How might we cultivate cultural humility to promote planetary health and co-create a fair-free-flourishing-future for benefit of all?
How might we build catalytic transformational movements to scale up social impact for equity, the virtue of fairness?
Equity muses are new transformational change agent archetypes: part jesters, magicians and holy fools. They ask complex questions about our future collaborations needed to solve our interconnected web of mostly self-inflicted wicked problems in the 21st century.
How might we, as equity muse trainers, leaders and learning designers, cultivate the cultural humility to
Evolve beyond allyship to egalitarian partnerships and networks of thriving learning communities for equity solidarity and meta-governance?
Inspire people and their leaders to visualize what a fair-free-flourishing-future might look like on a healthy planet?
As Socratic Sherpas, we ask complex questions that span the feminine-masculine continuum from Big Hairy Audacious Questions to (#BHAQs) and Holistic Oxytocin Questions (#HOQs) about how we can support-nurture-challenge people and their leaders to transform mindsets and re-design systems for the greater good.
How might we, as equity muses, leaders and learning designers, unite in using a blend of masculine–feminine questions to solve our complex web of mostly self-inflicted wicked problems in the 21st century?
Wicked problems include the demise of our planet, the rapid declines in biodiversity, the cascading impacts of global warming, rising sea levels, mass immigration, food insecurities, poverty, systemic isms and escalating inequities: to name a few.
As catalytic change agents, we ask BHAQs/HOQs about this ultimate quest(ion).
How might we launch Equity Moonshot: open-inspire-align our mindsets to co-design and build an equitable, regenerative and sustainable future?
Working together as equity muses, we unite together in asking complex questions that guide people on their ethical learning journeys on this virtuous quest.
How might we develop a cause-based campaign to educate people about the original meaning of equity?
The original meaning of equity is about fairness, and not about investments and ownership.
How might we modernize the virtue of equity?
Equity is a higher virtue than equality
Equity is about giving each of us, according to our particular needs, fair opportunities to strive and thrive to our highest potential of healthy well-being. The pursuit of equity also involves enabling families, communities, organizations and institutions to cultivate the virtues to work and collaborate on the Equity Moonshot quest.
How might we, as equity muses, inspire the curiosity, creativity, imagination, innovation and entrepreneurship needed to solve our wicked problems of power abuses?
The plagues of power abuses are driven by the character flaws of pathological megalomania, incessant sociopathy, malignant narcissism and autocratic authoritarianism that violate human rights.
How might we, as equity leaders, trainers, muses, and learning designers, mobilize people to:
Redress the injustices of implicit biases, isms, unfair advantages, exploitation, patriarchy, colonialism, religious and political tyrannies, autocracy, fascism, totalitarianism and neoliberal corporatocracy?
Develop simple rules to promote fairness of equity and redress the unfairness of isms and inequities?
Co-create generative dialogues about developing the fairness doctrines of equity meta-governance?
Equity meta-governance is a twenty-first-century initiative for co-designing a fair-free-flourishing-future to benefit all, guided by regenerative and sustainability practices. This trans-collaborative process uses a constellation of virtues and an overarching set of first principles and simple rules for transformation. These virtues, principles and rules put ethical guardrails on the moral conduct of governments, the law and public policy, corporations, businesses, journalism, media, social media, artificial intelligence, and academic, leadership and educational enterprises.
Equity governance is about how we co-construct fair rules, fair games and fair plays to assure fair opportunities and fair rewards for the benefit of all and to restore the health of the planet.
Equity governance is an antidote to power abuses. This doctrine pre-empts the fear-based victimization-supremacy games of activating our reptilian and amygdala brains to suppress our neocortical brains. These games activate isms, scapegoating and gaslighting to regain unfair advantages. The purpose of this doctrine is to prevent the injustices of systemic isms and inequities by enabling the equanimity and wisdom of our neocortical brains needed to self-regulate the shadows and dark sides of our amygdala and reptilian brains.
How might we, the people. gather in beloved learning communities to:
Deconstruct the cultural, political and religious systems that set up the privileged entitlements of unfair advantages for the elites and unfair disadvantages for working people?
