We help people to communicate
important environmental and social issues
in ways that are loving, impactful, and funny.
Why 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.
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 response to a complex issue
6 February to 27 February 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.
6 February 2025 from 3pm to 6pm Berlin time.
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.
13 February 2025 from 3pm to 6pm Berlin time.
Class 3 Expanding our perception of what is possible (part 2). We deepen our practice of complexity frameworks, compassion and comedy to yeild new insights into your complex issue.
20 February 2025 from 3pm to 6pm Berlin time.
Class 4 What happens next? Creating exciting, practical next steps and engagement to help you move forward.
27 February 2025 from 3pm to 6pm Berlin time.
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: 280 euros plus 19% VAT ( 333.20 euros) .
Corporate: 350 euros plus 0%* VAT. (350 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)
Why should you let your company pay at a higher rate? Because it supports profound and positive transformation. 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 course
(Time zone for North America morning/lunch time and Europe and Africa early evening)
Start your week laughing
10 February to 24 March 2025
The course
Live, online, this ain't your normal Zoom call...
Class 1 (Finding the beauty beneath): Monday 10 February, 6pm - 7.30pm Berlin, Germany time.
Class 2 (Aiming for average): Monday 17 February, 6pm - 7.30pm Berlin, Germany time.
Class 3 (Love as a sponsoring energy): Monday 24 February, 6pm - 7.30pm Berlin, Germany time.
Class 4 (Structure which clarifies): Monday 3 March, 6pm - 7.30pm Berlin, Germany time.
Individual, online coaching (30 minutes per person). We'll find a time that works for us on 5 - 8 March.
Class 5 (Finalising the content): Monday 10 March 6pm - 8pm Berlin, Germany time. (*Note two hours)
Class 6 (Physicality and rehearsing): Monday 17 March 6pm -8pm Berlin, Germany time. (*Note two hours)
The Show (a live, online public comedy show with a lovely, supportive audience, on Zoom): Saturday 22 March, 6pm to 7:15pm Berlin, Germany time.
(Note: We meet in the Zoom room 40 minutes before the show starts.)
Class 7 (Reflections and next steps): Monday 24 March, 6pm-7:15pm Berlin, Germany time.
Please note: There is about 2 hours of homework in between each class.
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)
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.
To book, scroll down or click here.
Get unstuck: Complexity, compassion and comedy
Find a more creative, expansive response to a complex issue
6 March to 27 March 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.
6 March 2025 from 9am to 12pm Berlin time/7pm to 10pm 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.
13 March 2025 from 9am to 12pm Berlin time.
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.
20 March 2025 from 9am to 12pm Berlin time.
Class 4 What happens next? Creating exciting, practical next steps and engagement to help you move forward.
27 March from 9am to 12pm Berlin time.
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: 280 euros plus 19% VAT ( 333.20 euros) .
Corporate: 350 euros plus 0%* VAT. (350 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)
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.
To book, scroll down or click here.
Sustainable Stand Up
online & in-person hybrid course
(In-person part in Melbourne, Australia)
Next dates to be annouced shortly. It will likely be August to September 2025.
If you are interested, please sign up on the waiting list here.
The course
Live, online, this ain't your normal Zoom call...
Class 1 (Finding the beauty beneath)
Class 2 (Aiming for average)
Class 3 (Love as a sponsoring energy)
Class 4 (Structure which clarifies)
Individual, online coaching (30 minutes per person). We'll find a time that works for us.
Class 5 (Finalising the content)
Live, in-person, in Melbourne
Class 6 (Physicality and rehearsing)
The Show (a live, public comedy show with a lovely, supportive audience, in a theatre)
(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)
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? To book your place, click here. If you would like to pay in two installments, email us.
To get on the waiting list for the next course, email us.
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..."
Book your place now
Check out our courses above.
Sustainable Stand Up Online Course 10 Feb to 24 Mar 2025
296,31 € - 350,00 €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.SelectQuantity
Getting unstuck - 6 Feb to 27 Feb 2025
333,20 € - 350,00 €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
Getting unstuck - 6 March to 27 March 2025
333,20 € - 350,00 €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
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