How might we cultivate equity meta-governance to redress our meta-crisis that set up our poly-crisis of self-inflicted wicked problems and the poly-collapse of living beyond planetary boundaries?
How might we use human-AI synergies to collaborate on co-creating a fair-free-flourishing future to benefit all on a regenerating planet?
Welcome to the Equity Muse Academy. Inviting all equity leaders, mentors, muses, mavens, process learning designers, academics, researchers, and practitioners to ask ethical questions about how to co-create a fair-free-flourishing future to benefit all on a regenerating planet.
Updated 12/3/2024. Never-ending work-in-progress. Candor and feedback are welcomed.
AI-elaboration about the meaning and implication of this sentence, along with 100 suggested ethical questions to transform mindsets and re-design our dysfunctional systems.
The ultimate quest(ion) for humanity and nature
This quest calls for zooming out to the Big Picture of our interdependent and interconnected systems.
Equity meta-governance is about co-creating fair rules, fair plays, fair games, fair opportunities, and fair rewards to benefit all, on a regenerating planet. This transformation process is essential for launching the Equity Moonshot story movements.
Equity Moonshot is about co-designing and building an equitable, regenerative, and sustainable future .
This lifelong inquiry journey calls for co-creating human-AI synergies to respond to ethical questions about how to accelerate our collaborative and transformational learning capabilities and capacities in understanding and addressing our complex entanglement of self-inflicted, wicked problems in the 21st century.
Wicked problems are complex in that they have no single, simple, definitive, or final solutions, with no right-wrong answers
How might we, as equity leaders, mentors, muses, mavens, process learning designers, academics, researchers, and practitioners, cultivate equity meta-governance as a lifelong intergenerational learning process, from cradle to grave, to redress our meta-crisis of systemic power abuse dynamics, understand and address our poly-crisis of self-inflicted wicked problems, and mitigate and adapt to our poly-collapse of living beyond our planetary boundaries.
Orientation to co-creating human-AI learning synergies
Using AI as a research assistant, content-data curator, and muse, we can learn how to develop our ethical discernment, complexity and critical thinking skills to enhance our capabilities and expand our capacities to address our wicked problems. This aspiration calls for scaling up a learning revolution to cultivate an equity meta-governance movement to transform our mindsets and re-design our dysfunctional systems.
The perplexity.ai links in this newsletter initiate the deep inquiry process of evoking curiosity in the transformational learning process to co-create generative and strategic dialogues for solving our wicked problems.
How might we develop human-AI synergy skills to explore the meaning and implications of complex questions and key concepts (such as equity meta-governance, wicked problems, epistemic equity-justice, synoptic integration, and exponential organizations) to address our wicked problems, especially our escalating economic, social, educational, and health inequities?
Explore perplexity.ai to elaborate on the meaning and implications of this complex question.
How might we, as equity leaders, mentors, muses, compose ethical questions about:
Doing good for the commons, humanity, the common good, the well-being of all life, and the health of the planet?
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Zooming-out-in-out across the meta, macro, meso, and micro levels in ecological, adaptive, and agile ways to cultivate equity meta-governance?
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This involves scaling up exponential digital learning opportunities and co-creating human-AI synergies to collaborate on addressing this transformational learning quest(ion).
How might we:
Cultivate equity meta-governance, guided by a constellation of virtues, to co-create multimodal ways of transforming our mindsets and re-designing our dysfunctional systems to launch Equity Moonshot?
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Open our mindsets and build the middle ground to prevent the degeneration of Mother Earth and co-create a fair, free, flourishing future to benefit all people?
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Engage in generative-strategic dialogues to clarify where we agree and disagree about how to build launching pads for Equity Moonshot?
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Take time for slow thinking
How might we reflect, think critically, and learn about how we think (meta-thinking and metacognition) and learn (meta-learning) about understanding our wicked problems?
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Embark on lifelong intergenerational learning journeys of deep inquiry into the ethics of dysfunctional and functional power dynamic; pathological megalomania versus distributed leadership empowerment.
How might we ethically discern the moral-amoral-immoral distinctions in the uses and abuses of power to redress our meta-crisis that sets up our poly-crisis?
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Let your curiosity, inquiry and imagination soar to explore what you do not understand and expand the boundaries of your wisdom about responding to complex questions. These higher purpose questions call for the ethical transformations of our mindsets to guide the moral re-design of our dysfunctional systems.
Learning overview
The 24-session modular curriculum (described below) is adaptable for facilitating our collaborative and transformational learning journeys. These lifelong learning journeys aim to engage people in cultivating equity meta-governance and building Equity Moonshot story movements.
Pick all or a selection of modules to create sense-making, meaning-making, and purposeful experiences of collaborative and transformational learning.
Become wisdom wizards of co-creating new insights and breakthrough understandings about vulnerability, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.
Each module invites inquiries and reflections about what a complex question means to you before responding to them. This sets the stage for co-creating generative-strategic dialogues for addressing complex questions.
The questions within each module are designed to engage 3-4 people in small dialogue sessions and then to de-brief after their learning experiences.
How might we create an ecological framework of complex questions (at meta, macro, meso, and micro levels) to develop ongoing learning processes and beloved learning communities to collaborate on cultivating equity meta-governance and solving our wicked problems?
Explore perplexity.ai to elaborate on the meaning and implication of this complex question: see examples of AI-generated questions at each level.
Section A: Orientation
How might we use plain (non-jargon) language, and simple open-ended questions to understand the perils of reductionism and the need to develop systems thinking and complexity skills for solving our wicked problems?
How might we disseminate and co-elevate the community meme: to Love, equity, and the pursuit of truth-seeking?
How might we use AI tools to explore the ethical purposes, meanings, and implications of complex questions that address our meta-crisis, poly-crisis, and poly-collapse?
Section B: Agree on learning guidelines.
How might we:
Move beyond debates to civil discourse in addressing the complexities of wicked problems?
Engage in collaborative and transformational learning?
Practice the first principles of collaborative and transformational learning?
Implement the simple rules of collaborative and transformational learning?
Agree on learning formats and operational guidelines?
Section C: Embark on transformational learning journeys together.
How might we:
Learn how to unravel the propaganda of neo-terrorism?
Clarify our Ultimate Meta-process for Humanity (#UMH)?
Clarify our Massive Transformational Purpose (#MTP)?
Understand the dynamics of our meta-crisis and poly-crisis?
Develop a shared meaning about equity meta-governance for launching Equity Moonshot?
Section D: Co-create generative-strategic dialogues.
How might we:
Restore and modernize the original meaning of equity?
Understand and redress the ethical failures of our meta-crisis?
Develop ethical discernment about the distinctions between virtues and values?
Detox from our addictions to reductionist, simple, clear, curated content that indoctrinates us about what to think and disables us from learning how to think?
Create beloved learning communities to identify the impediments that prevent us from engaging in slow thinking and deep transformational learning experiences about cultivating equity meta-governance?
Promote the meme, liberate equity, freedom for all?
Collaboratively learn about equity meta-governance?
Scale up lifelong intergenerational learning journeys about cultivating equity meta-governance?
Embark on lifelong intergenerational learning journeys about Equity Moonshot?
Co-design a metaphorical inquiry framework of learning governance to cultivate equity meta-governance?
Better understand the relationship of our meta-crisis to our poly-crisis?
In the spirit of equity, everyone has a right to be on stage to tell, share, write, and/or sing their story; leave no voice left behind.
Enter any one question into AI to gather content and make sense of what the question means to you.
Use your reflections about the content for writing up your lifelong learning story about the unfairness of inequities and the fairness of equity. Use Dalle-3 to create your visual images for newsletters and songs.
Write your lyrics to create consciousness-raising songs. Use an AI-music-generating app (such as Suno ) to create the music for your songs. Use your song to set up learning sessions to co-create generative-strategic dialogues about understanding and solving our wicked problems.
