11-13 October 2025
Stockholm, Sweden
IDGs and Compassionate Systems Leadership:
Transform how you lead complex change.
Join legendary systems thinker Peter Senge for an intimate 3-day Masterclass in Stockholm on Compassionate Systems Leadership.
This rare opportunity brings together a global group of cross-sector leaders for a deep exploration of systems thinking and inner development. Learn to navigate complexity with clarity, integrate compassion into organisational DNA, and lead lasting institutional change.
Through immersive sessions, you’ll master Senge’s groundbreaking framework for weaving the IDGs into the fabric of your organisation.
Whether you’re leading a corporation, shaping policy, innovating in education, or driving social change, this masterclass equips you with the advanced tools to create sustainable systems change.
“The IDGs are opening a space of curiosity and engagement around the world.
Many recognise them as addressing a blindspot in how we are currently approaching global issues like climate change, inequity and the SDGs more broadly – namely, the ‘inner work’ of how we grow personally and inter-personally in order to confront and stay engaged creatively in fostering ongoing systems change.
What is needed now more than ever is lead institutions who are showing what it takes to work with the IDGs in practice and the benefits this can create.”
Peter Senge,
MIT Sloan School of Management
The Masterclass Experience
While many people talk about how “systems change” is needed, few people have a good grasp of how such change might occur and of the personal and interpersonal capacities systems change leadership entails.
Social systems work the way they do because of how we, the people embedded in the systems, work. Real systems change is an inevitably personal journey of personal growth and development. The deeper message of the IDGs is that by developing the personal and interpersonal capacities necessary for leadership, we can make meaningful progress towards the deep change the world needs.
This is why the Masterclass will be organised around hands-on practice with ‘compassionate systems leadership’ tools.
The Masterclass is aimed at teams and groups of pioneers from businesses, education, governmental and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) who are committed to learning how to embed the IDGs in how they and their own organisations work.
While individuals are welcome to attend, we highly recommend that teams of people from the same organisation attend together.
Peter Senge
Leadership and Sustainability at MIT Sloan
Boston, USA
A renowned thinker and author on systems thinking and organisational learning, wrote the bestseller The Fifth Discipline and is a senior lecturer at MIT, where he founded the Society for Organisational Learning.
Gustav Böll
Director of Youth Programs, Center for Systems Awareness
Copenhagen, Denmark
Leading the Youth Team at the Center for Systems Awareness, training students, teachers, and world leaders on the Compassionate Systems Framework to foster collaboration and address global challenges.
Peter Senge
Leadership and Sustainability at MIT Sloan
Boston, USA
A renowned thinker and author on systems thinking and organisational learning, wrote the bestseller The Fifth Discipline and is a senior lecturer at MIT, where he founded the Society for Organisational Learning.
Gustav Böll
Director of Youth Programs, Center for Systems Awareness
Copenhagen, Denmark
Leading the Youth Team at the Center for Systems Awareness, training students, teachers, and world leaders on the Compassionate Systems Framework to foster collaboration and address global challenges.
Who should attend?
Teams & Partners
The IDG Summit brings together forward-thinking leaders who understand that sustainable change starts from within.
Connect with peers who are integrating inner development into their leadership approach, organisational culture, and innovation strategies.
Leaders of All Ages
We deliberately pair young and established leaders: People in leadership positions, and those who support them, are important because of the formal authority they have. Equally important are the young people who are less attached to the ways of the past and can, prospectively, lead in ongoing systems change in the coming decades. They are leaders for today, not just the future.
Leaders for System Change
Leaders from all sectors aiming to drive systems change, including those with formal authority to shape their organisations’ future and network leaders who play a crucial role in spreading new ideas and practices across people and organisations.
Practical Information
Schedule
The 3-Day Training will take place in Stockholm on 11-13 October 2025.
Saturday, 11 Oct: 9:00 AM – 18:00
Sunday, 12 Oct: 9:00 – 18:00
Monday, 13 Oct: 9:00 – 16:30
What is expected of participants
Participants are expected to commit to two principles:
- Be there and present for the entire three days of the workshop.
- Be prepared to practice, this is not a classroom session of listening passively to lectures
Inclusivity
If you have difficulty paying for your ticket, please reach out to:
info@innerdevelopmentgoals.org
Tickets
For students and youths below 30 years of age.
INNER DEVELOPMENT GOALS
About Us
Our vision at Inner Development Goals is a world where inner development unlocks humanity’s potential to create a flourishing future for people and the planet.
As a non-profit initiative, we research, collect and communicate science-based skills and qualities that enable us to live purposeful, sustainable, and productive lives.
The Framework
The open-source IDG Framework, co-created with input from experts, scientists, practitioners and organisations worldwide, provides a shared language and structured roadmap to cultivate the essential inner skills needed for effective leadership, collaborative problem-solving, and sustainable societal change.
CONNECT WITH US
Be part of this transformative gathering – from inner growth to outer change.
summit@innerdevelopmentgoals.org