What are the Inner Development Goals?

The Inner Development Goals (IDG’s) are a framework of skills and qualities created in  response to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The IDG’s are 23 interpersonal skills and qualities that are needed in order to successfully work with complex societal issues. This in turn will help us achieve a better and more sustainable world for all. 

We have ideas about what can be done to create a sustainable global society. But we haven’t made much progress on that front. Why is that? Because it takes behavioral change to do so. Change starts with people and it starts within. It takes changing our thoughts, feelings and actions (head, heart and hands) to create sustainable change. 

That is where the IDG’s come into play and why we are Inner Development coaches. Creating sustainable change from within is where we must start. This change ripples out to create healthy communities. We have to be actively working on ourselves to be the change we want to see and be in the world. 

We define flourishing as inner well-being and outer well-doing. It is not enough for us to just work on ourselves. We must also better the world around us. The IDG framework is a roadmap on where to focus and do that work. 

Let’s break it down and look at each of these five areas and 23 the skills and qualities of human inner growth and development.