A description is provided below for setting the stage for generative-strategic dialogue sessions. These dialogue sessions enable us all to develop our living story journeys, within our families and communities, about how we can redress inequities and promote equity.
Re-read to deepen your understanding of new concepts and the meaning and implications of complex questions to embark on your transformational learning journey, working within beloved learning communities and networks.
But first, we need to co-create and agree on learning governance, first principles, and simple rules to manage the vulnerabilities, complexities, uncertainties, ambiguities, complex dilemmas, multi-polarities, and volatility of never-ending wicked problems.
Section A: Orientation
Dialogue session 1. How might we use simple language and questions to understand the perils of reductionism and the need to develop systems thinking and complexity skills for solving our wicked problems?
We are prisoners to the limits of our understanding of how we think. These cognitive limitations stifle our curiosity and imagination to inquire and innovate on how to think differently about solving our wicked problems.
We are predominantly indoctrinated with reductionist and linear thinking that makes wicked problems worse and incapable of solving our meta-crisis. These disabilities prevent us from co-creating a fair-free-flourishing future to benefit all on a regenerating planet.
How might we launch a transformational learning revolution to emancipate ourselves from archaic, dysfunctional, education systems that make our wicked problems worse and incapable of solving our meta-crisis of systemic power abuse dynamics?
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Explore how perplexity.AI broke down this complex question into a series of simpler questions to explain and elaborate on the meaning and implications of the bulleted question above, along with a rationale for how these simpler questions were interrelated. The AI output of simpler questions was edited below. Each question has a link to academic citations.
How might we:
Better understand the negative characteristics of our archaic, dysfunctional education systems that prevent us from learning about how to understand our wicked problems? Perplexity-AI academic response.
Overcome the barriers and prejudices against transforming education to solve our wicked problems? Perplexity-AI academic response
Redress the meta-crisis of systemic power abuse dynamics within education across all levels and across all sectors? Perplexity-AI academic response
Deconstruct our educational systems that contribute to, or exacerbate our wicked problems? Perplexity-AI academic response
Emancipate ourselves from our dysfunctional educational paradigms at all levels? Perplexity-AI academic response
Co-create a transformational learning revolution to liberate us from these dysfunctional systems? Perplexity-AI academic response
Develop alternative lifelong intergenerational learning paradigms to understand and address our wicked problems? Perplexity-AI academic response
Co-create human-AI synergies to further explore the meaning and implications of questions that span the simple-complex spectrum? Perplexity-AI academic response
Build digital learning platforms that provide exponential opportunities to experience transformational learning? Perplexity-AI academic response
Ensure equitable access to lifelong intergenerational learning journeys and transformational experiences about understanding and addressing our wicked problems? Perplexity-AI academic response
These higher aspiration questions call for developing the equanimity practice of sacred silence to embark on our transformational learning journeys together.
How might we use sacred silence to develop equanimity, ethical discernment, meta-thinking, and meta-cognition to cultivate equity meta-governance?
Click here to learn about the practice of sacred silence.
Dialogue session 2. How might we disseminate and co-elevate the community meme: to Love, equity, and the pursuit of truth-seeking?
This meme is about using virtues to cultivate beloved learning communities for solving our wicked problems.
Transcendent Love of equity embraces inclusion and diversity.
This meme is the antidote to BIPID issues: Biases, Isms, Prejudices, Inequities, and Discriminations. Compare this community meme of social virtues to the individual meme, to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, of competing value systems that do not assure protections against BIPID issues.
Liberty and freedom are individual values. Equity and equality are community virtues. Individual values dominate over community virtues.
Values are about ranking order about what is important. Our conflicting systems of individual values divide us. Virtues are about doing good for all. Virtues align us.
How might we discuss and contrast the meaning and implications of this community meme to the individual meme about values, To life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
We are locked into never-ending cycles of dysfunctional communications about virtues and values, driven by the fundamentalism of conflicting identity politics. This chaos creates a barrage of systemic prejudices against the virtue of fairness.
We are living in toxic plastic oceans that cloud our vision of how the forces of neoliberal imperialism and techno-feudalism are galvanized against equity.
How might we overcome the systemic prejudices against equity?
Equity is a political scapegoat.
Equity has become such an evocative political trope, laden with a panoply of negative political biases, that any discussion about this topic is futile with providing a definition.
Let's begin with objections to this definition of equity.
Equity is the humanitarian virtue of fairness: co-elevates the fairness of endless mutual reciprocities of give-gift-and-take, humility, tolerance, kindness, civility, and decency. These virtuous reciprocities inspire our ethical aspirations and moral actions to serve our families, communities, and the greater good.
The practice of equity gives each of us, according to our particular needs, fair opportunities to strive and thrive to our highest potential of healthy well-being. For example, fair-minded, caring parents balance the dilemmas of treating children equally without favoritism, and each according to their needs (equity).
Equity is about developing a diverse abundance of human capabilities and capacities to solve our complex entanglements of self-inflicted wicked problems in the 21st century.
The greatest enablers of equity are abundance and generosity.
The greatest enablers of inequity are scarcity and greed.
We can use the fairness of equity to build the middle ground and use our differences constructively to make positive differences, rather than descend the downward negative spirals into the immoral abyss.
Equity is the virtue of the middle ground that attracts people to work collaboratively on solving our wicked problems. Middle ground prevents us from tearing each other apart driven by destructive conflicts over fundamentalist differences.
Equity is foundational for creating a safe set and trusting setting to experience the transcendent process of transformational learning. This is a prerequisite to prepare for disorientating dilemma experiences that aim to open our closed mindsets and illuminate our blind spots, ego-shadows, and dark sides.
Without psychological preparations, disorientating dilemmas over-stimulate our limbic-amygdala brains inhibit the equanimity and ethical discernment of our neocortical brains, and activate our reptilian brains to regress to self-righteous fundamentalism.
The fundamentalist regression to dichotomous thinking (I'm right, you're wrong, I'm good and you're evil) perpetrates and perpetuates dysfunctional polarizations and toxic divisiveness to set up strongmen thug leaders, mob rule, tyranny, fascism, terrorism, and unjust wars. The alligator tail rules the canine heart to wag the dog. Alligators eat their young.
As transformational change agents, we adopt the complementary roles of equity anarchists and muses. We pose complex questions to challenge the reductionism of closed-mindedness to set up disorientating dilemmas to open our minds to transformational learning.
How might the head of the dog rule the canine heart to cut off the alligator's tail?
In the anarchist role, we ask complex questions to constructively challenge the old dysfunctional systems, driven by linear reductionism, short-termism, inequity, degeneration, and un-sustainability. The purpose of these questions is to creatively deconstruct our meta-crisis of systemic power abuse dynamics that rig our systems to serve the ruling elites to the detriment of our humanity and the health of the planet. However, this is only half of the transformation story.
In the muse role, we pose higher-calling questions about how to design functional systems, based on complexity thinking, long-termism, equity, regeneration, and sustainability.
Complex questions make us stop and think in ways that challenge our closed-mindedness and the limits of our understanding. They invite inquiry about what are their different meanings and implications of these questions.
These questions open our minds to new insights, perspectives, and breakthrough ways of thinking, knowing, sense-making, and meaning-making. These learning processes set the stages to undo the disservices to our humanity and the health of our planet.
As Socratic Sherpas, we adopt the complementary roles of equity anarchist and muse to pose complex questions. The purpose of these questions is to co-create generative-strategic dialogues to cultivate equity mega-governance and launch Equity Moonshot.
