Meet the Inner Development Goals
The IDGs are a blueprint of the capabilities, qualities, and skills needed to build a world of peace, dignity, and prosperity on a healthy planet. The IDGs believe that personal development is necessary for societal change and that inner development could be the greatest possible accelerator to create a prosperous future for humanity. They can also help create a pathway to discover more meaning, fulfillment, and purpose in your work and life.
Exploring the IDGs: Being & Relationship to Self
We’re exploring each dimension of the Inner Development Goals and looking at questions and ideas to help you identify skills that can bring focus to your developmental goals and commitments. And I’d like to start with the category that is the foundation of my coaching practice.
Relationship to Self involves cultivating our inner lives and developing and deepening our relationship to our thoughts, feelings, and body to help us be present, intentional, and non-reactive when we face the complexity of our relationships and world today.
Exploring the IDGs: Thinking & Cognitive Skills
The next category is Thinking. Something we are doing constantly! But how do we expand our thinking skills to serve the bigger picture and purpose?
Exploring the IDGs: Relating
This category is about how we feel appreciation, care for, and connection to others, and how broadly we feel this. Deep care and contact help us create more sustainable systems and societies for everyone. A world that works for all.
Exploring the IDGs: Collaboration
The fourth IDG focus is Collaboration, a critical skill for progressing on shared concerns. To collaborate and co-create, we develop our ability to include, hold space, and communicate with stakeholders with different values, skills, and competencies. To solve big problems, we need each other!
Exploring the IDGs: Acting
The final dimension in the Inner Development Goals framework is Acting. How we move forward, how we enable and drive change. This involves skills such as courage, optimism, and perseverance. But you may be surprised to consider how our creativity and imagination move us forward, not only individually but also for the greater good.