Table 1.

Beyond climate leadership program overview

Modules	Problem addressed	Goals of session	Session and home practice examples	Transformative qualities/capacities (clusters) targeted
Module 1: Welcome (Introduction and kick-off)		•Taking ownership of the development journey •Onboarding to the learning platform, app, and collaborative software used •Getting to know and connecting with participants and trainers	•Mindfulness-based practice “Breathing Space” •Group reflection about the personal motivation and understanding of leadership and sustainability	•Awareness •Purpose
Module 2: Connect (Opening the mind)	•Lack of awareness due to perception errors and biases impacts the ability to relate to the climate crisis, nature, and us	•Understanding how awareness is linked to sustainability •Learning how to cultivate openness, curiosity, and awareness, and to create space for habit change •Develop a more relational view of reality by spending time in nature, and by practicing attention and self-regulation	•Mindfulness-based practice: Open, relational awareness (linking inner and outer dimensions) •Dyads and/or small-group reflections: barriers to habit change; how to create space for habit change •Guided nature walk (1): Connecting with one’s senses •Journaling	•Awareness •Insight
Module 3: Open up (Opening the heart)	•Unawareness of emotions and their impact on our (in)activity. •Climate anxiety can negatively affect adequate and sustained engagement in pro-environmental actions across scales	•Learning how to cultivate empathy, awareness, and resilience as a way to explore and regulate the full range of emotions relating to the climate crisis •Experiencing the intelligence of such emotions, and the connection to oneself, others, and nature as a whole	•Mindfulness-based practices: body scan and gratitude meditation (linking inner and outer dimensions) •Guided nature walk (2): nature as a teacher. •Dyads and/or small-group reflections: emotions related to the state of the planet and our shared humanity •Habit change exercises (mindfulness and compassion as a way of living and acting in the world) •Journaling	•Awareness •Connection
Module 4: Care (Increasing care for oneself, others, nature)	•Feeling overwhelmed/lacking confidence to address the climate crisis adequately (informed by a limited view of ourselves in relation to the collective and systems)	•Learning how to cultivate perspective-taking and compassion •Experiencing how the relationship to internal and external events impacts well-being of oneself and the world at large •Compassion as a healing way to relate caringly to oneself and others	•Mindfulness- and compassion-based practices: Compassion for oneself and others •Guided nature walk (3): state of the planet. •Dyads and/or small-group reflection: the nature of self/shared humanity. •Habit change exercises •Journaling	•Connection •Insight
Module 5: Explore (Finding one’s own role)	•Gap in understanding of actions to address climate change •Lack of exploring and understanding the possibilities of becoming active within the work context	•Further exploring one’s own purpose and potential role in effectively addressing climate change •Draft individual and group projects/breakthrough initiatives to be undertaken in the next two weeks	•Mindfulness- and compassion-based practices: compassion for oneself, others, and nature; visioning exercise (purpose) •Guided nature walk (4): Further elaboration of one’s role in addressing the climate crisis •Dyads and/or small-group reflections: reflections on personal calling (agency) •Habit change exercises •Journaling	•Linking all previous clusters
Module 6: Collaborate (Embodying as new way of being, acting, and leading)	•Lack of clarity about which actions may have most impact •Lack of understanding of integrative approaches that link inner and outer transformation	•Developing the collaborative projects/initiatives based on universal, intrinsic values, and purpose •Complexity and systems thinking •Setting up the action lab •Supporting co-creation	•Mindfulness- and compassion-based practices: compassion for oneself, others, the world at large •Guided collaborative ideation process (supporting systems and complexity thinking and co-creation) •Guided nature walk (5): visualizing one’s project coming to life. •Journaling	•Linking previous clusters with agency
Module 7: Action lab (Breakthrough initiatives; developing projects and a community of change)	•Lack of network and community to sustain transformative actions	•Action lab: defining concrete ways in which groups of participants aim to make a difference •Building a network of transformative and compassionate leaders	•Mindfulness-based practice: gratitude •Action lab: prototyping and defining next steps •Journaling	•Linking previous clusters with agency
All modules (Linking individual, collective, and system transformation)	•Sustainability crises •Climate change as an interconnected sustainability crisis •Fragmented approaches for individual, collective, and system transformation	•Linking inner and outer transformation toward sustainability	•Linking and adapting mindfulness practices with other practices for nurturing compassion, habit change, transformational leadership, systems and complexity thinking, and nature-based approaches	•All clusters