To #LeadWithLove, truth-seeking and the pursuit of equity: why ask meta-view questions about an equitable, regenerative and sustainable future?

Read part 1 intro: why use the virtuous trifecta to launch #EquityMoonshot?

Read part 2 intro: how do cults subvert the virtuous trifecta?

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Learn how to become #EquityMuses together.?Ask meta-view questions (MVQs) about how to co-design an equitable, regenerative & sustainable future.

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What is the purpose of the virtuous trifecta?

The 4-part poem series, To #LeadWithLove, truth-seeking and the pursuit of equity, explores the meaning, credibility and integrity of this virtuous trifecta. This virtuous (We) proposition is a higher call-to-service than the individualistic ("i") value proposition: to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The expansion beyond value propositions to a meta-virtuous proposition across the political, private and public sectors calls for healing our dysfunctional leadership and educational paradigms so that we can open and align our mindsets to co-design an #ERSF.

• How do we navigate through the polarities between social virtues and individual values to solve the complex web of self-inflicted wicked problems in the 21st century?

The purpose of these poems is to initiate generative dialogues about how we can ethically co-create ongoing learning networks, communities and organizations to launch #EquityMoonshot.

How do equity muses use catalytic equity innovations?

These poems are catalytic innovations for cultivating higher levels of human consciousness based on Love and truth-seeking with the mission of advancing our civilization based on the pursuit of equity.

Equity muses unite together to inspire and fulfill the promise and purpose of #EquityMoonshot. They use catalytic innovations to initiate lifelong learning journeys on how we can prepare to respond more effectively the rationale of asking meta-view questions (in bold below) in communion with others.

Equity muses call on people to stop enabling and supporting dysfunctional leadership paradigms across the political, private and public sectors. We need intergenerational and intra-generation movements of people to ask meta-view questions (MVQs) and Big Hairy Audacious Questions (#BHAQs) about how we can co-elevate distributive co-leadership and co-mentoring platforms needed to co-design a thriving #ERSF.

Equity muses challenge dysfunctional leadership mindsets by asking evocative questions from the credibility of the up-position: the bold humility of "not knowing", the anti-dote to dysfunctional leadership models built on the expert trap.

Equity muses take the neutral stance of equanimity in exploring mindsets. They do not try to change people's mindset by the abuse of their authority influence. They strive for impartiality and enable people to change their own mindsets by asking evocative questions within collaborative learning communities, organizations and networks. They enable people on their lifelong learning journeys: how to become open-minded, truth-seeking, free-thinkers in communion with others, and not cult followers with blind unconditional loyalty cocooned within political bubbles.

What are meta-view questions?

Meta-view questions explore our intra-personal, inter-personal and systemic perspectives and understandings. These questions invite people to learn how to adopt open-minded meta-positions of one's higher Self to observe and understand the closed-minded ego state of one's lower self. This self-reflective learning process involves becoming aware of how one's virtues, values, beliefs, prejudices, biases, assumptions and perspectives shape our mindsets, behaviors and our relationship to others with different mindsets.

• How can we explore and open closed mindsets that prevent us from co-designing an equitable, regenerative and sustainable future (#ERSF) for the greater good of all?
• Is there another question more important than this? And if so, what is it?

Why do we need an open-minded, ecological approach?

Meta-view questions call for taking an ecological approach: using meta, cultural, systemic, global, national, community, organizational, inter-personal and intra-personal views to address the complex web of wicked mega-problems in 21st century.

These poems expose how our closed mindsets are controlled by the shadow, "backstage" meta-views of the elite co-designers who developed our culture and systems that occurred before us. We are born free, but our mindsets become involuntarily shaped by our cultural and family systems. Our mindsets are a product of our socialization process. We delude ourselves into thinking that we are free, but our mindsets control us, but without our full awareness.

What is meta-cognition?

The aim of this poem series is to evoke meta-thinking, so that we become more aware of how to liberate ourselves from the constrains of our ego-centric mindsets and collective thinking with our programmed talking points.

