Competence area 3
Key competences:
Self-reflection, presence, deep-listening, active listening,
humility, integrity, inner compass, perspective-taking
Examples of guidance:
- Explore the values that matter to learners as well as values that support
transformative resilience and regeneration (self-reflection); - Explore different knowledge systems regarding resilience, connection and
regeneration, in addition to modern science, including local communities’ and
Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge systems and practices, in ethical ways that contribute to ‘right relationships’ and respect free, prior and informed consent (humility; perspective-taking); - Learn deep-listening (i.e. a way of listening that ensures a speaker feels heard and acknowledged) to increase understanding of diverse values, worldviews and beliefs and create a safe and open learning environment that can support everyone’s health and wellbeing (presence, deep listening);
- Support learners’ values and associated commitment to sustain life and address the root causes of climate change (integrity, inner compass).
Tools in this competence area
Tool 3.1. Belonging to nature
This tool can help learners feel one with nature and take responsibility towards individual, collective and planetary health and wellbeing. Healthy ecosystems are critical to limit the effects of climate…
Tool 3.2. Learning from Indigenous Peoples
This tool is meant to support reflection on the historical and ongoing injustices that Indigenous Peoples face, and to encourage respectful engagement with Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge systems and practices when…
Tool 3.3. Listening
In order to embrace and embody new values that sustain the lives of all living beings, a key skill is that of listening without judging, in a spirit of empathy…
Tool 3.4. Exploring the Iceberg
The Iceberg Model helps to understand the root causes of what we “see” in the world. For instance, it helps us move from the various sustainability issues and crises we…
Tool 3.5. Finding what sustains your life
This tool fosters inner enquiries, with a view to helping find the drive to embrace and embody values that sustain the lives of all living beings. It helps learners identify…