"In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) gave us a comprehensive plan for a sustainable world by 2030. Although we have accumulated much knowledge about the climate crisis, poverty, public health, and other social ills communicated in the SDGs, we seem to lack the inner capacity to deal with our increasingly complex environment and challenges."
Inner Development Goals (IDG) was created as global movement "to bring attention to the inner capacities we must develop to confront the great challenges of our day. IDG is a non-profit, open-source initiative committed to fostering inner development towards more sustainable futures. They research, collect, and communicate science-based skills and qualities that help us to live purposeful, sustainable, and productive lives."
The IDG initiative was first introduced at the MindShift Digital Conference in April 2020 at the Stockholm School of Economics. Since then there have been three IDG Summits.
The 2025 IDG Summit will occur October 15-17, 2025 in Stockholm. Click here for more information and registration.
Gib Bulloch captures the unique spirit of IDG Summit in his latest piece for The Beautiful Truth magazine: Why Sustainable Development Must Start with Inner Development
Gib explores why reaching the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) must begin with inner growth.
As the graphic above shows, there are five main pillars to the inner development framework:
Being: This is your relationship to self. How might we deepen our relationship to our thoughts, feelings and body to help us be more present, intentional and non-reactive when we face complexity?
Thinking: Our cognitive skills. Not in short supply in the very brilliant, but too often these skills are linear and narrow in the business world. Can we expand them by taking different perspectives, evaluating information, and making sense of the world as an interconnected whole?
Relating: Caring for others and the world. Can you name anyone who’s against that? It’s more than just appreciating each other. It’s about challenging ourselves to feel more connected to future generations and the biosphere and to create more sustainable systems and societies for everyone.
Collaborating: What are our social skills? They’re not talking about social media skills here. It asks us about our abilities to include, hold space, and communicate with stakeholders with different values, skills, and competencies.
Acting: Enabling change. The doing to balance the being of the first goal. Can we find the courage and optimism to break old patterns, generate original ideas and act with persistence in uncertain times?"
I became aware of IDG through the November 27, 2024 IDG Revolution Podcast, Season 1, Ephisode 6, where Dr. Max Klau interviewed Sheila Hassell Hughes, the Chief Operating Officer of the nonprofit Human Energy that was founded to introduce the science of the Noosphere as a source of meaning for future generations in our globalizing world.
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