Equity meta-governance is our Ultimate Meta-process for Humanity (UMH): co-create fair rules, fair plays, fair games, fair opportunities, and fair rewards for the benefit of all, on a healthy planet. This calls for developing power-sharing and empowerment processes, using a guiding constellation of virtues, to redress the systemic power abuse dynamics of our meta-crisis. These transformational learning processes involve discerning the ethical distinctions among moral-amoral-immoral uses and abuses of power needed to negotiate a shared meaning about equity.
Equity Moonshot is our Massive Transformational Purpose (MTP): co-design, and build an equitable, regenerative, and sustainable future to benefit all people. This calls for developing eco-systemic networks of exponential learning organizations and communities to collaborate in making large-scale transformational changes,
Exponential Organizations (ExOs) communities, and networks have markedly higher impacts than peers. They leverage innovative strategies, scaling-up processes, and exponential technologies to achieve disproportionate growth.
Dialogue session 3. How might we use AI tools to explore the ethical purposes, meanings, and implications of complex questions that address our meta-crisis, poly-crisis, and poly-collapse?
The inquiry framework of complex questions (outlined in the dialogue sessions below) serves as breadcrumbs to evoke self-reflective, collaborative, and transformational learning processes about how to solve our wicked problems.
How might we learn from the wisdom of the crowd collaborating within beloved learning communities and networks to dialogue, negotiate and develop a shared understanding and meaning of equity meta-governance?
Take the time for slow reading, self-reflection, and generative-strategic dialogues to unravel our meta-crisis and solve the poly-crisis.
Explore what “higher calling” complex questions mean to you.
Complex questions can inspire us to explore, discover, improvise, and innovate on how to solve our wicked problems.
Enjoy slow thinking and musing over understanding the meanings and implications of the questions (bullet-pointed below).
Take the time to contemplate, understand, and dialogue about the meanings and implications of any questions listed below.
Use different AI tools to compare responses to any one or more of these questions. Use AI as a research assistant to inspire your imagination and co-creativity about how we might ethically align together to take moral actions.
How might we, as equity advocates, align to mobilize exponential organizations, communities, and networks in using AI-enabled digital learning platforms to:
Cultivate the fairness of endless mutual reciprocities, kindness, civility, and decency?
Win the battle of our minds by ensuring that the equanimity of our neocortical brains provides ethical guidance over the ego-shadows of our limbic-amygdala-reptilian brains and the dark sides of our reptilian brains?
Transform our competing tribal war cultures based on military metaphors into collaborative cultures of safety, security, trust, peace, and harmony based on learning metaphors about how we might cultivate personal, professional, and community growth to develop higher levels of consciousness and civilizations?
Scale up and accelerate our lifelong intergenerational learning journeys together about how to cultivate equity moonshot?
Mobilize the wisdom of crowds and deploy evidence-based practices to build launching pads for Equity Moonshot story movements
Redress our meta-crisis of dysfunctional mindsets and systems
Work toward solving our poly-crisis: our complex entanglements of self-inflicted wicked problems?
Our human minds have varying degrees of limitations in understanding the ethical meanings of complex questions. Enter any question (below) into AI search engines to enhance your understanding of their deep implications.
The dialogue sessions use questions to provide experiential opportunities about equity. These questions act as signposts to generate, tell, share, write blogs, poems, newsletters, books, neobooks, and even compose songs about equity.
Our ethical learning journeys together are about sense-making and meaning-making striving toward our higher moral grounds.
Section B: Agree on learning guidelines
Dialogue 1: how might we move beyond debates to civil discourse in addressing the complexities of wicked problems?
The purpose of using first principles and simple rules of civil discourse and generative-strategic dialogues (described in the sessions) assures conversational flow that goes beyond the futility of zero-sum, win-lose debate: “I’m right, you’re wrong.”
Civil and uncivil debates are distinct from civil discourse and generative-strategic dialogues. The conversational forms of civic discourse and generative-strategic dialogues move beyond the reductionist futility of contentious debates, such as between conflicting fundamentalist thinkers: “I’m good, you’re evil.”
Wicked problems call for shifting beyond the old-style, ineffective educational management paradigm to a learning inquiry and emancipation paradigm that opens, inspires, and aligns our mindsets to do good.
How might we build on civil discourse to co-create generative-strategic dialogues to solve our wicked problems?
This edited version is adapted from an initial draft generated by Questy.ai
Civil discourse involves respectful conversations about understanding different points of view: listening to understand and respond rather than being emotionally triggered to react and refute. [1][2][3][4][5][6]
Civil discourse involves peaceful, constructive conversations and acknowledgment of diverse perspectives, despite conflicting viewpoints.
Civil discourse builds the middle ground of agreements and clarifies areas of disagreement without animosity, divisiveness, and toxicity. The respectful exchange of ideas and opinions prevents the regression to self-righteous fundamentalism and dichotomous thinking: I’m right, you’re wrong, or I’m good, you’re evil.
How might we best mobilize the circular processes of generative and strategic dialogues?
This edited section is adapted from an initial draft provided by Questy.ai.
Generative-strategic dialogues extend beyond civil discourse to generate new insights and innovative solutions for working on wicked problems.
Divergent thinking and convergent doing. Generative dialogues create new possibilities, ideas, and solutions through open-minded exploration[4]. Strategic dialogues focus on solving particular problems[2][3].
Unstructured exploration and structured achievement. Generative dialogues are open-ended exploratory processes that value the dialogue journey more than the final destination. Strategic dialogues are outcome-oriented with a clear destination that involves navigating a path with stepping-stone objectives to achieve a definitive outcome [2][3].
Serendipity and deliberative action. Generative dialogues lead to unexpected new insights and breakthrough understandings. Strategic dialogues align deliberative actions to work toward goals and objectives. [1][4].
Shared wisdom and aligned action. Generative dialogues value the discovery process of mobilizing the wisdom of the crowd to do good [1]. Strategic dialogues involve clarifying roles, expectations, and alignment of contributions to achieve an overall outcome [2][3].
Dialogue 2: how might we engage in collaborative and transformational learning?
How might we facilitate civic discourse and co-creating generative-strategic dialogues for collaborative and transformational learning?
We can use first principles and simple rules to facilitate civic discourse and co-creating generative-strategic dialogues about redressing our meta-crisis and solving our poly-crisis.
How might we, as equity leaders, mentors, muses, and learning designers, pose complex questions within learning communities to reflect on and discuss their meaning before engaging in civil discourse and dialogues about how to solve our wicked problems?
How might we derail this train wreck off of its track before careening over the cliff?
We are living in a chaotic ADD world that prevents us from focusing on how we can collaborate and work together to solve our wicked problems.
Civic discourse and dialogues share similar first principles and simple rules, but they have overlapping and distinct functions.
Equity meta-governance calls for ensuring safety, trust, and the integrity of transparent accountability and truth-seeking to solve our wicked problems. This collaborative learning process involves negotiating what fairness and unfairness mean.
Equity meta-governance calls on families, communities, organizations, networks, and institutions to cultivate the virtues to collaborate on the Equity Moonshot quest.
How might we, as equity leaders, mentors, muses, and learning designers, cultivate the transformational learning capabilities and capacities to:
Use first principles and simple rules to co-create generative-strategic dialogues and facilitate civic discourses about equity meta-governance?
Generate empowerment networks of distributive leadership to launch Equity Moonshot?
Co-create self-organizing, self-regulating, and self-governing interconnected networks of innovative ecosystems and social entrepreneurial hubs to serve the greater good?
This section was informed by question searches on Questy.ai.
How might we facilitate collaborative learning about equity?
Collaborative Learning promotes engagement and interactions among students with a shared responsibility for achievement [1], using group dynamics of knowledge-sharing to promote a deep understanding of equity. The fostering of mutual respect, trust, and shared responsibilities enables the development of positive relational dynamics [2] needed to co-construct a shared meaning about equity and develop new skills to enhance putting this virtue into practice [3].
