Dr Sally Flint
Project Officer
Skills and Regional Engagement
Dr Sally Flint brings her experience as a storyteller, poet, editor, publisher and lecturer in English/Creative Writing, and work in planetary health to forge and strengthen collaborations linking science, health, education, translation, arts and culture, to raise awareness of social/cultural change, climate justice, and to question and promote postive action to protect our planet.
She is Creative Lead on the international, award winning We Are the Possible Programme where she has developed a methodology of co-creating new climate stories through workshops she designs and facilitates, after which a weaving of writing, research and editing takes place. This has grown out of Climate Stories, One Chance Left (COP26, Glasgow 2021) and We Still Have a Chance (COP27, Egypt 2022, We Are the Possible -12 Poems for 12 Days of COP28, United Arab Emirates and We Are the Possible - The Land of Fire - 12 Stories for 12 Days of COP29 in Azerbaijan. The COP co-created stories and poems are the bedrock of other creative outputs to connect with large, diverse audiences through music, murals and theatre performances. This work has been funded by the the Met Office, The British Embassy and British Council and UKRI. As part of this Sally is also Craetive Lead on a groundbreaking programme connecting 'Schools Across the Ocean', where together scientists, teachers and young people come together to understand that healing and protecting marine ecosystems is vital for all living things to thrive. She designed and led creative writing workshops and editing of the bilingual We Are The Ocean poetry anthology which weaves together over 400 children's voices and was launched at COP28 to get young people's climate messages heard and seen. This proved so efffective children's co-created cartoons, posters and films enabled more sharing of their creative outputs with policy makers in delegate negotiating rooms at COP29 and beyond. Since 2021, We Are the Possible programme has engaged more than 16,000 people in the UK, Egypt, United Arab Emirates and Azerbaijan. 'We Are the Possible' has reached more than 33 million people worldwide through mainstream media, social media and online platforms. Sally is currently developing new creative outputs for launch at COP30, Brazil, with scientists, health experts, educators, artists, writers and translators, funded by the Met office, UK and British Council.
We Are the Possible (Green Futures, University of Exeter)
How storytelling, creativity and collaborations can inspire climate action
New Narratives for a Healthy Planet - The Lancet Planetary Health
