Integrating Sustainable Innovation and Mindfulness through the IDGs

Integrating Sustainable Innovation and Mindfulness through the IDGs

The Inner Development Goals ( IDGs ) are a concept developed primarily by a Sweden-based organization, incorporating the opinions of cognitive psychologists, organizational researchers, and philosophers from around the world. Their aim is to promote the inner growth and development of individuals.

These guidelines attempt to apply the spirit of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to the growth and development of individual human beings, emphasizing the enhancement of inner qualities such as self-awareness, empathy, and ethical consciousness. The SDGs, advocated by Sweden, are gaining worldwide attention as a framework for individuals to deepen their inner selves and cultivate a deeper understanding of and sense of responsibility towards society and the environment. This promotes the evolution and growth of awareness at the individual level toward the realization of a more peaceful and sustainable world.

Members of the general incorporated association Zen2.0 have voluntarily participated in the Japanese translation of the IDGs and have also presented lectures on the IDGs at conferences for the past two years.

About IDGSs (in Japanese) https://note.com/mindful_ls/n/nd3853d15483c

About the Inner Development Goals (in English) : https://www.innerdevelopmentgoals.org/

• Date: 1st session, January 30, 2024, 19:00-21:00

• Venue: SPACES Otemachi Venue

• Format: Face-to-face

• Target audience: Business professionals in general who want to learn about Zen thinking, mindfulness, and the IDGs.

• Objective: To understand the role of IDGs, the potential of mindfulness and Zen, and innovation as required of business leaders.

• Content: The IDGs, which outline the inner growth of individuals required for corporate organizations to promote SDGs and create sustainable innovation, are currently attracting global attention. In this seminar, we will learn about what the IDGs are, as well as mindfulness, which is a crucial foundation of the IDGs, and how to enhance concentration while maintaining inner peace. If you are interested in innovation, organizational development, leadership, SDGs, and themes such as IDGs, mindfulness, and Zen, please join us.

• Participation fee: Free (Please note that this is a free trial event. Subsequent events will be charged.)

◆Speaker Profiles

・Mikio Shishido

Organizational transformation and human resource development consultant

Co-representative director of Zen2.0, a general incorporated association

Representative Director, Kamakura Mindfulness Lab Co., Ltd.

Board Member, 21st Century Learning Institute (General Incorporated Association)

Resides in Kamakura. Graduated from Azabu High School and the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Applied Physics. Completed graduate studies in the Department of Materials Science, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo.

After working at IBM Japan, Ltd., he joined Alue Co., Ltd. (then Edufactory Co., Ltd.), a company specializing in corporate human resource development, from its founding. He was in charge of establishing the instructor department and was involved in a wide range of corporate human resource development projects, from global talent development for major companies to management training and training for young employees. After becoming independent, he served as a director of Innocentive Co., Ltd., and then founded Kamakura Mindfulness Lab Co., Ltd., where he became the representative director.

Based in Kamakura, she develops unique programs that combine mindfulness with the creation of autonomous, learning organizations and talent development training. She also produces various learning opportunities. She co- founded ZEN2.0, an international forum on Zen and mindfulness, with Mr. Miki of ennmono.

In March 2023, he published "Marketing ZEN" through Nikkei Business Publications.

・Koji Miki

Innovation Consultant

Co-Representative Director, Zen2.0 General Incorporated Association

Representative Director, enmono Co., Ltd.

He joined Fujitsu Limited. After obtaining a Master's degree in Policy and Media Studies from Keio University, he continued his doctoral studies and served as an executive at an IT venture company before being laid off due to business deterioration. To recover from the shock, he began practicing Zen meditation every morning. Based on his experience of caring for his own mental health and conceiving new business ideas through Zen meditation, he started offering "zenschool," an innovation management method utilizing mindfulness. In January 2016, it was featured on the TV program "Gaia no Yoake." In September 2017, he hosted "Zen2.0," Japan's first international mindfulness conference, at Kencho-ji Temple in Kita-Kamakura, attracting speakers from Japan and abroad and receiving high praise. "Zen2.0," which was initially launched by four people, has grown in seven years into the world's largest international conference on Zen and mindfulness, connecting Amsterdam, Netherlands, Kamakura, and San Francisco, USA. Currently, he is working to make Kamakura a mindful city that fuses Zen and IT. Since 2020, in response to the spread of COVID-19, we have been running "zenschool Metaverse," a new business development course that focuses on developing new businesses within the metaverse space, and are working on building new businesses within the metaverse. More recently, we have also been actively giving lectures on the topic of "purpose in life" in the age of AI.