The outcomes of collaborative learning are tangible: skill-based communication and teamwork about cultivating equity meta-governance and launching Equity Moonshot story movements. [2][3]
This section was informed by question searches on Questy.ai.
How might we foster transformational learning about equity?
As equity muses, we are transformational learning change agents. Acting as Socratic Sherpas, we pose complex questions to disrupt our automatic reflex reactions of reflection-in-action: our typical modus operandi. These questions challenge us to engage in slow-thinking processes, self-reflection, and reflection-on-action.
Transformational questions challenge our rout ways of habitual being, thinking, perceiving, and feeling. They take us out of our safety and comfort zones. These perturbing experiences compel us to do the work of deep learning. This is extremely difficult to do in our ADD world of short attention spans, fasting-thinking, digital dopamine addictions of perpetual distractions, shiny objects, and obsessive preoccupations with the next new thing.
The exploratory processes of co-creating generative dialogues within beloved learning communities open doors to new perspectives, insights, and breakthrough understandings.
Transformational Learning focuses on personal growth, emotional exploration, critical self-reflection, and dialogues that challenge our attitudes, perspectives, beliefs, biases, and values and the character flaws of our shadows and dark side. Transformational learning involves gaining personal insights and breakthrough understanding to transcend pure self-interests and work on higher purposes. [2] [3].
Transformational learning outcomes evolve from deep introspection and dialogues that open the doors to new insights and breakthrough understandings about the personal, systemic, and political causes of wicked problems. [2] [3]
These insights and understandings arise from intra-personal and interpersonal explorations triggered by the serendipity of challenging experiences or structured learning dilemmas that require reflection-on-action.
In the language of transformational learning, one purpose of composing evocative questions is to trigger emotional reactivity and fast-thinking reflexes. These questions create disorientating dilemmas and experiences that call for sense-making, meaning-making, and clarifying the ethical purposes of our moral actions.
Dialogue 3: how might we practice the first principles of collaborative and transformational learning?
What is your take on the first principles of collaborative learning?
Create a vision of learning based on a shared purpose
Facilitate a safe learning space to build trust
Assure confidentiality and what can be shared outside of the group
Practice the presence of active listening
Give full attention without distractions and multitasking
Negotiate an agenda with input and feedback from all participants in advance
Encourage extrovert talkers to listen more and introverted listeners to talk more
Enable the freedom to express authenticity and tactful candor
Evoke curiosity, open-mindedness, and co-creativity
Foster reciprocal learning to discover how to address wicked problems
Experiment and practice together on how to apply new knowledge
Foster inclusive, dynamic, cooperation to promote ethical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
What is your take on the first principles of transformational learning?
Foster deep, meaningful intra-personal learning to open mindsets about oneself and their relationship to the world.
Deploy self-awareness and operational learning skills to transform mindsets on how to solve wicked problems [1][3][4].
Use ethical discernment, critical thinking, and self-reflection to shift attitudes, beliefs, biases, values, virtues, perspectives, and/or opinions in ways that do good for the commons, humanity, the common good, the well-being of all life, and the health of the planet
Develop gratitude and appreciation for equity practices
Cultivate the open-mindedness of cultural humility as an antidote to hubris and the abuses of power
Enhance meaning-making and sense-making skills to clarify purpose [3][4].
View disagreements as a means to use our differences to make a positive difference, and not make our differences worse
Zoom in and out to gain different perspectives about the upsides and downsides of complexity and reductionist thinking to understand how to work on simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic problems
Adopt ecological and ontological ways of thinking, being, and becoming to solve wicked problems
Dialogue 4: how might we implement the simple rules of collaborative and transformational learning?
What is your take on the simple rules for collaborative learning?
The purpose of this learning process is to maintain alliances across all systems and sectors to serve the greater good. This avoids the formation of unhealthy coalitions that fragment systems into competing warring factions.
The do’s
Honor the negotiated agenda
First understand before being understood
Elicit a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and opinions
Listen and respond to different points of view with equanimity
Ask questions to clarify (mis)understanding and (mis)conceptions
Develop functional triangulations with alliances of all parties: friends and foes
Enable all participants fair opportunities to speak
Allow conversations to flow into discourse and dialogues
Provide evidence to support claims of knowledge
Create a middle ground of agreement and clarify disagreements without being disagreeable
The don’ts
Derail the agenda
Impose one’s understanding or opinion on someone’s understanding or opinion
Negate a point of view without giving a different perspective
Allow emotional reactions to refute others or trigger regression to dichotomous thinking (I’m right, you’re wrong)
Exacerbate misunderstandings and misconceptions
Create dysfunctional triangulations with coalitions against third parties
Monopolize the conversations
Interrupt or speak over a talker
Don’t misinform and disinform
Use disagreements to break up the middle ground
What is your take on the simple rules for transformational learning?
The purpose of transformational learning is to gain new insights, perspectives, and breakthrough understandings to promote personal, professional, organizational, and community growth and development.
The do’s
Respect people even when you disagree with their beliefs and opinions
Acknowledge the good intentions of all sides to create safety and trust
Work through the strengths of all sides
Use our differences to make a positive difference
Provide constructive feedback with tactful candor
The don’ts
Disparage and denigrate people
Make negative attributions about
Focus on flaws and shortcomings of opponents
Use differences to amplify divisiveness
Accuse and attack people with false assumptions and projections
Dialogue 5: how might we agree on learning formats and operational guidelines?
Everyone is responsible for assuring that participants abide by the first principles, simple rules, and guidelines.
What is your take on the proposed format and operational guidelines?
Let the conveyor set up the learning stage for discussing 1-3 questions, ideally with advanced preparation and reading.
Take turns in setting up the group learning process
Ensure that all participants have an opportunity to speak once before opening up for open discussion
State that they have completed what they want to say and then invite others who would like to respond and choose the next responder
State how they would like to elaborate on what was being said, in terms of yes-and, yes-but, and no.
Decide about the blend of large and small discussion groups
Give a minute of silence to reflect on what was said and invite people to think about questions that have not been asked
Allow 2 minutes of silence at the end to reflect on take-home messages, insights, and new questions for further inquiry
Allow 5-10 minutes to share reflections
Invite people to make notes to capture the learning essence or pose unanswered questions. And post it on a blog or a social media platform (such as WhatsApp) to continue the threads of conversations asynchronously and develop a tapestry of understanding about equity meta-governance.
Process issues
Contribute to facilitating the group process
Strive to seek truth with the integrity of transparent accountability
Discern and verify claims to knowledge with sources of evidence
Provide constructive feedback about differences in perspective, ideas, and opinions in ways that enable flourishing relationships, collaborations, and transformation
Call out the violations of the simple rules, such as making personal remarks, personal comments, accusations, and false assumptions about others
Call in functional triangulations of healthy alliances
Call out dysfunctional triangulations of coalitions and divisiveness
Iteratively improve the format and process facilitating collaborative and transformational learning with feedback from all
Section C: Embark on transformational learning journeys
Dialogue 1: how might we learn how to unravel the indoctrination of neo-terrorism?
Anti-equity propagandists have effectively smeared the meaning of the word, equity, with associations with Marxism and communism to evoke the red-reflex, reject button.
These immoral propagandists reframe the positive virtue of fairness into negative ones. They use tropes to make erroneous claims; such as equity is all about “enforcing equal outcomes” and “taking away from the deserving to give to the undeserved.”
These disparaging reframes are classic 1984 double-speak propaganda. Virtues become flaws (or vice versa). These neo-terrorists exploit these tropes to culturally indoctrinate people with systematic prejudices against equity.
Neo-terrorism is the propaganda war of words, with a sociopathic disregard for the integrity of truth-seeking and transparent accountability.
Neo-terrorism enables escalating meritocracy and inequities: further widening the gaps between the haves, the have-somes, and the have-nots. This perpetuates unfair advantages for the elites and exacerbates unfair disadvantages for working people.
