It's been 24 days already since our last 'welcome post' and we've had quite a few new members joining us. So please join me in welcoming our new members @Raymond Vromans, @Lisanne van den Berg, @Victoria Triep, @Coty Monique Jeronimus, @Melanie Elmquist, @Alexandra Horvath, @Taffy Chirunda, @Fabiana Mello, @Letícia Lenzi Bressiani, @Milán Páczai, @Darcy Roehling, @Andrea Fernández, @Rory Bakke, @Meire Ferreira, @Jenny Richmond-Bravo, @Ece Öztan, @Malu Duque, @Marcel Frey, @Telmo Becerra, @Ines Mokdadi, @Birgit Ruttkowski, @Abigail Mookien, @Sarah Glenister, @Titus Mars, @Sue Mitchell, @Christoph Wenna, @Emil Jacobsen, @Tamas Hovanyecz, @Johannes Willms Besides telling us a bit about who you are and what you do, and since we're just a few days before the year-end festivities, I thought it would be fun to share what will be on your table over the Holidays and where that table is located? And whether it's the same dish every year ;-) For me, my dad will make a lamb roast this year and I'm celebrating in Bern, Switzerland, where I was born and raised. And our meal varies each year.

Calling fellow educators, coaches, learning designers and facilitators! So excited to share that InnerDevelopment@Work has the opportunity to submit an event at this year's LearningPlanet Festival happening from 23 to 25 Jan 2025. We will join thousands to celebrate education, collaboration, and learning for a better future 🤸 Special theme: Co-designing the Future of Learning with Youth Main Topics include: Education for Peaceful Futures, Education for Inner Development, Learning Ecosystems, Education for Sustainability, Partnerships in Research, Harnessing AI to Transform Lifelong Learning Events: Conferences, workshops, hackathons, performances, screenings... All formats and audiences are welcome! For those of you who still have the energy and space to co-create an event for the festival, please reply to this post. What a wonderful opportunity to bring the IDGs to educators and the youth 🎁 @Nadene Canning @Jenny Richmond-Bravo @Maria-Emanuela Galanti @Alexandra Horvath @Belle Jansen @James Wanyira

Hello everyone, I'm so glad to be here with this amazing community. I am located in London, Ontario, Canada where I work at Western University. In my current role (which I have only held for the past 4 months) I coordinate a professional development program for doctoral students from all disciplines to help them identify career possibilities beyond the traditional academic pathway. I am trying to integrate the IDGs and help students see how they might apply their degrees in leadership roles related to sustainable development. I am also a doctoral student myself, in my final year of my EdD program in Higher Education Leadership.

Hello Everyone! I was deeply moved by @Nadene Canning narrative on what it means to be socialized in a culture and foreign to it, at the same time. The discussion in the break-out rooms was also very interesting and provided aha moments of truth for me. Given the strong resonance that the narrative had, I would say that it proves that the narrative approach to culture change is more viable than the problem solving one. I came out of the session with two strong outcomes: 1) Use of the IDG framework to question assumptions in our culture and "unlearn" what is apparently obvious and socially approved but not true, 2) Practice bubble hopping across bubbles to become tolerant of the diverse visions on sustainable development while sharing the process of community building in doing so. On the first point, I would like to invite a reflection on the existence of "collaboration" and "competition" in our western culture as derived from collaboration and competition in "nature". Darwin's construct of "selection of the fittest" has put together three very different things that we should be able to "unlearn" and untangle. The first is "struggle for life" with prey-predator relations that keep the ecosystem balanced and are NEVER referred to member of the same species. The second is physical struggle among alpha males to control the access to sex and dominance in the group. The third is selection by breeders of the individuals with desirable traits to serve their purpose (such as horses with big and short legs to do work in the fields or horses with long legs to show elegance in the parades). From which aspect of "selection of the fittest" have we human beings derived competition in academia and in the work place? I am confident that you will see that it is from the third aspect AND that this third aspect is an antropomorphic Darwinian projection on nature of something that ONLY HUMANS do, breed animals for their market purposes.

Hi everyone! I'd like to share an IDG card set with you, I created to use for discussion and in workshops. I've already shared this with our local hub and there was a small working group on this, but unfortunately, we didn't really get anywhere. So I wanted to ask here: Is anybody working on something similar? Maybe we can have an exchange then! 😊 We (my team and me at iCONDU) are also thinking about printing the set professionally, but we haven't found the right print shop yet and have no experience with logistics (but a lot of people who have already expressed interest in a set). So far, we have been printing the cards for our workshops ourselves. Enclosed you will find the cards and print files – maybe it will be helpful for someone of you! Furthermore, we have developed a digital version of the cards (based on the way we use the cards in workshops). Our so-called “IDG Roulette” is freely accessible and you can find it here: https://idg-roulette.icondu.de/. We use it ourselves, for example, as a check-in or check-out for meetings, but it can also be used for personal journaling. In the top-right corner of the site, there is also a setting icon to hide the reflection card and use the skill-card only. We have many ideas and plans to further develop this tool (for example translations to more languages, there is also English and Germany yet) and we would be very happy to receive feedback, ideas or exchanges on this. [EDIT: With the great help of this community there is now a Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian, Dutch and French version on the website and also as printable cards – please find the documents in the comments and let me know, if you would like to help to add another language!] Have a wonderful day! 🌻