On June 5th – 7th, two of our second year GSD students attended the Climate Reality Leadership training in Brisbane. Ellie Church and Hollie Ryan, currently studying at Monash, were trained along with 800 other people by Al Gore amongst other professionals, scientists, communicators and leaders. After successfully completing the training, they now join nearly 20,000 other trained leaders, and are required to complete ’10 Acts of Leaderships’ per year.

Throughout their leadership training they worked in groups of 10 with a mentor, and covered topics such as:

- The Climate Crisis and its Solutions (as seen in ‘An Inconvenient Truth’)

- The Marine Environment & the Great Barrier Reef

- Owning your Climate Story

- Growing Clean Economic Opportunities

- Working Across Differences in the Climate Movement

- Sector and Skills breakouts.

“This training was very worthwhile and has inspired us to take more leadership roles in the climate movement. However, it also made us realise how much we, along with staff and students of the GSD department, are already doing to make the world a better place.”