Build catalytic change agent movements to advocate and promote equity?
Cultivate cultural humility for facilitating transformational change?
Cultural humility involves taking the one-down position of not-knowing in non-assuming ways that suspend our implicit biases needed to understand our blind spots, our shadows and the systemic determinants of isms and inequities.
As catalytic change agents, we create frameworks of complex questions to co-create generative dialogues about how to launch Equity Moonshot.
Generative dialogues enable us to develop deeply meaningful conversations that enrich our intra-being and inter-being experiences of our personal relationships. These relationships are essential for cultivating mycelia networks to scale up collaborative and transformational learning for social impact. We are starved of, and need these kinds of social impact relationships.
These networks enable the development of ongoing learning communities collaborating in communion across all religious, spiritual and political practices to work on the Equity Moonshot quest.
How might we use complex questions to open our minds to new horizons of possibilities and opportunities for a thriving future to benefit all?
This inquiry process of open-mindedness and curiosity is essential for solving our wicked problems. This lifelong intergenerational learning process involves engaging communities in deep conversations and story-telling about (un)fairness.
How might we:
Co-create what fairness and unfairness mean?
Redress unfair advantages and disadvantages?
Our political, private, and public sectors are disconnected competitors in addressing complex questions about equity. Amoral and immoral corporations are competitive, alpha-dog-eat-alpha-dog enterprises. Their high priest is profit for the c-suite and shareholders, without regard to the commons, humanity, the common good and the health of the planet.
Greed is good. Money is power. Market share is king. Economic reductionism and the commodification of life and living propel us on our dystopian trajectory toward the immoral abyss.
How might corporations:
Cultivate cultural humility to expand their horizons about the meaning of equity governance?
Co-create the collaborative beta-enterprises of cooperation to outfox the competitive corporations that are destroying our humanity and our planet?
Orientation to co-creating generative dialogues
The three sessions (listed below) provide the process for co-creating generative dialogues. This process involves working within rotating triadic Zoom conversations to address complex questions over time within learning communities.
Brief verbal and written summarizing sessions enable learners to capture and share new knowledge, ideas, insights, perspectives, and breakthrough understandings about solving wicked problems. These summaries set the stage for asynchronous online communications to weave tapestries of enriching and meaningful relationships between the synchronous learning interactions.
These relationships provide the bedrock of social cohesion. This foundation of middle ground provides the launching pads for social impact campaigns, causes, challenges and quests.
The first three dialogue sessions are open to all. Complex questions are compound when they are multifaceted. It is better to read complex questions than to read aloud, because they can exceed our listening capabilities of comprehension. Read a complex question slowly, pause intermittently after parts of the sentence and contemplate about the meaning of the words.
Even before responding to a complex question, it is essential to discuss what keywords mean and then develop a shared understanding of it. This preliminary collaboration sets the improvisation and innovation stages to co-create generative dialogues about how to launch Equity Moonshot. Rinse and repeat this deep inquiry process with another complex question.
The learning experience of the first session enables us to discover new insights, perspectives and understandings about the differences between cultural competence and cultural humility.
Dialogue session 1: What are the differences between cultural competence and cultural humility?
Cultural competence is learning about, and understanding other people’s cultural customs, value systems, beliefs, perspectives, norms and paradigms: ways of relating, knowing, interpreting and sense-making. Cultural competence runs the risk of taking on the one-up position of knowing and not really knowing. We are unaware of our implicit biases and cultural blind spots.
The concept of cultural humility arose from concerns about the shortcomings of cultural competence. The respectful stance of cultural humility is open-minded curiosity about learning about oneself in relationship to others. Learning about oneself is more important than learning about others. Self-knowledge, such as understanding implicit biases, is a prerequisite to understanding others.
The open-mindedness of cultural humility enables us to understand and redress the shadows of our implicit biases and the dark sides of isms.
Cultural humility involves taking the one-down position of not-knowing in non-assuming ways that suspend our implicit biases needed to understand our blind spots, our shadows and the systemic determinants of isms and inequities.
Dialogue session 2: Why become an equity muse?
