3D Mapping (Sculpting the Current Reality)
A team sculpts its current reality with physical objects: stakeholders and — crucially — invisible forces (power, frustration, hope) are each given an object, with distance, siz…
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IDG Phase 2 Research Report & Toolkit (2022)
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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.
drive.google.com/file/d/1I0ThTPl75h3M6iLzZ7KgYOsiLcrZw3Bw/view — Inner Development Goals initiative (co-funded Erasmus+; with cadra); scientific advisory board of 41 researchers
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Tools from this source (30)
Acts of Kindness in Daily Life
The behavioural wing of compassion training: deliberately practising generosity, hospitality or kindness toward specific people — someone close, someone neutral, someone difficu…
Body Scan Meditation
A guided practice of moving attention slowly and systematically through the body, noticing sensation without trying to change it. Usually done lying down with audio guidance, 20…
Case Clinic
Structured peer-coaching for 5–8 people (~70 minutes): a case giver presents a current leadership challenge at their growing edge; after clarifying questions, the group holds th…
Cognitive Defusion Practice
The core ACT move of stepping back from a thought so it becomes something you HAVE rather than something you ARE: rephrasing "I don't matter to anyone" as "I am having the thoug…
Cultural Dimensions Reflection
A structured group reflection for interculturally mixed teams: learn the main dimensions along which working cultures differ (power distance, individualism/collectivism, uncerta…
Deep Democracy (Facilitated Group Process)
Facilitation approach built on the premise that the minority voice carries information the group needs: decisions are made only after the "no" has been genuinely heard, dissent…
Dialectical Self-Reflection
A thinking exercise from the Dialectical Thought Form framework (DTF): deliberately re-see yourself through the four dialectical moments — not a static being but a PROCESS (evol…
DTF Cognitive Assessment & Coaching
A structured interview with a trained DTF analyst that maps a person's current patterns of dialectical thinking — which thought forms (structure, process, relation, transformati…
Everyday Creative Practice
Choosing one creative activity that gives you relaxation, enjoyment and fun — drawing, music, writing, movement, crafts — practising it regularly, and deliberately exploring whe…
Team Psychological Safety Scan
Measuring a team's psychological safety with Amy Edmondson's validated survey items (e.g., "If you make a mistake on this team, it is often held against you"), then debriefing t…
Future Search
A structured 2.5–3 day planning conference that gets "the whole system in the room" — 40–80 stakeholders across interests review their common past, map present trends, own their…
Guided Journaling (Theory U)
Writing through a scripted sequence of questions that walk the U: from current challenges and frustrations, through looking at your journey and self from outside, to the deeper…
Immunity to Change Map
A four-column mapping process that surfaces why sincere improvement goals stall: (1) the commitment to improve, (2) what I do/don't do instead, (3) hidden competing commitments…
Listening to Pause
A team dialogue structure built on deliberate silence: each person speaks for the same fixed time (e.g., five minutes); after each speaker, the group holds about a minute of pau…
Loving-Kindness / Compassion Meditation
The progressive compassion practice at the heart of most compassion trainings: settle into body and breath; direct kind, non-judging attention first to yourself (self-compassion…
Meet Yourself at 90
A guided values visualization from the ACT tradition: after settling into body and breath, participants imagine themselves at their 90th birthday, visited by someone who matters…
Mindful Nature Walk
The entry-level nature-connection practice: a walk in forest or park with attention deliberately in relationship — naming trees, listening to layered sounds, feeling the carryin…
Mindful Pause (Informal Practice)
The informal half of mindfulness training: bringing awareness deliberately into everyday activities — pausing before responding where one would otherwise act through habit or im…
Nature Quest
Structured solo time in wild nature in three phases: preparation (practical questions, naming worries, setting intention), the quest itself — going alone to a chosen place, leav…
NVC Dialogue Practice
Practicing Marshall Rosenberg's core sequence on a real tension, in pairs or triads: state the observation without evaluation, name the feeling, connect it to the underlying nee…
Open Space Technology
Self-organizing conference format for 5 to 2000 people around a question that matters: participants themselves post the sessions, form the agenda in the opening circle, and move…
Personal Polarity Map
Barry Johnson's polarity mapping applied to personal growth: an eight-step paper exercise that reframes a stuck self-improvement wish ("be clearer") as one pole of a polarity wh…
Psychological Safety Micro-Behaviours
An individual practice run inside real teamwork: deliberately doing the small things research links to team psychological safety — asking genuine questions, speaking up about yo…
Sensing Journey
Leaving the office to see the system from its edges: small groups visit places and people that matter in the system they work on — users, front lines, forgotten corners — with t…
Sitting Meditation (Breath-Anchored)
The core formal mindfulness practice: sitting upright, resting attention on a chosen anchor — usually the breath — and each time the mind wanders, gently returning it, without j…
Subject-Object Interview
Kegan's research-grade developmental interview: ~60–90 minutes of structured conversation around prompts (angry, anxious, success, torn…) through which a trained interviewer ass…
The Symbiosis Meditation
An eight-minute guided imagination journey through the elements of your own body — earth (bones, teeth, weight), water (blood, inner oceans), air (breath, oxygen), fire (heat, t…
The Shield
Each participant draws a large shield divided into four fields and fills them with PICTURES (no words) on personal themes — "this describes me…", "a difficulty I got over…", "I…
WOOP
A four-step, minutes-long goal practice with an unusually strong evidence base: name a Wish (challenging but feasible), vividly imagine the best Outcome, then — the counterintui…
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