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The purpose of this framework is to define and promote the role and vocation of Community Climate Coaches in order to catalyse, scale and accelerate community climate action. It conveys an understanding of the many roles and activities to be delivered, facilitated and activated in the communities they are working in to respond to the socio-ecological emergencies.

This guide should help you to:

• Map existing competencies / competency gaps / learning pathways for you and your climate action team;
• Plan how to put in place and develop the competencies (skills, knowledge, attitudes, experience, etc) you, your team or your climate action initiative needs;
• Match how those competencies relate to particular roles and activities of your team or climate action initiative;
• Develop a plan on how those competencies can act as a local or regional catalyst to activate community transformation.

You have the power to bring about positive change. Every action makes a difference, so start today with the theme that inspires you most.

The 52 Climate Actions partnership formed in 2015 after the International Permaculture Convergence declaration to the Paris Climate Conference. Nine organisations came together to promote permaculture based solutions to climate change:

• The Permaculture Association (Britain)
• The Permaculture Solutions for Climate Change Group
• The International Permaculture Education Network
• Dream Awake, an Australian permaculture consultancy
• The Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Change, Lisbon University
• Edinburgh Napier University
• The Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems
• Susie Poole, climate change thought leader
• ECOLISE (The European Network for Community-led Initiatives on Climate Change and Sustainability)

This guide has been designed to make it easier for facilitators, trainers, community
catalysts and adult educators working in civil society organisations and networks, to build and nurture well-functioning peer learning communities that intentionally support and foster transformation.

Beyond tangible outputs like innovative tools, methods, products, improved processes, a transformative CoP also has the potential to widen perspectives, change behavior and mindsets on an individual and collective level and can thus be considered as system shifting.

The BLAST partnership is funded by: European Union Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnerships Programme and has been set up to interweave three key concepts and respective sets of practices that have mostly evolved independently from each other in the past decades: Blended Learning (BL), Transformative Learning (TL) and Socio-Ecological Transition (SET).

Die BLAST-Partnerschaft wird finanziert durch: Erasmus+ KA2 Strategisches Partnerschaftsprogramm der Europäischen Union. Die Partnerschaft wurde ins Leben berufen, um drei Schlüsselkonzepte und die entsprechenden Praktiken miteinander zu verknüpfen, welche sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten weitgehend
unabhängig voneinander entwickelt haben: Blended

Learning (BL), Transformative Learning (TL) und Socio-ecological Transition (SET).

Die vier wichtigsten Outputs dieses Projekts sind:

• Communities of Practice Guide
• Competency Framework
• Catalyst Toolkit
• T4T Curriculum

Le partenariat BLAST est financé par : le programme de partenariats stratégiques Erasmus+ KA2 de l’Union européenne et a été mis en place pour associer trois concepts clés et des ensembles respectifs de pratiques qui ont pour la plupart évolué indépendamment les uns des autres au cours des dernières décennies : l’apprentissage hybride (BL), l’apprentissage transformateur (TL) et la transition socio-écologique (SET).

Il y a quatre résultats clés de ce projet :

• Guide des communautés de pratique
• Référentiel de compétences
• Boîte à outils Catalyst
• Formation des formateurs
• Derniers mots

The BLAST partnership is funded by: European Union
Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnerships Programme and has been set up to interweave three key concepts and
respective sets of practices that have mostly evolved
independently from each other in the past decades:
Blended Learning (BL), Transformative Learning (TL) and Socio-ecological Transition (SET).

There are four key outputs from this project contained in this publication:

• Communities of Practice Guide
• Competency Framework
• Catalyst Toolkit
• T4T Curriculum

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This Solution Library is compiled by Global Ecovillage Network (GEN). It provides workable practical actions to existing problems and challenges, organized geographically or through the five dimensions identified by GEN: Environmental, social, economic, cultural/worldview and Whole System)

Evoneers Journey integrates learning from the ecovillage, Transition and permaculture movements relevant to social entrepreneurs who wish to develop new projects. Structured in several phases, it deepens understanding about processes of change over time, and how to nurture personal resilience within change processes, embracing challenges and failures alongside successes.

The Dragon Dreaming ebook presents an entire process of developing projects and teams. Dragon Dreaming is a playful, inspiring, encouraging and meaningful method for assisting individuals and groups who seek to make their dreams come true. The Dragon Dreaming ebook is available in multiple languages.

The Status Report on Community-led Action on Sustainability and Climate Change in Europe takes a step towards making visible the state of the art of knowledge and understanding about community-led action on sustainability and climate change across Europe. Methodologically, it pioneers inclusive and open source methods, by facilitating collaborative effort in the compilation and synthesis of relevant information on the part of a transdisciplinary community of creators, users and communicators of knowledge. This first (2019) edition is the outcome of a first trial of these methods, which future versions will aim to deepen and extend. A call for involvement in this ongoing process is presented at the end of this report.