This 7minute, 2022 video was shared by a group of local psychotherapists while the recent Artemis II mission was in flight. I'm sharing it here as a beautiful reminder of the 'overview effect' and as a piece of science communication that helps me resolve some of my conflict about space exploration - because the 'overview effect' helps us see that we are all 'of earth' - we are planetary. I could imagine this video being used in a facilitation, supported by inner development-focused coaching questions, including using the 'Dolly Zoom' film technique mentioned in the video. About the film: "Astronaut @RonGaran experienced this so-called “overview effect” when he first saw Earth from space. When he looked out on the planet, he saw an iridescent biosphere teeming with life, all protected by a remarkably thin atmosphere. What he did not see was the thing that society often gives top priority: the economy. For Garan, seeing Earth from space revealed problems like global warming, deforestation, and biodiversity loss are not disconnected. They are the symptoms of an underlying flaw in how we perceive ourselves as humans: We fail to realize that we are a planetary species." https://bigthink.com/life/overview-effect/ Much love to everyone from the Great Southern Land, Kylie x

@Thomas Jordan has now built a dedicated website with resources primarily for people who want to use the IDG framework in organizations here AMAZING! Here are brief presentations of two key resources: ******* Manager’s Toolbox for Working with the Inner Development Guide This book is a practical collection of ready-to-use activities that managers and facilitators can apply directly with teams. It offers 31 clearly described exercises, ranging from a few minutes to extended sessions, each linked to specific IDG skills. The focus is on immediate usability: helping practitioners introduce inner development into meetings, workshops, and team processes without redesigning structures or requiring deep theoretical grounding. The Toolbox is especially useful as an entry point for organizations new to IDG work, or in contexts where time, mandate, or readiness for deeper structural change is limited. It emphasizes actionability and flexibility over long-term systemic design. ******* The Inner Development Guide for Teams This handbook focuses on how teams and departments develop collective capability over time. Rather than offering isolated activities, it provides structural “scaffolds” — meeting formats, routines, roles, and norms — that embed the Inner Development Guide into everyday work. Its core premise is that individual skills do not automatically become collective strengths; they must be enabled by deliberate structures and practices. The book is written for team leaders, managers, and consultants who want to shape how teams function as systems, building sustained capacities for reflection, collaboration, sensemaking, and action. It is best suited for practitioners aiming at long-term cultural change rather than quick interventions. ****** There are also a couple of web apps that give overviews of the practices, exercises, activities and structures that are described in more detail in the longer handbooks and essays.

A colleague of mine recently attended the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) World Congress in Brisbane where she heard Michael F. Steger propose three pillars for "Regenerative Positive Psychology" - moving the focus of pos psych from 'me' to 'we'. I was interested in the the three pillars and thought you might be too: Three Pillars of Regenerative Positive Psychology (1) Expand definitions of wellbeing. Wellbeing is understood not only as the thriving of the individual, but also as the health and growth in capacity of the systems that include the individual. (2) Build a science of wellbeing systems. It is vital to encourage and inspire the production of research, interventions, educational programs, and organizational approaches that explicitly address, at minimum, the environmental, social, and political systems that sustain a good life. (3) Generate knowledge of positive human caretaking. Priority is placed on research, education, and interventions that encourage and cultivate traits, attitudes, and behaviors that position individuals as positive caretakers and benefactors of mutual and collective wellbeing, as well as the systems that support that wellbeing. Michael F. Steger (2025) Regenerative positive psychology: A call to reorient wellbeing science to meet the realities of our world, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 20:3, 373-396, DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2024.2365259 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2024.2365259

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