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This chapter provides personal – co-autoethnographic – reflections on the journey of authenticity development and servant leadership through the lens of the relational proximity framework. The authors look back on their combined 90 years of experience working in three areas: the creation of jobs and livelihoods; peace and reconciliation; and the environment and the development of a sustainable economy. Lefroy and Woollcombe maintain that young people should be introduced to the principles of servant leadership early and throughout their education as part of their empowerment and confidence-building processes and suggest three avenues for research: servant leadership in practice, innovative curriculum development and work relationship measurement.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a menu of instruction methods for educators to increase engagement in sustainable practices. The paper also aims to assist those increasing the understanding of education for sustainable development, to the power of two‐EfSD², through research and teaching.

This paper provides a descriptive and analytical approach to the field of education for sustainable development. It includes a review of the relevant literature on stewardship and sustainable practices.

The paper provides a succinct summary of gaps to and remedies for sustainable development. It offers a comprehensive explanation of eight distinct approaches to education for sustainable development.

The application of EfSD² methods described in this paper have been found to increase productive results through enabling learners to grapple with and create solutions for real life sustainability problems. The paper proposes a more thorough testing of the various educational methods to assess their effectiveness in increasing sustainable practices.

As far as the author is aware, this paper is the first to compile this “tool kit” for EfSD². It offers the reader new ways to interpret older techniques along with a plethora of instructional methods not previously consolidated to advance stewardship and sustainable practices.