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Select the tool that suits your teaching, based on your desired learning outcome. Each tool includes a step-by-step guide, paired with assessment and additional resources. Download, adapt to your context and start supporting students in developing the skills and attitudes needed for meaningful societal impact.
Cultivating our inner life and developing and deepening our relationship to our thoughts, feelings and body help us be present, intentional and non-reactive when we face complexity.
Inner Compass
The student is able to display and act responsible and committed to inner values and purposes relating to the good of the whole.
Poetic Motivations 
Integrity and Authenticity
The student is able to act authentically with sincerity, honesty and integrity.
Openness and Learning Mindset
The student is able to display openness and curiosity by a willingness to be vulnerable and embrace change and growth.
Self-awareness
The student is able to reflect on own thoughts, feelings, desires, self-image and ability to regulate oneself.
Presence
The student is able to be in the here and now, without judgement and in a state of open-ended presence.
Developing cognitive skills by taking different perspectives, evaluating information and making sense of the world as an interconnected whole is essential for wise decision-making.
Critical Thinking
The student is able to critically review the validity of views, evidence and plans.
Complexity Awareness
The student is able to evaluate complex systemic conditions and causalities.
Perspective Skills
The student is able to integrate insights from diverse perspectives.
Sensemaking
The student is able to formulate patterns in complex realities and translate them to stories or theories.
Long-term Orientation and Visioning
The student is able to formulate long- term-oriented visions relating to the larger context.
Appreciating, caring for and feeling connected to others, such as neighbours, future generations or the biosphere, helps us create more just and sustainable systems and societies for everyone.
Appreciation
The student is able to relate to others and the world with appreciation, gratitude and joy.
Connectedness
The student has a keen sense of being connected with and/or being a part of a larger whole, such as a community, humanity or global ecosystem.
Humility
The student is able to act in accordance with the needs of the situation without concern for one's own importance.
Empathy and Compassion
The student is able to relate to others, oneself and nature with kindness, empathy and compassion and address related suffering.
To make progress on shared concerns, we need to develop our abilities to include, hold space and communicate with stakeholders with different values, skills and competencies.
Communication Skills
The student is able to listen to others, foster genuine dialogue, advocate views, manage conflicts and adapt communication to diverse groups.
Co-creation Skills
The student is able to apply co-creation techniques to motivate, to build, develop and facilitate collaborative relationships with diverse stake-holders, characterised by psychological safety.
Inclusive Mindset and Intercultural Competence
The student is able to apply intercultural competences and show an inclusive mindset.
Trust
The student is able to show trust and to create and maintain trusting relationships.
Mobilisation Skills
The student is able to apply techniques to inspire and mobilise others to engage in shared purposes.
Qualities such as courage and optimism help us acquire true agency, break old patterns, generate original ideas and act with persistence in uncertain times.
Courage
The student is able to show courage by standing up for values, making decisions, taking decisive action and, if need be, challenging and disrupting existing structures and views.
Creativity
The student is able to apply creative thinking techniques to generate and develop original ideas and innovations.
Optimism
The student is able to sustain and communicate a sense of hope, positive attitude and confidence in the possibility of meaningful change.
Perseverance and Resilience
The student is able to show perseverance and resilience by sustaining engagement and remaining determined and patient in case of setbacks and/or when efforts take a long time to bear fruit.
Supporting Materials
These can be applied across multiple tools, offering context, inspiration or practical formats to strengthen your work as an educator.
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