Active Listening
The foundational listening exercise in its many dressings: in pairs, one person speaks about something real while the listener gives full attention — no interrupting, no advisin…
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CLARITY Toolbox and Teacher's Guide
openaligned IDG relationpractice-based~60 activities in 5 competence areas
Lesson plans and activities for transformative climate education — building emotional resilience, imagination, connection and collective action with children and youth — plus a teacher's guide introducing the trauma-informed, competence-based pedagogy behind them.
transforming-climate.education/toolbox/ — CLARITY project consortium (Erasmus+, EU)
From the collaboration doc
Proposed by Janolof Elander, Christine Wamsler.
“Focus is here on climate change and climate anxiety, on education in schools and at university level. Tools are also relevant for other contexts.” — Christine Wamsler
Tools from this source (9)
Climate Circles / Climate Cafés
Hosted talking circles where participants voluntarily share what the climate crisis stirs in them — fear, anger, guilt, hope — in a confidential, non-judgmental space with no fi…
Climate Emotions Wheel
A color wheel of climate-related emotions (anger, fear, sadness, positivity and their finer shades) used as a check-in and vocabulary tool: participants locate and name what the…
Council of All Beings
A communal ritual in which participants set aside their human identity, are "chosen" by another life-form, often make simple masks, and then sit in council speaking AS that bein…
Deep Listening
Listening past the words: in pairs or small groups, the listener holds complete, non-judgmental attention — without inner censorship, rehearsing a reply, or steering — staying o…
Iceberg Model
The systems-thinking staple: start from a visible event and dig down through the layers beneath it — patterns and trends, systemic structures, and the mental models and paradigm…
Mindful Nature Walk
The entry-level nature-connection practice: a walk in forest or park with attention deliberately in relationship — naming trees, listening to layered sounds, feeling the carryin…
NVC Dialogue Practice
Practicing Marshall Rosenberg's core sequence on a real tension, in pairs or triads: state the observation without evaluation, name the feeling, connect it to the underlying nee…
Sit Spot Practice
Each person chooses one spot in nature and returns to it again and again — sitting quietly, observing what lives and changes there through weathers and seasons, journalling afte…