Where the tools live
Toolboxes, card decks, books, programs, and platforms — each with its access terms and who proposed it to the collaboration. Tools link back here; the same exercise in several collections is the cross-pollination this directory exists to reveal.
"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.
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).
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 250+ social games for deeper connection — curiosity, truth-telling, reflection, noticing — from the authentic relating movement. The current edition is sold as PDF/print; an older version 7 circulates freely under CC BY-SA.
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).
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.
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).
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.