By David Korten | Website
The Power of Conversation
Getting out of our current mess begins with a conversation to change
the shared cultural story about our essential nature. The women’s
movement offers an instructive lesson. In little more than a decade, a few courageous women changed the
cultural story that the key to a woman’s happiness is to find the right
man, marry him, and devote her life to his service. As Cecile Andrews,
author of Circles of Simplicity, relates, the transition to a
new gender story began with discussion circles in which women came
together in their living rooms to share their stories. Until then, a
woman whose experience failed to conform to the prevailing story
assumed that the problem was a deficiency in herself. As women shared
their own stories each realized that the flaw was in the story.
Millions of women were soon spreading a new gender story that has
unleashed the feminine as a powerful force for global transformation.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at The Great Turning
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By Eliezer Sobel | Website
There is much talk on Serene Ambition and
elsewhere about altering one’s perspective and internal conversation
about aging so as to “create a future to live into” that infuses the
present with passion and energy, as distinct from the dreary
resignation of merely playing out the repetitive and predictable habits
and tendencies generated by the past. And yet, while this sounds
good in theory, what of the physical limitations imposed by age? [ Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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By David Korten | Great Turning website
Read more posts in The World We Want series.
How does it happen? It starts with a conversation. A while back, Cecile Andrews, our local Seattle author of The Circle of Simplicity,
explained to me how the women’s movement changed the story on gender
and unleashed the long suppressed power of the feminine. It started
with discussion circles in which women came together to share personal
stories. As each woman spoke her truth, a larger truth was revealed for
all to see. The prevailing story that the key to a woman’s happiness is
to find the right man, marry him, and devote her life to his service
was not true.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at The Great Turning
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By David Korten | Great Turning website
Read more posts in The World We Want series.
Wouldn’t
it be nice if it turned out the choices we must make together to
survive together are the same choices we must make to create the very
world most of all the world’s people want? If that were case, then we
should be able to just get together and make it happen. Wouldn’t that
be cool? Maybe we should start a conversation to find out what people
truly want…[ Read More]
Written by eldering at The Great Turning
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