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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 ability 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 present in the here and now, without judgement and to respond in meaningful ways.
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.
Perspective Skills
The student is able to integrate insights from diverse perspectives.
Systems Thinking
The student is able to understand complexity and work with the interconnections and properties of systems.
Long-term Orientation and Visioning
The student is able to formulate long-term-oriented visions and stay committed to them in ways that support broader societal and ecological well-being.
Creativity
The student is able to apply creative thinking techniques to generate and develop transformative ideas.
Sensemaking
The student is able to think outside conventional patterns, imagine new possibilities and shape them into transformative ideas.
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 people and planet Earth with a deep sense of gratitude, positive regard, 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.
Forgiveness
The student is willing to transcend hostility, work through trauma, and create space for healing.
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.
Relationship-Building Skills
The student is able to build and maintain relationships by acting with emotional intelligence, grounded in trust, respect, mutual understanding, and collaboration.
Inclusive Mindset and Intercultural Competence
The student is able to apply intercultural competences and show an inclusive mindset.
Co-creation Skills
The student is able to facilitate collaborative processes with diverse stakeholders, fostering teamwork and psychological safety, and being aware of power dynamics.
Communication Skills
The student is able to listen to others, foster genuine dialogue, advocate views, manage conflicts and adapt communication to diverse groups.
Mobilization Skills
The student is able to apply techniques to inspire and mobilize others to engage in shared purposes and collective action.
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 action and, when needed, questioning and disrupting established structures and views.
Hope and Optimism
The student is able to build and sustain a shared belief in our capacity to create a more just, inclusive, and sustainable future.
Conscious Use of Resources
The student is able to act with awareness of the planet's limited resources by prioritizing conservation, regeneration, and mindful consumption.
Proactivity
The student is able to take future-oriented and accountable action in response to urgent challenges, grounded in solidarity, care for human dignity, and the living Earth.
Resilience
The student is able to navigate adversity with agility by staying engaged and persevering, even when progress is slow or uncertain.
Supporting Materials
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