How might we use the first principles and simple rules of collaborative and transformational learning to co-create generative-strategic dialogues about equity meta-governance and wicked problems?
How might we help learners operationalize first principles and simple rules to share in the responsibilities of co-creating generative-strategic dialogues within beloved learning communities?
Develop collaborative and transformational learning norms
The purpose of using first principles and simple rules of civil discourse and generative-strategic dialogues assures conversational flow that goes beyond the reductionist futilities of zero-sum, win-lose debate (“I’m right, you’re wrong”) to address the questions below.
How might we learn how to respond to ethical questions about how to:
Cultivate equity meta-governance: co-create fair rules, fair plays, fair games, fair opportunities, and fair rewards to benefit all on a regenerating planet?
Launch the Equity Moonshot: co-design and build an equitable, regenerative, and sustainable future on a healthy planet?
Redress the meta-crisis: unravel the systemic power abuse dynamics that set up the poly-crisis, the complex entanglement of self-inflicted wicked problems?
Move beyond the reductionist futility of debates about complexity
Debates, whether civil or uncivil, are distinct from civil discourse and generative-strategic dialogues. The conversational forms of civic discourse and generative-strategic dialogues move beyond contentious cancel culture debates, such as between warring tribes of fundamentalist thinking who fight to the death to annihilate each other.
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. 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 emotional dichotomous thinking regression to the lizard brains of self-righteous fundamentalism.
How might we move beyond debates to civil discourses to cultivate equity meta-governance and understand wicked problems?
Wicked problems call for shifting beyond the old-style, ineffective educational management paradigms based on linear reductionism. The monumental failure of reductionism calls for developing inquiry and emancipation paradigms to open our minds to exploring and understanding complexity.
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Co-create generative-strategic dialogues
Generative-strategic dialogues extend beyond civil discourse to generate new insights, breakthrough understandings, and innovative solutions for cultivating equity meta-governance and working on wicked problems.
Generative dialogues create new possibilities, ideas, and solutions through open-minded explorations. Strategic dialogues focus on solving particular problems. Generative-strategic dialogues involve balancing divergent thinking with convergent doing,
Generative dialogues are open-ended exploratory processes that value the never-ending dialogue journey of creativity, exploration, and discovery rather than disparate destination spots disconnected from one another.
Strategic dialogues are outcome-oriented with a clear destination that involves navigating a path with stepping-stone objectives, navigating between conflicting polarities, to striving toward outcomes that make situations much better than worse. Generative-strategic dialogues involve balancing unstructured serendipity-synchronicity and structured moral-mission achievements.
Generative dialogues lead to unexpected new insights and breakthrough understandings. Strategic dialogues align deliberative actions to work toward the vision, mission, goals, and objectives.
Generative dialogues value the discovery process of mobilizing the wisdom of the crowd to do good. Strategic dialogues involve clarifying roles and responsibilities that align contributions to achieve an overall outcome. Generative-strategic dialogues involve balancing shared wisdom and aligned moral action.
How might we expand beyond civil discourse to co-create generative-strategic dialogues to solve our wicked problems?
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Facilitate collaborative and transformational learning
Using first principles and simple rules of collaborative and transformational learning, we can learn together to facilitate civic discourse and co-creating generative-strategic dialogues needed to redress our meta-crisis, poly-crisis, and poly-collapse.
How might we, as equity leaders, mentors, muses, and learning designers, ask ethical questions about cultivating equity meta-governance and solving our wicked problems within learning communities to reflect on and discuss their meaning and implications before engaging in civil discourse and generative-strategic dialogues?
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What is your take on collaborative learning?
Collaborative Learning promotes engagement and interactions among learners with a shared responsibility for achievement, using the group dynamics of knowledge-creating to promote a deep understanding of equity. The fostering of mutual respect, trust, and shared responsibilities enables the development of positive relational dynamics needed to co-construct a shared meaning about equity and develop new skills to enhance putting this virtue into practice.
The outcomes of collaborative learning are tangible: skill-based communication and teamwork in addressing this question.
How might learners effectively implement the first principles and simple rules of collaborative learning to co-create generative-strategic dialogues within beloved learning communities to cultivate equity meta-governance, launch Equity Moonshot, and solve our complex entanglement of self-inflicted wicked problems?
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What are you called out to speak to?
First principles
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
Simple rules
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 transformational learning?
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.
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.
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.
How might learners effectively implement first principles and simple rules to share transformational learning in the responsibilities of co-creating generative-strategic dialogues within beloved learning communities to cultivate equity meta-governance, launch Equity Moonshot, and solve our complex entanglement of self-inflicted wicked problems?
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What are you called out to speak to?
First principles
Foster deep, meaningful intra-personal learning to open mindsets about oneself and our relationships with each other and the planet
Deploy self-awareness and operational learning skills to transform mindsets on how to solve wicked problems.
Cultivate ethical discernment, critical thinking, self-reflection, and self-awareness 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 and moral humility as an antidote to hubris and the abuses of power
Enhance meaning-making and sense-making skills to clarify moral purposes and causes
View disagreements as a means to use our differences to make a positive difference, rather than tearing us apart over our differences
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 as open-minded, truth-seeking, virtuous free-thinkers working collaboratively to do good.
Simple rules
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
Hold space for people even when you disagree with their beliefs and opinions
Acknowledge their good intentions to assure safety and build trust to build a middle ground of engagement
Maximize strengths and minimize weaknesses on all sides
Use our differences to make a positive difference
Provide constructive feedback with tactful candor
The don’ts
Disparage and denigrate people
Make false assumptions and attributions about them
Demonize flaws and shortcomings of opponents
Use differences to amplify divisiveness
Accuse and attack people with false assumptions and projections
Well articulated sir! Your optimism is inspiring. Thank you for holding a vision of a just, co-operative world