In its most benign form, neo-terrorists use the deceptive practices of one-up-man-ship that take advantage of people, often without their awareness, and exploit situations and resources to self-serve ego-shadows and the dark sides of power abuse dynamics. These negative deviants violate the indigenous wisdom of mutual reciprocities and living in harmony with people and nature.
In its more extreme forms, neo-terrorists create fake news of misinformation, disinformation and malinformation, orchestrate scapegoats, set up blame games, and play the virtuous victimhood charade to create the chaos of our meta-crisis. They use magical thinking and non-sequiturs presented as logic to concoct fictitious conspiracies. They exploit these strategies to create unstable conditions of uncertainty, chaos, and distrust, where people clamor for the strongman as their savior.
These savant propagandists masterfully manipulate the strategies of escalating fear, perceived threats, unfound or exaggerated doubts, distrust, and paranoia to control people’s mindsets by over-activating the limbic-amygdala-reptilian brains and deactivating the higher neocortical functioning of reason, ethical discernment and moral humility. They induce trances, blind unconditional loyalty, unquestioning conformity, and mass psychosis such as the BIG LIE
Cult leaders emotionally exploit the invisible hands of neo-terrorism to tightly entangle people into self-righteous fundamentalism, regressive populism, the rule of the mob, and “might is right” tribalism. These warring tribes perpetrate and perpetuate reoccurring cycles of terrorism, wars, war crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, massacres, mass destruction, genocides, starvations, and public health catastrophes.
How might we overcome the dark sides of neo-terrorism?
The naive aphorism of Buckminster Fuller is often used to address the complex challenges of making a paradigm shift, such as transitioning from the perilous propaganda era of neo-terrorism and the plagues of disinformation to the integrity of authentic media enterprises of transparent accountability that seek truth.
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
Little progress changed in redressing our meta-crisis. Our meta-crisis is only getting worse.
How might we redress our overwhelming meta-crisis?
Making paradigm shifts without concurrently redressing ego-shadows and the dark sides of the old model is pollyannish filled with illogical optimism and magical thinking that fail to address the deep systemic drivers of meta-crisis.
Unbridled charismatic enthusiasts exploit the marketing dope of naive optimism to promote corporate, professional, and personal brands. Brands provide inadequate solutions, frameworks, and heuristics for solving our wicked problems.
Brands are too narrow and insufficient for addressing the mega-causes, such as our meta-crisis that arises from power abuse dynamics driven by dishonesty, the lack of transparent accountability, and corruption.
Brands are transactional extractors that take more than they give. Otherwise, there is no profit to drive the business. In contrast, the fairness of mutual reciprocities, kindness, civility, and decency drive humanitarian causes. The so-called profit becomes a community resource for future generations.
The transactional marketing of brands and the transformational marketing of causes are distinction endeavors. The short-termism of opportunistic extraction drives brand marketing. The long-termism of the community welfare for all drives cause marketing.
How might we cultivate equity meta-governance to:
Counteract the chaos of our meta-crisis, driven by the corrupt political forces of systemic power abuse dynamics, the economic imperialism of neoliberalism, corporatocracy, techno-feudalism, and the propaganda machines of neo-terrorism?
Develop a new paradigm to co-design and build an equitable, regenerative, and sustainable future that concurrently deconstructs and makes the old dysfunctional model obsolete?
Equity ensures the honesty of truth-seeking to build the safety and trust for collaborative and transformational learning, guided by integrity of ethical discernment, authentic candor, transparent accountability, and the moral courage to act.
Equity advocates use this virtue to speak truth to the abuses of power This virtue is the antidote to redress the abuses of BIPID issues.
Wicked problems involve addressing the systemic power abuse dynamics of corruption, political and religious self-righteous fundamentalism, the dogmas of identity politics, dysfunctional polarizations, toxic divisiveness, institutional distrust, and much more. Our wicked problems are so overwhelming that they are driving us over planetary boundaries and toward collapse.
Dialogue 2: how might we clarify our ultimate meta-process for humanity (#UMH)?
The vision for our UMH is equity meta-governance: co-create fair rules, fair plays, fair games, fair opportunities, and fair rewards for the benefit of all, on a healthy planet.
Pause, reflect, and contemplate.
Equity meta-governance is an ethical antidote to systemic power abuse dynamics of our meta-crisis: ineffective governance, inept stewardship, incompetent leadership, and corrupt political systems.
Pause, reflect, and contemplate.
Equity meta-governance uses the transparent accountability of truth-seeking to counteract the plagues of disinformation that contribute to our meta-crisis.
Pause, reflect, and contemplate.
Indigenous wisdom is the ethical foundation for the first principles of holistic inter-connectedness and mutual interdependencies. We are One, the transcendence of unconditional caring for all, and not divided by the ego shadows of our warring tribalism.
The Rhodium rule for equity meta-governance captures the essence of these deeply caring principles.
Be fair and kind to all people, the planet, the environment, nature, biodiversity, animals, the soil, and plants.
Pause, reflect, and contemplate.
Dialogue 3: how might we clarify our massive transformation purpose (MTP)?
The MTP mission of Equity Moonshot is to co-design and build an equitable, regenerative, and sustainable future.
Pause, reflect, and contemplate.
Equity liberates freedom for all. There is no true freedom without equity.
Pause, reflect, and contemplate.
The meme for MTP is, to Love, equity and the pursuit of truth-seeking.
Pause, reflect, and contemplate.
Equity Moonshot is the peace antidote to neo-terrorism, terrorism, and wars.
Pause, reflect, and contemplate.
The prejudices against equity arise from the dysfunctional power abuse dynamics of our competing amoral-immoral-moral value systems. These discordant systems create fertile ground to escalate inequities that exacerbate the divisiveness of class and racial warfare.
Pause, reflect, and contemplate.
Dialogue 4: how might we understand the dynamics of our meta-crisis and poly-crisis?
The dark sides of systemic power abuse dynamics drive the chaos and entropy of our meta-crisis. A diverse array of factors perpetrates and perpetuates these abuses. These negative influences include the neo-terrorist propaganda machines of indoctrination, the plagues of disinformation, the rigid dogmas of religious, philosophical, and political self-righteous fundamentalisms, patriarchy, colonialism, the imperialism of corporatocracy, neoliberal technocracy, linear economics, shareholder capitalism, totalitarianism, tyranny, fascism, autocracy, theocracies, plutocracy, and kleptocracy, and dark money corrupting political, religious, and legal systems that rig policies and elections to serve the power elites.
The dark sides of the negative deviant personalities include the character flaws of pathological, megalomania, malignant narcissism, incessant sociopathy, and autocratic authoritarianism. These character flaws make up ALPD: Asocial Leadership Personality Disorders. Putin, Netanyahu, and Trump are on this leadership spectrum disorder.
Our ego shadow ambitions seek and worship the deities of celebrity, fame, status, money, and opulent wealth for their own sake, leading to superficial, shallow, and hollow lives devoid of deep meaning and higher purpose.
Our power abuse dynamics arise from neo-terrorism, unethical governance, inept stewardship, incompetent leadership, neoliberal linear economics, shareholder capitalism, exploitative extractions of finite resources, dark money subverting public policies and rigging elections, along with political, religious, and legal corruption, patriarchy, colonialism, tyranny, autocracies, fascism, totalitarianism, plutocracy, and kleptocracy.
In contrast, the deep aspirations of our higher ethical purposes do not seek the trappings of our ego shadow to extract value: taking more than they giving. Our ethical aspirations and moral actions are driven by cultivating virtues, such as the integrity of developing character strengths to do good.
Dialogue 5: how might we develop a shared meaning about equity meta-governance for launching Equity Moonshot?
Use the definitions of equity (described in the orientation section) to explore the meaning and implications about these leadership and empowerment questions.
