Living Earth Community Action Training of Trainers

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We are looking for partners to bring the Living Earth Community Action Training to your communities and organizations.

In our era of environmental crisis, social disintegration and political polarization, we need to go deeper than new laws and solar panels. We need solutions that heal the divides between Earth and humans, across communities, and within ourselves. Living Earth Community Action Training brings together personal, interpersonal, and community transformation.

This methodology offers you the ability to train your people in politically savvy, emotionally intelligent, Earth-centered community organizing for solutions to the environmental, climate, and meta-crises.

The 300 graduates of the Living Earth Training have launched 150 climate projects, mobilized 3,900 people into climate action, and impacted 49,297 lives across 8 countries.

Our training has an 80% completion rate with 92% saying it prepares them for effective action

With 5 years of experience, we are fully confident in this training. Our goal in 2026 is to train 50 new trainers who will offer it into their communities and organizations.

As a Trainer, you will learn how to adapt the Living Earth Community Action Training to fit your mission and community. After the program, you can apply for grants from Pachamama Alliance to implement the training in your community and organization.

Oregon Climate Action Hub (ORCAH)

Oregon, United States

David Hakan and his team created the state’s first website that networks all climate organizations in the state and connects people to the climate solutions taking place in their community and across the state.

Interfaith Creation Care of the Triangle

North Carolina, United States

An interfaith alliance of 74 organizations created to educate and activate individuals and faith communities to implement local green actions. They are currently working to help direct Federal climate funds to low income families in the area.

Environmental Awareness Reclamation for Total Health (EARTH)

Kenya

Micah Opondo has organized 22 community organizations and 30 schools to plant over 300,000 trees.

Citywide Sustainability Council

New York, United States

Pat Wartinger, a former high school teacher with no previous experience in activism, convinced her city council to create a Sustainability Committee and became the Chair. In under a year she moved the town towards renewable infrastructure, including a citywide composting program and switching all street lights to LEDs, which reduced the power usage by 75%.

Consciousness projects for the fragile ecosystems in the world

Brazil

Jan Paul Buijs helped create drinking water infrastructure for the NukinÌ tribe in Brazil; a hybrid health center for the Shipibo-Conibo tribe in Pucallpa, Peru; and the development of an art school in the Cerrado of Brazil.

Cincinnati Nature Center

Ohio, United States

Ted Bergh helped form a Climate Action Advocacy team to mobilize the Nature Center’s 16,000 members into legislative lobbying on environmental and energy policy in the Ohio legislature.

Magic Radio FM

Buchanan, Liberia

Christopher Yarwoe created Magic FM, a radio station and community center that educates his city and country about climate change, forest protection, and how people can actively engage in protecting their lands and communities.

Dialogs on the Future of Farming

Kansas, United States

Noni Strand is working with the local Catholic Bishop to have a series of in-depth listening sessions with rural groups in Kansas to create a vision for their future. They explore the struggles of farmers with our current food system and work to develop a vision for a food system that works for the farmers and for the land. Through the dialogues, they are slowly, humbly, creating openings to discuss the impacts of climate change, looking for solutions that bridge the political divides.

GoFundMe GreenTeam Education Project

Washington, United States

Scott Hensen, a Vice-President at GoFundMe, is supporting its 500 employees and company leaders to engage in regenerative advocacy and solutions through GoFundM’s network and platform.

Earth Guidance

Root your work in connection to the Earth as a source of guidance and support.

Tools and Skills

Discover skills, community organizing tools, and strategies to take action and create change.

Connection

Create meaningful connections to key allies and change makers in your community by using transformative communication tools.

Climate Justice

Gain an understanding of local environmental, socio-economic, and political systems to identify key points to further climate justice in your community.

Who We're Looking for as Future Trainers

We are looking for leaders, organizers, and facilitators who want to expand environmental and climate leadership in your communities, organizations and networks. This training gives you the tools to mentor community members and staff into new levels of leadership.

