exercise · all tools
Care Ethics Mapping
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
A 75-minute case exercise from the Uni Bern facilitator guide: for a real complex challenge, map on sticky notes who needs care and who gives it — deliberately including future generations, distant people, and non-human stakeholders — then embody several of those perspectives with empathy before brainstorming what care-based action would actually look like.
Hold with care
- The guide's own stance applies: every step an invitation with an opt-out route; embodying an affected stakeholder can move people
Practical
- Time
- 75 min
- Group
- 4–30 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Case description; sticky notes; wall space
- Mechanisms
- perspective-taking, dialogic-encounter, systems-sensing
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Origin & where it lives
Uni Bern facilitator guide (2024), crediting Roland Tormey / EPFL — Care ethics applied to sustainability education
Instructions: open online · CC BY-NC 4.0 (guide)
In this directory via Toolbox & Facilitator Guide: Addressing Inner Dimensions for Sustainability in Higher Education
Related: inviting non human stakeholders (pairs-with)
status: checked · added 2026-08-26