“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”

Martin Luther

Developing a vision or starting a new project is often very exciting and uplifting, but one can easily get overwhelmed by the many aspects that are wobbly and unclear, not defined and not yet decided. There are so many ideas and questions around the vision and, oh gosh, they are all interrelated with each other — you try to answer one question and see you cannot properly answer it before having tackled several others. The head starts to pound, the discussions go wild and after a while the joy and enthusiasm with which you started this project is covered with a thick layer of confusion and exhaustion.

The project tree is a good tool to offer innovators security and structure in this delicate moment of transition from a blurry yet glittering vision to a tangible project without losing its shine.

The project tree is a visualisation aid that:

• helps you orientate in complexity,
• provides a way to clear your mind of unsolved questions and floating ideas,
• and allows your thoughts to jump between very fundamental questions of meaning and purpose in one moment and nitty-gritty details about a specific action in the next without losing track.

The Project Tree method is especially useful when you want to work on the IDGs Inner Compass, Long-term Orientation & Visioning and Optimism.

This Community of Practice Talk is also an IDG network event of the  IDG Facilitators’ Community of Practice  .

This community is open to individuals passionate about facilitating skills for the IDGs, as a means to achieve the SDGs. Our mission is to bring together like-minded professionals and activists, and provide a platform to exchange ideas, share resources and experience, and collaborate on projects. Whether you are a teacher, coach, consultant, trainer, or simply interested in fostering the IDGs, this community is a place to network, learn, and grow. With regular virtual meetups, webinars and workshops, the IDG Facilitators’ Community of Practice provides a dynamic and supportive environment.

We invite you to join us again for a monthly meeting on every second Monday of the month 10:00-11:00 am, and the following Tuesday 6:00-7:00 pm CET.

This will be the last meeting before our summer break. The next meeting after this one will be on the 11th of September.

“A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.“

Rudolf Steiner

We invite you to join us again for a monthly meeting on every second Monday of the month 10:00-11:00 am, and the following Tuesday 6:00-7:00 pm CET.

AND we will have a get together on wonder after the talk. So if you can stay half an hour longer that would be awesome.

Looking forward very much to caching up,
Boris

“We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too … remember that the real development we seek is not in the buildings but in our hearts and minds.“

Dalai Lama

The Inner Development Goals (IDGs) is a not for profit and open source initiative.

Meet the founders, hear from the advisory board and co-creating researchers, and learn how the IDGs framework can help accelerate the work towards the UN’s Global Goals or SDGs.

Why
In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals gave us a comprehensive plan for a sustainable world by 2030. The 17 goals cover a wide range of issues that involve people with different needs, values, and convictions. There is a vision of what needs to happen, but progress along this vision has so far been disappointing. We lack the inner capacity to deal with our increasingly complex environment and challenges. Fortunately, modern research shows that the inner abilities we now all need can be developed. This was the starting point for the ‘Inner Development Goals’ initiative.

Find more infos here.

We invite you to join us again for a monthly meeting on every second Monday of the month 10:00-11:00 am, and the following Tuesday 6:00-7:00 pm CET.

AND we will have a get together on wonder after the talk. So if you can stay half an hour longer that would be awesome.

Looking forward very much to caching up,
Boris

It is extremely difficult to get people to give up deeply cherished beliefs and cast off deeply engrained behaviours in order to embrace the Unknown. Our metaphor is that of tearing down an old and dilapidated building in order to erect something new and more sustainable. The problem to be solved is “Where do we house the building occupants during the demolition and reconstruction process?”

Therein lies the interest of “Scaffolding” – the idea of providing a safe haven for those who are temporarily homeless, as they take that leap of faith into The Unknown. More prosaically, we must get our occupants out of the building that is going to be torn down and move them onto our temporarily erected structure so that they can wait out the rebuilding period while they learn to live with this uncomfortable feeling of uncertainty.

This process will be an unsettling one for its planners and managers. Throughout it, they will have to present their own beliefs in a very watered-down form, for it to be acceptable and palatable to those being temporarily housed on the Scaffold. In this process, we must put the purity of our beliefs and coherency of thinking on a back burner as we help others inch their ways towards something more flexible, creative, all-encompassing and sustainable.

We will examine this process and provide concrete examples of how to orchestrate the Scaffolding principle. But more important, you will have the opportunity to experiment with and expand this notion of “in-between spaces” that serve as temporary shelters, and we will exchange about our experiences of Scaffolding for the Edge.

