The Inner Development Goals: A Comprehensive Review, Critique, and Path Forward

An Overview

Reimagining the Inner Development Goals: A Call for Evolutionary Depth

My 26 page article on The Inner Development Goals (IDGs) garnered over 16,000 impressions on Linked In. Here is a summary of the key findings.

This initiative represents a visionary and timely response to a pressing global challenge: the failure to recognize the critical role of human inner capacities in achieving sustainable development. While the IDG framework has gained global traction and offers a comprehensive map of 23 inner skills across five dimensions—Being, Thinking, Relating, Collaborating, and Acting—it remains hampered by methodological, cultural, and conceptual limitations that could prevent it from reaching its full transformative potential.

The IDGs risk becoming yet another self-improvement initiative unless they are embedded within a deeper cosmological and evolutionary context. The document strongly argues that the IDGs must move beyond a Western-centric, cognitive-skewed framework and instead support the emergence of what is called the “New Human”—a being capable of navigating complexity through integrated cognitive, emotional, somatic, intuitive, and spiritual intelligences.