Inner Development Goals
The 23 skills needed to achieve the SDGs
In 2015, the UN Sustainable Development Goals provided us with a comprehensive plan for a sustainable world by 2030. However, progress is not happening fast enough. Right now, it doesn’t look like we will reach the goals in time.
As Einstein said, “we are never going to be able to solve our problems with the same order of consciousness that created those problems”.
To push and implement change in our paradigm, we need individuals who have changed paradigm. There is an urgent need to increase our collective abilities to face and work effectively with complex challenges. SDGs will be implemented at the pace and depth needed only when we bring the human factor back into the map and we appreciate, develop and promote individual skills that can bring us the world envisioned by the SDGs.
The Inner Development Goals are a blueprint of the capabilities, qualities and skills that are needed to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, developed gathering data and validating methods with the help of universities worldwide. Their aim is to educate, inspire and empower people to be a positive force leading change in society.
As Einstein said, “we are never going to be able to solve our problems with the same order of consciousness that created those problems”.
To push and implement change in our paradigm, we need individuals who have changed paradigm. There is an urgent need to increase our collective abilities to face and work effectively with complex challenges. SDGs will be implemented at the pace and depth needed only when we bring the human factor back into the map and we appreciate, develop and promote individual skills that can bring us the world envisioned by the SDGs.
The Inner Development Goals are a blueprint of the capabilities, qualities and skills that are needed to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, developed gathering data and validating methods with the help of universities worldwide. Their aim is to educate, inspire and empower people to be a positive force leading change in society.
The Best Journey Ever designs and facilitates
IDG Transitions and Transformations
Discover the IDGs 5 dimensions, 23 skills, a toolkit of methodologies proven to work, and the open access approach behind this evolutionary path.
Upcoming Inner Development Goals Events
AMSTERDAM, MAY 10TH
Come join us at the Erasmus University, Erasmus Sustainability Days, for a Workshop on the Inner Development Goals.
During the workshop we will:
ESD aims to generate effective positive impact and change, by incorporating a diverse variety of actors from different fields in society. With this aim in mind, the event gathers a wide range of actors from students to managers, politicians, and activists for a full five days. The initiative attempts to facilitate and encourage cross-contextual exchange and collaboration, while granting opportunities to share, connect and build for a brighter future.
Come join us at the Erasmus University, Erasmus Sustainability Days, for a Workshop on the Inner Development Goals.
During the workshop we will:
- discover the IDGs’ 5 dimensions: Being, Thinking, Relating, Collaborating, and Acting
- experience the practical application of the 23 skills, and the co-creative open source approach of the framework
- find out how the framework can be introduced and cultivated in the work we do with others, when acting as larger organizational entities in complex changing environments
- How does systemic change work?
- What can we do, personally, to engage with complexity in an active way and to drive positive outcomes?
- How do our inner world, our cognitive and emotional development, and our behaviour, connect tangibly to the outer world and a sustainable future for society and the entire ecosystem?
ESD aims to generate effective positive impact and change, by incorporating a diverse variety of actors from different fields in society. With this aim in mind, the event gathers a wide range of actors from students to managers, politicians, and activists for a full five days. The initiative attempts to facilitate and encourage cross-contextual exchange and collaboration, while granting opportunities to share, connect and build for a brighter future.
13:30 - 15:00 Erasmus Sustainability Hub, Rotterdam - Tickets and more info here
Past events
GLOBAL, MARCH 7TH
The way forward is inward: Exploring the Inner Development Goals with the global B-Corp Community
Join this upcoming workshop by THNK and The Best Journey Ever on the Inner Development Goals (IDGs). Learn why the IDGs are a critical complement to the SDGs and experience how the IDG skills can be put into practice when addressing (business) challenges. Note: this session will be interactive, including breakout rooms.
The IDGs are a global initiative blueprinting the qualities and skills needed to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Their aim is to educate, inspire and empower people to be a positive force to lead change in society, while managing complex systemic environmental and social issues. Get inspired to go beyond business as usual in this workshop, showcasing best practices to activate sustainable change leadership.
During this interactive workshop we will go:
Join this upcoming workshop by THNK and The Best Journey Ever on the Inner Development Goals (IDGs). Learn why the IDGs are a critical complement to the SDGs and experience how the IDG skills can be put into practice when addressing (business) challenges. Note: this session will be interactive, including breakout rooms.
The IDGs are a global initiative blueprinting the qualities and skills needed to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Their aim is to educate, inspire and empower people to be a positive force to lead change in society, while managing complex systemic environmental and social issues. Get inspired to go beyond business as usual in this workshop, showcasing best practices to activate sustainable change leadership.
