Why I can’t be silent about the Inner Development Goals

Summary

A critique of the Inner Development Goals. Sanna Rådelius argues that its 25 skills were chosen within an Anglo-American and Northern European frame, then presented as universal, with growth, power and patriarchy left as background. Better coping, she warns, can prolong the systems that need changing. Her objections, she reports, were treated as a tone problem.

Rationale

We read this as a warning to ourselves. Any framework for inner change can travel as a universal while carrying its makers’ assumptions and leaving the surrounding arrangements untouched.