Leadership questions
How might we, as equity leaders, mentors, muses, mavens, and learning designers, use AI-enabled digital learning platforms:
Move beyond expert-centered, sage-on-the-stage group dynamics that diminish the agency of the learners to participate in generative dialogues?
Minimize the domineering voices, serial didactic monologues, and (wo)mansplaining that inhibit strategic dialogues?
Use Socratic-style group processes to engage and activate participants in collaborative and transformational learning?
Use inquiry frameworks of complex questions to open our mindsets and expand our self-awareness to negotiate a shared meaning and understanding about equity?
Orchestrate group-centered, guide-on-the-stage collaborations with sages-on-the-side about how to cultivate equity meta-governance?
Co-create the collaborative world of slow thinking, the deep contemplation of ethical discernment, the cultivation of equity meta-governance, the moral development of media literacy skills, and needed to mass mobilize people to scale up moral actions to launch Equity Moonshot?
People empowerment questions
This calls for delivering exponential opportunities of accelerated lifelong intergenerational learning journeys to empower and mass mobilize people to serve the greater good. The purpose of these learning journeys to cultivate equity meta-governance, open innovation, epistemic equity and equity justice.
Epistemic equity and justice are opposite sides of the same coin. Epistemic equity focuses on developing the virtues to cultivate equity meta-governance. Equity justice is about preventing and redressing how the ego-shadows perpetrate and perpetuate BIPID issues (Biases, Isms, Prejudices, Inequities, Discriminations) and how the dark side drives the dynamics of systemic power abuses.
The exponential impact of these learning experiences develop an abundance of human capabilities and capacities to solve our wicked problems.
How might we, as glocal citizens and planetary stewards, use AI tools and digital learning platforms to:
Prevent the virulent weeds of amoral-immoral misdeeds from running amok that escalate and compound our never-ending litany of self-inflicted wicked problems?
Become aware of the complicities of shadows and the misdeeds of dark sides that make our wicked problems worse?
Make amends to align our mindsets to work on our UMH and UMP?
Understand and respond to complex questions about our wicked problems within dialoguing beloved learning communities?
Enhance our curiosities, creativities, and imaginations to do good?
Section D: Co-create generative-strategic dialogue
Dialogue 1: how might we restore and modernize the original meaning of equity?
Equite, a 4th-century-old French word, is based on a Latin derivation, meaning fairness.
Equity is modernized to mean giving each of us, according to our particular needs, fair opportunities to strive and thrive to our highest potential of healthy well-being. For example, caring parents ideally treat their children equally without favoritism, and each according to their needs (equity).
How might we open closed mindsets to overcome the prejudice against equity?
The purpose of asking questions and using aphorisms (below) is to explore whether and how our mindsets emotionally trigger offensive-defensive reactions against equity. These reactions perpetuate unfair advantages to the elites and unfair disadvantages to working people,
How might we, the people:
Understand how the emotional triggering and activation of our amygdala-limbic-reptilian brains inhibit the equanimity and slow deliberative thinking of our neocortical brains to evoke defensive-offensive reactivities that prevent learning, collaboration, and dialogue about the meaning of equity meta-governance?
Overcome our fast thinking and reflex reactions driven by negative emotions with little-to-no critical thinking and self-reflection to develop the slow thinking of collaborative and transformational learning needed to launch Equity Moonshot?
Do ethical thinking and moral work to deconstruct the negative associations, biases, and prejudices against the virtue of equity?
This calls for overcoming our prejudices against equity and transforming our mindsets to cultivate equity meta-governance and launch Equity Moonshot.
Dialogue 2: how might we understand and redress the ethical failures of our meta-crisis?
Our meta-crisis arises from the amoral misuses and immoral abuses of power. It sets up our poly-crisis of wicked problems.
Our meta-crisis arises from a negative myriad of cultural, political, religious, media, economic, and social factors, interacting above and below the surface of what we notice, that cause our wicked problems. Our overwhelming litany of problems strains our systemic and personal coping mechanisms, depletes our resiliencies, and diminishes our capabilities and capacities to solve problems.
The misuses and abuses of personal and systemic power drive our meta-crisis. They set up and perpetuate unethical governance, inept stewardship, incompetent leadership, and corrupt political, financial, legal, and economic systems, such as neoliberalism, dark money, rigged elections, and kleptocracy.
Our inter-personal wicked problems include #BIPID issues, human rights violations, the cult propaganda machines of disinformation, chronic traumatic media stress disorder, emotional regression to fundamentalist thinking, the blind unconditional loyalties of identity politics, the rule of the mob, and the cult trances of mass psychosis, such as the BIG LIE.
Our systemic wicked problems include climate change, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, air and water pollution, over-population, living beyond planetary boundaries, the demise of planetary health, climate, and refuge migrations, escalating wealth inequalities, poverty, food and water insecurities, civil strife, terrorism, and wars: to name a few.
Equity meta-governance is the antidote to personal and systemic power abuses that drive the meta-crisis.
How might we solve our poly-crisis of wicked problems?
Equity Moonshot is about co-designing and building an equitable, regenerative, and sustainable future. The MTP meme is:
To Love, equity, and the pursuit of truth-seeking.
This stands in sharp contrast to the individually focused and reductionist meme in the Declaration of Independence.
To life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
These contrasting memes call for mindset transformations from the “i” of the ego and the 'we” of tribalism to the “I” of transcendence and the “We” of global citizens, living in harmonious families, communities, and nations.
How might we deploy in-person educational experiences and AI-enabled digital platforms to:
Scale up ongoing lifelong intergenerational learning journeys to cultivate equity meta-governance?
Building Equity Moonshot story movements to solve our wicked problems?
Re-design our political-public-private sectors to align our systems to serve the greater good?
These quest(ion)s call for developing a new learning governance paradigm to transform our mindsets.
Dialogue 3: how might we better understand the relationship of our meta-crisis to our poly-crisis?
The UMH redresses the chaos of our meta-crisis driven by neo-terrorism. The cult propaganda machines of neo-terrorism enable authoritarian power abuses with cascades of negative impacts: disinformation pandemics, divisive toxicities, dysfunctional polarizations and triangulations, emotional regression to self-righteous fundamentalist thinking, the seductions of factitious conspiracy theories, the blind unconditional loyalty of mass psychosis (such as the BIG LIE), futile debates, chronic traumatic media stress disorder, civil strife, terrorism, and wars.
The UMP works on our poly-crisis to solve our wicked problems. Our litany of wicked problems arises from the abuses of power at inter-personal and systemic levels.
These interpersonal abuses of power include the human rights violations of BIPID issues. The systemic abuses of power include escalating wealth inequalities and inequities of opportunities, non-sustainable growth, hyper-consumerism, expansion beyond planetary boundaries, the depletion of finite resources, planetary demise, over-population, the lack of sustainability and regenerative practices, the monocultures of the agro-industrial complex, the mass production of animals for human consumption causing environmental degradation and global warming, climate change, food and water insecurities, mass migration of climate and political refugees, steep declines in soil health, biodiversity, forests, coral reefs, and wild animal populations.
How might we move beyond the dysfunctional polarizations of contentious debates, such as abortion, neo-terrorism, and the Israeli-Hamas conflict?
Debates are about the rhetorical arts of persuasion to win arguments. They deploy the dichotomous, zero-sum games of “I’m right, you’re wrong,” “I’m good, you’re evil,” and “I love us, I hate them.”
These win-lose arguments are ineffective in addressing our wicked problems, such as the reconcilable differences between conflicting forms of rigid dichotomous (either-or) thinking: just consider the unbridgeable chasm between the pro-life and pro-choice advocates on the abortion issue.
What gives religious pro-life hegemony the imperial right to impose their self-righteous fundamentalist moral beliefs over the freedom of pro-choice women?
