FOOD: The Real Change - 1 Day Workshop
The following article is from WeDiscover万卷书旅 Author 小可
Recently, I asked ChatGPT, ‘What is sustainability?’. The answer is, as expected, easy enough to understand, but feels distant from us. As we are occupied carrying on with our busy life, most people don’t necessarily know where to start on this journey, if they want to work towards it.
Source: OpenAI – ChatGPT
We believe, when we think about sustainability, and when we take action towards it, it doesn’t have to be grand and abstract. Sustainable way of living is literally around us in every single aspect of our life, as long as we live in this only home that we humans share – the planet Earth.
Food is an easy and simple starting point, to look into sustainability and the biggest individual impact we can make to minimize global warming. By attending this workshop, we will share and discuss, what sustainable food is, and how to make sustainable food choices with a healthy twist.
The workshop is designed with lots of interactive and fun elements, so you get to learn, think and share sustainability in an engaging way, from playing a board game, then drawing your food plate, to watching and even participating in food creation.
A whole day is packed with discussions, demonstrations and actions, to get you fully engaged, and dive deep into the area of sustainable food and diet. When you leave at the end of the day, you will be equipped with knowledge about sustainability, a deeper understanding and critical thinking on sustainability and sustainable food, a chance to express your ideas and opinion on this topic, with better trained public speaking skills, more solid confidence on how to choose better food, and take away 3 healthy quick menus that you can easily make on your own!
Road to Tomorrow will take everyone through a board game of sustainability, where you will focus on how to stay in the game without losing all your points, but meanwhile how to work the best with your team mates, since it’s not a zero sum game and you need to work together for the best solutions.
The Plant Forward LLAB will bring ‘food literacy’ to everyone. You will learn not only the names of all the vegetables, fruits and nutritional functions, but also food combinations and how to mix & match them with each other, and balancing kind of diet, to keep yourself healthy, and planetary wellbeing too.
After attending this workshop, we hope you will start your own way of looking at sustainability, not only from a local perspective, but also with a global overview. We also hope, you gain inspirations and deeper understanding on the connection of food and nutrition, and even creating your own health forward dishes.
Workshop Objectives:
support those starting their new study abroad journey.
kick-start on preparing well balanced meals or tips to navigate menus to select health forward choices.
help you to start making friends with those interested in nutritionally balanced and tasty food.
equip you with solid 'food literarcy' knowledge, both in theory and practice.
lead you to start living a more sustainable lifestyle and meet like-minded community.
Workshop features:
Bilingual
(Un)learn hot topics: sustainability & climate change
Rethink food and health
Sustainability theory and practice in one go
Logical thinking and public speaking skills training
3 simple healthy dishes as takeaways
What Will Happen
1. The Earth Spaceship Board Game
"The earth is about to be destroyed, and a spaceship carries the last human beings into space to find a new habitable planet. In order to prevent the spaceship from crashing before reaching the new homeland, the last human beings from different sectors of interest must make decisions together. Every decision is crucial to survival. If there is no agreement, the spaceship will explode."
This is not from a sci-fi movie, but a sustainable theme board game that you can participate in - Spaceship Earth! This board game, designed by The Road to Tomorrow, will lead the participants to ease into the topic of sustainability and sustainable food.
Why do we invite you to draw plates?
Because through each person's unique plate, we can understand how the food system works, while imagining how the food system can be more sustainable. Drawing a plate is the first step, more importantly, you could share your unique plate story and give yourself a chance to re-understand food.Through drawing your own plate and share your ideas, we hope to help you find your own voice towards sustainable food and find your own action plan.
We will compile your stories into articles and share on the Road to Tomorrow platform to help you keep a unique food memory.In addition, your plate will also become part of the Plate Project launched by Road to Tomorrow. Your plate might be able to participate in more public display opportunities such as exhibitions, research, art works and media reports in the future.
3. Sustainable food nutrition A-Z
Chef Educator Yi-Wen is a true global citizen who has lived and taught sustainable food in multiple countries and regions such as the USA, Australia, and APAC region. She understands and empathizes with the complications that one might face when trying to make informed and conscious food choices and applying culinary creativity, no matter in your own country or whilst abroad.
