How might women tell stories about inequities in ways that make amends for injustices? (WITI session 2)
How might the USA, the land of the free, unfair opportunities & escalating inequities, unrig its zoning, educational and economic apartheid systems that shape future careers, income & life expectancy?
Equity as our savior of humanity and our planet
Equity is a virtue: be fair and kind to everyone. Equity liberates freedom for all.
Equity muses are a new catalytic transformational change agent archetype: part jester, magician and holy fool. They represent an heterogeneity of dynamic, agile and adaptive role types that defied stereotypes.
As equity muses aligning together in common cause, we share a passion to rectify inequities and to advocate for equity, using complex questions to unleash the power of story-telling.
How might we co-elevate the virtue of equity and fair opportunities for all to make the pejorative labeling of social justice warriors obsolete?
Equity pre-empts the need for social justice
As Socratic Sherpas, we ask complex questions to inspire creativity and catalyze transformational change.
How might we pose evocative questions to:
Cultivate the cultural humility to move us beyond academic hubris and the one-up-manship of (wo)mansplaining?
Evolve beyond the limitations of civil debates and the futility of uncivil ones?
Co-create generative dialogues that empower people and their leaders to creatively collaborate on solving our complex web of self-inflicted wicked problems in the 21st century?
Seek truth and assure transparent accountability to do good for the commons, the common good, humanity and the health of the planet?
Build launching pads for Equity Moonshot quest: co-design an equitable, regenerative and sustainable future?
As equity muses trainers, leaders and learning designers, we weave tapestries of learning communities to collaborate together on building an equity story movement. The threads of these sense-making, ethical learning journeys begin with sharing our stories about inequities and what we can learn from them to make amends.
WITI 2 Session about Equity Session
The purpose of this Zoom workshop (see recording below) is to connect with kindred spirits who seek to learn about how to become equity muses together.
How might women re-tell their stories about inequities to make amends?
Story listener-respondents: Carolyn Leighton. Linda MacDonald. Elizabeth Dreicer
Proposed Format
Share LinkedIn profiles as professional introduction in the chat if you would like to network or sent private messages to connect with kindred spirits
Listen to and read (in the chat) key concepts that set up the story-telling-listening-responding session
Guest hosts will share a one-minute point about the content of the newsletter.
Guest story-teller shares an experience about inequity
Participants chat in triads to each share a story about inequity within 5 minutes
Participants are reshuffled into triads to share what they learned from telling and sharing stories about what they can do to prevent or handle inequities more effectively in 15 minutes.
Leave comments on this page about your learning experience.
Featured storyteller: Kathleen Shiverdecker
We did not follow the proposed format below because Kathleen has such a compelling “turn-pointing” awakening about educational inequity.
As a new white principal, she turned around an impoverished black school into a high performing school that was re-district to allow white students to attend. This re-districted school flipped from an almost exclusively black school into a predominantly white one.
Forward to the 8 minute mark to listen to a compelling story.
If you watch the video, leave a comment about what you learned, and/or leave a question for Kathleen.
Kathleen’s story evoke this complex question.
How might the Divided States of America, the land of the free, unfair opportunities and escalating inequities, unrig its red line zoning, educational and economic apartheid systems that shape future voting patterns, career trajectories and income, and life expectancy?
The sub-headline question is an abbreviation of the question above.
How many other stories of inequities are never told or written up?
How might women’s organizations align to generate the transformational network power for Equity Moonshot?
How might women leaders:
Process
Use ecological frameworks of complex questions to build Equity Moonshot story movements ?
Outcome
Build launching pads to co-create a fair-free-flourishing future for the benefit of all and promote the health of the planet?
#UniteEquityMuses for #EquityMoonshot
Join a learning community of Socratic Sherpas who unite together in asking complex questions about transforming mindsets and re-design systems for equity.
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An example of personal-professional story
I have been asked many times why I am so committed as a advocate for the virtue of equity. The hero of my story was my extraordinary, ordinary loving mother.
Kathleen, What would inspire you to write up your story and do a TED talk? The TED talk would inspire people to read a more detailed write-up of your untold story,