We help people to communicate
important environmental and social issues
in ways that are loving, impactful, and funny.
Here are some public courses we have coming up.
For in-company or public courses in your city,
contact us (Maffick.com is where this project comes from).
Warning: These courses may include belly laughing, transformative insights, and meeting delightful, like-minded people.
Get unstuck: Complexity, compassion and comedy
Find a more creative, expansive, and energising response to a complex issue
Tuesdays 15 April to 6 May 2025
The course
Live, online, this ain't your normal Zoom call...
Class 1 Understanding our stuckness. Bring a complex issue and we'll use complexity practice, compassion, and comedy to see the situation clearly, and to see new things in the situation.
15 April 2025 from 9am to 12pm Berlin time/5pm to 8pm Melbourne.
Class 2 Expanding our perception of what is possible (part 1). We build on our expanded understanding of your complex issue and explore new possibilities and insights.
22 April 2025 from 9am to 12pm Berlin time/5pm to 8pm Melbourne.
Class 3 Expanding our perception of what is possible (part 2). We deepen our practice of complexity frameworks, compassion and comedy to yield new insights into your complex issue.
29 April 2025 from 9am to 12pm Berlin time/5pm to 8pm Melbourne.
Class 4 What happens next? Creating exciting, practical next steps and engagement to help you move forward.
6 May from 9am to 12pm Berlin time/5pm to 8pm Melbourne.
This course is co-designed with Glenda Eoyang of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute, and delivered by Belina Raffy.
Got a question about this course? Send us an email and we'll have a chat :).
COURSE FEE
Individuals: 249 euros plus 19% VAT (296.31 euros) .
Corporate: 349 euros plus 0%* VAT. (349 euros)
(*If you qualify for 19% VAT - e.g. you have a valid EU VAT number in Germany, email me and I'll invoice you for the fee with 19% VAT)
If you would like to explore a concession rate, email me.
Why should you let your company pay at a higher rate? Because this course is a labour of love, skill, and broad knowledge of climate issues and it supports profound and positive transformation in the climate space. Having a few individuals attend at higher rates allows me to support more beautiful individuals and groups who cannot afford those rates. And at the moment, we need everyone 'in the pool' to help create positive change.
To book, scroll down or click here.
Sustainable Stand Up
online & in-person hybrid course
(In-person part in Melbourne, Australia)
Discover how a loving form of humour can illuminate the issue you care about...
Fill Fridays and a few Sundays with joy.
12 September to 10 October 2025.
(We are compressing the first two weeks because we forgot how sacred time-off in August is in Australia)
The course
Live, online, this ain't your normal Zoom call...
Class 1 (Finding the beauty beneath) 12 September 2025, 7-8:30pm Melbourne time.
Class 2 (Aiming for average) 14 September 2025, 7-8:30pm Melbourne time.
Class 3 (Love as a sponsoring energy) 19 September 2025, 7-8:30pm Melbourne time.
Class 4 (Structure which clarifies) 21 September 2025, 7-9pm Melbourne time.
Individual, online coaching (30 minutes per person). 22 to 24 September. We'll find a time that works for us.
Class 5 (Finalising the content) 26 September 2025, 7-9pm Melbourne time.
Live, in-person, in Melbourne
Class 6 (Physicality and rehearsing) 3 October 3.30pm - 7.30pm Melbourne time. Location shared after you book.
The Show (a live, public comedy show with a lovely, supportive audience, in a theatre) 4 October 5.15pm - 6:30pm at the Butterfly Club.
(We meet at the venue 60 minutes before the show starts.)
Live, online, this ain't your normal Zoom call...
Class 7 (Reflections and next steps) 10 October 2025, 7-8pm Melbourne time.
Please note: There is about 2 hours of homework in between each class.
COURSE FEE
Individuals: 299 euros plus 19% VAT (355,81 euros) .
Corporate: 399 euros plus 0% VAT.
Why should you let your company pay at a higher rate? Because this course is a labour of love, skill, and broad knowledge of climate issues (I have run it now over 50 times across 11 countries) and it supports profound and positive transformation in the climate space. Having a few individuals attend at higher rates allows me to support more beautiful individuals and groups who cannot afford those rates. And at the moment, we need everyone 'in the pool' to help create positive change.
(Course fee does not include travel, accommodation, food, etc.)
Note: This course is for people based in and around Melbourne. If you are joining from outside Melbourne, please do not book any travel or accommodation until you get a confirmation from us to do so.
Course limited to 7 awesome participants. Will you be one of them?
Sustainable Stand Up online course
Discover how a loving form of humour can illuminate the issue you care about...
Make Mondays funny again...
15 September to 27 October
The course
Live, online, this ain't your normal Zoom call...
Class 1 (Finding the beauty beneath) 15 September 2025, 7-8:30pm Berlin, Germany time.
Class 2 (Aiming for average) 22 September 2025, 7-8:30pm Berlin, Germany time.
Class 3 (Love as a sponsoring energy) 29 September 2025, 7-8:30pm Berlin, Germany time.
Class 4 (Structure which clarifies) 6 October 2025, 7-9pm Berlin, Germany time.
Individual, online coaching (30 minutes per person). 8-11 October. We'll find a time that works for us.
