Books

As we increase our awareness of the planetary challenges and how they intersect with the discipline or profession we choose to focus on, we have put our attention on the external forces and impacts. What remains untouched however is the set of beliefs, values, assumptions, mental processes, and paradigms that we hold and share: our mindset. But

How do we change a mindset? This book is the first to introduce the 12 Principles for a

Sustainability Mindset, presenting educators with a framework that makes it easy to include them into teaching plans and lessons of any discipline. Written in a very clear and practical way, the book provides examples, checklists, tips, and tools for professionals and educators. It transforms the development of a much-needed mindset for sustainability

Into an accessible, fun and intuitive task. The book is written with educators from a variety of disciplines in mind, including but not limited to management educators, coaches, and trainers.

Stop Teaching?!? What instead? Yes, even before Covid 19 we realized that the traditional pedagogical approaches were no longer suited for the audience of students. What if we were able to engage and excite our students, unleash their passion and imagination, help them develop skills and knowledge, but also the self-confidence to become agents of change? As Greta Thunberg and the global movement of students is showing us, there is a generation ready to take on new roles. Educators can step up to new roles too, becoming learning facilitators, with a holistic approach, that engages head, heart and hands. Stop Teaching: Principles and Practices for Responsible Management Education is a book for educators that challenges the (outdated) approach to teaching and invites the reader to try out simple techniques following the 10 Action Reflection Learning principles. This book is part of the UN PRME Collection.

In 2008 during my doctoral research, I met with 16 business leaders to find out what had motivated them to champion initiatives with a positive impact on the environment and the community. What I discovered were a number of common aspects – in how they thought, in how they saw themselves and their purpose. I called these core aspects the “Sustainability Mindset” and realized that we could intentionally develop it for a new generation of leaders shaping a better world. ‘Big Bang Being – Developing the Sustainability Mindset’ . Read the stories of those pioneers and how the concept of the Sustainability Mindset started, now a movement of educators in over 47 countries.

Seeking for ways to multiply change accelerators, in 2009 together with my friend Mariam Tamborenea, we started the charitable organization Minervas, Women Changing the World, to promote and support self-managing circles of women that share the desire to expand consciousness and shape a better world. We then created a guide to set up and facilitate Circles of Dialogue Minervas Circles of Dialogue. Available in Spanish: Ruedas de Diálogo.

Now that we are more aware of the need to proactively shape a sustainable world, how do we shift the mindset that created the problems? This was the question that inspired my colleague Ekaterina Ivanova and myself to create this book. We knew many colleagues around the world were creating important transformational learning experiences with their students, shifting their mindset and prompting engagement in actions. We invited them to share their stories and their tools. Find them in this book!

What is the role the leaders’ mindset plays in effective sustainability strategies? What are leaders’ motivations, conditions or environments that cause them to embrace sustainable practices? As described in the UN Sustainable Development Goal #8, embracing the sustainability mindset will lead to greater productivity and promote economic growth.

This is the theme of this book, that features authors from around the world, sharing their experiences and thinking.

This book invites the reader to join a conversation between people like them who have an inquiring mind about sustainability. How did we get here and how are we going to find solutions? The author guides the discussion based on the idea that we already have the key to open up solutions: it’s in our mindset.

Through these conversation, Isabel Rimanoczy explores, with the characters, the twelve principles of the Sustainability Mindset that offer a path to link head, heart and hands for a flourishing planet.

Let’s rewrite our future.

Developing the Sustainabiity mindset can be easy – if we have a good toolkit!

The Resource Workbooks Series offer 108 exercises to develop specifically the cognitive, behavioral or affective aspects of each of the Principles. The easy-to-facilitate exercises provide choices that can be adapted to different contexts.

The Series for Educators has activities for classroom or home assignment. The Series for Coaches has exercises designed for corporate clients and teams.

Developing the Sustainabiity mindset can be easy – if we have a good toolkit!

The Resource Workbooks Series offer 108 exercises to develop specifically the cognitive, behavioral or affective aspects of each of the Principles. The easy-to-facilitate exercises provide choices that can be adapted to different contexts.

The Series for Educators has activities for classroom or home assignment. The Series for Coaches has exercises designed for corporate clients and teams.