We invite you to join us again for a monthly meeting on every second Monday of the month 10:00-11:00 am, and the following Tuesday 6:00-7:00 pm CET.

This Community of Practice Talk is also an IDG network event of the  IDG Facilitators’ Community of Practice  .

This community is open to individuals passionate about facilitating skills for the IDGs, as a means to achieve the SDGs. Our mission is to bring together like-minded professionals and activists, and provide a platform to exchange ideas, share resources and experience, and collaborate on projects. Whether you are a teacher, coach, consultant, trainer, or simply interested in fostering the IDGs, this community is a place to network, learn, and grow. With regular virtual meetups, webinars and workshops, the IDG Facilitators’ Community of Practice provides a dynamic and supportive environment.

We are all aware that teaching and facilitating learning needs to be adapted or re-designed to help students and participants develop the people skills necessary for moving towards the SDGs, especially in formal learning settings. In previous CoP meetings, we talked about these people skills and tried out methods to support their development. For example: Multisensory Methods, Deep Listening, Powerful Visioning… What we have not yet discussed is the pedagogy that is needed to embed these methods in existing courses: how can we slightly modify an existing course and introduce learning edges? When can we use what method to what effect? What guidance do participants need?

Come with your examples of courses you’d like to adapt; bring your practices and theoretical insights: we’ll discuss how to enable learning edges for the IDGs and SDGs – even against the grain…

This Theory and Practice Talk is led by Marilyn Mehlmann and Boris Goldammer from Legacy17.

We invite you to join us again for a monthly meeting on every second Monday of the month 10:00-11:00 am, and the following Tuesday 6:00-7:00 pm CET.

AND we will have a get together on wonder after the talk. So if you can stay half an hour longer that would be awesome.

Looking forward very much to caching up,
Marilyn and Boris

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

Buckminster Fuller 

How can we change things with ease and grace? Buckminster fuller’s approach seems a key to that: focusing all efforts on what we can imagine and what we want to bring into the world and making it convincing instead of dissipating energy in struggles of old paradigms. What does this mean? What does it need to put this wisdom into practice? How can we as facilitators, teachers or innovators support this process? 

In this Alchemy talk we will explore together the potential of this approach and what it means on a very practical level for our work as transformation hosts.

We invite you to join us again for a monthly meeting on every second Monday of the month 10:00-11:00 am, and the following Tuesday 6:00-7:00 pm CET.

AND we will have a get together on wonder after the talk. So if you can stay half an hour longer that would be awesome.

Looking forward very much to caching up,
Boris

Those who have visions should not only go to the doctor and other health care institutions, but also to schools, universities, companies, politics, everywhere where new impulses, imaginative change and creative spirit are urgently needed. And those who have no visions -yet- can develop them in a joyful, creative group process. How can we accompany such processes? What attitudes, basic assumptions and tools are helpful for this? How can we ensure that the visions do not fizzle out as “could-be” dreams, but become a navigation system and the basis for clearly focused, powerful action in the here and now?

This Theory and Practice Talk is led by Jutta and Boris Goldammer from the Visionautik Academie. Vision development is one of their heartfelt topics and they have been accompanying vision development processes for over 20 years.

We invite you to join us again for a monthly meeting on every second Monday of the month 10:00-11:00 am, and the following Tuesday 6:00-7:00 pm CET.

AND we will have a get together on wonder after the talk. So if you can stay half an hour longer that would be awesome.

Looking forward very much to caching up,
Boris

“Values are like fingerprints, nobody’s are the same, but you leave them all over everything you do.” 

Elvis Presley

If we talk about values in relation to the IDGs, I guess the entry point is ‘transparency’: 

“To make progress on shared concerns, we need to develop our abilities to include, hold space and communicate with stakeholders with different values, skills and competencies.”

Inner Development Goal set no. 4, Collaborating and social skills

Our values are obvious and transparent. Right?
And all stakeholders are behind the important ones. Right?
How do you know that? Or, how do you make it happen?
Let’s try out a simple method and then discuss what it means: to be transparent about values, not only as a way to handle conflicts but also as a way to create trust and hold space for communication.

This Theory and Practice Talk is led by Marilyn Mehlmann from legacy17. She has been working with values for over half a century now and the method is still fresh and new.

We invite you to join us again for a monthly meeting on every second Monday of the month 10:00-11:00 am, and the following Tuesday 6:00-7:00 pm CET.

Looking forward very much to caching up,
Boris