Inner Development Goals

Haven't found the right end-of-year reflection tool yet? Here's what the IDG team is using to close the year, and look ahead to 2025 - perhaps you'll find it useful too. Wishing you wonderful holiday season and beautiful start into the New Year!

🧩 Pioneer a Deep Dive Track at IDG Summit 2025  Are you driving inner-led transformation in your field?  Would you like to co-create a transformative learning space for leaders across countries and sectors? Following successful collaborations with organisations like WBCSD and UNFCCC's Global Innovation Hub, we're seeking visionary partners to shape our Summit's interactive Deep Dive Day. As a Track Partner, you'll: 🔸Design and lead transformative sessions for 100+ changemakers 🔹 Showcase your expertise in combining inner development with practical change 🔸 Connect and support global leaders across sectors 🔹Shape the conversation around inner development in your field For the first time, we're also inviting proposals for 1-2 digital tracks to be hosted outside Stockholm, expanding our global reach and impact. Previous tracks have explored corporate transformation, technology, education, climate innovation, and sustainable development, but we’re open to your unique perspective on where inner development could create meaningful change. What transformative space will you create? 🗓️ Apply by 24 January, 2025 🔗 Learn More: https://lnkd.in/ev76YnJa #InnerDevelopmentGoals #IDGs #IDGSummit2025 #DeepDive #Leadership #Co-Creation

There's a decision to be made: Victim or Co-creator? Before the year ends, here are some reflections from this year's IDG Summit "The Space In Between" to make sense of the world in 2024. See below the trailer, or watch the full (5 min) after-movie: https://lnkd.in/dE23rcrb Thank you Tho Ha Vinh PhD, Gail Uncontrollable Wildfires Whiteman, Massamba Thioye, Kristen Cordell, Paul Mbikayi, Tony Bond, Eric Booth, Rachael Jacobs for joining us and sharing your voice! 🎬 Visionary Films Stockholm 🎫 Psst.. want to join the IDG Summit in 2025? Check the comments - special deals available until the New Year!

Many unfortunate thresholds were crossed this year (👋 1.5c), but let's celebrate the fact that 2024 was also a watershed moment for the inner dimension of sustainability and social change in mainstream policy thinking! 🏛️ 🤓 📃 🎉 From the wonderful Kristen Cordell taking it to her colleagues in the White House and Frank Niepold and Haley C. leading a game-changing coalition of US federal agency experts, to Massamba Thioye making it an official UNFCCC topic at COP29 for the first time and Club of Rome Co-President Sandrine Dixson-Declève commissioning a paper that highlights this vital missing piece of the puzzle in systems thinking. Collaborating with these visionaries has been a dream come true. I write about all these developments with links to some important resources in a digest of my work in 2024: https://lnkd.in/d7TQDFHz To cap it off, the UN recently made December 21st - the solstice - 'World Meditation Day' and IPBES (the intergovernmental body on biodiversity) yesterday released it's assessment of 'transformative change' that fully integrates the need for both inner and outer shifts: https://lnkd.in/dczfPgZ7. (Hat tip to lead author and holistic thinking champion Karen O'Brien) Without this inner lens complementing all the great work being done in the 'outer' domain of systems change, we've been addressing the situation with one eye closed and one hand tied behind our back. It's cause for hope that integrated approaches are now on the cards. Who knows what we can do with all the pieces in play! Here's wishing those of you still at your desks a happy Christmas period and fruitful year ahead 🎅🌲

🎁 Wrapping Up the Year: The IDG Summit Official After-Movie is Here! As the year draws to a close, we're delighted to share a glimpse into the magic that unfolded at the IDG Summit 2024, where over 6000 hearts and minds explored 'The Space in Between’ - that fertile ground where inner wisdom meets outer action. From illuminating keynotes to transformative workshops, from artistic expressions to moments of deep reflection, experience Summit insights that reveal how inner development can catalyse systemic change and planetary flourishing. To our growing global community: thank you for being part of this journey toward a more conscious, sustainable future. Whether these holidays bring large celebrations or quiet reflection, may you find inspiration in the journey we share and strength in the growth that connects us all. ▶️ Watch the full after-movie here: https://lnkd.in/esa3DAhd 🎫 Secure your spot at next year’s Summit: https://lnkd.in/eXx7tX2J  With love and gratitude, The IDG Team ❤️  🎬 Visionary Films Stockholm #InnerDevelopmentGoals #IDG #IDGSummit #InnerGrowthOuterChange #Leadership #Community

