental culture. It sparks group dynamics, reinforces internal CSR skills and feeds strategic thinking.
Any company, institution, school or organisation can benefit from a CSR fresk. No prerequisites needed. Workshops are adapted to all awareness levels and group sizes.
Each fresk tackles a specific topic: climate, plastic, coast. The mechanics are the same, but the content, cards and key messages differ according to pedagogical goals.
Fresks can be part of a full programme including DIY workshops, clean-ups, talks or environmental training. This helps extend the impact and deepen learning.
An immersive, stimulating and customisable format to drive change and accelerate your environmental transition. Contact us to co-create your workshop and receive a tailored quote (free of charge).
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