Luca Gatti’s Post

I am travelling home from the Inner Development Goals Summit, carrying a cardboard box with me of letters of love and appreciation for Christiana Figueres. I am a happy courier, bringing with these letters the words and stories of so many people who came up to me during the last two days to say thank you.   They were responding to a rare and remarkable gift made to us both by Katharina Moser: to open the IDG Summit with a live experiment. Christiana and I sat with one another at a table on stage, the spare set of a Brecht play, and started a conversation with one another, prompted by questions that revealed themselves one by one as we turned through a pack on the table, like the ? cards in Monopoly.   It was an exchange, at once intense and light, about being and becoming, seeing and noticing, inner voices, demons and doubt; about the job of leading change, negotiating differences, making hard decisions; and about the circumstances that throw us all of a sudden into the realisation that we cannot make the world whole, nor even survive in it, if we are not able to make ourselves whole. A fleeting but beautiful moment, rich with connection, humour and the warmth of pure trust, and far too short. Just as we were starting to really warm up for a life changing conversation, time intervened with a gong, tolling us back to the future. But the door is open, for us and for others.   I carried the feeling of that moment with me throughout the rest of the Summit, observing the qualitative differences in people relating to one another when they have come to an event focused on being human. Climate KIC Academy ran one of the tracks of the Summit yesterday, in partnership with amazing educators, policy makers, artists, facilitators and community builders. Our purpose was to create a journey of exploration: how to nurture the capacity to sustain the complex, multi-sided, often exhausting work of climate action, building inner resources to help ourselves and one another.   The challenge as always is to engage with context: to acknowledge what acts on us, to see change in the form of feedbacks, giving us what we see and what we feed; to understand how critical the role of identity is in that. Meaning is made in the relationship between identity and context, a quantum state, a fractal for larger order transformation. Enduring, resilient, life affirming change needs meaning, and space-making to hospice the past with care while becoming different. And so I carry home the absolute privilege of listening to Christiana reflect on what it takes to transform our world, which she described as 'moving from one edge to the next', learning to listen when everything is at stake and time is running out, finding common ground and unexpected openings for collective action through relationship and the power of being seen. I remember Joanna Macy: "The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world". #IDGSummit2025