Today’s world is dividing socially and politically, environmentally and technologically. Leading to ever-growing tensions, conflicts and even war. As a consequence, we find ourselves pulled between opposing stories, values and worldviews. Making it harder to stay grounded in what truly matters, listen to contexts and work for the benefit of future generations on a flourishing planet.
At the IDG Summit 2025, together we will explore how to navigate the polarities we all bring with more wisdom, courage, and humility. What does it mean for us and our organisations to use the potential of inner development to contribute to outer change and regenerative systems? “Bridging Polarities” isn’t just the IDG Summit theme of 2025 – it’s an urgent call. To a leadership that transcends division, acknowledges interconnection and creates real impact in confusing and challenging times.
Join a global community of forward thinking senior leaders, researchers, consultants, youth, artists, policy-makers, activists, change agents and system shakers from across the world!
Why join the IDG Summit?
Be part of a global learning community that understands the value of inner development.
Exchange practices on building skills at scale to stay ahead of the curve in a rapidly changing world.
Meet global thought leaders and practitioners, and learn how to have a greater impact with limited resources.
Join over 50+ pioneering voices
At the heart of the IDG Summit 2025 is a lineup of voices ready to spark inspiration on what it takes to lead in a world of complexity, polarisation, and rapid transformation. This year’s storytellers, including systems thinkers, climate innovators, cultural catalysts, and pioneering leaders, will offer a rich tapestry of perspectives, each one rooted in deep practice, bold experimentation, and lived experience. Gather to hear the unique insights that will foster the courage, clarity, and collaboration necessary for turning paradoxes into possibilities and integrating differences for a more resilient, connected, and regenerative world.
Day 1 – Main Stage Speakers
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Rev. Dr. James Movel Wuye
“The Power of Forgiveness”
Vanessa Andreotti
“A Species in Transition”
Imam Dr. Muhammad Ashafa
“The Power of Forgiveness”
Ali Mahlodji
“Reclaiming Business for Human Growth”
“Either/Or” Meets “Both/And”
Facing Polarities Session
Pamela von Sabljar
Erik Fernholm
Wakanyi Hoffman
Jamie Bristow
Jan Artem Henriksson
Fredrik Livheim
Impact Stories from the Field
3 winners of our Global Storytelling Competition among all IDG Hubs & Networks
Representatives of IDG Hubs
“Impact from the Field”
Day 2 – Deep Dive Tracks
Our Deep Dive Tracks are immersive, sector-specific journeys designed for those ready to translate insight into action. In smaller, focused groups, you’ll explore real-world applications of inner development through hands-on workshops, dialogue circles, and peer learning experiences that meet you where you lead. Whether you’re navigating corporate sustainability, AI, youth development, or climate action, these tracks are designed to help you engage through your own context and challenges.
Expect to leave with new tools, expanded networks, and deeper clarity on how to lead from within in today’s complex world.
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Business Track 1: Leading Corporate Sustainability in a Changing World - WBCSD
Sustainable leadership requires more than just strategic thinking – it demands a deep integration of business intelligence and inner growth. This session brings together cutting-edge sustainability insights from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development with the transformative principles of the Inner Development Goals. Participants will explore how science-driven business strategies can be strengthened by leadership qualities such as self-awareness, resilience, and collaboration. Through interactive discussions, real-world case studies, and reflective exercises, participants will gain the tools to drive business success while fostering personal and organizational transformation – creating a sustainable future from the inside out.
Business Track 2: Leading in the Age of AI - Sutra
This track explores how AI and digital tools can support learning, collaboration, and community-building in ways that foster belonging and purpose-driven engagement. We will examine how technology can support human connection, personal and professional growth, and collective wisdom in an era shaped by AI. This track is designed for organizational leaders or change makers like coaches, consultants and facilitators interested in how technology and AI can help them cultivate IDG skills and have more impact with their work.
Track 3: Strengthening Social & Environmental Impact through Inner-Led Change - Inner Green Deal
This interactive track invites changemakers from NGOs, funders, and other impact organisations to explore how inner development can enhance their effectiveness in the face of global challenges. Through inspiring case studies and work in small groups, participants will have the opportunity to meet with new allies and discover innovative approaches to amplify their impact.
The track will explore the practical aspects of integrating inner development in the organisation as well as the core mission, exploring how to cultivate robust ecosystems that link internal advocates with funders and experts in capacity-building and impact measurement. Join us as we come together to amplify our collective impact.
Digital Participants: The digital experience will largely follow the in-person program but will have several additional speakers bridging longer breaks in the in-person programme.
Track 4: Inner Development for Emerging Generations - CitiesRISE
In collaboration with citiesRISE
Supporting the inner development of emerging generations is critical, particularly for the 90% of the world’s 1.2 billion adolescents who live in the Global South. This track will feature youth leaders, system leaders, funders, and research experts working to make inner development accessible to youth in South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. The discussions will explore on-the-ground innovations mainstreaming inner development through education and nature engagement, as well as intergenerational collaboration and youth-systems partnerships. Attention will also be given to measuring and funding inner development, including a new scale for core capacities by citiesRISE, and to integrating modern science with Global South-rooted ancient wisdom.