🧭 Your Insights, Our Collective Evolution: Help Shape the Future of Inner Development Whether you're entering a holiday season of reflection and celebration or continuing your daily practice, your perspective on inner development is vital to our shared understanding.  For the final months of the IDG Survey, we wish to invite more voices from diverse cultural contexts and wisdom traditions to help evolve the IDG Framework and inner development field as a whole. By sharing your unique insights through our survey, you'll: 🔸 Help shape a more inclusive and globally representative framework 🔹 Enrich our collective understanding of inner development 🔸 Receive complimentary access to all IDG Summit 2024 recordings and materials This is one of the final opportunities to access the full Summit platform and recordings freely through survey participation before data collection closes in January 2025! 🌍 Take and share the survey to help co-create a framework that truly serves our diverse global community. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/di_n84H8  #IDGs #InnerDevelopmentGoals #IDGSurvey #Cocreation #IDGFramework

Facing the #Metacrisis: A Call for #Deeper #Leadership – Join our first #inperson 2025 Inner Development Goals #Switzerland Community Event at Impact Hub Basel. We’ll explore how spirituality can reshape leadership in a way that is grounded, professional, and highly relevant to today’s challenges. We are facing a #metacrisis — a perfect storm of interrelated global challenges: the #mentalhealth pandemic, abusive and #addictive behaviors, ecological destruction, overconsumption, human exploitation, etc. The #extractionist #mindset that drives excessive #consumption and #exploitation of people and resources is not sustainable. To create a #sustainable future, we need to go beyond the material and shift our #leadership approach. This is not about religion or belief in any god. It’s about cultivating a deeper spiritual connection to ourselves, to each other, and to the natural world. Spirituality, in this context, is about reconnecting with what truly matters and feeling at home in the world—beyond just material concerns. Event Highlights: 🌟 Explore #research at the intersection of #spirituality and #leadership: Learn how a spiritual mindset—not tied to any religion—can help leaders make decisions that align with long-term sustainability and human well-being. 🌟 #Holistic leadership: Understand how spiritual awareness can enhance corporate culture, improve mental health, and foster a sense of belonging in organizations. 🌟 Engage in #conversation and activities: Join like-minded leaders to explore meaningful, non-religious approaches to leadership in response to global challenges. This event is a space for open-minded leaders—whether seasoned or new—who are ready to embrace a deeper, non-religious form of leadership that addresses the complex crises we face. Spirituality in leadership can help us reconnect with purpose, clarity, and compassion. Join us on this journey toward a new era of holistic, responsible leadership

What will it take to bridge the gap for the SDGs? 🌍✨ Our theme partner for 2025 Inner Development Goals Executive Director Jan Artem Henriksson shares how inner development can drive real progress—an inspiring read for the holiday season! 🎄

With climate anxiety on the rise and conflicts over resources looming, the question isn’t just how we’ll tackle climate change—but whether we’re equipped with the skills to navigate its challenges. In my latest article, I explore: 🌱 What climate anxiety is and how it’s affecting us. 🌱 Why global action isn’t happening fast enough. 🌱 The critical skills we need—such as conflict resolution, critical thinking, and insights from the Inner Development Goals (IDGs)—to address the social and economic challenges of a warming world. #innerdevelopmentgoals #climateconflict #skills

💡 When climate conversations feel stuck, sometimes we need a different approach. Frederic Laloux author of 'Reinventing Organizations', who joined us for the IDG pre-Summit Special in October, has a powerful invitation for our community as we enter 2025. Read his personal call to action below and discover how inner development can spark meaningful climate conversations in your network. “As 2024 comes to close, the fact that the climate is changing rapidly might feel more obvious than ever. And yet – as I shared during the IDG pre-Summit Special last month – we all have people in our lives who feel stuck: they somehow know this but try to ignore it because they don’t know what to do about it. What if there was an easy, powerful way to get them on board? A way for them to stop avoiding the topic, and to feel proud and energised rather than overwhelmed? That’s what we created The Week for. The Week is this powerful group experience that anyone can use, for free, to spark real, emotional conversations about the climate crisis and what we can do about it. This happens by coming together with a group of people three times over the course of a week or two, each time to watch an hour-long documentary and have a powerful guided conversation. More than 70,000 people have gone through The Week and taken their first climate action as a result! So, try it! Who among your friends, family members or colleagues will you invite to do this with you?" 🗓️ Schedule ‘The Week’ for 2025: https://www.theweek.ooo/ 🗣️ Have you already experienced The Week? Share your story in the comments to inspire others to take the journey. #IDGs #InnerDevelopmentGoals #TheWeek #ClimateAction #ClimateConversations #ClimateCrisis