I’m just gonna be honest with you.
I’m interested in changing paradigms.
Our planet is being destroyed, cultures and habitats and animals and ecosystems are disappearing, people are starving and suffering, and our public life is governed by racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist institutions that were literally created to oppress vulnerable people.
I loathe this current paradigm.
I also believe, with all my heart, that the only way paradigms change is because people change them.
And that people are, AT THIS VERY MOMENT, changing them.
And that I have my little part to do.
What is my little part? Well, I am a good writer, and an excellent coach, and I have a littttttle soapbox, and a litttttle microphone, and a point of view.
Megan Goering Mellin shared with me a wonderful essay by Donella Meadows, a pioneering environmental scientist. It’s called “Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System.”
In it, Donella talks about how you change paradigms.
She lists four ways to do it.
- “You keep pointing at the anomalies and failures in the OLD paradigm.”
- “You keep speaking louder and with assurance from the NEW one.”
- “You insert people with the new paradigm in places of public visibility and power.”
- “You don’t waste time with reactionaries; rather you work with active change agents and with the vast middle ground of people who are open-minded.”
So, on the one hand, when I write a blog/FB post, I’m drumming up clients for my coaching business. That’s fun and necessary!
And also, when I write a blog/FB post, I’m practicing.
- I’m practicing pointing out failures in the old paradigm.
- Speaking louder and with assurance from the new one.
- Putting myself in a place of public visibility, on my tiny little soapbox.
- And not giving a sh!t about the people who disagree with me, instead staying focussed on the people who are open to receiving what I have to say.
That’s what I’m doing here.
Thanks for reading!
Love,
Emma