• How can we harness our collective courage and creativity when we’re together - but apart? 
• Can we turn video conference constraints into opportunities for reinventing interaction?  
• How can we deepen our networks and expand our knowledge while acquiring new tools for taking collective action? 

Our final session on Day 1 was intensely participatory event that challenged participants to re-imagine virtual engagements. The aim is   to radically enrich climate events at a distance: promoting a low-carbon, low-budget, high-energy way to stimulate creative engagements and co-production of knowledge and action. 

Pablo Suarez introduced a set of  'serious-yet-fun' tools designed to foster honest and open dialogue:
 • All Caps RANT: a quick way to learn what infuriates us, and what to do about it

 • Cartoon Gallery: harness the power of humor to enable difficult conversations for resilience

 •  Headlines: become a journalist with a time machine, to jointly co-create good and bad news

 • I Think We Think: Discover the gaps in thinking and intentions across different groups


Watch the introductory video here: Serious Fun

Annette McGill

Virtual engagement became hugely important during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Climate Centre has aimed to become a champion of effective virtual engagements and has published a suite of tools for virtual engagement.

Down load the tools here: Virtually Amazing tools

Annette McGill