In Ireland, the Citizens' Assembly (2016) broke the political deadlock on the religious stranglehold over the will of the people about the right to abortion. Common sense prevailed over religious dogma.
To address the perils of terrorism, we need sophisticated international multilateral leadership to disrupt the downward spirals into the immoral abyss to perpetrate and perpetuate crimes against humanity.
How might we apply lessons learned from the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that ended terrorism in Northern Ireland to the Israeli-Hamas conflict?
Dialogue 4: how might we co-design a metaphorical inquiry framework of learning governance to cultivate equity meta-governance?
The learning governance for equity meta-governance calls for using a diversity of metaphorical domains: ethical, political, economic, arts, music, biomimicry, mechanical, war, and sports.
Our metaphors are embedded in our everyday language. All metaphors have upsides and downsides. We often overlook the downsides of our preferred domain of metaphors and blind the upsides of other domains.
How might we become more aware of how our metaphors shape our mindsets and limit our ways of being, thinking, and feeling in addressing the chaos of our meta-crisis and the poly-crises of de-humanization, de-civilization, environmental and biodiversity collapses, planetary demise, and poly-collapse arising from over-extensions beyond planetary boundaries?
How might we use civil discourses and generative-strategic dialogues to enable collaborative and transformational learning for solving our wicked problems?
These learning processes go beyond the limitations of reductionist linear thinking to integrate ethical, ontological, systemic, and complexity thinking.
How might we develop open innovation platforms and improvisation stages of cultivating equity meta-governance to:
Get out of our own ways to co-create a fair-free-flourishing future to benefit all on a healthy planet?
Unleash our collective wisdom and create synergistic energies that emancipate our vast untapped human potential to manage chaos and address complexity?
Launch Equity Moonshot?
Dialogue 5: how might we develop ethical discernment about the distinctions virtues and values to deepen our understandings why ethics and morality matter?
Our ethical shortcomings create the moral chaos of our meta-crisis: the systemic power abuse dynamics Our meta-crisis exacerbates our poly-crisis: making our entangled web of wicked problems worse.
This crisis disables our political, religious, legal, economic, and social systems from fulfilling their potential to do good. These systems are failing to serve our humanity and the health of our planet.
How might we redress our ethical failings to understanding the distinctions between virtues and values needed to cultivate equity meta-governance and launch Equity Moonshot?
How do we:
Manage the multipolar worlds of ethics, spirituality, transformation, emancipation, business, economics, transactions, and marketing to redress our meta-crisis of systemic power abuse dynamics?
Use the ethical, spiritual, emancipation transformational, and language of virtues to guide the business, economic, and transactional, marketing language of values to solve our wicked problems?
Prevent the ethical, spiritual, and transformational language of virtues guides the business, economic, transactional, and marketing language of values to solve our wicked problems?
Dialogue 6: how might we detox from our addictions to reductionist, simple, clear, curated content that indoctrinates us about what to think and disables us from learning how to think?
Our meta-crisis is the amoral-immoral entanglements of hidden hands that drive our corrupt systems. Our ethical failures in redressing corruption exponentiate our poly-crisis: the rapid cascade of wicked problems heading over the cliff of catastrophic collapse.
How might we:
Detox from our addictions to reductionist, simple, clear, curated content that indoctrinates us about what to think and disables us from learning how to think?
Overcome the prejudices against developing complexity thinking and learn how to think and to think about how we learn to think (meta-cognition)?
Enhance our understanding of how to work with the chaos of meta-crisis and address the complexities of our poly-crisis?
The humanitarian and planetary aspirations of our UMH and UMP call for scaling up our ethical sense-making and meaning-making capabilities-capacities to take on these virtuous causes.
How might we:
Become open-minded, truth-seeking, virtuous free-thinkers, collaborating in communion together to co-elevate our collective wisdom, intelligence, empathy, and compassion to serve humanity and the natural systems of our planet?
Liberate the sovereignties of our creative, innovative, and entrepreneurial spirits to solve wicked problems?
Dialogue 7: how might we create beloved learning communities to identify the impediments that prevent us from engaging in slow thinking and deep transformational learning experiences about cultivating equity meta-governance?
We live in a world of fast-thinking transactional mindsets looking for bite-size information of instant clarity and comprehension. Our reductionist mindsets seek simplicity that prevents us from doing the slow deep transformational learning needed to work with chaos and complexity.
Our reductionist, transactional world, built on the exchange of value, drives the take-more-than-give, economic paradigm of self-deceptive brands that masquerade narcissism as altruism.
Our imprisoned mindsets stifle and prevent us from our self-inflicted, wicked problems, such as wealth inequalities, poverty, extreme meritocracy, escalating inequities, the negative cascade effects of global warming and climate change, terrorism, wars, brutal massacres, genocides, and war crimes.
Our closed-mindedness only makes wicked problems much worse. They accelerate the chaos of our meta-crisis: the unethical hidden hands of our amoral-immoral corrupt systems. Our failures to redress our meta-crisis is exponentiating our poly-crisis: the rapid cascade of wicked problems heading over the cliff of catastrophic collapse. This calls on us to prevent POSFCI from dehumanizing our souls of virtuous beings and destroying the planet.
How might we embark on transformational journeys to redress our power abuse dynamics that create our wicked problems?
Closed mindsets trigger anti-theory, anti-academic, anti-intellectual, and anti-jargon reflexes, and impulses. They reinforce doing without deep thinking and dissociate theory from practice.
Doers think that they know what they are doing but don’t. Thinkers know what to do but can’t do it. This calls for moving the false dichotomy of town-gown dysfunctional dynamics to co-creating harmony, synergy, and co-elevation of ethical thinkers and moral doers.
We have designed our human systems to be far more unfair than nature itself. Natural systems have intrinsic systems of homeostasis and harmonies that prevent extreme dis-equilibriums of resources, but they lack ethical systems to redress power abuse dynamics of pathological megalomania, malignant narcissism, incessant sociopathy, and authoritarian autocracy that afflict human systems and exacerbate BIPID issues
These moral challenges call for developing complex adaptive learning systems to collaborate on our personal, systemic, and cultural transformations.
How might we co-create synergies between transforming our mindsets and re-designing our political-public-private sectors to align our systems for launching Equity Moonshot story movements?
Many factors mitigate against working on the Ultimate Meta-process for Humanity and redressing our meta-crisis. Content creators and marketers perpetuate a superficial modus operandi that perpetuates the status quo of surface learning. Largely unaware, these oppressors enable and perpetuate the hegemonic imperial paradigms of corporatocracy, neoliberal technocracy, and plutocracy.
This uneducated state of affairs sets a collective learning disability: a regressive mass psychosis that avoids or resists delving into uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, the dialectic of polarities, and the dilemmas of living in a multi-cultural and multipolar world. Self-righteous fundamentalist extremism dominates over the middle majority.
Content overlords and sages on the stage prevent and limit us from exploring the scope of our delving into the multi-dimensional worlds of complexity. These overlords and sages constrain conversations to their heuristic domain and language. These ego-centric models create varying degrees of self-protection and intolerance that devalue challenges to their mindsets, paradigms, and language.
We need process innovators to disrupt the transactional drivers of corporatocracy, neoliberal technocracy, and plutocracy that put profit above purpose, people, and the planet. We need a new transformational change agent archetype to disrupt the indoctrination that rigidifies the status quo into stone.
Dialogue 8: how might we promote the meme, liberate equity, freedom for all?
Without equity, there is no liberty.
How might we transform our mindsets and design moral systems based on the ethics, equanimity, and egalitarianism of equity meta-governance?
Indigenous wisdom is the foundation of the Rhodium rule for guiding the development of this governance process.
Be fair and kind to all people, the planet, the environment, nature, biodiversity, animals, the soil, and plants.
