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SUSTAINABILITY MINDSET INDICATOR (SMI) CERTIFICATE - March 30, 2023

For our Graduates of the Sustainability Mindset Action Lab!

You are invited - as a next step after the Action Lab - to participate in the Sustainability Mindset Indicator (SMI) Certificate.

This 3 hour workshop will give you a practical experience to use this tool with your students, do research and design specific interventions to support their mindset development. Reserve your space HERE.

Don't see your upcoming event listed? Send us your information to share it in our next Newsletter! Email it to Martine.

Ed Cunliff, Professor of

Adult and Higher Education at University of Central Oklahoma, US, created a book club led by students, and they are using this book to have sustainability conversations.

Leila Halawi submitted a proposal to develop a center for teaching sustainability across the curriculum. The first step would be to organize a workshop and training program to accelerate sustainability research and education at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) across multiple disciplines.

Cathy O'Brien organized a multidisciplinary forum for the British Assoc. of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes, addressing questions like: How can we guide students to new ways of thinking about their roles in a complex, challenging and changing world?

Isabel Rimanoczy was invited as a keynote speaker.

From Xuanwei Cao, with Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University,  China:

On behalf of China Academic Committee for Responsible Management Education (CACRME), I would like to share our event information and invite you to participate in our meeting in May. At present, CACRME is a temporal alternative virtual entity for PRME Chapter China. Read more HERE.

From Orla Kelleher, Derby University, UK:

We are starting a new pilot. I am both programme leader and module leader for the first two modules (The Case for Sustainable & Ethical Business) and (Sustainable & Ethical Strategy). It is aimed at business leaders and designed to help them accelerate the embedding of responsible values into their organisation.  We are also using the SMI as a before and after diagnostic as we focus on both the inner work (mindset, values, behaviours) as well as the outer business transformation activities (strategy, leadership, sustainable operations & ethical marketing, finance and accounting, etc). 

From Shirley Yeung, Gratia Christian College, Hong Kong:

I was shortlisted and invited to display my art related SDGs in Bangkok, United Nations Bldg - March 27 to 31 -

https://www.unescap.org/events/2023/apfsd10-call-sdg-acceleration-pavillion 

"The PRME WG on Sustainability Mindset is an exciting initiative, because it constitutes a practical approach to further embed sustainability principles into the academic curriculum. Moreover, it is student-centered and puts an emphasis on individual development." Emmanuelle Reuter. 

Carina Hopper, France

Yi Liu, USA

Nisa Vinodkumar, Saudi Arabia

Nadine Pratt, Germany

Miles Weaver, Scotland, UK

Linda Irwin, USA

Johanna Wagner, Belgium

Jan Fronek, Czech Republic

Felicity Small, Australia

Emmanuelle Reuter, Switzerland

SMI in Bahasa- Indonesian!

Our colleague Wulandini Wulan approached us with a project funded by the Indonesian government, to train teachers of the country's Green Schools. She decided that the Sustainability Mindset indicator could provide a personal and professional development opportunity. With her support, the SMI was translated into Indonesian, and is ready to be used there now!

Take the 5 min DEMO here!

A student's voice: "It was good to read the suggestions after every section, as it mentions ideas or attitudes I never thought about, but they would be easy to incorporate into my habits. I read the whole report more than once already as I try to learn from my weaknesses and take the advice and suggestions from the report." 

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Are you a graduate of the Fast Track or the Action LAB? You are ready for the 4 hrs. Certificate for Educators to administer and use the SMI with students.

Karen Cripps, Oxford-Brookes University, published a Review of the book Sustainability: We need to talk (Rimanoczy, 2022) in the SAGE Journal of General Management. Find it HERE.

Business schools, Leadership and the Sustainable Development Goals: The future of responsible management education is a new book edited by our colleague Lars Moratis and by Frans Melissen.

Chapter contributors include our members Ruth Areli Garcia Leon, Germany; Alex Hope, UK, and Karen Cripps, UK.

 Find it HERE.

CSR Encyclopedia: The project is taking off! After a halt during COVID, it will be published by Edward Elgar Publishers, and the Sustainability Mindset is part of the Encyclopedia!. Thanks Karen Cripps for moving this along!

Imagine receiving this text on your phone!

Nisa Vinodkumar inspired this appreciative comment from a student at her school, the all women College of Business and Administration, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Four levels of development

Our new member Nisa Vinodkumar shared with us this model, extracted from the presentation by Vishen Lakhiani on Consciousness and the Big Questions, based on Alan Watt's thinking. Check it out!