As the year closes and IDG moves through a time of transition, many of us are carrying both gratitude and grief, and an appreciation for what has been possible, what may be ending, and the unanswered questions that remain. This two-hour gathering is an invitation to slow down together, honour what has been and what has been lost, and reconnect with the deeper sources of creative agency that carry us forward. Drawing on Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects, we will make space for reflection and shared presence - not to fix or plan - but to meet the New Year with care and a sense of what wants to emerge. Participation is always by choice. Nothing is asked of you except presence. Gently held and guided by @`Mila Aliana and @Denise Pang Register here https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/cnhDRC80Q8qE9NsIMMG3xg

Dear friends, I received this message from a member of a regeneration collective I'm part. As an IDG community committed to inner development for outer change, - what do situations like these awaken in you? - where / how do you feel called to respond in your highest potential? - what difference can we make as a global, online community? ——— For those in California, I’d like to share this for awareness and the desire to find a way to get through to them and coordinate a transformation to it The Coyote Creek agrivoltaic ranch project in Sacramento county was recently permitted despite major backlash from community and local natives - apparently over 150 ppl showed up for comment to a Board meeting that lasted 7 hours “The solar arrays, combined with a 100-megawatt battery storage system, are expected to provide power for roughly 44,000 homes and operate for about 35 years — at the cost of removing up to 3,500 native and blue oak trees. (Old growth forests). The crux of the issue is “not solar or no solar,” but “environmentally destructive solar or responsible solar.”” https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article312972193.html#storylink=cpy https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRbDhKxEUq1/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== https://ceqanet.lci.ca.gov/2022010271/3

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In the first of a 3-session Learning Journey, Erik Fernholm shared honestly about where IDG is right now – and why a transformation is needed if we want this movement to stay alive, regenerative and truly owned by all of us. A few years ago, IDG started as a small initiative exploring inner development for systems change. None of us expected it to grow into a global movement with 800+ hubs and so many committed people around the world. From the outside, the website and big partner logos can make IDG look like a large, well-funded organization with dozens of people in a big Stockholm office. In reality, it’s a tiny team doing what they can with very limited time and resources. That mismatch has created a real bottleneck. Erik named a few pieces of this: - The founding group has been quite homogenous (Northern European, mostly male and white). - The current, centralized “startup” structure is now slowing the movement down instead of enabling it. - Too many initiatives wait in a “permission queue” – especially those without funding. The shift: from “IDG does this for us” to “WE are IDG” Erik’s proposal is bold and very aligned with inner development: - The board will give away its central mandate rather than hold onto it. - Decision-making and agency move closer to where the work is actually happening – in hubs, circles, projects, local contexts. - People get clear mandates to act in coherence with IDG principles, without needing to constantly ask for permission. *** Unfortunately I couldn't stay for the breakout rooms, but the question that was proposed was this: "How do we together cultivate the conditions for agency, learning and practise within the movement?" Let's have this conversation here - in the comments. And @Denise Pang, @Sibylle Breiner, @Maria Niermann, @Veronique Sikora Gasser, @Mark Vandeneijdne who were at the call, please share what was discussed in your breakout rooms.

Send your energy to help make the fossil fuel transition happen! The UNFCCC COP 30 Plenary is scheduled for 10:00 local time - 14:00 CET and will be live stream: https://unfccc.int/cop30/meetings-at-a-glance Negotiators have been working around the clock and it has been challenging on finance and just transition fossil fuel language.