Where the tools live
Toolboxes, card decks, books, programs, and platforms — each with its access terms. Tools link back here; the same exercise in several collections is the cross-pollination this directory exists to reveal.
31 of these 51 are openly readable; 20 sit behind a payment, a registration or a membership. Almost everything catalogued here came from the open ones — which is a selection effect, not a survey. What the closed ones hold is not a small number, it is a blank. What that means, and when a gate is the right call.
"Cultivating Inner Capacities for Regenerative Food Systems": evidence review of consciousness approaches and practices for systems transformation, with a tools overview and an IDG framework mapping (Table 1). The collaborative doc's "UNDP working paper on theoretical foundations".
Program hub linking inner dimensions and sustainability: a curated toolbox page (~12 external tools/frameworks, including the IDG Toolkit, Transition Makers, Work That Reconnects) and a publications page with 100+ research articles, policy reports and briefs on inner-outer transformation.
Dialogue board game in 5 steps that applies the IDG framework to real challenges participants face as leaders, teams, or organizations. Playable individually or in groups; a 1-hour accelerated variant exists. Designed to develop complexity skills and, when sharing happens, psychological safety and social cohesion.
The official IDG handbook, with sections on "Theory of Change" and "How to Grow Inner Skills". Currently accessible only to IDG Ambassadors and members of the University Coalition for Student Inner Development.
The Phase 2 report (Sept 2022) presenting the first official IDG toolkit (pp. 53–109): 13 method families plus 6 short closing exercises, selected from 1000+ survey responses and advisory-board recommendations, mapped to the 2021 framework. Families — Being: Mindfulness Practices, ACT; Thinking: Dialectical Thought Forms, Immunity to Change; Relating: Compassion Training, Nature Quest; Collaborating: NVC, Scaffolding Collaboration, Intercultural Competence, Psychological Safety; Acting: Personal Agency, Arts & Creativity, Theory U. Shorts: Meet Yourself at 90, Polarity Map, Listening to Pause, Symbiosis Meditation, The Shield, WOOP. Each entry carries DIY/Facilitated flags, a 2021 skill mapping, and named contributors.
80 practice cards, 13 audio recordings and a values finder supporting embodied inner development across all five IDG dimensions. Exercises are experience-oriented, body-based and psychotherapeutically informed, for use in self-reflection, facilitation, coaching, therapy, team development and transformative learning.
The Phase 1 report: how the IDG project began, the method by which the framework was assembled, and the 23 skills and qualities it arrived at, grouped under the five dimensions. This is the document the framework itself comes from — not a source of exercises.
Card-and-assessment kit translating the 25 IDG skills into dialogue and practice: Dialogue Cards, Skill Cards, and an online Assessment Tool (individual / team / 360) that draws a spiderweb profile of the 25 skills and guides reflective dialogue from it, plus a how-to guide with exercise ideas.
Workbook and facilitator guide of philosophical-practice "gym" exercises for regenerative futures in small and medium enterprises. Project runs 2024–2027; handbook and guide to be finalized summer 2026 (draft available).
A 90-page playbook for coaches, coaching supervisors and consultants who work with political and civic leaders on sustainable decision-making and policy. Six iterative steps — Coaches as Catalysts, Grasping Climate Politics, Climate Science in Action, Holistic Transformation, Amplifying Action, Power of Storytelling — each built as lettered two-page spreads of WHY?, WHAT? and HOW?, where the HOW? page carries the practical activity. Eleven of the twenty-five spreads are runnable exercises and are recorded here; the rest orient the coach in politics, climate science and mindset theory. Step 4 presents the Inner Development Goals framework directly and recommends the IDG Toolkit; the whole playbook leans on the CCA's Eco-Phase Cycle.
The largest single IDG-native practice library: ~196 entries in three collections, each targeting a different practice unit — 75 self-guided micro-VCoL exercises (3 per skill), a Manager's Toolbox of 31 facilitated activities indexed by time band and relational difficulty, and 90 ongoing Team Scaffolds with frequency and leader-role guidance. Plus handbooks, in-depth essays, and commissioned critical perspectives on the framework.
Ready-to-use teaching activities for developing students' transformative ("inner development") skills in higher education, with learning outcomes and assessment suggestions. Reclassified onto the revised Inner Development Guide framework (Feb 2026).
Anthology from the Erasmus+ project "Building capacity for transformative learning": theory, practice accounts and methods from 40+ transformative- learning practitioners for educators of adults.
The home of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/Training: an open, co-created community with free articles, self-help book listings, talks, podcasts, and practitioner directories. ACT's six psychological-flexibility processes (acceptance, defusion, presence, self-as-context, values, committed action) are a rich seam of extractable exercises.
