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This June, spend a week in Washington, D.C., to learn from influential and creative environmental leaders and communicators.

How can you craft compelling environmental narratives that weave the urgency of the moment, breakthroughs that may be on the horizon, and the justice and diversity to tell a compelling story? How can you use narratives to inform, have impact, and influence action?

The Planet Forward Summer Seminar will tackle these vital questions and Washington, D.C., will be your classroom:

• Be where policy gets made, global leaders convene, and decision-makers grapple with science and research findings
• Meet and work with influential and creative environmental leaders and communicators
• Craft compelling narratives through text, visual and audio storytelling, and learn state-of-the-art media tools

You will learn through hands-on work and direct engagement with our accomplished experts and instructors. The week will be organized around storytelling techniques and tools, and topical themes.

Whatever your field of study or your career interests, having the ability to communicate effectively and memorably will make you more successful — because stories have power. The Planet Forward Summer Seminar will show you how to be an effective, compelling environmental storyteller.

Capture the crisis, engage, and catalyze a more socially and environmentally hopeful future.  

Join us at the Summer Seminar. To move the planet forward. 

Learning Outcomes:

• Finding the story

• Crafting the narrative

• Leveraging storytelling tools

Seminar Objectives:

• Examine and critically reflect on how the media portrays sustainability and science

• Evaluate and practice effective communication and storytelling techniques

• Discover media platforms that support sustainability-related content

• Engage expert communicators in sustainability and value their diverse perspectives

• Initiate conversations around key issues by producing a pitch for a story

George Washington University’s Lisa Palmer, journalist, author, and education lead and senior editor at Planet Forward, will host the inaugural Planet Forward Summer Seminar.

“This is an enormously exciting opportunity for some of the most talented upper-level college students and graduate students who want to invest in developing their communication skills to achieve their full potential,” Palmer said. “The first cohort will develop close mentor relationships with the instructors, take part in small group instruction, and receive sustained editorial support to produce environmental stories.”

Whatever your field of study or your career interests, having the ability to communicate effectively and memorably will make you more successful — because stories have power. The Planet Forward Summer Seminar will show you how to be an effective, compelling environmental storyteller.

Using the power of storytelling, we will capture the crisis, engage, and catalyze a more socially and environmentally hopeful future. 

Apply by March 10 to attend the 2023 Planet Forward Summer Seminar!

Program fee, on-campus lodging & meals: $2,190 (scholarships available)   READ MORE