How might men and women become co-navigators of transformational change to co-create a fair-free-flourishing-future on a healthy planet?
How might we discern the enabling and disabling influences that affect our own stories about unfairness in ways that redress inequities and promote equity?
What is transparently clear is that our male leaders are not navigating us toward an equitable, regenerative and sustainable future.
How might we overcome our failures in solving our complex web of self-inflicted, wicked problems in the 21st-century?
We fall victim to reductionist thinkings. We fail to zoom out and see the big picture. We don’t care enough to seek destinations that serve all of humanity and the health of the planet.
Saviors and sages-on-the-stage cannot save us. What’s more, the hero’s journey is a broken narrative for solving our wicked problems.
How might we, the people, collaborate together in weaving tapestries of living stories to cultivate virtuous eco-systems for saving ourselves from our wicked problems?
Wicked problems are complex in that they have no single, simple or final solutions with either-or answers. Wicked problems are not per se solvable, such as pathological megalomania, malignant narcissism, incessant sociopathy and autocratic authoritarianism. Power abuses are impossible to eradicate, but we can prevent and minimize their negative impacts.
Our systemic wicked problems arise from corrupt political systems: unethical governance, inept stewardship and incompetent leadership. These corrupt systems set up the power abuses that enable the imperialism of autocracies and neoliberalism, truth decay, disinformation pandemics, the demise of mother earth, rapid declines in biodiversity, global warming, rising sea and poverty levels, civil strife and wars, mass immigration, food insecurities, systemic isms, escalating inequities and more.
Overall, men have a great track record of screwing things up. The destructive, divisive toxicity of bad actors, who perpetrate and perpetuate reoccurring cycles of trauma, eclipse the constructive work of good actors.
History keeps repeating itself with variations on war and battle themes between the ethical light of virtues on the one hand, and the amoral ego-centric shadows and the immoral dark sides on the other hand.
Furthermore, our business and marketing models are maligned for greater good. They are incentivized to mass produce self-inflicted wicked problems far greater than the innovative solutions that we need to resolve them.
Living in our atomized world, we are disabled from changing our trajectory away from a dystopian future. These reductionist systems fragment any comprehensive, coordinated and holistic attempts to bend the arc toward a just, fair and viable future for all.
We need women, as equity muse trainers, leaders and learning designers, to become co-navigators and peace advocates to end our futile battles and senseless wars.
How might women re-tell their stories about inequities to make amends? (WITI session 2)
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.
How might we build an equity story movement to solve our wicked problems?
Equity muses are a new transformational change agent archetype: part jester, part magician and holy fool.
The ultimate Equity Muse question (below) is a spring board for asking all other complex questions.
How might we launch Equity Moonshot: co-design and build an equitable-regenerative-sustainable future and promote the health of the planet?
Our pivotal role, as equity muses, is to co-create story movements to generate the network power needed to cultivate equity governance: fair rules, fair opportunities, and fair rewards for all.
How might we discern the enabling and disabling influences that affect our own stories about unfairness in ways that redress inequities and promote equity?
As Socratic Sherpas asking complex questions, we engage people and their leaders to open-inspire-align mindsets on how to collaborate together in doing good for the commons, the common good, humanity and the health of the planet.
As catalytic agents, we use questions to visualize how we might collaborate together in making a better future. These questions span the feminine-masculine continuum between holistic oxytocin questions (#HOQs) and big hairy audacious questions (#BHAQs). They support-nurture-challenge us to collaborate on solving our wicked problems. #HOCs are about love, caring, support, nurturing, empowering and peace-making. #BHAQs are about challenges, quests, transparent accountability, assertiveness and confrontation.
How might we, as equity muse trainers, leaders and learning designers, catalyze and mobilize people to:
Overcome the denial of, and arrest the misogyny against Mother Earth? (BHAQ)
Stop consuming and destroying Mother Earth? (BHAQ)
Love, revere and be in awe with Mother Earth? (HOQ)
Do good all the commons, common, good, humanity, in the health of the planet? (HOQ)
Work on the Equity Moonshot quest? (BHAQ)
Click here to learn about the meaning of PHILOGYNY and read an story about how my mother was the heroine of my inequity story.