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✅︎ Inner Development Goals – Toolkit

Target GroupBachelor, MasterResource TypeLesson/Teaching PlansDomainDevelopment Economics, Specific KnowledgeAuthorKristian Stålne, Stefanie Greca
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Summary

  • The IDG framework can help students develop their inner capacities and deepen their relationship with their thoughts, feelings, and body

Relevant SDGs

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How to use

  • The resource can be used in a variety of contexts, including leadership development, personal growth, and professional development
  • It can be used at any point in a lecture where you want to emphasize the importance of personal and interpersonal skills and capacities for sustainable development
  • Faculty should familiarize themselves with the framework’s five dimensions and 23 skills and qualities. Depending on the type of exercise,  faculty need to involve an expert.

Teaching format tip

Lesson/Teaching Plans

Engage students as co-facilitators and content contributors rather than passive recipients. Students should prepare discussion questions and share relevant experiences that enrich planned activities. Build flexibility for organic learning moments that emerge from student interests. Use plans as frameworks for shared inquiry rather than rigid scripts.

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