Episode 2: Inner Development Goals - Unlocking a missing dimension of sustainability

This episode unveils a previously overlooked dimension of sustainability by exploring the Inner Development Goals (IDGs), an open-source framework outlining the inner capabilities, qualities, and skills essential for advancing efforts toward the UN SDGs. Your host, Marleen Mammen, along with two guests, Gustav Osberg (Doctoral researcher at the IIIEE) and Björn Schulz (Batch 29 of the EMP Master), will provide answers to the following guiding questions:What are the IDGs?How do they relate to the environmental sustainability transformation?How can individuals, businesses, and policies leverage them?----------------->>> Sources used in the episode:Websites:IDG websiteIDG toolsWhite paper: Orienting inner development in organisationsScientific articles: Linking internal and external transformation for sustainability and climate actionTransformative climate policy mainstreaming–engaging the political and the personalAssessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgetsLeverage points - Places to intervene in a systemInner transformation to sustainability as a deep leverage point: Fostering new avenues for change through dialogue and reflectionNewspaper article: Inre omställning är minst lika viktig som den tekniska utvecklingen>>> Further readings: Report: Reconnection - Meeting the climate crisis inside outScientific article: IMAGINE sustainability: Integrated inner-outer transformation in research, education and practiceBook: Radical transformational leadership: strategic action for change agents - by Monica Sharma (2017)Video: Intro to sharing circles in the tradition of Zen Buddhism