Hello All, I am working with a client on their talent development needs and am exploring using the IDG Guide to do a 360 degree style survey for the stream leadership teams. Looking forward to any best practices I can emulate. Thanks in advance.

Over a decade ago I took the 8week course created by Jon Kabat-Zin on Mindfulness Based Stess Reduction and it has been a game changer. Here is a fabulous new article written by Christine Wamsler and her colleagues making clear linkages to the importance of cultivating a healthy inner world to be in true connection with each other, our communities and to nature. Here is an excerpt from the article: “Understanding the roots of today’s polycrisis points to the cultural narratives underlying modern societies. Scholars and practitioners increasingly identify a dominant social paradigm of separation or alienation as a key driver of today’s interconnected crises (Eisenstein 2013; Göpel 2016; Wamsler and Bristow 2022). This paradigm assumes that human thinking minds are distinct from feelings and bodIES, that people are separate from one another, that some are superior to others, and that humanity is separate and superior to the natural world (Scott et al. 2021). In modern societies, many people are increasingly unconscious of their emotions, bodily sensations, and deeper values, influenced by factors such as trauma, denial, digital distractions, and pervasive busyness. As a result, individual behavior is often driven by fear- or incentive-based motivations rather than by social, affiliative, or caring ones. Modern societies dominated by consumption, power, and achievement increasingly marginAlize values of care, connection, and affiliation. To make matters worse, these disconnections—from self, others, and nature—mutually reinforce each other, and disconnection from our environment mirrors and reinforces disconnection from ourselves (Hawken 2021; Wamsler and Bristow 2022). For instance, diminished body awareness impairs empathy, weakens social identity, and undermines a sense of meaning and belonging (Bristow et al. 2022; Scott et al. 2021). Today’s polycrisis is therefore also described as a crisis of perception or meaning, intrinsically linked to what has been……”https://rdcu.be/eRJFj

Hi everyone, do you know, if they took down the IDG toolkit from the global website, and if yes, why?

In many organizations, we still look at collaboration, learning and leadership as controlling practices. These hinder creativity and inclusion. Liberating Structures offers an alternative approach that is simple and easy to learn. It is a collection of 33 practical methods that foster engagement, creativity and trust. With the description and step-by-step guide to all 33 methods, the LS website has additional sources and links to LS communities of practice. All the contents are free. https://www.liberatingstructures.com/

Here is the new updated guide with the explanation of each them and related competencies. Also included is the Translator version for those of you working in other languages