Inner Development for Outer Change
The organization Inner Development Goals (IDG) aims
to inspire and empower individuals and organizations, to become positive change agents.
We gather, research, and share scientifically based insights, skills, approaches, supportive tools, and open resources
that help us live meaningful, sustainable, and productive lives.
The core tool is
the IDG framework, where we strive to integrate all these insights.
We also create communities, networks, and other platforms for sharing and collaboration, functioning as a self-organizing ecosystem of individuals, groups, and organizations working together to implement the IDG framework in practice and further develop it.
IDG Framework
We believe increasing our collective capacity to confront and effectively work with complex challenges is urgently necessary. Without a fundamental shift in human values, behaviors, and leadership skills, which we call "inner development," external solutions to our global challenges will be limited, too slow, or only temporary.
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We also think that some of what we believe would still be useful knowledge needs to be forgotten. The IDG framework is co-created as a "roadmap" that can help us navigate today’s turbulent, confusing, and fragile world.
IDG Czechia Changemakers Network
We are part of a dynamically growing global ecosystem that today includes nearly 40,000 people, over 600 groups and networks formed since late 2022 in more than 80 countries around the world.
Since 2024, IDG Czechia Changemakers Network has been part of the Změna k lepšímu ecosystem, connecting individuals and organizations from the Czech Republic and abroad, sharing and developing experiences, creating tools, programs, and organizing events based on the IDG framework and ideas.
Our goal is to create a unique space for connection and dialogue between the private sector, NGOs, policymakers, influencers, and other ever-evolving interest groups to understand the fundamental dynamics of systems from different perspectives.
With a multidisciplinary approach and collective "intelligence," we work together with all stakeholders to create meaningful solutions and initiate deeply transformative interventions that will have an impact and help us move faster toward a "healthier" society. A society focused on the future, that is resilient, inclusive, caring, and compassionate, supports growth, prosperity, vitality, and well-being, and is sustainable for all its members.
We are a group of people who not only respect, inspire, and trust each other, but also have informal friendships. We believe that things can be done faster and better when done with people you like. You usually like people with whom you share common values, motivations, and interests and enjoy spending time together on any occasion. We strive to apply IDG in our relationships and cooperation. Personal development should be voluntary, and therefore we primarily want to attract people, not push or convince them.
Meet the co-founders
Nina Bressler
Strategic Advisor IDG Global
Founder
Reimagined Value and Inner Landscape
Soňa Jonášová
Founder
Institute of circular economy, z.ú.
Lukáš Rolf
Ecosystem Director
Change for the Better
Petr Fridrich
Initiator of IDG Czechia Changemakers Network.
Wellbeing Economy and Governance Ambassador.
Futures, Trends & Foresight Explorer, Sensemaker and Ideonaut.
Maie Crumpton
Partner
Reimagined Value
Klara Curdova
Principal Consultant
Novartis
Caty Hartung
Professional Coach™, Certified Integral Facilitator® Vision Holder and Program Design @ Future Port Youth | Integral
Martin Holecko
Impresario at Future Port, Co-founder at Etnetera Group, YPO CZ Chapter Chair
Michaela Skalnikova
Futures Literacy Pioneer. Changemaker. Co-creator. Societal Innovator.
Wellbeing Enthusiast.
Mayka Dolejš
Designing and supporting conscious projects that contribute to a new story. Production, coordination, content and creative input.
Vladimir Dolejš
Production
Menejevice
What kind of world are we living in?
We are living in a dynamic, confusing, unpredictable, unstable, fragile, and vulnerable period, full of uncertainties, risks, upheavals, and crises. The world is often incomprehensible, chaotic, and saturated with information. We are facing cumulative crises that are accelerating.
These crises range from large-scale global issues to smaller, more localized ones. Just recalling the major crises over the past 15 years: financial and economic crises, migration crises, pandemics, social polarization, declining levels of public and political trust, war in Ukraine, disinformation and cyberattacks, and aging populations.
And most importantly, the critical crisis concerning our planet and nature, such as extreme weather events, rising sea levels, extreme droughts leading to water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, ecosystem collapse, and depletion of natural resources. We already know today that we have underestimated the speed and intensity of many of these manifestations, and we will have to reassess them.
