A full week in the ID@Work community and many new members (and we passed the 500 member mark, woot woot 🙌) Welcome to the community @Birgitte Janssen, @Stefan Baumeister, @Tanya Zamora, @Lindsay Hindle, @Magdalena Krippner, @Ruth Nelson-Andorf, @Lana Turashvili, @Wim Beunderman - we look forward to getting to know you! Please post an introduction! --- Here's what happened this week, and what's next. 🎙️ CONVERSATION WITH MIKE ROWLANDS Yesterday we had a rich 45-minute conversation with Mike Rowlands , who works at the intersection of organizational leadership and social purpose through his firm Junction Strategy. Three things that stuck with us: - the leap to "exist to serve society" requires a much deeper rethink of what a business is actually for. - And... 38% of SMEs are already moving toward social purpose. The wave is real. - Cross-sector learning & convening (healthcare, Indigenous frameworks, biz schools) is the underused opportunity. The recording is below. -- 🛠️ FACILITATION & DESIGN INCUBATOR We also ran our Incubator session this week, exploring how to facilitate a 60-minute introduction to the Inner Development Guide. The recording is now available in the replays for Premium members. --- 🌐 TUESDAY'S SKILL BUILDER: INTERCONNECTEDNESS Through a simple drawing exercise rooted in the Ubuntu philosophy — I am because we are — we explored what interconnectedness actually looks like in our lives, and what it means for the kind of changemakers we are together. → Join the conversation here --- ⭐ NEXT SKILL BUILDER: SPIRITUALITY & INNER WORK Tuesday, May 12th, 6pm CET In this session, we create space to explore what it means to bring your whole self — including your spiritual life — into the work of inner development. For your own inner work. And maybe even your organization's.

Hi everyone! I’m an organizational consultant, IDG Ambassador, and creator of the Confianza Sistémica framework. I’ve been following the IDG @Work community on LinkedIn and the Global Practitioners' Network for a while, and it's a joy to be here. My work focuses on social regeneration and the ethics of care, bridging internal human development with organizational justice. I’m particularly passionate about strengthening Women’s ERGs and JEDI frameworks, helping purpose-driven organizations (like the B Corp community) build more resonant systems. I'm here to share "maps and compasses" for navigating complex change and to learn from your diverse paths in nurturing the inner capacities we need to heal our collective world. Nice to meet you!

Hello Community ! 👋🕊 We recorded a quick video to walk you through what's on this week — three events in the first week of May. TOMORROW Tuesday, May 5th at 12:30 CET — Sarah hosts the IDG Skill Builder on Interconnectedness & Creativity. We're doing something a little different this time: drawing an Ubuntu tree together and seeing what conversations that opens up. Wednesday May 6th— Nadene hosts a session with Mike Rowlands (he's Canadian 🍁). Details were shared in the previous video. For this one please register by clicking on the Zoom link. Thursday, May 7th, 1pm CET — Nadene's Sales Incubator session, this time on facilitating inner development session with clients — what an introduction could look like, how to make it interactive. This one is recorded and is part of the Premium plan. If you'd like to join, you can upgrade at [innerdevelopmentatwork.com/plans]. We know May is busy — and full of public holidays here in Europe. But we'll be here, and we'd love to see you in whatever session fits your timezone. If you can't make it live, drop a note in the chat. It's always good to know you're there. 💛 Sarah & Nadene

That's Ubuntu — an African concept that doesn't translate cleanly into most professional development frameworks. And yet, when we brought it into this week's Skill Builder session, something opened up. The prompt was simple. Draw your Ubuntu tree. Leaves for the people in your life. Leaves for nature, for ancestors, for the books and therapists and quiet influences that shaped you. The roots for what holds you. The branches for what you're growing toward. What happened in the room was interesting.! Some trees were palms. Some were ancient oaks with ancestral roots. One captured the ecosystem itself — water, light, soil. Another held self-love and therapy alongside family, as equal parts of the canopy. And when we shared them, something shifted. The abstract became visible. Interconnectedness stopped being a concept and became something you could point to. What I noticed is how different our trees looked on the surface — and how similar they felt underneath. The threads of resilience. Of being held. Of carrying others while being carried. One participant reflected that her tree only made sense as part of a forest. No single tree sustains itself. That's the IDG skill of Relating — not as a soft skill, but as a structural truth. We are not independent agents who occasionally collaborate. We are nodes in something larger. And the health of that larger thing — the forest — depends on the biodiversity of what each of us brings. A question to sit with: When you draw your Ubuntu tree, what's in your canopy — and what have you been treating as background that actually belongs in the foreground? P.S. I'll host this session again in June. Stay tuned.

One of the ways I further develop myself is by delving into astrology. An astrological natal chart is pretty complex with near countless aspects made by different heavenly bodies in different signs and houses. Each represents different energy, potential and characteristics. A few weeks ago, I discovered two aspects that contradicted each other in such a way that one got the better of the other and restricted me. This inspired me to take action and go about things differently. One of these was starting my own Substack, called ‘unpolished’, and writing my first post on the subject of consciously favouring one characteristic over the other. If you like, you can read it here: https://open.substack.com/pub/wimbeunderman/p/the-art-of-not-being-ready-and-doing?r=2xmmvm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true