We need equity muses to bend our trajectory away from a dystopian future of escalating isms, divisive toxicities, dysfunctional polarizations, destructive conflicts, inequities and planetary demise.
Learn how to become equity muses together and deploy cultural humility to unite and guide us on how to ask complex questions.
How might we, as Socratic Sherpas, cultivate the cultural humility to foster the multiculturalism needed to align our diverse group identities (tribes) in changing our dystopian trajectory away from the immoral abyss of living on a degenerating planet?
The complex questions (below) capture the noble cause, virtuous campaign, moral challenge and ethical quest of the Equity Moonshot vision and mission.
How might we, as equity muses, trainers and leaders, empower people to:
Zoom out, explore and understand the dynamic, non-linear emergence of our wicked problems?
Change our dystopian trajectory away from the immoral abyss of living on a degenerating planet?
Open-inspire-align our mindsets on how to co-design and build an equitable-regenerative-sustainable future?
Use the two-spirit union of cultural humility and equity governance to collaborate on work on Equity Moonshot?
Dialogue session 3: How might we use complex questions to co-create generative dialogues?
Complex questions are like fishes trying to discover water in a small pond.
What might hook your curiosity to make sense of, and discover the purpose and meaning in asking and responding to complex questions?
Complex questions aim to evoke slow thinking, self-reflection and generative dialogues about Equity Moonshot: a lifelong intergenerational learning journey without a final destination.
Complex questions set the stage for embarking on journeys of inquiry, exploration and discovery. These questions evoke reflections about the nature our intra-being, our inter-being experiences and our relationships to the natural world.
Complex questions inspire new ideas, insights, aspirations, associations, patterns of connections and breakthrough understandings about how to promote equity as a means to redress the unfairness of systemic isms and inequities.
As equity muses, we invite people to understand the purpose, meaning and implications of complex questions even before responding to them.
Each workshop begins with a complex question to set the improvisation and innovation stages for hosting one-hour experiential learning sessions about how we can co-create generative dialogue to solve our wicked problems.
s take us out of our comfort zone and into the arenas of healthy disagreements. These collaborative experiences involve co-creating the middle ground of sharing different perspectives that enables us to see our blind spots and the limitations of our implicit biases.
Enjoy musing and slow thinking over complex questions. Be curious, contemplate and engage in generative dialogues in communion with kindred spirits.
Cultivate cultural humility learning communities
The following complex questions set the stage for embarking on lifelong intergenerational learning journeys of inquiry, exploration and discovery about we can use cultural humility to launch Equity Moonshot. This is a never-ending learning journey without a final destination.
How might we, as equity muses, trainers and leaders, enable people to:
Collaborate on the Equity Moonshot quest?
Develop deeper understanding about the nature of our wicked problems?
Co-develop a shared understanding of the meaning of equity?
Embolden our noble purpose to overcome what stands in our way?
Use different metaphors to evoke new perspectives and insights?
Unleash the power of story-telling to facilitate transformational change?
Spawn mycelia hubs, ecosystems and networks to build launching pads for Equity Moonshot?
Co-create generative dialogues to solve our wicked problems?
Understand the limits of cultural competence?
Nurture cultural humility to launch Equity Moonshot?
Enhance the practice of cultural humility?
Manage the complexities of intersectionality?
Address inside-outside dynamics equitably?
Shed light on the ego-centric shadows and dark sides of our cult leaders?
De-weaponize neo-terrorism?
Cultivate equity mindsets?
The outcome of these generative dialogues sessions is to co-create ongoing learning communities to address this complex question about creating a global entrepreneurial opportunity,
How might we galvanize a catalytic change agent movement to build networks of launching pads for Equity Moonshot?
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Reference: Cultural Humility Versus Cultural Competence: A Critical Distinction in Defining Physician Training Outcomes in Multicultural Education. Melanie Tervalon and Jann Murray Garcia, 1998
Reference: Being a foreigner, I may be punished if I make a small mistake': assessing transcultural experiences in caring for patients K Fiscella, M Roman-Diaz, B H Lue, R Botelho, R Frankel 1997
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