''The Climate Fresk'' is a French

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founded in December 2018 whose aim is to raise public awareness about

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. It proposes a collaborative

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based on 42 cards where the participants draw a Fresk which summarizes the work of the

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Origins and aims

The Climate Fresk is created in 2015 by Cédric Ringenbach, former director of

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from 2010 to 2016, to raise public awareness about

. In December 2018, he creates an organization to spread the game and train facilitators.

Functioning of the workshop

The workshop lasts three hours and is divided in three distinct phases. The first phase consists in discovering and linking the cards by cause-consequence relationships to build the Fresk as explained in the

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reports. The second phase is creative: the participants decorate the Fresk and choose a title. The last phase is a debrief enabling a discussion about players' feelings, positions, questions and both individual and collective solutions.

Audience

The workshops are opened to everyone but the game has been initially spread out in higher education and companies.

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which engages in a partnership with the organization to perform the workshop for its employees.

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