Event details

Academic Skills	Digital Literacy	Personal Development	Responsibility	Sustainability	Work Environment

Our world is full of movement: Technological innovations such as AI and renewable energies are opening up new possibilities, while we are seeing people around the world standing up for climate protection, social justice and diversity. As tiring as this can be, this time of change also offers us the chance to rediscover our own place in the world and actively help shape it.

In our one-day excursion, we will take time for this and ask: How can we ourselves be part of positive change? How do we relate to the world, to ourselves and to others? And what are the interactions between our relationships and sustainability?

We invite you to explore your inner strengths and see how personal growth influences external change. Connectedness and self-awareness are important skills for shaping a sustainable future. That’s why we alternate exercises from mindfulness and yoga practice with experiential elements in nature. The theoretical inputs are based on the concept of “personal sustainability”, which focuses on the relationship between ourselves and the world.

Aims of the day excursion:

• Activate and strengthen your inner resources
• Understand how inner and outer transformation are connected
• Experience connectedness with the group
• Develop ideas for a sustainable lifestyle and apply them in everyday life

The day excursion starts in the morning at the Red House in Karlsruhe-Rüppurr. Please bring weatherproof clothing and shoes, parts of the program will take place in the nearby Oberwald forest.

The prerequisite for participation is openness to the topic, in which you will deal with your inner world, as well as a curious and respectful interaction with each other.

Workload for ECTS:

• 1 ECTS: Committed participation, follow-up of the transfer tasks, written reflection

Required reading:

Parodi, O.; Tamm, K.: Personal Sustainability – Exploring a New Field of Sustainable Development. In:Parodi, O.; Tamm, K. (eds.) (2018): Personal Sustainability – Exploring the Far Side of Sustainable Development. New York: Routledge, p. 1-17.

Inner Developent Goals – Background, method and the IDG framework, https://drive.google.com/file/d/13fcf9xmYrX9wrsh3PC3aeRDs0rWsWCpA/edit. p. 12-26.

In depth (voluntary):

• Hunecke, Marcel (2013): Psychology of sustainability. Psychological resources for post-growth societies. Munich: Oekom Verlag.
• Further chapters from:
  Parodi, O.; Tamm, K. (eds.) (2018): Personal Sustainability – Exploring the Far Side of Sustainable Development. New York: Routledge.
• Grunwald, A.; Kopfmüller J. (2022): Sustainability. 3rd ed. Campus Verlag.
• WBGU (2011): World in Transition – Social Contract for a Great Transformation. Berlin: WBGU. Available online: https://issuu.com/wbgu/docs/wbgu_jg2011?fr=sMzhlOTM1OTc5NDI

Lecturer:

Susanne Ober:

Susanne Ober is a sustainability scientist and works at the Karlsruhe Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural Change at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

She focuses on transdisciplinary and transformative sustainability research in real-world laboratories. She is currently working in the project Universities in Society (https://kunah.de), which conducts theoretical research into the culture of sustainability at universities and implements it in a practical and experimental way.

Eva Wendeberg:

Eva Wendeberg is a geoecologist and works at the Karlsruhe Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural Change at KIT, focusing on sustainable nutrition. She practices the experience and feeling of personal sustainability in dance and shares it as a yoga teacher.

Dr. Oliver Parodi:

Oliver Parodi, a trained engineer, philosopher and cultural scientist, is a sustainability researcher and heads the Karlsruhe Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural Change at KIT. In addition to transdisciplinary real-world laboratory research, “personal sustainability” and “deep sustainability” are a matter close to his heart.