Listen to sacred silence: a song to inspire curiosity about deep learning.
How might we evoke curiosity, expand awareness, and raise consciousness about opening our mindsets to redress our meta-crisis of systemic power abuses that sets up our poly-crisis of wicked problems?
What does this song evoke for you?
Click on link. Listen to Sacred silence.
Use songs to evoke generative dialogues in groups of 3-4 persons (in zoom calls or in-person events) to co-create shared meaning and understanding about opening mindsets. With open mindsets, we can untap our hidden potential to cultivate equity meta-governance and solve our wicked problems.
Wicked problems are complex because they have no single, simple, definitive, or final solutions, with no right-wrong answers. Wicked problems have no root causes.
How might we create dialogue spaces to engage in lifelong inter-generational learning processes about solving our wicked problems?
Our political, leadership, educational and religious systems have yet to align in developing lifelong intergenerational learning processes for redressing our meta-crisis of systemic power abuse dynamics that set up our poly-crisis: the complex entanglements of our self-inflicted wicked problems.
These problems include: unethical governance, inept stewardship, political leadership incompetence, economic and educational inequities, social deprivation, environmental degradation, climate change, food and water insecurities, mass migration, and planetary demise: to name a few of the major ones.
To break down the complex question (sub-headline above), we pose a series of questions to evoke curiosity, expand awareness, and raise consciousness about addressing our wicked problems.
How might we open, inspire and align our mindsets to:
Develop a shared understand about our meta-crisis of systemic power abuse dynamics that set up our interconnected, mutually reinforcing global crises?
Understand and address our wicked problems (list above)?
Mitigate against, and adapt to our poly-collapse of living beyond planetary boundaries?
Cultivate curiosity about overcoming our overwhelming complex and systemic challenges of transformational change?
Take small individual and collective actions to address our big-picture issues?
Amplify network power to solve our complex global challenges?
These questions break down the larger concepts into more digestible pieces while encouraging reflection and engagement with the topics. They progress from defining key terms to exploring implications and potential responses, inviting curiosity and expanded awareness along the way.
Learn more about equity meta-governance.
How might we, as learning designers & educators, co-create exponential human-AI synergies to cultivate equity meta-governance, unravel our meta-crisis, & mitigate against & adapt to our poly-crisis?
Amplify human-AI synergies. Credit to DALL-E. Prompts by Rick Botelho, MD
I love the lyrics. They are true and profound. I love the music. It's elegant and relaxing. However, the aesthetics of the two together leaves much to be desired. It comes across as New Age blather, when it is really the opposite. More artistry is needed. I would suggest collaborating with musicians from multiple cultures around the world to reinterpret this music for wider audiences.
You have asked all the right questions. When I reflect on them, I think that there we should create an archipelago of little islands that provide a space for generative dialogue, deep learning, are systems thinking for social change over the long run. Some island might address one wicked problem (e.g., climate change) while others would focus on something different (e.g., health inequities and social injustice). The point is that they all would cultivate a new way of being, a new consciousness that facilitates intergenerational deep learning and understanding.
Just Ken