Field-tested manual of social games for deeper connection — curiosity, truth-telling, reflection, noticing — from the authentic relating movement. Its cover claims 250+ games and variations; the website says over 200. Sold as a PDF or print edition, with a filmed video manual and a subscription alongside it.
The organisation behind the Authentic Relating Games Manual, and the wider home of its material: live, online and self-paced courses in connection, conflict and facilitation — among them Fight Lab, Authentic Leadership Training, the Art of Difficult Conversations, Designing for Connection and The Authentic Facilitator — plus a free facilitation skills series, a video games manual, a subscription, and a map of authentic-relating communities.
Best-guess identification: "Aware: Mindfulness & Wellbeing" by 29k International — a free, science-based app (CBT/ACT, meditation, journaling, peer groups), successor of the 29k app and adjacent to the IDG community.
Leadership program driving sustainability from within: decision-makers cultivate mindfulness and compassion, build new habits, and collaborate on common purpose. Piloted with 100 EU leaders (Parliament, Council, Commission); preliminary findings include increased nature connectedness, climate agency and wellbeing, reduced climate anxiety, and links between compassion and pro-environmental behaviour.
The stewarding organization of Nonviolent Communication: free feelings and needs inventories, foundational articles, certified-trainer directory and trainings worldwide. NVC's observation–feeling–need–request practice and its empathic-listening discipline are among the most widely traveled communication tools in this territory.
Lesson plans and activities for transformative climate education — building emotional resilience, imagination, connection and collective action with children and youth — plus a teacher's guide introducing the trauma-informed, competence-based pedagogy behind them.
8-week structured program training compassion for self and others through contemplative practice, taught by certified teachers; researched in multiple trials. Recorded here as the closest canonical public carrier of "compassion-based contemplative approaches" (Philippe Goldin).
Framework joining systems thinking with contemplative and social-emotional practice ("compassionate systems awareness"), developed with K-12 education networks; documented in the 2021 report "How We Show Up" on master-practitioner work in California schools.
Free toolkit of mindfulness exercises linking meditation practice to sustainable-consumption education, distilled from the German BiNKA research project's 8-week curriculum (mindful eating and consumption-specific practices).
Open-access pilot study: mindfulness and compassion training embedded in an EU Climate Leadership Program increased transformative qualities and pro-environmental engagement.
A–Z collection of ~130 facilitation, learning and change methods for people hosting socio-ecological transformation, with guides and the free EMPOWERMENT facilitator e-book.
Curated online collection of creative methods, workshop activities, and team-building exercises for collaboration, innovation, and learning-by-doing in teams and organizations. Free after registration.
A repertoire of 43 simple interaction patterns ("microstructures") that replace conventional meeting formats by including and engaging everyone — for collaboration, innovation, and self-organization in groups of any size.
The 8-week secular mindfulness program that seeded the field: weekly group sessions, a day-long retreat, and daily home practice built on three core forms — body scan, sitting meditation, mindful hatha yoga. Among the most researched inner-development interventions in existence.
Home of Imagination Activism: imagination practices paired with calls to action — connecting to Earth and future generations, exploring alternative worlds, sustaining activists through hope. Carrier of the Symbiosis Meditation and imagination-sprint workshop formats.
Downloadable workbook guiding individuals and communities through a four-phase learning journey (awareness, engagement, perspective shift, practice change) toward regenerative ocean cultures.
Psychology-based entrepreneurship training in being self-starting, future-oriented and persistent: anticipating problems, spotting opportunities, planning around obstacles. In a 1,500-entrepreneur randomized trial in Togo it raised firm profits 30% over two years versus a statistically insignificant 11% for traditional business training.
Sharma's Conscious Full-Spectrum Response model: a three-track pedagogy for change agents that simultaneously solves problems, shifts systems, and sources inner capacity and universal values. Book with numerous leadership-in-action templates; Nautilus Gold Award.
Policy report on the inner dimensions of the climate crisis: how mindfulness and compassion capacities relate to climate engagement, and what that means for policy and practice.
Personal-agency training programs (Empowered Entrepreneur / Empowered Employee) designed through a gender and socio-cultural lens and locally adapted: participants examine belief systems, set goals across life areas, and learn mental tools for purposeful action — goal setting, communication, systematic planning, active problem solving. Trialed in resource-poor settings (Kenyan energy micro-entrepreneurs: doubled business longevity, near-tripled sales).
