IDG Resources

Welcome to our curated collection of internal resources designed to support your journey of inner development. Feel free to explore and download any resources that resonate with your needs.

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Resources from the IDGs

Who is IDG?
Discover who we are, our global community of change-makers and partners, our vision, mission, guiding principles, and how we’re fostering the inner capacities needed to address our world’s complex challenges. [read more]

IDG Partnerships
Explore our partnership deck to learn how your organisation can join the IDG initiative. Discover collaboration opportunities, mutual benefits, and ways to integrate transformative skills into your work. [read more]

Framework & Methodology
Deep dive into the foundations of the IDG Framework, its methodology, and key components. This full guide introduces the essential skills and capacities identified for sustainable systems transformation. [read more]

Bloomberg’s ESG Currents
Listen as IDG’s Executive Director Jan Artem Henriksson explores the five dimensions and 23 skills that form the backbone of the IDG Framework and their crucial impact on sustainable transformation. [listen]

IDG White Paper
Review our IDG White Paper, developed with five partner organisations, demonstrating practical pathways to implement inner development in your context while addressing the challenges overcome along the way. [read more]

Policy & Services
This resource showcases how diverse sectors are integrating inner development into policies and services to enhance societal well-being and address complex challenges through human-centered approaches. [read more]

CSO Impact Podcast with Jan
Listen as the IDG Executive Director discusses why technical solutions alone aren’t enough for sustainability, and why CSOs need strong interpersonal skills to drive meaningful change in organisations. [watch]

Addressing the Root Cause
Discover why we created the IDGs as Erik Fernholm shares our foundational vision and explains how developing inner capacities tackles the root causes of our global challenges rather than just treating symptoms. [read more]

HR Föreningen Podcast
In this podcast, learn about how inner development capacities support achieving the UN’s SDGs, plus IDG’s collaboration with the HR Association to integrate the framework into organisational culture and values. [listen]

Phase 2 Report
Explore this report showcasing methods and tools that develop the essential IDG skills and qualities needed to address UN SDGs and lead purposeful, sustainable lives both individually and collectively. [read more]

IDG Framework Explained
Explore the IDGs through our Executive Director’s engaging video series. Available in multiple lengths (3, 13, or 30 minutes) in both English and Swedish for convenient learning about the IDG Framework. [watch]

GLSD Programme
XLearn about the GLSD Programme, an innovative leadership initiative that has delivered remarkable results and satisfaction among diverse leaders from government, business, and academic sectors worldwide. [read more]
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IDG Framework (editable)
Access our adaptable IDG Framework document designed to support accurate translations into various languages, ensuring the inner development concepts remain accessible and culturally relevant worldwide. [download]

IDG Brand Guide
Access our brand guidelines to ensure consistent and effective representation of the IDGs across communications, including essential standards for visual elements to maintain our cohesive identity. [view]

IDG logo library
Download our official logos in various formats and sizes for use in your materials, ensuring consistent and professional representation of the IDGs across all your communications and partnerships. [download]

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IDG Framework with Jan Artem Henriksson

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Masterclass: Peter Senge & Gustav Boll

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Swedish: IDG Framework with Jan Artem Henriksson

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Explore these external resources to broaden your perspectives and enhance your inner development journey. If you find something inspiring, don’t hesitate to dive in and make the most of the valuable insights they offer.

Do you want to empower your students to drive societal change? Get inspired by the tools created by our lively community of teachers across the Netherlands.
Find out more about how Transition Makers Toolbox builds on the Inner Development Goals framework. Get inspired, start integrating the tools into your education, and help spread the word! [read more]

A look into how IKEA integrated the IDGs into their global leadership programs with Åsa R. Simonsen, Business Transformation Manager – IKEA Sweden and Jan A. Henriksson, Executive Director – IDG. [watch]

We’ve collaborated with climate literacy experts from US government agencies and education NGOs to develop a groundbreaking new guide that expands the definition of climate literacy.
The Transformative Skills Guide reveals these transformative inner skills needed for climate action. [read more]

The IDG collection enables you to actually walk the talk.
Practice science-based skills and qualities for a purposeful, sustainable and productive life in the digital platform Aware. All in line with the IDG framework. [reaad more]

Why Costa Rica is the place to start co-creating the Inner Development Goals (IDGs) manifesto?
Starting to unlearn what is known is part of the task. Allowing us mental licenses to transgress. [read more]

Based on the latest evidence, the Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA) Action Report presents the rationale for the cultivation of inner capacities as a crucial complementary approach to activate food systems transformation. [read more]

