Research highlights the importance of fostering intellectual openness in educational settings to facilitate transformative learning experiences, which lead to profound personal change, fundamentally altering students' perceptions and frames of reference. As a highly ambitious, human-centered framework, transformative learning unfolds as a long-term process, cultivating essential soft skills such as critical thinking, self-awareness, empathy, and adaptability. By fostering these competencies in layered, iterative ways, it prepares students to navigate an increasingly complex, nuanced, and ever-evolving world. Moreover, it deepens their engagement with pressing global challenges (including diversity and inclusion, sustainability, geopolitical dynamics, and rapid socio-digital transformations), ultimately equipping them to take meaningful action.