Emotional-intelligence leadership development delivered to organisations, built on the Search Inside Yourself curriculum created at Google in 2008. Eight programmes — foundational emotional intelligence, change, high-trust teams, multigenerational teams, intuitive leadership, conflict, innovation, and Search Inside Yourself itself — plus a facilitator certification and a content licence for organisations that want to run it internally.
Free learning-by-doing pocket guide (97 pp) for youth-led social change: four steps with 17 activities spanning self-awareness, collaboration, and design skills — from "Know Yourself" to "Make it Sustainable".
Character-first ("inside-out") effectiveness framework: seven habits moving along a maturity continuum from dependence through independence to interdependence. Carried by the book, corporate programs, and a free FranklinCovey summary guide with a "Tip to Try" exercise per habit.
Curriculum and facilitator guide of 20+ experiential practices linking inner ecology and planetary wellbeing — body-based work, nature connection, mindful communication — free PDF plus online course.
Global network and open practice library for Macy's Spiral of the Great Turning — gratitude, honoring our pain for the world, seeing with new eyes, going forth. Dozens of group practices (Truth Mandala, The Milling, Council of All Beings) for ecological grief, connection and empowerment work.
Facilitator guide and course materials from the project "Transforming Higher Education for Sustainability by Fostering Inner Dimensions of Learners" (2022–2024): an ~8.5-hour course design with webinar recordings for faculty integrating inner dimensions into sustainability teaching.
Open-access paper (CC BY 4.0) linking climate policy mainstreaming with the personal and political spheres of transformation, applying conscious full-spectrum thinking to policy integration.
Free, Creative-Commons-licensed methods from Theory U / u.lab: awareness-based tools for sensing, presencing and prototyping systems change — Case Clinic, Sensing Journeys, Guided Journaling, Stakeholder Interviews, Social Presencing Theatre.
A single-page teacher resource carrying thirty-three drama games as cards — Warm-ups, Team building, Improvisation, Devising and text-work — each with a one-line purpose and a downloadable one-page how-to-play PDF, aimed at Key Stage 3 and above. The page calls itself a free resource and flags which games are more inclusive of students with movement issues.
A working drama teacher's open bank of drama games and teaching strategies: each game a short article with how-to-play instructions, variations and age guidance, alongside articles, book reviews and courses. The games range from classic warm-ups (Count to 20, Grandmother's Footsteps, Fruit Salad) to devising and storytelling structures — the drama-pedagogy lineage published openly by one practitioner.
The largest open Swedish bank of drama exercises found so far: 549 övningar across 44 categories, each with the site's own counts — Samarbete (58), Bejaka (51), Spontanitet (50), Uppvärmning (43), Koncentration (33), Gruppskapande (21), Förtroende (5), Lära känna varandra (3) and on through mime, status work, storytelling and teatersport. Every exercise is a public page with full instructions in Swedish, often with variations; a free membership exists for comments and a handful of protected posts. The domain is the IDN dramaövningar.se; the URL recorded here is its punycode form, which is what a browser actually resolves.
A working drama teacher's site of lesson plans, teaching articles and acting tips. One lesson plan is mined here: seventeen exercises for building confidence, arranged as a run — six warm-ups, six main exercises, five cool-downs — each with the author's own statement of what it is organised as, what it works on and what it is for. The site is monetised through Amazon affiliate links.
One of the oldest open collections of improvisational theatre material: 474 games and exercises across 35 category pages, from Warm-up (126), Group (45), Icebreakers (33) and Trust (19) to performance formats, each entry a short description of how the game runs, with cross-links between related games and a glossary of improv terms. The categories most useful to this directory are exactly the on-ramp ones — games a cold group can play in minutes that leave it warmer than it was.
A community-maintained wiki of improv games, exercises and warm-ups in eleven languages including Swedish, each article carrying its own licence block. Extent not yet counted: this record exists so the consent question can be asked before anything is read at scale.
Online learning platform teaching evidence-based therapy modalities with their founders — CBT, DBT (Marsha Linehan), ACT (Russ Harris), EMDR, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing (Miller & Rollnick) — plus free resources (e-books, Q&As, therapy demos, clinical audio/handouts).
A northern-Swedish theatre's exercise shelf for schools and groups: 130 övningar published as one-page downloadable PDFs under eight headings — Uppbyggnad, Avspänning, Berättande, Gestaltning, Gruppdynamik, Kull, Uppvärmning and Värderingsövningar. Heavy on kull (tag) variants, relaxation and warm-ups: exactly the runnable, body-first games that make a cold group warm.
Psychometrically validated free self-assessment of 24 character strengths in six virtue categories, used in 190+ countries; the backbone instrument of strengths-based positive psychology practice. Premium reports are paid.