From Passive to Active Sustainability

A 4-Week Online Course for Fashion Sustainability, ESG & CSR Professionals

Transform your role from reporter to creative maker. Move beyond compliance and unlock your capacity for strategic, justice-oriented action.

For companies: Move beyond compliance as a cost center. Invest in your sustainability team's strategic capabilities to support unlocking creativity and critical analyses.

Do you also feel the dilemma faced by many sustainability professionals in the fashion sector and acknowledge the complexities and contradictions within the industry? If you're struggling with feeling lost and demotivated, seeking to break free from the constraints of traditional roles rooted in passiveness, reporting and compliance: this course is your catalyst.

Participate in a humble quest for justice. This 4-week online course is designed to gently push you through a journey of (un)learning, empowering you to embrace a more active and activist approach. You will gain the tools, community and courage to drive tangible action.

Join a limited cohort of peers on this journey of self-reflection, unlearning and activation. Registrations close 15 March 2026.

Course Details at a Glance

Format

5x Live Online Sessions (120 min each) + Recordings & Resources

Who it's for

Sustainability, ESG, CSR professionals socialized in/from the Global North

Dates

25 March - 22 April 2026

Live session day/time

Wednesdays, 6:00 pm CET / 5:00 pm UTC

Group size

Intimate cohort of min. 8 - max. 12 participants

Investment

EUR 675 (net) for private persons & EUR 1,300 (net) for corporate enrollment

The 5-session journey (curriculum breakdown)

In this course, you will (un)learn from real-sector stories, gain critical insights and build practical strategies to transition from a passive role to an active agent.

25.03.2026 | CRITICIZE – Deconstructing Reductionist Approaches to Sustainability in Fashion.

01.04.2026 | IDENTIFY – Finding Accomplices and Decolonizing Approaches in the Industry.

08.04.2026 | MOBILIZE – Engaging Colleagues, Partner, and Stakeholders for Collective Action.

15.04.2026 | ACTIVATE – Practicing Business Disobedience and Building Transformative Strategies.

22.04.2026 | FIND – Cultivating Community & Holding Space for Open Reflections.

Registration

Join a limited cohort of peers on this journey of self-reflection, unlearning and activation. Registrations close 15 March 2026.

Voices from the Community

Reflections from past participants (cohort 2023).

A note on why this space is for those socialized in/from the Global North

You may have noticed the specific framing of “for professionals socialized in or from the Global North.” This is an intentional, humble boundary set with great care.

First, it stems from my own positionality: as a German practitioner, my lived experience and ongoing work are rooted in unlearning the deep-seated narratives of empire, saviorism and hegemony that often unconsciously shape “solutions” coming from dominant cultures. I am not equipped to hold online spaces for a global cohort, or at least I see too many risks; my expertise and journey are in creating a container for a very specific kind of self-reflection among peers who share a similar starting point.

Second, and most importantly, this boundary is about minimizing harm and maximizing depth. To do the urgent work of unpacking our passive roles, we must first confront the shared assumptions and inherited mindsets we operate from, often without realizing it. This requires a space where we grapple with our complicity, our “good intentions” and our conditioned belief that we hold the universal solutions, without placing the emotional labor of our education and/or (un)learning on those already burdened by these systems.

This course is not an echo chamber, but a practice ground for accountability. It’s about turning our gaze inward first, so that any future action and solidarity we build is more thoughtful, less extractive and truly justice-oriented.