
Exploring the IDGs: Being
We’re exploring each dimension of the Inner Development Guide 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.
Cultivating our inner life involves 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
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 Guide is Acting. How we move forward, how we enable and drive change. This involves skills such as courage, optimism, and perseverance. Building collective agency and acting with purpose and persistence turns visions into meaningful change in uncertain times.