Watch the film below to experience the 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 ECO-Anxiety due to convergent crises across all sectors of our community and bioregion
In response, we are establishing deep partnerships to work towards bioregional climate resilience and stability.
In 2024, we launched the inaugural cohort of deeply committed change-makers & organizations in the Berkshires and neighboring regions to connect and initiate projects for bioregional climate stabilization through a year-long cohort journey. In 2025, we are growing the coalition that we’ve begun to build, and we want you to join us!
Our Guiding Principles to Address Eco-Anxiety through 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.
we are making the impossible possible
Join Us.
What are the benefits?
a carefully curated
Learning Experience
Receive in-person and virtual support, peer-to-peer mentorship, and an online curriculum curated for climate leadership.
Breakthrough projects & Initiatives
Channel your vision towards an initiative for meaningful change within your organization and community.
Community & Collaboration
You join a network of like-minded leaders and organizations committed to long-term climate solutions, fostering sustained personal and professional growth.
Indigenous Wisdom & Systems Thinking
Learn indigenous principles, regenerative frameworks, and relational systems-thinking to cultivate resilience for yourself, your organization, and our beautiful region.
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
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.
Partnering for Change: Explore collaborative approaches to achieving the impossible through deeper relationships and regenerative frameworks, recognizing that meaningful work cannot be done alone.
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
20 leaders
1 unique journey
Apply today to save your spot in the 2025 Climate Leadership Cohort
“If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
If I am only for myself,
what am I?
And if not now,
when?”
-Hillel the Elder
Questions & Answers
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The 2025 Cohort Journey will take place both in-person and online. We will meet every 3-4 weeks on Tuesdays, either via Zoom for 90-minutes or in-person for a full-day retreat. The in-person retreats will be at the Quaker Meeting House from 10am-5pm. The online workshops will be on Zoom from 9:30am-11am.
Here is the calendar of sessions:
January 14, 2025 - Zoom Circle, 9:30am-11:00am
February 4 - In-Person Retreat, 10:00am-5:00pm
March 4 - Zoom Circle, 9:30am-11:00am
March 25 - In-Person Retreat, 10:00am-5:00pm
April 29 - Zoom Circle, 9:30am-11:00am
May 27 - In-Person Retreat, 10:00am-5:00pm
June 10 - Zoom Circle, 9:30am-11:00am
July 22 - Zoom Circle, 9:30am-11:00am
August 26 - Zoom Circle, 9:30am-11:00am
September 16 - In-Person Retreat
October 28 - Zoom Circle, 9:30am-11:00am
December 2 - In-Person, 10:00am-5:00pm
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Yes, and we understand life happens. The series of workshops build on each other and are created based on everyones attendance, so you should plan to participate in every session. However, recordings and related materials will be available after each workshop and we’ll recap along the way to help keep everyone up to speed.
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This transformative journey consists of both live sessions and self-directed learning modules.
The live sessions will take place on Tuesdays either online for 90-minutes or at the Quaker Meeting House from 10am-5pm.
In addition to these sessions, you should plan to spend 1-2 hours each month on the online curriculum and your peer mentoring.
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There will be a maximum of 20 participants. This small size will support conversation and connection.
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Yes, it totally makes sense for you to join even though you don't live in the Berkshires. The purpose is to cross-pollinate and build a mycelial network throughout the berkshires and surrounding bioregions. Our long-term vision is to establish cohorts throughout the Northeast. We had a few folks in the 2024 cohort from upstate NY and CT, so if you are up for commuting to Great Barrington for the five in-person retreat days, than we would be grateful to have you!
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First things first - if you really want to join this program, we will make a way for you to join. If you feel a YES! to joining the cohort journey, we will find a way to make it work!
And, while we do have partial funding to support this effort, we are requesting a financial contribution from participants to make this program financially viable and ensure it can grow into the future!
And, we want the "money part" of this cohort journey to feel really good for you - to share in the reciprocity of making it all happen!
There are more details in the application itself.