Sustainable changemaking demands more than external action, it requires profound internal transformation too. ‘Inner development’, far from New Age spirituality, is becoming a globally recognised field. For example, The Inner Development Goals (IDGs) initiative suggests that we haven’t met the Sustainable Development Goals because we have under-resourced the interpersonal skills required to make such change.

The IDGs isolate the five key ‘inner’ skills required: being, collaborating, action, thinking and relating. Each dimension contains sub-skills – for example, ‘collaborating’ includes communication ...

 

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