A body of work in motion
These contributions encompass academic research publications in books, reports and articles, as well as selected opinion pieces and insights from presentations. Each piece addresses different dimensions of collective consciousness and what is required to restore coherence. They explore how fragmentation inhabits systems, cultures, and organisations, and how meaning, as embodied within collective inner experience, moves across histories, languages, and geographies.
Books, Chapters, & Reports
EDITED COLLECTION · P4Y KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY · 2026
CO-EDITORS Yuliya Shtaltovna & Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon
Preparing learners to navigate complexity requires more than knowledge alone. This edited collection brings together case studies from higher education institutions across the globe, documenting how the Inner Development Goals are being integrated into learning and educational practice. It explores how higher education is cultivating the inner capacities needed for sustainability, leadership, and transformative learning.
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Monograph · Routledge · 2024
AUTHOR Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon
Human agency does not emerge independently of the conditions people inhabit. This research presents a framework for understanding how agency forms under conditions of constraint, and how inner and outer realities shape action, participation, and transformation in contexts of poverty and armed conflict. It explores the role of consciousness in human development and its relationship to agency, empowerment, and the search for justice.
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Book chapter · Trifoss · 2021
CO-AUTHORS Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon & Beatriz Carrillo
Embedding Theory U and Awareness-based Practices within Higher Education
What shapes collective outcomes is not only what we do, but the condition from which we act. This chapter draws on Theory U, showing how awareness-based work supports new forms of learning and collaboration in higher education.
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BOOK CHAPTER · EDWARD ELGAR · IN PRESS 2027
Integration of the IDGs into Universities
CO-AUTHORS Yuliya Shtaltovna, Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon & Judit Beke
CO-AUTHORS Yuliya Shtaltovna, Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon & Judit Beke
In William E. Donald (Ed.), Research Handbook on Higher Education and Employability. Edward Elgar Publishing.
RESEARCH REPORT · INNER DEVELOPMENT GOALS · 2022
Acting: Theory U for Group Work & Prototyping.
Relating: Listening to Pause
ADVISOR & CONTRIBUTOR
Relating: Listening to Pause
ADVISOR & CONTRIBUTOR
In Kristian Stålne & Stefanie Greca, Inner Development Goals: Phase 2 Research Report.
RESEARCH REPORT · OXFAM AUSTRALIA · 2005
Case Study Collection
PRIMARY RESEARCHER
PRIMARY RESEARCHER
In Oxfam International Youth Parliament, Awareness Raising & Behavioural Change: Strategies for Change in the OIYP Network
Interviews
How trauma — personal, collective, ancestral — reverberates through communities, strengthening their powers
Not all knowledge is visible or measurable. Some of what shapes our lives is carried in memory, sensation, and inherited experience. This interview-based piece explores how trauma — personal, collective, and ancestral — continues to move through communities, and the need to engage forms of knowing that go beyond the purely rational.
Platform
The Alternative / Thomas Hübl Blog
Interviewer
Matthew Green
year
2023
LANGUAGE
EN.
ES
We've evolved a lot in our intellectual understanding. But our inner evolution got stuck somehow.
Leading with an open heart
Leadership today requires more than performance. It demands a shift in how we relate, perceive, and respond within systems under pressure. This interview explores leadership as a relational and inner practice — how awareness, vulnerability, and the capacity to pause shape more coherent and sustainable ways of leading in complex environments.
Platform
La República, Peru
Interviewer
María Ángela Prialé
year
2025
LANGUAGE
EN. ES
Articles
Essay · Interbeing Space
Healing Collective Trauma — The Inner Pillar for Rebuilding Trust in Peru
Rebuilding trust requires more than institutional change. It asks us to look at what shapes how we relate, perceive, and respond to one another. This piece explores how collective trauma continues to influence trust in Peru, and why restoring it is not only a structural task, but an inner and relational one.
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AUTHOR
Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon
Year
2025
LANGUAGE
EN. ES
Opinion · Stakeholders Peru
Could the Inner Development Goals accelerate sustainability in Peru?
