Non ci sono più le mezze stagioni

The first meeting of CEPI’s “Training aperitifs” took place on Friday 31 May 2024, one year after the flood that hit Emilia Romagna.

It was a collective moment to better understand climate change and imagine together how to tackle it. With the guidance of Stefania Montalti, our communications manager, we have created a format to have a recreational and learning experience together capable of making us more aware, better planning future impacts and developing a reflection on the strength that a sustainable approach can have in work and in life.

A unique creative training experience

The world is changing, and we with it. In an era where the climate emergency is an increasingly tangible reality, it is essential to find innovative and sustainable ways to develop the right responses, and above all it is important to do it together, because to “change the climate” we must start from relationships.

CEPI created a training activity to increase awareness, better plan future impacts and develop a reflection on the strength that a sustainable approach can have in work and life. There are no more middle seasons was an event that combined learning, creativity, environmental and social commitment in a single experience. As Stefania Montalti explained well in her introductory speech: “We experienced the extreme events with which climate change manifests itself firsthand in our territory during the flood of May 2023. It is also for this reason that we decided to think together on its consequences and on the actions we can implement.” It is a global issue which, however, calls for everyone’s collaboration, which asks us to imagine new clichés and new ways of being together to overcome the impotence to act”.

Involvement and solidarity: change is made together.

“Together” was one of the key words of the initiative, because CEPI wants to be not only a workplace, but also a community that is actively committed to collective well-being.

It is no coincidence that new and old partners of the company participated in the day, all of them sharing a common love for the territory and for innovative action. CEPI has always sought to promote a corporate culture oriented towards inclusiveness, which manifests itself through concrete actions to improve the working environment and mutual support, as demonstrated during the floods of May 2023. On that occasion, everyone came together as a true community, offering support and skills to help those who needed it.

The meeting was the moment to find that spirit again and do something new. The “Silodibene” Instagram channel was also launched: Ti voglio un silo di bene (I love you a silo) is an expression often used by CEPI people.

Drawing, Photographing, Imagining Change

The event, developed in collaboration with the new sustainability communication partner GoodCom SB, was the first of the new “Training aperitif” format and revolved around visual thinking, an unconventional approach that uses visual art, in different forms, to explore and communicate complex ideas in an intuitive and effective way. Through a presentation of the topics and the scribing activity, the crucial issues of the climate emergency and possible solutions were addressed. An expert sustainability trainer, former Cepi consultant in the ESG area, Giordano Mancini, interacted with a cartoonist from the Scribing group, who, in turn, brought the salient concepts and mood of the day to life through graphic recording, a visual performance where the contents and the involvement of the participants are reflected in an original drawing created in real time.

A workshop to think together

After enjoying the aperitif prepared at the Chicchiamo Bar-truck in Cavarei, the second part of the meeting gave everyone a chance to contribute to the creation of the “Cepi Decalogue for daily sustainability”. Through the design thinking laboratory, with the use of post-it notes to launch ideas with words or drawings, good practices were born together that allow you to grow and feel good as in a real ecosystem.

To close the day, the distribution of gadgets in recycled material made by Altremani and a “vintage” moment with a set prepared specifically for the occasion where polaroid photos could be taken, in a small, but important, common place of the people of Cepi. There are no more middle seasons was much more than a training event: it was rather a chance to better understand the climate emergency and contribute to a new change, to explore new horizons and to create a better future, together.