How might we, as equity muses and leaders, collaborate together to co-create a fair-free-flourishing future for the benefit of all?
How might we build an Equity Muse learning academy to launch #EquityMoonshot?
Enjoy slow thinking if you take the time to muse over Big Hairy Audacious Questions (BHAQs) about the social virtue of equity.
Equity muses are Socratic Sherpas who ask BHAQs about the unfairness arising from systemic isms and inequities.
How might the Equity Muse learning academy:
Redress our governance, stewardship and leadership failures in building launching pads needed to co-create a fair-free-flourishing-future to benefit all?
Train trainers to develop the equity muses and leaders needed to launch #EquityMoonshot?
Equity Moonshot is an antidote to our complex web of wicked problems in the 21st century.
How might our leadership, academic, educational and social enterprises collaborate in moving beyond reductionist thinking and root cause analysis to:
Redress the complex patterns of negative influences that enable the virulent weeds of wicked problems to thrive?
Change our perilous trajectory towards our dystopian future?
Open, inspire and align our mindsets to collaborate across the political-private-public divides needed to work on #EquityMoonshot?
The purpose of asking BHAQs is to invite people to stop and think slowly in order to understand more deeply the complexities about our interdependent wicked problems.
This self-reflective process sets the stage for engaging learning communities in generative dialogues about how to collaborate on developing catalytic innovations and social entrepreneurial solutions needed to solve our wicked problems.
Our self-inflicted wicked problems reflect our failures in co-designing a fair-free-flourishing-future.
Reductionism without zooming out to view the interconnectedness and independencies of our wicked problems is our original sin.
Reductionist thinking, such as neoliberalism, simplifies how we address wicked problems with unintended negative consequences of making our problems worse.
How might we, as equity muses and leaders, enable us to cultivate the equity governance needed to:
Cultivate indigenous and modern wisdom to use systems, complexity and human-centered design thinking to solve our wicked problems?
Enhance the equanimity of emotional responsiveness and minimize the destructive volatility of emotional reactivity?
Catalyze collaborative transformations to align civic engagement to do good for the commons, humanity, the common good and the health of the planet?
Neoliberalism (aka the Godfather Milton Friedman) as the market savior for our current woes is a smoldering cult trance that climate change has not extinguish. The blind faith in this economic hegemony keeps the cinders aflame. The fire will not die.
How might we:
Extinguish the forest fires of neoliberalism and cultivate regenerative soil for social, environmental and educational impact investments?
Better understand how the original sin of reductionism inflicts the traumas that drive our complex web of self-inflicted wicked problems?
Heal the traumas of our original sin and expand our capabilities and capacities to solve wicked problems and to take on wicked challenges?
Zooming in-out-in-out and collaborating together with a deep understanding of how to apply interdependent thinking and perspective-taking within and across networks of learning communities is a healing, redemptive path to solve our self-inflicted wicked problems.
Equity muses also ask BHAQs about how we, the people, might collaborate more effectively together in addressing our wicked problems.
How might we, the people, use a framework of ecological BHAQs that make us feel so overwhelmed that our individual insignificance compels us to collaborate in learning communities to solve our wicked problems?
Well done Rick! The key here is to confront these issues in the spirit of dialog, working together to foster a collective consciousness and solve these problems with higher levels of thinking.