A Global Educational Compact
The Catholic Church’s Global Compact on Education incorporates principles of IDG into a new, holistic approach to education, calling for renewed commitment from educators, institutions and education systems. [read more]

The Human Factor
The Swedish Church is using the IDGs to integrate the “human factor” into its work and organisational culture, reflecting on human-centered approaches to theology, leadership, communication and pastoral care. [read more]

IMAGINE
This comprehensive report illuminates the interconnection between inner development and collective action and reveals how integrating inner and outer transformation can reshape research, education, and practice. [read more]
by Christopher D. Ives, Niko Schäpke, Christoph Woiwode & Christine Wamsler

Social, Emotional and Ethical Learning
Discover how SEE Learning’s comprehensive educational program aligns with the IDGs and promotes students’ inner capacities like self-awareness, empathy, socio-emotional and ethical decision-making. [learn more]

SEE Learning Video
Watch how Colombia’s education system integrated the IDG and SEE Learning frameworks in schools, creating an innovative approach to nurturing essential inner development capacities in children nationwide. [watch]

The Shaping Tomorrow Playbook highlights how the IDGs provide essential skills and qualities that leaders can cultivate to bridge the gap between knowledge and action, ensuring that policy and decisions align with holistic, long-term sustainability goals. [read more]

While we have both vision and knowledge around how to achieve sustainability, we are struggling to reach significant progress in almost every sustainability goal. Find out what we’re missing. [read more]

This webinar (Swedish), hosted by Sveriges HR-förening, explored the transformative potential of the Inner Development Goals (IDG) framework.

In collaboration with IDG and IKEA, the session highlighted how IDG supports sustainable development and strengthens HR as a strategic partner with Åsa R. Simonsen, Business Transformation Manager – IKEA Sweden and Jan A. Henriksson, Executive Director – IDG. [watch]

This guide Addressing Inner Dimensions for Sustainability in Higher Education is aimed at Higher Education faculties from diverse disciplines. The target group is interested in expanding their sustainability knowledge and perspectives, integrating sustainability into their teaching practices, and enhancing their sustainability-related teaching approach by addressing inner dimensions. By inner dimensions we understand individual and collective consciousness, awareness, or mindsets (e.g. values, worldviews and beliefs). The guide leads through an 8.5h course.

IDG Card Game:

MIND YOUR INNER DEVELOPMENT

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The Transition Makers Toolbox

IDG Global Leadership for Sustainable Development - Kigali, Rwanda

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Costa Rica - IDGs for 2030 Agenda

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Explore further, join us for a in depth view on IDG and our framework

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IDG Framework with Jan Artem Henriksson

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The Harvard Human Flourishing Program hosts Inner Development Goals

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Australia IDG initiative: Inner Development & Sustainability

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Swedish: IDG Framework with Jan Artem Henriksson

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Cultivating Change from the Inside Out with Erik Fernholm | TGS 144

Published Papers and Articles

Wamsler, C., Osberg, G., Janss, J. et al. (2024). Revolutionising sustainability leadership and education: addressing the human dimension to support flourishing, culture and system transformation. Climatic Change 177, 4. Read here

Ives, C.D., Schäpke, N., Woiwode, C. et al. (2023) IMAGINE sustainability: integrated inner-outer transformation in research, education and practice. Sustain Sci 18, 2777–2786. Read here

Ankrah, D., Bristow, J., Hires, D., & Artem Henriksson, J. (2023). Inner Development Goals: from inner growth to outer change. Field Actions Science Reports. The journal of field actions, (Special Issue 25), 82-87. Read here

Rodriguez Carreon, V. (2023). Liminality: Change Starts Within. Challenges, 14(2), 25. Read here

Costa, R. P. (2023). Plant and plan, care and grow. A hands-on exercise using the (inner) sustainable development goals to teach research methodology to final year sociology students. Read here

Cooper, K. J., & Gibson, R. B. (2022). A Novel Framework for Inner-Outer Sustainability Assessment. Challenges, 13(2), 64. Read here

Kemp, A. H., & Edwards, D. J. (2022). An Introduction to the Complex Construct of Wellbeing, Societal Challenges and Potential Solutions. In Broadening the Scope of Wellbeing Science: Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Flourishing and Wellbeing (pp. 1-11). Cham: Springer International Publishing. Read here

Wandel, E., Manguera, J., & Srinivasan, V. (2022). A Qualitative Study on Relating the Inner Development Goals to the Leadership Development Approach of a CSO in a Developing Country. Read here