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Elevate your climate change perspective

Elevate your climate change perspective

We create the space for you to have insights that shift your understanding and empower you to leverage your actions through a cross-disciplinary exploration of the root causes of and solutions to the climate crisis.

 

One way that Common Earth does this is through a series of unique and comprehensive learning programs designed to deepen participants’ understanding of climate and socio-economic issues from a broad perspective, allowing us all to see the interconnection and dependencies of seemingly disparate issues. 

Elevate your climate change perspective

Find the courses best suited for you

OUR COURSES
Common Earth Insights
Common Earth Insights
Our Flagship Course

What you can expect:

  • Raised awareness of interconnectedness of seemingly disconnected issues 

  • 2 sessions per week allowing for deep explorations of the issues

  • New perspectives on how you experience the world 

  • Transferrable skills developed through the application of systems thinking

  • Building resilience and self-efficacy in a co-learning, caring community 

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Insight to Wellbeing
Insight to Wellbeing
Reconnect with your innate wisdom and live with greater ease, clarity, and purpose.

What you can expect:

  • Greater emotional stability and resilience
  • Increased clarity and inner calm
  • Healthier relationships and deeper connection
  • Freedom from limiting habits and reactive patterns

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Reframing Climate Change
Reframing Climate Change
Our Abbreviated Course

What you can expect:

  • Acquire a valuable foundational perspective on the complex and interconnected systems driving the climate crisis
  • 1 session per week for participants with less time available for the flagship course
  • Understanding the pivotal role of thought in shaping our experiences and discover how to channel this insight for enhanced creativity and resilience
  • Thinking critically about current and alternative societal narratives

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School Workshops
School Workshops
Choose the best workshop for your school
Customized start dates

Highlights

  • Common Earth offers engaging and interactive workshops that invite teachers and/or students to explore ways to improve their educational journeys. Our unique approach uses a systems lens to encourage curiosity, reexamine mindset, and identify interconnection as essential elements in understanding and responding to the climate emergency. 
  • Our cross-disciplinary approach is useful for students and teachers alike in  making connections across subjects.
  • Start dates are determined based on the needs of teachers and schools. 

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Leadership Training
Leadership Training
Developing Local Leaderships

What you can expect:

  • Invaluable skill and technique development in conversation and workshop methodologies

  • 2 sessions per week, 3 course weeks

  • Foster a group of local caring people

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TESTIMONIALS

Why Take a Common Earth Course

At the heart of our organization lies a commitment to providing meaningful educational journeys. There’s no better way to illustrate this than through the stories of those who have experienced this first hand. We hope their stories will inspire you.