During this interactive workshop we will go:
- Beyond Sustainability as Usual: Look inside. Becoming aware of the inner capabilities required to carry through the vision of the SDGs. Do you and your organization have the skills it takes?
- Beyond Inner: Connect to the outer. Understanding the relationship between inner development (IDGs) and our natural and social environment (SDGs). Can we and how do we take better responsibility?
- Beyond Personal: Back to business. Activating the change beyond the personal sphere: influencing sustainable professional processes to tackle complex challenges - in practice - in business. Can we empower more?
- Beyond Business: Accelerate impact. How to ingrain the IDGs inside business processes, in Governance, with Workers and Customers, accelerating positive impact on both Environment and Community. Will we, all together, reach our goals?
AMSTERDAM, FEBRUARY 28th, @ ZOKU
Workshop Inner Development Goals – an evening to discover the greatest possible accelerator towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
Becoming a force for good.
Can we solve problems with the same mindset that created them?
Personal development is key to societal change.
To envision, push and implement change in the global paradigm, we need to be the individuals who have changed their inner paradigm.
During the workshop we will:
Becoming a force for good.
Can we solve problems with the same mindset that created them?
Personal development is key to societal change.
To envision, push and implement change in the global paradigm, we need to be the individuals who have changed their inner paradigm.
During the workshop we will:
- discover the IDGs’ 5 dimensions, 23 skills, the open source toolkit, the Global Leadership Programme already connecting 100 senior leaders across the world and the co-creative open source and free for all approach behind this evolutionary path.
- experience the practical application of the IDGs
- find out how they can be implemented in the work of organisations, as well as in the services we offer to clients
- Enjoy drinks and each other
AMSTERDAM, JANUARY 31st, @ EQUALS.AMSTERDAM
Discover the IDGs, the open access toolkit and how you can get started straight away adopting the framework personally or in your organisation, in this vibrant evening organised with Equals.Amsterdam, in their beautiful settings on the Raamgracht.
On December 15th 2022 the Open Source Inner Development Goals Toolkit was launched, to an audience of almost 1000 people gathering from all over the world. Organisations like Google, Ikea, Ericsson, and many more, have already embraced the framework as the greatest possible accelerator to reach the Sustainable Development Goals, towards a socially and ecologically prosperous future for all.
During the event we will explore the IDG framework and toolkit, experience their practical application, and find out how they can be implemented in the work of organisations, as well as in the services we offer to clients.
We will talk about the 5 dimensions, the 23 skills, the open access framework and how changing the way we operate innerly can accelerate impactful change outwardly. We will experience in practice how the IDGs can be integrated in our business workings and how to get started incorporating them in our personal and professional practice.
The Best Journey Ever will host a special guest, Sander Tideman, sustainable leadership educator, entrepreneur and humanitarian, author of Triple Value Leadership. Sander has worked for 20 years with His Holiness the Dalai Lama on one hand and corporates like Unilever on the other, authoring the book Business as Instrument for Societal Change – In Conversation with the Dalai Lama, where the concept of "business for good" was firstly introduced. He has been a frontrunner in the humanistic approach to sustainable development. Sander will share with us the stories of what miracles he saw happening in big corporations and governments when their top tiers started working on inner development as a way to directly address their business models/country economies. He will tell us how this approach actually increased the economic value, rather than impacting it negatively as the markets would have us believe, while caring for the health of people and planet.
On December 15th 2022 the Open Source Inner Development Goals Toolkit was launched, to an audience of almost 1000 people gathering from all over the world. Organisations like Google, Ikea, Ericsson, and many more, have already embraced the framework as the greatest possible accelerator to reach the Sustainable Development Goals, towards a socially and ecologically prosperous future for all.
During the event we will explore the IDG framework and toolkit, experience their practical application, and find out how they can be implemented in the work of organisations, as well as in the services we offer to clients.
We will talk about the 5 dimensions, the 23 skills, the open access framework and how changing the way we operate innerly can accelerate impactful change outwardly. We will experience in practice how the IDGs can be integrated in our business workings and how to get started incorporating them in our personal and professional practice.
The Best Journey Ever will host a special guest, Sander Tideman, sustainable leadership educator, entrepreneur and humanitarian, author of Triple Value Leadership. Sander has worked for 20 years with His Holiness the Dalai Lama on one hand and corporates like Unilever on the other, authoring the book Business as Instrument for Societal Change – In Conversation with the Dalai Lama, where the concept of "business for good" was firstly introduced. He has been a frontrunner in the humanistic approach to sustainable development. Sander will share with us the stories of what miracles he saw happening in big corporations and governments when their top tiers started working on inner development as a way to directly address their business models/country economies. He will tell us how this approach actually increased the economic value, rather than impacting it negatively as the markets would have us believe, while caring for the health of people and planet.