She will share principles and practices in the sustainable food space, plus insights on functional nutrients in food, and provide tips on how to shop for food in markets, so you will be confident in planning and preparing your own meals.
4. Sustainable Dishes Demonstration and Interaction
Agenda:
09:30 - 10:00 Check in
10:00 - 10:10 Opening introduction
10:10 – 12:00 Sustainability Board Game
12:00 - 12:30 What is Sustainable Food
12:30 - 13:20 Healthy Vegetarian light lunch
13:20 – 14:30 Draw You Own Plate & Share Your Food Story
14:30 - 17:00 Easy Healthy Dishes Demonstration and Interaction
17:00 – 17:30 Wrap up
17:30 Check out
What you can get:
Sustainability concept
Sustainable food and nutrition
Train to understand, analyse, and form original opinion on sustainability
Learn to make 3 simple and healthy dishes
Form interest and confidence in sustainable food, and form action plans
Bilingual practice and actions on sustainability
Bilingual vocabulary on sustainability
Certificate in both languages
Who should attend:
Senior high school students who are planning to study abroad
University students who are planning to study abroad
Those who are about to travel abroad for busines or leisure
Those who care about sustainable food
Those who care about sustainable lifestyle
Those who care about food nutrition
Those who want to improve cooking skills
Workshop Size：Maximum 20, Minimum 10 people
Age: 15+
Language: Chinese + English
Cost:
Regular Price：1299
Pilot Price：899
Early Bird：699 （Successful registration before 24:00, 03 March）
Pair Price: 100 RMB discount each
(discount applied only once of the above)
What’s Included：
Content
Materials
Healthy Lunch
Drinking Water (bring your own cup)
What’s NOT Included：
Transport to the venue Expenses other than the above
Refund Policy
How to register:
Organisations:
万卷书旅 WeDiscover
A cross-cultural educational program provider. It facilitates internships, study abroad trips and other experiential learning programs, particularly in the areas of innovation, sustainability and social entrepreneurship.
明日之路 Road to Tomorrow
Road to Tomorrow is a young community that explores sustainable life through food issues. We promote food change-makers by knowledge sharing, public activities and impact documentary, thereby changing the food system.
植本食薏 The Plant Forward LLAB
A sharing platform created by Chef Educator Yi-Wen and THE PLANT FORWARD LLAB team to promote a plant-based lifestyle together #WePlantForward
绿色倡议 Green Initiatives
Founded in 2009 in Shanghai, Green Initiatives is a social enterprise that works on educational programs, consulting & creative services to support the adoption of sustainable solutions. Education and stakeholder engagement are an intergral part of every successful initiative of ours.
Venue Partner
Xinhua Community Cesign Center
Xinhua Community Design Center is a co--creation space. It is not only a co-creation platform for local residents to communicate and collaborate and participate in community governance, but also a co-learning ground for cultivating social creation talents nationwide and helping local social creation soil and local creation in Shanghai and other cities.
Instructors:
Jing
Yi-Wen
Yi-Wen is a Plant Forward Whole Foods Chef Educator, a noted member of ‘THE CHEFS’ MANIFESTO’ initiative by SDG2 Advocacy and also a key initiator for many global food education programs. She is a world citizen with 17 years of fashion marketing experience in New York and China who started a transition to the world of whole foods education since 2012. She is also a co-founder of The Plant Forward LLAB with the mission to educate, collaborate and initiate real actions and positive changes using food as a social lubricant for a sustainable human health and planetary well-being system #lets.plantforward.together
Jianwen
Jianwen joined Road to Tomorrow since 2021. She is a photographer and an urban walk lover. She cares about how the environment affects human’s body and mind, and vice versa. To her, walking in the city is a way to understand the people and systems in it. She was Senior Editor at The Paper from 2017 to 2021. During that time, she lead several series of urban walk programs and features, once in a year, like “Walk along Soochow River” (2020) and “Your Places” (2019, in collaboration with Shanghai Biennale). Her publications include “Uncovered Signs in Shanghai” (photographer, 2020) and “Modu Walk”(Editor, 2019), etc.
Kay
Kay founded WeDiscover in 2015 as a cross-cultural educational program provider. It facilitates internships, study abroad trips and other experiential learning programs, particularly in the areas of innovation, sustainability and social entrepreneurship.