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Help Your Students Turn Fear Into Purpose, Stories Into Superpowers, and Concern for the World Into Courageous Action

Planet Courage is a student-centered speaking and storytelling experience that helps young people build resilience, discover their voice, and see themselves as capable of making a difference in their school, community, and world.

Today's students are navigating pressure, uncertainty, anxiety, big questions about the future, and a world that can often feel overwhelming. Planet Courage gives them a hopeful, practical, and inspiring way to see themselves differently.

Through storytelling, reflection, media, and real-world examples of changemakers, Planet Courage helps students recognize that their lives already hold the raw material for courage, leadership, and impact. This is not just a talk students listen to. It is an experience that helps them see who they are, what they care about, and how they can make a difference.

Why Schools Bring in Planet Courage

Planet Courage connects to the themes schools are already prioritizing while offering students a hopeful, human, and action-oriented message.

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Purpose and Resilience

Helping students navigate uncertainty, pressure, fear, self-doubt, and big life questions.

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Student Leadership & Changemaking

Showing students they are not too young to make a difference.

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Mental Health, Hope & Emotional Strength

A non-clinical but deeply human message about courage, grief, anxiety, belonging, and self-worth.

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Civic Engagement & Community Impact

Helping students move from "the problems are too big" to "here's where I can start."

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Climate Courage & Planetary Leadership

Helping students face climate anxiety with stories, solutions, and real-world examples of action.

The Student Experience

Planet Courage is designed for students who may be wondering:

  • Who am I?
  • What do I care about?
  • Does my story matter?
  • What difference can I actually make?
  • How do I face the future without feeling overwhelmed by it?

By the end of the experience, students are invited to see themselves as people with real-world superpowers:

Their voiceTheir storyTheir creativityTheir valuesTheir friendshipsTheir courageTheir ability to take one meaningful step forward
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What Students Walk Away With

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A stronger sense that their story matters

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A clearer understanding of their "real-world superpower"

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Language for naming what they care about

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A hopeful way to think about fear, pressure, and uncertainty

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Examples of everyday people making meaningful change

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A practical invitation to take action in their school, community, or world

Featured Work

Explore examples of storytelling, speaking, hosting, and media work connected to the Planet Courage approach.

Drawdown's Neighborhood

Drawdown's Neighborhood

A storytelling series highlighting climate solutions and everyday heroes in communities across the country.

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Global Solutions Diary

Global Solutions Diary

Stories of changemakers around the world turning climate solutions into action.

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Speaking, Hosting & Storytelling

Speaking, Hosting & Storytelling

Examples of talks, workshops, interviews, and public storytelling experiences designed to inspire action.

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Planet Courage Event Highlight

Planet Courage Event Highlight

A live storytelling experience helping students and communities face fear with stories, solutions, and superpowers.

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Trusted by Colleges, Universities, and Institutions

George Washington University
University of the District of Columbia
Appalachian State University
Planet Forward
Project Drawdown
NASA Space Apps Challenge

What Students, Educators, and Partners Are Saying

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Talk Experiences

Planet Courage can be adapted for assemblies, leadership groups, service-learning programs, climate and sustainability initiatives, student retreats, advisory days, and school-wide events.

Keynote Experience

$2,500–$5,000

+ travel & lodging

Half Day

A powerful single talk designed for a school assembly, leadership event, Earth Day program, mental health and wellness initiative, service-learning day, or student inspiration event.

Includes:

A customized keynote for your student audience
Bonus campus time for informal student connection, classroom visit, small-group conversation, or educator meeting
A message centered on courage, purpose, resilience, and student leadership

Best for: Schools looking for a high-impact assembly or featured speaker experience.

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Day of Talks

$5,000–$10,000

+ travel & lodging

Full Day

A full-day experience that brings Planet Courage to multiple student groups across the school community.

Includes:

A keynote or large-group assembly
Smaller breakout conversations or classroom visits
Student leadership or service-learning session
Optional educator or administrator conversation
More opportunities for students to engage, reflect, and connect the message to their own lives

Best for: Schools that want to reach multiple grade levels, leadership groups, clubs, or student communities in one visit.

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Planet Courage Embed

$10,000–$20,000

+ travel & lodging

5 Days Total

A deeper engagement designed to build momentum with students over time. Typically across two visits of approximately 2.5 days each.

Includes:

Two campus visits
Keynote or opening experience
Student workshops and storytelling activities
Leadership, service, or climate action sessions
Support for students developing their own stories, ideas, or action projects

Best for: Schools that want Planet Courage to support a larger initiative around student leadership, civic engagement, purpose, sustainability, or community impact.

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Planet Courage Residency

$25,000–$50,000

+ travel & lodging

10 Days Total

A signature multi-visit experience that helps students move from inspiration to storytelling, action, and community celebration. Three campus visits.

Includes:

Three campus visits
Student talks and workshops
A community storytelling contest or student story challenge
Support for student changemaking, service, or climate action projects
A culminating showcase event featuring student voices
Opportunities to engage families, educators, community partners, and school leadership

Best for: Schools looking for a transformational, community-wide experience that builds student voice, leadership, courage, and impact over time.

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A Message for School Leaders

You are not just booking a speaker. You are creating a moment for students to feel seen, challenged, inspired, and invited into their own power.

Planet Courage meets students at the intersection of the questions they are already carrying: Who am I? What matters to me? How do I deal with fear? What kind of future is possible? And what role can I play in building it?

This experience gives students language, stories, and tools to begin answering those questions with courage.

Customize This Experience for Your School

Every Planet Courage visit can be shaped around your school's goals, values, calendar, and student needs.

Student leadershipMental health and wellnessService learningClimate and sustainabilityEarth DayMLK DayBlack History MonthAdvisory programmingSenior year transitionFreshman orientationCommunity service requirementsCivic engagementBelonging and school culture

Bring Planet Courage to Your School

Help your students turn fear into purpose, stories into superpowers, and concern for the world into courageous action.