This short film will connect you with a visceral feeling of the Cohort Journey.

“If you feel called to this work…it can help you to understand how you can use your voice, resources, time and energy to…shift the trajectory of how we're living on the planet right now.

If you are interested in being in a community of like minded people, like-hearted people, exploring ways to be in these times where we're being impacted [and] the land is being impacted, and as a result, our lives are being impacted…this could be really good for you…

It will awaken a sense of curiosity in you and provide resources that could lead the way to other tools, other resources, other opportunities, other conversations, other teachings where you can learn and dive deeper into your relationship to land, earth, and the climate…”

 -Sunder Ashni, Mumbet Freedom Farm

we are partnering for regenerative solutions in our beloved berkshires

2025 Climate leadership cohort journey

Join our yearlong community-of-practice to create regenerative solutions in the Berkshires. The Climate Leadership Journey fosters deep relationships through shared learning, indigenous wisdom, and strategic collaboration. As part of this cohort, you'll develop the awareness, skills, and partnerships needed to lead transformative climate initiatives in our Berkshires bioregion.

With a structured, year-long program involving retreats, online learning, and peer support, you’ll join a community of leaders committed to regenerative, bioregional climate solutions.

Together, we’ll nurture the vision, projects and initiatives that are needed to respond to our beloved community's most pressing challenges.

Why is this work needed?

We are facing convergent crises across all sectors of our community

In response, we are establishing catalytic partnerships to work towards bioregional climate resilience and stability.

In 2024, we launched the inaugural cohort of deeply committed organizations in the Berkshires to connect and initiate projects for bioregional climate stabilization through a year-long council-based program.

Core Principles for Collective Action:

• DEEP LISTENING AND TRUST: Change flows through relationships at the speed of trust.

• EMBODIED LEADERSHIP: Commitment to core values leads to lasting change initiatives.

• RELATIONAL SYSTEMS-THINKING: Multi-stakeholder partnerships elevate everyone’s results.

• BREAKTHROUGH ACTION INITIATIVES: Leaders learn by doing.

We are making a conscious choice to do everything in our power to create a viable future for the generations to come.

What are the benefits?

What’s Included?

• 5 Full-day Retreats at the Quaker Meeting House in great barrington

• 7 zoom circles

• Virtual Curriculum Providing Frameworks, Video Materials, and a Wealth of Resources on Climate Leadership

• Peer-to-Peer Mentoring

LEV NATAN

Lead Facilitator & Program Designer

“The Climate Leadership Cohort Journey has been a vision that has been inspiring me for the last twenty years. Now it is becoming a reality, and I am more inspired than ever before to support our coalition of real people who care deeply about our community’s future to grow into a Climate Leadership Network over the coming years.”

Since 2010, he has been catalyzing breakthroughs for changemakers, as a leadership coach, organizational consultant, men’s group facilitator, & sound healer. 

In 2018, he founded Alliance for a Viable Future as the breakthrough project in his Masters in Organizational Leadership at The Graduate Institute.  Lev is also certified as an Integrative Sound and Music Practitioner and Empowerment Life Coach.  Lev was raised in the Jewish tradition; his ancestors come from Kiev & Odesa in the Ukraine; and he sustains his connection to the lineage of Kabbalah, Chasidut and Jewish mysticism. He also practices the indigenous ceremonial way of life; including sundance, vision quest, and sweat lodge.

Lev is a proud husband and father, and lives with his family in Housatonic. He is building a home with natural materials with his family on land in Sandisfield, where he plans to plant roots and build community.

core faculty will also teach seminars on:

OUR YEARLONG ROADMAP FOR THE JOURNEY

a seasonal structure

a transformative journey to cultivate climate leadership

Our emergent curriculum follows a seasonal flow, balancing in-person and online learning, peer-to-peer support, and practical applications to give you the skills and partnerships to lead impactful climate initiatives.

THREE AREAS OF FOCUS

1. Listening Deeply: Foster a sense a wellbeing fueled by a deep connection to your life’s vocation and vision for your organization and our unique bioregion.

2. Partnering for Change: Explore collaborative approaches to achieving the impossible through deeper relationships and regenerative frameworks, recognizing that meaningful work cannot be done alone.

3. Practicing Climate Leadership: Fueled by the internal wisdom, strategic thinking, and local partnerships gained through the journey, you’ll take action to realize your vision within your organization and the Berkshires.

KEY FRAMEWORKS

Questions & Answers