Transformation Literacy

Petra Künkel is an executive board member of the International Club of Rome and the founder of the Collective Leadership Institute, a Germany, USA and South Africa-based social enterprise building collaboration competency for transformative change towards world sustainability. As a seasoned systems psychologist, visionary author and expert in complex multi-stakeholder settings, she promotes systems transformations by scaling-up collective stewardship skills for decision-makers from corporations, public sector and civil society. With her educational background in change management, organizational psychology and political science, she has profound international experiences in corporate change, development cooperation and policy implementation. She is a leading strategic advisor to pioneering international initiatives that tackle sustainability challenges. Based on successful transformation processes, she developed the dialogic change methodology and the Collective Leadership Compass, a guiding tool for navigating change in complex multi-actor settings. Petra Künkel's ground-breaking previous publications The Art of Leading Collectively (Chelsea Green 2016) and Stewarding Sustainability Transformations (Springer Nature 2019) received international attention. Petra Künkel is also the lead author for the open access transformation guide Leading Transformative Change Collectively (Routledge 2020).Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir is a member of the International Club of Rome and is the professor of Sustainability Science at the Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland.  Previously, she was the dean of Engineering and Natural Sciences at the University of Iceland and the professor of Environmental Sustainability at the University of Bristol, UK.  She is actively involved with international think tanks on sustainability including being an ambassador and a formal global council member of the Well-being Economy Alliance, a distinguished fellow at the Schumacher Institute (UK), and a member and the former vice president of the Balaton Group. Vala is a member of several scientific academies such as Academia Europaea, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Icelandic Academy and the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce.   Grounded in Earth Sciences, Vala has been envisioning sustainable futures with her students since the turn of the century.  Her research engagement focuses on evaluating natural resources and their economics link through system dynamics, determining sustainability indicators for soil, tourism and the circular and well-being economy and finding fabric for sustainable communities.  Her recent activities include casting light on corruption in natural resource management, linking population, soil, phosphorous and sustainable land management with food security, developing groundwork for new economies to achieve the SDGs and demonstrating the needfor the well-being economy and female leadership due to the global climate emergency. She was a member of the Prime Minister´s of Bhutan International Expert Group on new indicators for UN development inspired by Gross National Happiness.  Vala was a member of the Icelandic Prime Minister committee that developed 39 indicators well-being and the government´s committee outlining future energy policy to 2050.  She is the author of over 100 academic publications and chapters.  Vala co-edited Pollutants, Human Health and the Environment. A Risk Approach published by Wiley (2011) and was a subject editor of The Oxford Companion to the Earth published by Oxford University Press (2000). She has also co-edited several special journal issues.

• Introduction and conceptual framing – transformation literacy as a future-making skill.- Part 1: Mindsets in service of wellbeing on a healthy planet.- Setting the scene: How to connect with a world as an interconnected whole.- The same tone, but a new sound – understanding the story of the soul as pathway to regenerative civilizations.- Possible futures.- Transformative literacy as the ability to look forward from within.- Chinese cultural treasures as contributions to a mindset of interconnectedness for global transformations.- The systems aliveness approach - from navigating emergency to stewarding wellbeing on a healthy planet.- Part 2: Systems that enable and safeguard wellbeing on a healthy planet.- Setting the scene: Viewing the world as interconnected systems.- Everything is connected - envisioning how a regenerative world looks like.- Managing forestry in a sustainable manner, the importance of system´s analysis.- Sustainable community transformation process.-The role of capacity-building in Sumba, Indonesia.- Towards transformation to a wellbeing economy in an African country: A case study from Namibia.- A not-for-profit economy for a regenerative sustainable world.- Politics, systems thinking and building the wellbeing economy: The example of Wales.- Part 3: Processes for stewarding transformations towards wellbeing and a healthy planet.- Setting the scene: How to enhance the knowledge and practice of transformation literacy.- Turning mindshifts into transformation leadership.- Models of Change: Strategies to make the socio-ecological transformation a success .- Red Snow - when the Climate Bleeds: A Nordic art and science project .- Collaborative transformations: Circular economy strategies in Europe.- Small scale and large scale – why networks are the cornerstone of transformations.- Collective stewardship towards economies in service to life.- Memories of our collective future.