Inner Development Goals: Cultivating Change from the Inside Out with Erik Fernholm
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
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🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 101 minutes
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(Conversation recorded on September 5th, 2024)
The deeper we dive into the complexity of the metacrisis, the more it becomes apparent that the changes we desire in our communities, governments, and societies must start with individual mindsets and behaviors. But what practices can help us cultivate this shift in consciousness?
Today, Nate talks with Erik Fernholm about The Inner Development Goals, a framework designed to foster the skills and capacities needed to tackle the existential challenges we face. Erik unpacks the nuance and complexities of creating such a massive project, and discusses how he's used them in his own life to foster personal change.
How can we shift from dominant societal values, like individualism, towards ones rooted in complexity and contextual awareness? Why is it important to share these journeys of personal development and grow together as communities? How can each of us make inner changes in our own lives to reflect a more interdependent and resilient outer world?
About Erik Fernholm:
Erik Fernholm is a father, an award winning global speaker and bridge builder. Through his background in cognitive neuroscience and happiness research, he has spent the past 15 years exploring which fundamental shifts in relationships, skills, and worldviews are needed for us to become sustainable and generative at an individual and collective level. Erik's work mainly focuses on communicating the link between inner development and outer change as well as creating spaces for it to unfold.
Erik is the co-founder of The Inner Development Goals, a communication framework mapping what inner shifts are needed to reach the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, implemented in corporations, governments and through its 750 hubs globally. Erik is the Chair of the Ekskäret Foundation where he co-founded the 29k Foundation/Aware platform, which has scaled inner development processes to over 100,000 people in 160 countries.
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| 0:00.0 | the system that we have created. It has been hijacked and we're caught in this trap and we are worthy of so much better. |
| 0:06.6 | This is not what we're here to build. And I think everybody on the planet can come to that conclusion. |
| 0:12.9 | If they just have that scaffolding and that support and then you'd want to empower them to drive the change. |
| 0:17.8 | But I think that's actually the core of rediscovering what it means |
| 0:21.0 | to be human and changing that story and the rest I think would actually sort itself out. |
| 0:28.0 | You're listening to the Great Simplification. I'm Nate Hagen's. On this show, we describe how |
| 0:33.8 | energy, the economy, the environment and human behavior all fit together and what it might |
| 0:39.6 | mean for our future. By sharing insights from global thinkers, we hope to inform and inspire |
| 0:45.7 | more humans to play emergent roles in the coming great simplification. |
| 0:59.7 | I often say that it is an unusual time to be alive. |
| 1:07.4 | And for many of us, the places we live and the problems we deal with were ones that the human brain evolutionarily was not meant to hold. |
| 1:12.7 | Navigating the challenges ahead of us will require a change in consciousness for many humans, which of course is much easier said than done. |
| 1:20.4 | Joining me to discuss this topic today is Eric Fernholm. Eric Fernholm has dedicated his career to unraveling how personal growth connects to building |
| 1:31.3 | a sustainable society. |
| 1:33.3 | He's a philosopher, social entrepreneur, and has an academic background in cognitive neuroscience |
| 1:39.1 | and happiness research. |
| 1:42.1 | Eric's been involved in launching a variety of initiatives to create forums for inner |
| 1:46.7 | development, including the co-founding of the 29K Foundation, which has a mission to democratize |
| 1:54.0 | inner development by building the world's first scalable platform making mental health |
| 1:59.1 | and inner development tools available to millions, |
| 2:02.4 | free of charge for the users. |
| 2:05.5 | Eric has since helped in founding the Inner Development Goals Initiative, which offers a framework |
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