Many of these problems are outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), where some of the significant challenges facing our education, social, pension, and healthcare systems, economies, political landscapes, and above all, the environment in which we live are highlighted. These are systemic problems that present significant challenges to systems, organizations, communities, and individuals, threatening our socio-economic and societal stability, and even our existential essence.
In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provided us with a comprehensive roadmap for a sustainable world by 2030.
While we have gathered vast knowledge about the climate crisis, poverty, public health, social issues, and other problems outlined in the SDGs, it seems we lack the inner capacity to deal with our increasingly complex environment and new challenges. Today, we know for sure that we will not achieve the SDGs by 2030. Clearly, something has been overlooked.
What has been noticeably absent in current strategies is insight into what qualities, abilities, or skills we need to develop in individuals, groups, organizations, or larger systems that are essential to fulfilling the SDGs. It's not just about what we do, but also how we do it. This was the starting point for the Inner Development Goals (IDG) initiative and triggered research into these very competencies.
Why are Inner Development Goals needed now more than ever?
Protopian, not Utopian Approach
The complex challenges of today’s world cannot be solved by traditional ways of thinking, behaving, and operating as we have done so far. We find ourselves trying to tackle enormous, often interconnected challenges with outdated technical means. We need a Plan B, a plan that emphasizes our future.
Protopia is a world where today is better than yesterday. The desire for improvement and the pursuit of excellence, without the battles of dystopia and without the sentimentality of utopia, keeps our survival instincts healthy.
What is needed is an unprecedented innovative but also regenerative systemic approach, grounded in a vision of a preferred future, powered by adaptive skills, so that we not only achieve new partial results but also fundamental changes in behavior, thinking, paradigms, and the functioning, direction, and transformation of systems. Through experimentation, favoring certain trends, taking incremental steps, and continuous learning, we move toward a preferred future. IDG is a tool of the "protopian philosophy," focused on looking and developing inward—into us, our organizations, and systems.
Facts and feelings
We prioritize evidence-based transformations. Defining criteria, weighing their importance, and regularly measuring and evaluating progress are key to ensuring that the transformation strategy is effective and geared toward achieving set goals. Evaluations enable adaptive management and flexible responses to new challenges and opportunities. We aim to verify facts and seek what is provable.
However, transformation should not be just about numbers and data, but also about human feelings and experiences. To achieve truly sustainable change, it is important to listen to emotions and understand how individuals and entire communities experience the process of change. Connecting facts with authentic feelings can bring deeper understanding and stronger motivation toward achieving shared goals.
Why does the Czech Republic need IDG,
and why does IDG need the Czech Republic?
The Czech Republic is the heart and crossroads of Europe. It has been at the center of historical conflicts, cultural evolution, and human knowledge and innovation for over a thousand years, giving it a powerful “voice” of experience in integrating these changes.
The Inner Development Goals provide a platform for amplifying the values, strengths, and ideals of our culture and society. By integrating inner development into the five dimensions: Being, Thinking, Relating, Collaborating, and Acting, our country will build on its incredible history of cultural, political, and scientific leadership and grow in its ability to be a seat of wisdom, prosperity, and wealth not only today but for future generations.
A significant “pillar” of our society, upon which we can rely, is the **Preamble of the Constitution of the Czech Republic**:
_"We, the citizens of the Czech Republic, in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia, in the time of the restoration of the independent Czech state, faithful to all good traditions of the ancient statehood of the lands of the Crown of Bohemia and the statehood of Czechoslovakia, determined to build, protect, and develop the Czech Republic in the spirit of inviolable values of human dignity and freedom as a home of equal, free citizens who are aware of their duties towards others and their responsibility to the whole, as a free and democratic state, based on respect for human rights and on the principles of civil society, as part of the family of European and world democracies, determined together to safeguard and develop inherited natural and cultural, material, and spiritual wealth, determined to follow all the proven principles of the rule of law…_”
Nordic" Inspiration
Inspired by the book "The Nordic Secret – A European Story of Beauty and Freedom," written by the founder of the Inner Development Goals Tomas Bjorkman, we believe that the Inner Development Goals are the right tool to redefine our future and address historical traumas, economic crises, and other challenges.
The book outlines extensive investments in personal development and education as the decisive reason for success so that people can discover their potential, find their “inner compass,” and become “authors of their lives,” and co-creators of societies based on principles that support overall well-being, cohesion, resilience, and sustainability.
Want to know more? Visit the global website or watch the video below.