About Bright Green Learning
We offer more than 35 years of experience working in the social and environmental sustainability field as project managers, facilitators, trainers, coaches and process and learning designers.
Learning and participation-based approaches
We are a small social enterprise with a big goal: increasing social and environmental resilience and sustainability. We achieve this positive impact via you, our clients.
Since 2009, people have come to Bright Green Learning for professionally certified facilitators and designers of group consultation, co-creation and learning processes. In 2015 we founded our Academy, providing open-subscription and in-house courses that draw on our combined 35 years of experience in capacity development and facilitation.
We have a breadth of substantive experience across social and environmental issues, and we learn more with our clients every day! Our approach is to engage you in the design process, applying systems thinking, and identifying solutions and actions to achieve your objectives.
As avid learners ourselves, we are always looking for new ways to add value to both our clients and the broader community. We do so with an open philosophy which is reflected in our blog, which shares knowledge and captures our learning as well as our innovations.
Local and global
Bright Green Learning has an office in the IUCN Conservation Centre in Gland, Switzerland. We work with clients in the local area and around the world. Our preferred working language is English, while we also work in French.
Bright Green Learning operates under its parent company, Atadore SARL, a private limited liability entity incorporated in Switzerland.
Gillian Martin Mehers
Gillian is a learning and capacity development practitioner, working within the global sustainability community for over 25 years. She has designed and run hundreds of convenings, workshops, courses and meetings globally, and worked in over 60 countries - from Armenia to Zambia. (She also ran over 220 hours of virtual workshops and training in 2020 alone!)
She is currently Founding Director at Bright Green Learning. Previously she was Head of Learning and Leadership at IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) and Director of Capacity Development at LEAD International (Leadership for Environment and Development).
Gillian’s expertise is in creating dynamic experiential learning environments, facilitating productive multi-stakeholder dialogue and co-creation processes, interactive learning design, and innovative curriculum and training materials development.
Gillian is a Certified Professional Facilitator - Master designation (CPF-M) with the International Association of Facilitators (IAF), has won two IAF Gold Awards for Facilitation Impact in 2015 and 2020, and is co-author of the Climate Change Playbook (Chelsea Green, 2016).
Elisabeth (Lizzie) Crudgington
Lizzie is a creative designer of processes for learning and innovation. As Learning Designer and Group Facilitator for Bright Green Learning since 2011, Lizzie creates generative thinking and learning environments for client groups.
Lizzie’s niche is social and environmental resilience – often bringing together the private sector, government and NGOs. She was previously Learning and Leadership Officer with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and is a successful TEDx organizer under license from TED.