Stephan Bourget
Vanier College – Montreal, Canada
Common Earth's 2-hour workshop for my Waves-and-Modern-Physics course in Fall 2025 gave students hands-on practice with systems thinking tools—the connecting circle and iceberg diagram. What made it particularly valuable was how it bridge…
Siobhán Friel
New Zealand
My relationship with gratitude, following a full-blown worldview change after Common Earth, has undergone a profound transformation and has evolved into something much more powerful and nourishing. I now see gratitude as a deep, reciprocal…
Garth Nichols
Havergal College – Toronto, Canada
"Havergal has been working with Common Earth to support the programming for our "TC-9 Course". This course is a transdisciplinary course designed to put students in front of big challenges of our time using the framework of the UN SDGs. Com…
Philippa Prinsloo
London, United Kingdom
"Common Earth is a brilliantly designed course and expertly facilitated. Each week I felt like there was yet another “Aha” moment – I found the whole experience incredibly expansive. Built on the foundations of First Principles and Syst…
Kirt Charter
St. Michael's College School – Toronto, Canada
“As a co-moderator of the Common Earth Club at our school, I've been impressed by the profound growth and understanding our students have demonstrated in embracing the challenges of a “post-carbon caring society”. Through the teaching…
Samantha Cameron
Toronto, Canada
“I enjoyed the Common Earth program so much. Each of the topics, pre-work assignments and discussion questions were so well thought out. You can tell how much care and effort has gone into crafting the program. The pre-work was the right…
Stefano Tronci
Hong Kong
I joined Common Earth because I felt the need to acquire new knowledge and tools to apply to my work in sustainability. Through the course, I knew I would learn how to view Climate Change as a systemic issue and understand the economic, soc…
Ishu Subba 
ICA Nepal , Katmandu, Nepal
“For a person without knowledge of environmental science, the Common Earth Course deepened knowledge and understanding of the climate crisis. The course provided ample opportunities for dialogue across cultures, and geographies. It also i…
Bob Jeffery
Sudbury, ON – Canada
Common Earth took me on a journey of both familiar, vaguely familiar and new narratives. The readings, discussions and shared reflections really grounded the learning. The stories we shared were as valuable as the material that I read. The…
Irene Barr
West Vancouver, Canada
“I loved the Common Earth program.  The pace of the work and the variety of information was actually exciting to learn and the people that I met throughout the program allowed me to develop relationships that went beyond the program.  I…
Susie
New Jersey, United States
For a non-technical person, this has been a great experience for me to understand better what the scientific and mathematical issues are that are driving climate change.
Clara, Grade 12
Toronto, Canada
The Common Earth Youth Program gave me insight into the climate crisis but also my peers and the way that they view the world around them. It gave me and many of my friends a safe space to reflect on ourselves and many other issues. I was s…
Swikriti Parajuli
Kathmandu, Nepal
My journey with the Common Earth Course has been profoundly transformative and enriching. The most valuable aspect was gaining a deeper understanding of Systems Thinking, which completely changed how I perceive interconnectedness and reshap…
Felipe
Amsterdam, Netherlands
I joined this program hoping to help make positive change in the world and it went way beyond that, starting with a deep personal change. This program is life-changing and a force for good! Every single human should go through this experien…
Ella, Grade 12
Toronto, Canada
The program has completely changed the way I think and view every situation. I’m more attuned to different perspectives, especially nature’s. My view on the climate crisis has changed to positively hopeful, after witnessing incredible w…
Shubhani Budhathoki
Kathmandu, Nepal
This educational journey has been nothing short of enlightening, fostering a deep appreciation for the urgency and complexity of the climate crisis while equipping me with the knowledge and skills necessary to be a proactive agent of change…
Corina
Ottawa Valley, Canada
There were so many “This changes everything” moments during both modules. I have been able to move past much of my frustration and feeling overwhelmed with the global problems. I, now, feel like I have an entire community of people that…
Wesley, Grade 12
Toronto, Canada
Common Earth was a program like none other I had ever heard of. Each meeting introduced new and more efficient ways of thinking that I could build off and use in other parts of my life. The people I met were such a big indicator of the type…
Stephan Bourget
Vanier College – Montreal, Canada
Common Earth's 2-hour workshop for my Waves-and-Modern-Physics course in Fall 2025 gave students hands-on practice with systems thinking tools—the connecting circle and iceberg diagram. What made it particularly valuable was how it bridge…
Siobhán Friel
New Zealand
My relationship with gratitude, following a full-blown worldview change after Common Earth, has undergone a profound transformation and has evolved into something much more powerful and nourishing. I now see gratitude as a deep, reciprocal…
Garth Nichols
Havergal College – Toronto, Canada
"Havergal has been working with Common Earth to support the programming for our "TC-9 Course". This course is a transdisciplinary course designed to put students in front of big challenges of our time using the framework of the UN SDGs. Com…
Philippa Prinsloo
London, United Kingdom
"Common Earth is a brilliantly designed course and expertly facilitated. Each week I felt like there was yet another “Aha” moment – I found the whole experience incredibly expansive. Built on the foundations of First Principles and Syst…
Kirt Charter
St. Michael's College School – Toronto, Canada
“As a co-moderator of the Common Earth Club at our school, I've been impressed by the profound growth and understanding our students have demonstrated in embracing the challenges of a “post-carbon caring society”. Through the teaching…
Samantha Cameron
Toronto, Canada
“I enjoyed the Common Earth program so much. Each of the topics, pre-work assignments and discussion questions were so well thought out. You can tell how much care and effort has gone into crafting the program. The pre-work was the right…
Stefano Tronci
Hong Kong
I joined Common Earth because I felt the need to acquire new knowledge and tools to apply to my work in sustainability. Through the course, I knew I would learn how to view Climate Change as a systemic issue and understand the economic, soc…
Ishu Subba 
ICA Nepal , Katmandu, Nepal
“For a person without knowledge of environmental science, the Common Earth Course deepened knowledge and understanding of the climate crisis. The course provided ample opportunities for dialogue across cultures, and geographies. It also i…
Bob Jeffery
Sudbury, ON – Canada
Common Earth took me on a journey of both familiar, vaguely familiar and new narratives. The readings, discussions and shared reflections really grounded the learning. The stories we shared were as valuable as the material that I read. The…
Irene Barr
West Vancouver, Canada
“I loved the Common Earth program.  The pace of the work and the variety of information was actually exciting to learn and the people that I met throughout the program allowed me to develop relationships that went beyond the program.  I…
Susie
New Jersey, United States
For a non-technical person, this has been a great experience for me to understand better what the scientific and mathematical issues are that are driving climate change.
Clara, Grade 12
Toronto, Canada
The Common Earth Youth Program gave me insight into the climate crisis but also my peers and the way that they view the world around them. It gave me and many of my friends a safe space to reflect on ourselves and many other issues. I was s…
Swikriti Parajuli
Kathmandu, Nepal
My journey with the Common Earth Course has been profoundly transformative and enriching. The most valuable aspect was gaining a deeper understanding of Systems Thinking, which completely changed how I perceive interconnectedness and reshap…
Felipe
Amsterdam, Netherlands
I joined this program hoping to help make positive change in the world and it went way beyond that, starting with a deep personal change. This program is life-changing and a force for good! Every single human should go through this experien…
Ella, Grade 12
Toronto, Canada
The program has completely changed the way I think and view every situation. I’m more attuned to different perspectives, especially nature’s. My view on the climate crisis has changed to positively hopeful, after witnessing incredible w…
Shubhani Budhathoki
Kathmandu, Nepal
This educational journey has been nothing short of enlightening, fostering a deep appreciation for the urgency and complexity of the climate crisis while equipping me with the knowledge and skills necessary to be a proactive agent of change…
Corina
Ottawa Valley, Canada
There were so many “This changes everything” moments during both modules. I have been able to move past much of my frustration and feeling overwhelmed with the global problems. I, now, feel like I have an entire community of people that…
Wesley, Grade 12
Toronto, Canada
Common Earth was a program like none other I had ever heard of. Each meeting introduced new and more efficient ways of thinking that I could build off and use in other parts of my life. The people I met were such a big indicator of the type…

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Common Earth Insights

Check out our flagship course and dates for 2025.

Common Earth Insights

Reframing Climate Change

Join us in 2025 for our abbreviated course.

Reframing Climate Change

Daisy World

Get inspired by stories of global sustainable regeneration.

Daisy World
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