The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provided a comprehensive plan for a sustainable world from 2016 to 2030.
The Inner Development Goals (IDG) initiative started in 2021 as a co-created non-profit, open-source initiative by scientists, experts and HR & sustainability professionals, committed to fostering inner development towards more sustainable futures. This initiative seeks to “research, collect, and communicate science-based skills and qualities that help us live purposeful, sustainable, and productive lives.” It is committed to the development of inner growth for outer change and seeks to bring the power of inner development to global challenges faced by humanity.
As Tomas Björkman, Founder and Chair Ekskäret Foundation puts it, “Being human has many dimensions, and the dimension that we have been very good at exploring during the last couple of 100 years has been the external world, but we have come to a point where the outside perspective has to be complemented by an inside perspective.”
The IDG framework presents a map of Transformational Skills for Sustainable Development:
The Inner Development Goals film which starts with Jan Artem Henriksson, CEO, Inner Development Goals explaining that “The inner development goals show what inner shifts or human growth needs to happen in order for us to increase our chances of reaching the Sustainable Development Goals collectively” and continues with the perspectives of different experts on the need for inner development, highlighting the need for a deliberately developmental society and world with a call to action for participation across all levels, individual, organizational and systemic.
We also see Robert Kegan, Professor in Adult Development, Harvard University in the film say, “And as Einstein said, we are never going to be able to solve our problems with the same order of consciousness that created these problems. So as a species, we need more and more of us to grow and develop so that we have actually a bigger purchase on a bigger perspective on a bigger ability to solve the biggest, most dangerous kinds of challenges that we face.”
The invitation is for each of us to join in the collective efforts towards inner development at individual, organizational and systemic levels to grow our collective human capability to face the complex challenges of the world today and tomorrow.
At Career and Life Design Consulting, we are committed to inner development goals by partnering leaders, professionals and teams to connect with who they are, what matters and purpose to bring their best and unique contributions to life. An integral part of what we seek to do is to partner our clients to develop self-awareness, other-awareness and systemic-awareness to facilitate the development of agency to relate, collaborate and act to enable transformational change that flows from this awareness in our Coaching, Facilitation, Consulting and Inner Process work.
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