A webinar hosted by IFLA's ENSULIB group - Inner Development Goals: An exploration for the sake of life on Earth facilitated by Madeleine Charney. For more on ENSULIB https://www.ifla.org/units/environment-sustainability-and-libraries/

1. IFLA/ENSULIB WEBINAR SERIES PRESENTS
Inner Development Goals:
An Interactive Webinar
Speaker: Madeleine Charney
Brought to you by
ENSULIB, IFLA‘s Environment, Sustainability and Libraries Section
Friday September 9
7:00am PDT / 2:00pm UTC

2. privacy
This event is being recorded but only the intro and main speaker – not the breakout rooms.
The video will be posted on YouTube and the link will be posted on ENSULIB’s webpage as well as
on Facebook. The chat and the Q&A protocol will not be recorded nor published.
Microphones have been muted for this event.
Questions or comments? Please type into the chat or Q&A box.
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3. Opening Welcome
Harri Sahavirta
Chair, ENSULIB Section of IFLA; Chief Librarian
Helsinki City Library, Finland
E-mail: harri.sahavirta@hel.fi

4. speaker
Madeleine Charney
… Research Services librarian at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst (USA); co-founder of the
American Library Association's Sustainability Round Table,
a nature therapy guide, a labyrinth facilitator, and
mindfulness teacher.

5. PRESENTATION
TIME!

6. Inner Development Goals
An exploration for the sake
of life on Earth
Madeleine Charney
UMass Amherst Libraries
Sept. 9, 2022
ENSULIB webinar

7. Land Acknowledgement
Homelands of the Pocumtuck and
Norwottuck peoples
(now known as Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)

8. Grounding
moment
Where are your feet touching
the ground right now?

10. What are the
Inner
Development
Goals?
A research-based framework that aims to develop our
inner capacity to manage
the increasingly complex
environment
and challenges.
The IDG framework is fundamental in the work to reach
the Sustainable Development Goals.

11. “Protect the Flame: Circles of Radical Shared Presence in Times of Collapse”
Article just published by Otto Scharma, from IDG’s leadership (and MIT)
3 themes he is noticing:
1) We’re living in a time of accelerated breakdown and collapse.
2) The sinking feeling that arises when taking all of this in (i.e. a pervasive collective
depression)
3) The paradox that we know almost everything necessary to prevent civilizational
collapse (technologies + financial means) and yet we are not doing it.
The massive knowing-doing gap
has been embodied in our collective behavior
over the past 50+ years.
https://medium.com/presencing-institute-blog/protect-the-flame-49f1ac2480ac

12. What do these 3
themes tell us?
They tell us that we live in a moment of
transition where one civilization is ending and
dying and another one is being born. And as
custodians of planet earth and all its species,
we are called to protect the flame of our
highest future possibilities.
https://medium.com/presencing-institute-blog/protect-the-flame-
49f1ac2480ac

14. Notice: 17 spaces, to
mirror the 17 SDGs

21. Respond in chat
What inspires me about
the Inner Development
Goals? Any of them in
particular?

22. Break out 1 of 2
What is a project, real or imagined, in which the IDGs
could play an important role?
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1umXiFEqT87Wlr-
CHhbqvnerwuR0G8s6R/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112847779141705789810&rtpof=true&sd=true

23. Break out 2 of 2
Who else (individuals or groups) in my workplace or
elsewhere might be interested in learning about the IDGs?
Where/how can I imagine sharing these frames?
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1umXiFEqT87Wlr-
CHhbqvnerwuR0G8s6R/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112847779141705789810&
rtpof=true&sd=true

24. Wrap up exercise
Take a minute to free write about
your thoughts from this session.
Identify 1-3 next steps you’d like to
take in relationship to the IDGs (on
your own or with others).
Share a step(s) in the chat

25. A deep dive into how we can build infrastructures of connection for awareness-based collective action.
Led by Otto Scharmer, MIT/Presencing Institute and Laurel Patterson, UN Development Program will guide us through different angles of the IDGs.
September 26, 15.30-17:00 CEST
Registration: idg-gathering-26-sep-2022.confetti.events

26. Let’s be in touch mcharney@library.umass.edu

27. Images
Keyhole: https://www.wallpaperflare.com/man-standing-inside-the-keyhole-exploration-
adventure-lock-wallpaper-ukxmx
Feet: https://www.rawpixel.com/image/5924147/photo-image-public-domain-person-beach
River valley: http://cloud.tpl.org/pubs/local_ct_river_report.pdf
Earth https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2022/04/22/do-not-abandon-hope-climate-solutions-
are-possible/
Cliff https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3995159
Labyrinth https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lands_End_Labyrinthe.jpg

28. Q&A Session
Facilitators
Please type your questions in the Q&A chat box.
Vivienne Byrd
Lead on Full STEAM Ahead &
Citizen Science Initiative
Los Angeles Public Library
E-mail: vbyrd@lapl.org
Beth Filar Williams
User Experience Research
Librarian, Oregon State
University Libraries
E-mail: beth.filar-
williams@oregonstate.edu