Sustainability cannot be achieved by external targets alone — it depends on the inner capacities that shape how we act. This article explores how the Inner Development Goals can accelerate sustainable development by strengthening the capacities required to navigate complexity, build trust, and align individual and collective action.
AUTHORS
Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon & María Ángela Prialé
year
2024
LANGUAGE
EN. ES
Peer-reviewed
Article · GILE Journal of Skills Development
Cognitive Skills Within the Inner Development Goals Framework
Navigating complexity requires more than skills — it depends on how we think, perceive, and make sense of the world. This article explores the role of cognitive skills within the Inner Development Goals framework, showing how higher education can cultivate the capacities needed for sustainable careers, leadership, and systemic change.
Co-authors
Shtaltovna, Y., Rodriguez Carreon, V., Lindencrona, F., & Donald, W. E.
year
2024
LANGUAGE
EN. ES
Article · MDPI Challenges
Liminality: Change Starts Within
Change does not always happen through action. It often begins in the space in between — where what we know no longer holds and what is emerging is not yet clear. This article explores liminal space as a lived experience of transformation, where uncertainty, inner perception, and different ways of knowing become central to how individuals and systems evolve.
Author
Rodriguez Carreon, V.
year
2023
LANGUAGE
EN. ES
Article · Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change
Embodied Experiential Learning: Cultivating Inner Peace in Higher Education
Learning for peace cannot rely on cognition alone — it requires engaging experience, expression, and the body. This article explores how embodied and experiential learning was integrated into higher education, showing how awareness-based practices and diverse forms of expression enable students to access inner peace, work with fragmentation, and develop deeper ways of knowing.
Co-authors
Rodriguez Carreon, V., & Vozniak, P.
year
2021
LANGUAGE
EN. ES
Article · Human Rights Review
Engendering Transitional Justice: A Transformative Approach to Building Peace and Attaining Human Rights for Women
Women experience violence across a continuum that extends before, during and after conflict. In our research, we argue that justice cannot be achieved through legal accountability alone, but requires transforming the psychosocial, socioeconomic and political conditions that sustain inequality and exclusion. This article has contributed to global policy discussions and has been cited by UN Women (see Advancing Gender Equality through Legislative Reform, 2026) and other international institutions. It explores a transformative approach to justice that recognises women not only as survivors of violence but also as active agents in rebuilding relationships, institutions and the foundations of a sustainable peace.
Co-authors
W. Lambourne, & Rodriguez Carreon, V.
year
2016
LANGUAGE
EN. ES
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Selected Presentations Insights
Curating Knowledge to Re-invent the Meaning of Education
INNER DEVELOPMENT GOALS SUMMIT, CIRKUS ARENA, STOCKHOLM, OCTOBER, 2024
By Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon
The burden and the weight on our heads and on our reason overshadows the intelligence nurtured by our body and heart. This sculpture, “The Weight of Thought”, by Thomas Leeroy, depicts our fragmented way of knowing in the education system. Over-standardised and linear conceptualised methods for teaching, learning and assessing have resulted in the hierarchy of human expression.
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Inner Development Goals (IDGs): Sustainable Development Workshop
AMCHAM, UNIVERSIDAD DEL PACÍFICO, LIMA, SEPTEMBER 2024
By Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon
When organisational policies are superficial responses to deeply fragmented problems, and the capacity to hold them is weak, foundational pillars become destabilised, creating fractures.
Leadership for Active Hope: The Power of Community
CLOSING CEREMONY, CITY OF ONKAPARINGA, MCLAREN VALE EVENT CENTRE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, AUGUST 2024
By Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon
Agency is always forming and transforming, and community increases the capacity to exert it by mirroring, acknowledging, and recognising the wholeness of your gift, allowing your interior condition to flourish.
Encounters for Inner Development in Governance: Moving from Ruling to Holding
ACUNS, UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE, WASHINGTON DC, JUNE 2023
By Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon
Agents of change within governance, motivated to create change through policy related to the public spirit, soon hit what is described as a wall: a system stuck in its own structure that has now become automated. The automatization of structuring roles in governance has shifted from relating to performance.
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