Facilitate a Climate Workshop with the City's Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Community Climate Workshop Tool

The DIY Community Climate Workshop tool was developed to support community groups who would like to host their own conversations about the future sustainability of St. John’s.

• Community organizations/associations
• Family/friends
• Neighbourhood or residents' associations
• Workplaces
• Church/faith groups
• School/classroom

Its main purpose is to support you by providing background information, a proposed approach to the session, and clarity to ensure the feedback from these sessions is aligned with the ongoing planning efforts of the City of St. John’s. The workshop is designed to take about one hour to complete, but it is flexible. As a facilitator, your role is to prepare in advance, ask questions, guide the discussion, and gather information. The participants may come to an agreement around suggestions and recommendations, but it is also okay if they don’t. The goal is to create a safe space to talk about climate change and understand the different opinions and ideas within our community.

The presentation provides helpful background information about climate change, the context, and the overall project, but if you’re pressed for time you can also just skip straight to the discussion slides. Feel free to be creative about how to workshop the questions provided (e.g., small groups, various sessions, open discussion, mind mapping tools, etc.). Lastly, to make things easier, this document also serves as a template to record responses after the workshop that can be completed and submitted to city staff to be included in the planning for a Resilient St. John's. To learn more about how to use the tool, sign up for one of our DIY workshop preparation sessions. Check out the Key dates for details.

To get started Download the Facilitator's Guide and the Presentation.