How can we co-design learning platforms of lifelong learning to:

• Become more aware of our blind spots, prejudices, biases, erroneous belief systems, faulty groupthink and blind loyalties that limit our abilities to become open-minded, truth-seeking, free-thinkers?
• Engage in generative dialogues that bring people alive with creativity, positive emotions, insightful perspectives and new ways of thinking and acting?
• Unleash the vast blue oceans of untapped human and social capital potential to co-create catalytic innovations needed to exponentiate human flourishing for a thriving future?

Our journey back to beginner's mind is the path to liberation. Fear and the fear of being vulnerable keep us stuck with closed-mindedness: the inability to self-reflect, question oneself and become more self-aware one's mindset and mindfulness. The courage to be vulnerable and overcome fear and self-deception enables this self-awareness journey of exploring and opening our mindsets.

Of all the perspectives, we need to cultivate and co-create a virtuous meta-view for leading the way forward to generate the self-awareness and mindful synergies needed across all levels of the system.

Why do we have a global leadership crisis of incompetence?

The virtuous meta-view is the systemic guiding light for the long game of redressing our global and national leadership crises of incompetence across and within the three sectors: political, private and public. Of these three sectors, the public sector is the weakness link. It is up against the corrupt power of the political sector enabled the corporate hegemony and hubris of the private sector. The corporate hegemony of greed, extraction, linear economies and hyper-consumerism is our immoral spirituality with misguided values that causes and exacerbates our wicked web of self-inflicted mega-problems in the 21st century. The private sector colludes with the political sector to subvert the interest of we, the people in public civic sectors.

And yet, the public sector has been the most fertile ground for cultivating the most effective humanitarian leadership for equity, equality and social justice. Philosophy, education, religion and spirituality have been the fertilizers for cultivating a garden of virtues for advancing the development of our humanity and civilization. Regrettably, these public sector leaders have failed to develop succession plans and learning platforms across the three sectors needed to accelerate human flourishing for the greater good of all and for the health of our planet.

In short, we have a global leadership crisis of incompetence across all three sectors. Leaders across these sectors are not collaborating together to serve, we the people, and the virtuous trifecta: to lead with Love, truth-seeking and the pursuit of equity.

We have declining democracies and escalating inequities. Within these dysfunctional systems, corrupt politicians exploit fear, paranoia, divisiveness and factious conspiracies as effective authoritarian strategies to create distracting noise, chaos and distrust in ways that maintain power, influence and control of the 0.1% ruling elites over the rest of people.

How do the elites exploit power to serve themselves?

These elites exploit the reductionist strategy of "divide and conquer" to rig the rules of the inequity game, without stakeholder representation, overwhelmingly in their own favor. This strategy is designed to exacerbate inequities but also to maintain the status quo and sustain the transactional, "command and control" work machines that manufacture employee presentism and professional burnout in the healthcare, education and social sectors.

• How can we transform our defunct political, religious and social leader-follower-ship paradigms, particularly those with blind unconditional loyalties, to redress the politics that perpetuate inequities and impair our capabilities to solve our 21st century mega-problems?

Why is the hero's story and journey broken?

Individual sages-on-the-stage cannot save us. In particular, many sage saviors attract adorning and loyal followers with their implicit and explicit rules. They often fail to cultivate open-minded, truth-seeking free thinkers who challenge their version of wisdom. They reward the loyalists and marginalizes the challengers. Paradoxically, self-protective sages constrain the personal and professional development of their followers. They cherish their chosen authority position of power, control and influence over the open growth of their overall community.

The 3-act hero's story and journey of the individual savior with the challenges of the protagonist and the defeat of antagonist (enemy) is broken. In addressing our 21st century mega-problems, the third act of this endeavor never ends.

The first act of the new story is about intra-personal mindfulness: the outside-in journey of discovering that the protagonist and the antagonist is within us all. We all have the enemy within us, to varying degrees.

