IDG-Growth That Matters Gathering

31 March 2022 15:30-17:00 CEST

What would it take for the IDG’s to be truly global - and how can we learn from the wisdom and practices of Indigenous cultures ?

- Mobilizing a movement towards the IDGs -

What would it take for the IDG’s to be truly global? How can we learn from the wisdom and practices of Indigenous cultures to serve the flourishing of all humans? Indeed, “how can we do human better?”

The panel will explore participants’ understanding of what it means to be a human being. The first survey captured a picture of mainly Western IDGs values. We will explore just how culture-specific our views may be of what we believe is universally true for all humans. We are socialised (nay programmed) into a specific view of reality by our mother tongues and historical context. English, our common language of communication, is colonising what we can see and what is not on our radar. Like fish in water, most people do not realise that this is so.

This group of presenters will introduce non-Western conceptions of self and other, including what makes for thriving communities. We advocate for Indigenous ideas of non-separate personhood, time and the kinship with all denizens on earth as counterpoints to the current emphasis of IDGs on the idea of the separate self and vertical development, speed of action and our Western colonising tendencies.

Participants are invited to explore in groups the need for greater inclusion of non-WEIRD views on what matters in life and what we might learn about flourishing and sustainability from Indigenous cultures.

PANEL

Susanne Cook-Greuter, Bayo Akomolafe, Lindsie Bear, Matthew Lee

The Gathering will start 15.30 CEST in Zoom.

About the IDGs
In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provided us with a comprehensive plan for a sustainable world. However, progress is slow. Growth That Matters believe that personal development is necessary for societal change.

This is why we now are co-creating the Inner Development Goals (IDGs) - a blueprint of the capabilities, qualities and skills that are needed to achieve the 17 SDGs. Our aim is to inspire, educate and empower people to be a positive force for change in society and find a more purposeful way to look at our lives and our planet.

The IDGs will provide an essential framework and field-kit for inner growth - an accelerator to create a prosperous future for all of humanity.

www.innerdevelopmentgoals.org

Speakers

Susanne Cook-Greuter

Susanne Cook-Greuter is a founding member of the Integral Institute and an elder in several communities including Integral Africa, the GTM initiative and the IDGs. She is a scholar in ego development and the creator of the MAP, an instrument to measure ego maturity. Her Harvard dissertation counts as a landmark contribution to the field of Adult Development. Susanne is intrigued by the variety of languages and views of reality beyond her own WEIRD conditioning. She sees wisdom and promise in Indigenous relationships to nature and the land, and their conceptions of personhood, wellbeing and sustainability.

Bayo Akomolafe

Bayo Akomolafe is a prolific essayist, speaker and activist, a professor of psychology, and a master wordsmith. Rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, Bayo is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to Ije, son, and brother. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak, Bayo Akomolafe is the Chief Curator of The Emergence Network and host of the online postactivist course, ‘We Will dance with Mountains’.

Lindsie Bear

Lindsie Bear (Cherokee/Danish descent) is a mixed heritage Indigenous mother living outside of her ancestral homelands in occupied Wiyot territory in the northwestern coast of the United States. Lindsie’s work focuses on amplifying the voices of Indigenous peoples in media, policy, and financial sectors to support cultural revitalization, narrative sovereignty, climate resilience and self-determined economic growth. She is currently the Vice President of Strategy at the Humboldt Area and Wild River Community Foundation, serves on the board of Justice Funders, where she works deeply with Native Nations and Indigenous cultural communities to influence public policy and philanthropic agendas to support healthy families, thriving ecosystems, just economy, and racial equity. She has formerly worked across Indigenous communities in the western US, supporting Native authors and artists as Director of the Native Cultures Fund, Heyday books publishing, and Editor of News from Native California magazine.

Matthew Lee

Matthew Lee is a Senior Research Scientist and the Director of Empirical Research at the Human Flourishing Program in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. He leads the Program’s Community of Practice and his research explores topics such as benevolent service to others, human flourishing, organisational compassion capability, and the integration of the social science and the humanities. He has helped communities engage in conflict transformation and restorative justice. He serves as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Health, Flourishing, and Positive Psychology at Stony Brook University’s Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics and a Visiting Scholar at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. His latest book is Measuring Well-Being (Oxford University Press, 2021). Matthew holds a master’s degree in Criminology and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Delaware.

You will find the link in the ticket e-mail.

If there is any problem to join the meeting, please contact Jesper Hök at

jesper.hok@gro.nu

If you have any questions about the IDGs, please email: info@innerdevelopmentgoals.org

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