Class 5 (Finalising the content) 13 October 2025, 7-9pm Berlin, Germany time.
Class 6 (Physicality and rehearsing) 20 October 2025, 7-9pm Berlin, Germany time.
The Show (a live, online public comedy show with a lovely, supportive audience) 25 October 6pm - 7.15pm.
(We meet at the Zoom room 40 minutes before the show starts.)
Class 7 (Reflections and next steps) 27 October 2025, 7-8pm Berlin, Germany time.
Please note: There is about 2 hours of homework in between each class.
COURSE FEE
Individuals: 249 euros plus 19% VAT (296.31 euros) .
Corporate: 349 euros plus 0% VAT.
Why should you let your company pay at a higher rate? Because this course is a labour of love, skill, and broad knowledge of climate issues (I have run it now over 50 times across 11 countries) and it supports profound and positive transformation in the climate space. Having a few individuals attend at higher rates allows me to support more beautiful individuals and groups who cannot afford those rates. And at the moment, we need everyone 'in the pool' to help create positive change.
Course limited to 7 awesome participants. Will you be one of them?
Book your place now
Check out our courses above.
Getting unstuck - 15 April to 6 May 2025
296,31 € - 349,00 €Get unstuck from a complex issue, gain profound insights, and have a clear way forward.
*If your company is paying, and is based in Germany, please do not book here, but email us and we will at 19% VAT.SelectQuantity
12 Sept to 10 Oct Sustainable Stand Up hybrid online & Melbourne Course
355,81 € - 399,00 €The course Live, online, this ain't your normal Zoom call...
Class 1 (Finding the beauty beneath) 12 Sept
Class 2 (Aiming for average) 14 Sept
Class 3 (Love as a sponsoring energy) 19 Sept
Class 4 (Structure which clarifies) 21 Sept
Individual, online coaching (30 minutes per person)
Class 5 (Finalising the content) 26 Sept
Live, in-person, in Melbourne
Class 6 (Physicality and rehearsing) 3 October 3.30pm - 7.30pm Melbourne time. Location shared after you book.
The Show (a live, public comedy show with a lovely, supportive audience, in a theatre) 4 October 5.15pm - 6:30pm at the Butterfly Club. (We meet at the venue 60 minutes before the show starts.)
Live, online, this ain't your normal Zoom call...
Class 7 (Reflections and next steps)
Melbourne time.
Please note: There is about 2 hours of homework in between each class.
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Sustainable Stand Up Online Course 15 Sept to 27 Oct 2025
296,31 € - 349,00 €Delightful and online. Illuminate important ideas you care about with a loving form of humour. New format with more people, more group work, and more real world applications.
And still we have a public online comedy show with all of our most loving friends.
See above for details.
Fee is 249 euros plus 19% VAT for individuals and 349 euros plus 0%* VAT for qualifying organisations. If your organisation is inside of Germany please do not book here. Email us and once you confirm your VAT status and relevant address, we will issue you an invoice including 19% VAT for a place on this course.SelectQuantityWhy take our climate comedy course?
What makes this different?
This lady knows stuff
Belina uniquely combines exquisite facilitation skills, global environmental and social project experience, and a profound understanding of how to help nervous people to shine while being generous, connected, and loving.
Love is our sponsoring energy
When we face and communicate climate issues with fear and anger, we generate more of the same. This course is a unique space to see what happens when we use a loving form of humour to illuminate and engage others in the issues we care about.
This course has a great track record
This course has run over 50 times online and across 11 countries. It was part of National Science Week in Australia twice. Alumni include climate scientists, humanitarian workers, sustainable transport professors, and more.
Success stories
Public course participants include climate scientists, humanitarian workers, sustainable transport professors, and many more. All of them want to make the world better.
Here's what some of them say:
Peter, the NASA climate scientist says...
"I need to reach people about the deadly serious impacts of climate change. But I don't want to drive them away with gloom and doom. Belina and my wonderfully supportive classmates helped me discover the hilarity in my work and connect with the audience about something that really matters, to me and the world."
Pablo, the humanitarian worker says...
"How do we communicate changing climate risks in a way that is both serious and fun? The 'Sustainable Stand Up' course taught me to engender laughter and inspire action through a potent, clever, generous lens: (1) love humanity, and (2) find the system funny. Thank you dearest Belina."
Gillian, the professor of sustainable transport says...
"Turning my hand (or mouth!) to comedy as a new way of communicating the transport and climate change agenda has been extremely rewarding in several different ways. I have been acutely aware for some time that we need to find different ways of engaging people in order to convince them that we are all in this together. I now realise that comedy is a brilliant way of acknowledging common challenges and contradictions in a relatable way that is much more likely to get people to own their own responsibility as compared to the more standard ‘finger pointing’ ways of providing information. Sustainable Stand Up is all about a compassionate approach where the comedian exposes an issue that they are themselves grappling with and teasing out the individual and system-wide components that make things so hard. Although there will always be a time and a place for the comedic approach, the experience has given me fresh hope that we can make faster progress so long as we really get inside the hearts and minds of the people we are trying to influence and there is no better way than to find the issues where people can laugh..."
The SusStandUp Team
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