How might we mass mobilize people to launch Equity Moonshot?
This calls for developing a new transformational learning change agent archetype. Equity muses are part jester, holy fool, magician, and heretic.
How might we build a #UniteEquityMuses movement for transformational change?
As transformational change agents, we act as guides on the stage, working along with sages on the side. We enable people to learn how to understand our meta-crisis: the systemic determinants that drive our corrupt systems.
As Socratic Sherpas, we ask complex questions that open, inspire, transform, and align our mindsets to learn and think anew about how to redress our meta-crisis that drives our poly-crisis of wicked problems.
These monumental challenges call for self-reflective inquiry about the meaning of complex questions and discussing what they mean within beloved learning communities, before engaging in civic discourses and co-creating generative-strategic dialogues about how to launch Equity Moonshot (see definition below).
Dialogue 9: How might we embark on lifelong intergenerational learning journeys about equity meta-governance and Equity Moonshot?
Equity Moonshot is our Ultimate Meta-Purpose (#UMP): co-design and build an equitable, regenerative, and sustainable future. The UMP addresses our poly-crisis. We need to collaborate on our UMH-UMP to re-humanize our cultures and regenerate Mother Earth.
How might we deploy in-person or Zoom educational experiences along with AI-enabled digital platforms to:
Scale up ongoing lifelong intergenerational learning journeys to launch Equity Moonshot?
Re-design our political-public-private sectors to align our systems to serve the greater good and solve our wicked problems?
These quest(ion)s call for developing a new learning governance to transform our mindsets. This involves expanding beyond the old paradigm of convergent learning objectives predetermined by educators to divergent learning outcomes where learners develop their ongoing objectives as part of their learning journeys in communion together.
The incremental goal of co-creating ongoing micro-learning experiences is to metaphorically compose fertile soils for growing the mycelia of self-generating, self-organizing, self-sustaining, and self-governing networks of networks to cultivate equity meta-governance.
Dialogue 10: How might we collaboratively learn about equity meta-governance?
Equity meta-governance involves an inclusive, negotiated process of co-creating and operationalizing what fairness means to all and the planet.
Take time for musing and dialogue about how to emancipate ourselves from the indoctrinations of the economic imperialism of neoliberalism, amoral-immoral cults, identity politics, and the neo-terrorism of propaganda machines.
How might we, as equity leaders, mentors, muses, mavens, and learning design architects to mass mobilize people to embark on lifelong intergenerational learning journeys to:
Use equity as the North Star with a guiding constellation of virtues to cultivate equity meta-governance and launch Equity Moonshot?
Co-create our learning, being, becoming, and doing journeys to scale up ethical transformational changes and moral actions for the greater good?
Tell, share, and amplify our positive viral stories that transform our mindsets and re-design our systems to do good for the commons, humanity, the common good, the well-being of all life, and the health of the planet?
Our UMH unleashes an ethical abundance of virtues to deconstruct the corrupt systemic drivers of our meta-crisis.
How might we, as global citizens and planetary stewards:
Emancipate ourselves from the amoral-immoral entanglements of the hidden hands that keep us stuck in the chaos and entropy of our meta-crisis?
Develop the ethics, equanimity, and egalitarianism of spiritual anti-fragility to cultivate equity meta-governance?
Dialogue 11: How might we enable people to scale up lifelong intergenerational learning journeys about cultivating equity meta-governance?
To take on this monumental ethical quest(ion), we must overcome our fear and develop the moral courage to open, inspire, and align our mindsets to launch Equity Moonshot.
We need to co-create inquiry frameworks and networks needed to address the chaos of our meta-crisis and the complexities of our wicked problems. This involves expanding our mindsets about how We, as transcendent human beings, align our mindsets together to manage chaos and solve our wicked problems. Only we, collaborating together, can save ourselves.
These learning challenges call for setting the stages for constructive conflicts to use our differences to make a difference, managing the frustrations of healthy disagreements to build a middle ground, and preventing our differences from tearing us apart into warring tribes.
How might we move beyond our ineffective colonial educational methods that perpetrate, perpetuate, and fail to redress power abuse dynamics and scale up collaborative and transformational learning based on epistemic equity and justice?
We need transformational learning experiences to guide us through uncertainty, complexities, and disorientating dilemmas for our personal growth, and for professional, community, and cultural development. This takes us out of our comfort zones to learn how to manage the chaos of our meta-crisis and the poly-crisis of our wicked problems.
Our mindsets are locked down into instructional designs of antiquated educational methods, such as sages on the stage that demonstrate oratorical brilliance and the orchestrations of spectacles. This calls for opening mindsets to new ways of learning that go beyond the limits of passive learner spectatorship to the emancipation of active learner participation.
Zoom calls fall into the same trap with talking head speakers using hub-and-spoke communication patterns, with hand-raising that sets up serial monologues with question-and-answers and disjointed conversations that lack flow. These methods facilitate civil discourse and co-create generative-strategic dialogues needed to solve wicked problems. To date, there is no evidence that individual sages, saviors, cult influencers, and conscious celebrities can save us from the self-destructive chaos of our meta-crisis and the self-sabotaging complexities of our poly-crisis.
The hero’s journey provides naive, comforting narratives of false hope. These comic narratives perpetuate the mass psychosis of self-deception about being saved by our heroes, religious figures, and God from the quagmire of self-inflicted chaos and complexity.
This calls for moving beyond:
Spotlighting sages-on-the-sides with adoring, codependent fans and marginalized guides-on-the-sides who do not see the light of day to
Co-designing empowering, cooperative networks of beloved learning collaboratives with guides-on-the-stage and sages-on-the-side
Practitioners of epistemic equity and justice deploy asset-and-strength-based approaches to co-create a fair-free-flourishing future to benefit all, on a healthy planet but from different complementary perspectives of doing good on the one hand and preventing and redressing harms on the other hand. They include marginalized, displaced, rejected, and unheard voices to prevent dominant cultures from perpetuating dysfunctional inside-outside dynamics of marginalization, exclusion, stigmatization, ostracization, and rejection.
They both elicit, acknowledge, and share credit for people’s contributions. They use inclusive and transparent accountability processes to ensure an equitable discernment of truth-seeking guided by the impartiality of equanimity that minimizes BIPID issues.
Practitioners of epistemic equity work to do good for the commons, humanity, the common good, the well-being of all life, and the health of the planet. They promote free and open knowledge exchanges and co-creations to work toward truth-seeking, peace, and harmony.
Practitioners of epistemic justice are generators and conveyors of free knowledge in the spirit of open innovation. They work to enable all people to generate and share knowledge, free from personal and systemic BIPID issues. They work on disarming the neo-terrorist propaganda machines of disinformation.
Epistemic equity and justice enable us to develop the capabilities and capacities to address the chaos of our meta-crisis and the wicked problems of our poly-crisis.
ExO articles
Why teaching exponential mindset is a must to thrive in The 21st Century
Unleashing exponential growth: co-Initiating and co-creating exponential organizations
Another resource for cultivating equity meta-governance
How might we build networks of neo-learning communities to co-design and build a fair-free-flourishing future to benefit all on a healthy planet?
Additional questions
How might we evolve beyond the military mindset constraints of neo-terrorism, tribalism, and wars perpetrated by conflicting value systems to truth-seeking, harmony, and peace guided by a constellation of virtues?
Listen to Nate Hagers interview John Robb, discussing how geopolitics, information warfare, and technology are shaping how we understand the world and interact with each other.
How might we evolve beyond the military mindset constraints of neo-terrorism, tribalism and wars perpetrated by conflicting value systems to truth-seeking, harmony, and peace guided by a constellation of virtues? Listen to Nate Hagers interview @JohnRobb, discussing how geopolitics, information warfare, and technology are shaping how we understand the world and interact with each other. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2n_Jk37cLE