We work with a broad range of organizations:

Local environmental organizers addressing local climate impacts
Educators in high schools and universities integrating climate action into their teaching
Faith leaders connecting spirituality with environmental stewardship
Local government agencies mobilizing their community into climate solutions
Indigenous leaders working on land and water protection
Youth development coordinators focusing on environmental leadership
Directors in environmental organizations helping volunteers become community leaders
Program managers seeking to skill up their staff into leadership
Business leaders launching green initiatives

Ideal trainers have:

Roots and credibility within their local community, networks, organizations
Experience in political action, community organizing, grassroots leadership, or organizational change
Facilitation, training, or group leadership experience
Passion for environmental advocacy and justice
Understanding of their community's unique needs and context
Interest in Earth-centered approaches to social change
Desire to develop activists’ resilience through healthy, centered, and grounded political action

We are looking for trainers from a broad range of communities and sectors.

As an organization with a focus on justice, we are always looking for trainers who are and work with people of color, historically marginalized communities, and youth.
We also want to work with political diversity. If you are part of a community or organization that does not traditionally agree with climate or environmental action, and you want to engage with them, this training has powerful tools for creating solutions that work across political divides.

Our goal with this Training of Trainers is to expand our network, so a key element is that you have a community, organization, or network where you are confident you can offer the Living Earth Training.

The Living Earth Community Action Training creates local leaders who understand how to learn through action and constantly improve through their experiences. During the training they are coached through developing, incubating and launching environmental projects.

This training helps people find their core passions, understand their deep motivations for this work, and communicate them effectively.

It develops emotional intelligence and resilience so participants can navigate the complexities of political action and leadership. All together, it gives people the tools to come from a place of heart-centeredness, soulfulness, and spirituality, combined with hard-headed, pragmatic political skills.

See the full description of the Living Earth Community Action Training here.

The training is "project agnostic"—it doesn't tell people what to implement. Instead, we give people the skills to implement their vision and project. That is why you can use this training in your community, organization, and movement. Whatever your mission is, you can use the Living Earth Community Action Training to teach people how to step into leadership.

We have three versions of the training to meet the needs of the community you work with. As a trainer, you will be able to offer all three versions of our training:

The Activist Training: For new community volunteers or beginning staff who need foundational skills and want to understand how to enter movements effectively, discover their unique contributions, and find their right role in community actions.

The Mobilizer Training: For active community members ready to step up into leadership, incubate projects, and launch new initiatives.

The Organizer Training: For experienced leaders seeking to deepen into holistic leadership that integrates power dynamics, spirituality, emotional resilience, and emotional intelligence with pragmatic strategy and tactics.

Ability to train new activists, emerging leaders, and seasoned organizers using our holistic methodology
Full copy of our training with permission to adapt it to your organizational context
Proven system for empowering political coalitions and strengthening organizational functioning

Over five years, we've witnessed this training used successfully to build cross-community coalitions across multiple communities of race and identity, strengthen organizational capacity and interior functioning, and increase movement effectiveness.

View a detailed description of the Living Earth Community Action Training and our Training of Trainers.

How It Works

We teach people how to be moderators by having them take the full Living Earth Community Action Training. You'll be in an Action Team of 5-7 other future moderators, organized so you're working with people in similar organizations/communities as you.
As you go through each module, you'll have discussions about how you could apply and adapt the material to your community and organization.

Throughout the course, you practice the skills by creating and launching your own project. It can be on anything you choose - a project you are currently working on, a new project, or an initiative to offer this training to your network.

Time Commitment

3-5 hours per week for 15 weeks:
90-120 minutes of coursework (videos, readings, practices)
90-minute weekly Action Team meetings
Community practice time (varies based on your project)
One 4-hour midpoint intensive

Timeline

Start: Week of October 13, 2025
Thanksgiving Break (no meetings): Week of November 24
Winter Break (no meetings): December 15 - January 3, 2026
Completion: January 5 - January 30, 2026

The timing of your weekly Action Team meeting will be organized through discussion with your Moderator and the members of your Action Team to best fit everyone’s schedule.

No-Obligation Training

You'll experience the training firsthand alongside other leaders and organizers. At the end, we'll have a discussion about if and how you could offer the training in your organization or community. There is no further obligation for you after the training.

Tuition

Cost: $500 (purposely set low for this pilot round)
Sliding scale available especially for individuals, frontline community workers, and community leaders without organizational support