The second act is about the inner mindset battle between the virtues of our higher consciousness and the flaws of our self-centered egos. The transition to next act occurs when our virtues triumph over our flaws.

The third act is the inside-out, never-ending journey of the heroic distributive leadership movement: the wisdom age of equity governance and consilience cultivating the inter-personal and systemic mindfulness needed to solve the ever-evolving web of wicked problems much more effectively.

How can we use meta-view questions to address the leadership crisis?

Without Love and truth-seeking to co-create a new ongoing narrative about how to build a thriving future for us all, we remain divided with mal-aligned mindsets incapable of solving our self-inflicted wicked problems. Our leaders and our systems have failed us in creating a lifelong learning curriculum for an #ERSF.

These leadership crises and educational failures call for cultivating an inter-generational wisdom collaborative to co-design a thriving future on an ongoing basis. This learning process involves exponentiating our anti-fragile capabilities and capacities that expand beyond and build on resilience.

The purpose of these poems is to evoke ongoing generative dialogues about how can we address the meta-view questions (listed below) to advance the civil development of our civilizations.

How can we cultivate the intra-personal, interpersonal and systemic mindfulness synergistically needed to align our mindsets to:

• Co-create fair opportunities for everyone to become open-minded, truth-seeking free-thinkers?
• Co-elevate our love/Love literacy by engaging in generative dialogues about the meaning of love and the purpose of Love?
• Co-sustain an ongoing story movement about what is unfairness so that we can re-dress inequities?
• Co-seek truth to build trust, conquer fear and speak truth to power so that we can cultivate civility, integrity and just systems of transparent accountability?
• Co-elevate a virtues proposition (such as the trifecta of this poem series) to guide value propositions across all three sectors (political, private and public) needed to solve our 21st century mega-problems?
• Co-design long game learning platforms to co-design and build for an #ERSF?
• Co-develop anti-cult cultures of distributive leadership networks to strive toward an #ERSF?
• De-construct the systemic dark sides of megalomania, narcissism, and sociopathy that subvert the virtuous pursuit of an #ERSF?

These poems aim to evoke deep candid self-reflections for setting up generative dialogues, healing opportunities and growth experiences within ongoing learning organizations, communities and networks. We can only save ourselves. To do this, we need guides-on-the-sides and guides-on-the-stage with sages-on-the-sides.

• Are you open to challenging your mindset and exploring your priorities in values and virtues in communion with others, without emotional reactivity?

Your meaning-making and sense-making processes of responding to these poems are far more important than the wording of these poems. May your exploration and participation in generative dialogues inspire you to write your own poems and blogs for sharing and discussing in communion with others.

What we needed is a movement of equity muses who inspire a new paradigm of global leadership that raises the ethical standards of governance and distributive leadership networks using the trifecta of virtuous co-attractors for large-scale transformations and tri-polarity stewardship to move beyond dysfunctional polarizations and navigate through polarities.

Poem series: To lead with Love, truth-seeking and the pursuit of equity

Enjoy some slow thinking when you have the time and engage in community dialogues. Subsequent Clubhouse sessions will explore these theme of these poems.

1. Explore dimensions and boundaries: This poem is about how to enhance our Love literacy needed to seek truth and build the middle ground. The middle ground is the sacred place that prevents our different priorities in our virtues and values from tearing us apart with self-righteous closed-mindedness, biases, prejudices, the propaganda machines of disinformation and dysfunctional political polarizations.
2. Explore values and virtues: This poem addresses why we need an overall virtues proposition to guide our value propositions across the political, private and public sector.
3. Ask Big Hairy Audacious Questions: This poem explores how we can use #BHAQs to inspire and exponentiate large-scale transformations at intra-personal, inter-personal and systemic levels.
4. Respond with equanimity: This poem explores how leaders can use the equanimity of equity governance, tri-polarity stewardship and the virtuous trifecta to navigate beyond dysfunctional polarizations arising from the regressive fundamentalism and through the challenges of polarity management: such as, between right-wing and left-wing politics and between liberal and conservative mindsets.