Encouraging Transformative Solutions: 2024 Equity Pledge Challenge

 

By Kim Harris, M.Ed.

Distinctive Voice Consulting

www.DistinctiveVoiceConsulting.com

 

With the onset of a new year, I enter cautiously with love, wishing for world peace and goodwill to all. I know it is a tall wish and at times I confess that I feel hopeless for the state of humanity. With war raging in the middle east and eastern Europe, with 2024 being an election year in the United States, and with mass immigration taking place globally where people are fleeing violence in their home country and seeking asylum in safer countries, society has much to be concerned about. What can one person do about such global issues? These issues are very complex and take a village of minds to solve. But one must wonder, what is in the heart of the people tasked with solving these matters? Do these leaders have a heart for human rights and equity?

 

As many of you may or may not know, I am an alumna of U.C. Berkeley which in 2012 initiated an institute to study and produce research about policy and “remediate the processes of exclusion, marginalization, and structural inequality—what we call othering—in order to build a world based on inclusion, fairness, justice, and care for the earth—what we call belonging.”

 

The Othering & Belonging Institute recently published a 7-minute video which opens a conversation around safety, what it means, and the need for a society to transform from an old paradigm of hierarchy, to reimagining a society of equity where “excess and scarcity balance to sustain everyone,” and where “vibrant communities coexist with mutual respect.”

 

I offer this video to you to inspire you to work to create transformative solutions within your sphere of influence and to reimagine a world where equity and inclusion is centered.

 

Rethinking National Security: How To Tell A New Story In Which Everyone Belongs by the U.C. Berkeley Othering & Belonging Institute: here

I would love to hear if this video inspired you to do something different and I challenge you to make a pledge to change something in your sphere of influence in 2024.

 

To learn more about the Distinctive Voice Consulting Mission and training philosophy, visit: here or email any questions and your 2024 equity pledge to: DistinctiveVoiceConsulting@gmail.com

 

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