Track 5: Cultivating Inner Resources for Climate Action - Climate KIC
This track explores how inner development can empower individuals and teams to lead courageous and collaborative climate action in times of uncertainty. Participants will hear stories from world-leading climate champions and engage in practical sessions to strengthen their capacities for sensemaking, emotional resilience, collaboration and conscious decision-making. Through interactive labs, reflection, and peer learning, we’ll explore how to move from overwhelm to clarity, and from isolation to shared agency shifting from ego to eco, and cultivating the inner skills needed for a just, beautiful and regenerative future.
Digital Participants: The digital experience will mirror the in-person journey through a mix of live-streamed sessions, pre-recorded contributions, and interactive online practices. Participants will engage in global breakout groups, reflection prompts, and storytelling activities to support learning, connection, and action in their own contexts.
Track 6: The Roots of What Drives Us Apart - Global Restoration Institute & Academy of Inner Science (Online)
Take a step into a deep immersion into collective trauma, integration practices, and building leadership capacities for a divided time.
This interactive online track explores how unresolved trauma contributes to social and political fragmentation and how inner development can equip leaders to respond with presence, courage, and compassion. The core question will be: How can leadership begin to heal the deeper root causes of division in our societies?
Participants will be guided through a dynamic arc that includes trauma-informed framing, scientific insights, conflict-resolution perspectives, and embodied practices. The experience includes live facilitation, small-group breakout sessions, journaling prompts, and artistic/visual elements that support reflection and integration.
IMPORTANT:
Inperson participation: All on-site participants will have to register for one track via the Summit Online Platform and will stay with it for the entire day.
Digital participation: The tracks are designed to be highly interactive on-site, the possibility to live-stream content will be determined as the program develops. Expect that not all tracks will be live-streamed.
More information on registration & live streams will be provided soon.
Artists [In collaboration with ITAC]
In collaboration with ITAC
Artistic experiences that embody inner development, through diverse artistic mediums such as visual art installations, captivating musical compositions and expressive performances. Aimed to stimulate holistic engagement and weave a connection between intellect, emotion, and physical action, facilitating a tangible experience and enduring personal growth. Our inspiring lineup of artist collaborators will seek to inspire attendees and reignite their sense of potential and possibility.
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Pre & Post-Summit Specials
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Whether you’re looking to arrive early and ground yourself, or continue your experience online, these specials offer the space to slow down, connect more intimately, and explore the tools and practices that support meaningful inner and outer transformation.
Summit Digital Experience – Transform Your Space Into a Global Hub of Change
The IDG Summit digital experience isn’t just watching from afar, it’s joining a worldwide movement in real-time. Access all live sessions across both days, with recordings available for an entire year, allowing you to dive deeper and revisit transformative moments whenever inspiration strikes. More details about the digital experience coming soon!
IDG Summit 2025 Programme
Where is the IDG Summit 2025?
Located in the heart of Stockholm’s city centre on Barnhusgatan 12–14, the House of People, formerly the historic Folkets Hus, has been a cultural hub and meeting place for over a century. Originally inaugurated in 1901 as part of the Swedish People’s House movement, it served as a communal space where workers built their own venues for education, debate, culture, and community-led organising.
Recently revitalised under its new name, the house underwent careful renovation that honours the original design by architect Sven Markelius, preserving its elegant marble, sweeping staircases, and grand gathering rooms. With modern upgrades and cutting-edge meeting facilities, the venue now blends historical charm with contemporary function, offering light-filled halls and flexible spaces for 2 to 1,500 people.
Choosing the House of People as the venue for IDG Summit 2025 pays tribute to its legacy as a place of dialogue, collective learning, and social progress. Here, as in the early People’s Houses, we come together to share ideas, bridge polarities, and empower future generations, making this a powerful site for today’s conversations on inner development and systems change.
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Potential Partners
Looking to make a deeper impact? Join leading organisations like IKEA, EY, and the Nobel Peace Centre as an IDG partner or Summit sponsor.
Summit Tickets
Combo Tickets
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“The IDG Summit has more art, music, science, connection, but also genuinely moving experiences. You cannot come to the summit and not be changed by it.”
Jennifer Garvey Berger
Coach, Author, and CEO of Cultivating Leadership
“The IDG Summit is a space where people can come together and talk about, learn and showcase where inner development comes from and where it should go”
Gail Whiteman
Professor of Sustainability, University of Exeter
“A bold mix of thought-provoking sustainability content combined with restorative theatre, music and meditation – one part Davos, two parts Glastonbury.”
Gib Bulloch
Speaker, Consultant & Author
From Framework to Living Practice
After three transformative years that saw the Inner Development Goals initiative grow from a pioneering framework into a global movement, let’s look back on previous IDG Summits.
IDG Summit 2022 – Inner Growth Outer Change
IDG Summit 2023 – Connecting The Dots
IDG Summit 2024 – The Space In Between
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.
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.
Be part of this transformative gathering – from inner growth to outer change.
For any IDG Summit inquiries, please contact us at summit@innerdevelopmentgoals.org
