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
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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 change and build long-term resilience. They are also critical to biodiversity, which is the foundation of life on Earth as we know it. Our lack…
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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 it comes to growing climate resilience and fostering ecosystem regeneration. It is essential to note that Indigenous Peoples are communities who have been experiencing colonisation,…
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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 and compassion. This tool enables us to better understand how values vary among people and over time, to respect the perspectives of other people, to…
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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 see, and the values, assumptions and beliefs we and others hold, and which underlie these issues and crises. Our individual and collective values are important…
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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 the role(s) that inspires them personally to act towards climate resilience and regeneration. The tool was developed on the premise that we all have a…