today is a wonderful event we’re talking
about the future now if you were to take
a moment and just imagine that future
what would that world look like to you
would every adult and child have enough
food to eat whether it be a world that
is free from poverty with their equity
and equality between women and men from
all walks of life have you been holding
on to that right bold mutable vision of
the future is incredibly important it’s
profound it’s also only the first step
in the journey isn’t it there’s still a
little matter of figuring out exactly
how are we going to get there one of the
things that’s going to be very important
for us to have on our radar as we’re
trying to navigate our way to the future
it’s just how potent assumptions are in
shaping exactly how we engage with
challenges and in shaping your outcomes
of those challenges and finally by the
surf spending the nature of the
situation or understanding the rules of
the game and I can give a little story
to illustrate that from when I was alone
and I was lucky enough to have a brother
and sister older than I
and they let me hang out with them when
they’re older give your friends and
there’s to run around and play all the
sorts of things and one day we were
playing a game in which one person would
hide and everybody would see and if you
found the person who would join them and
then if somebody else found you they
would join you and eventually you’re all
together and in this occasion I started
searching for them I instantly realized
there’s probably one best hiding place
and it was even written up high it was
too high for me because quite frankly I
was going this route and so I went to an
older girl and they said I have an idea
and you have that let’s team up and off
we went and she opened the shed and said
sorry kid no luck but she went one way
and I went the other I kept searching
and searching in about 30 minutes later
and realized I was alone and they
figured out what had happened and they
served back to the woodsman it dragged
something over and I climbed up there
look him in there they run the girl I’m
getting to look two dozen super creepy
spiders and the importantly governor the
assumption is stories the nature is some
key and that is that it was a zero-sum
game assumption a zero-sum game refers
to a situation in which in order for one
person to win the other person has to
lose like a teeter totter for one side
didn’t work the other side has to go
down now what kind of assumptions very
useful in all sorts of situations from
chess and checkers to if you are heading
off to the southeast
games and you wanted to win the question
is the very useful is that kind of
assumption in the case of getting us to
the future that we want in very specific
terms how useful is that kind of
assumption in terms of equity and
equality in getting to that future – not
because that’s that’s a question it’s an
assumption I encountered quite a lot in
my work in research for development
research development it’s really just a
fancy way of saying a lot of people who
are very committed to finding pathways
to that future the way they encounter
this is subkey you can kind of break it
down into two main questions and the
first one is it’s a question of okay we
have all these pressing challenges in
the world and some of them are quite
concrete like poverty and not enough
food
shouldn’t we be prioritizing these
concrete ones doing those first before
we spend our limited time and resources
on pursuing equity inequality that’s one
of the big questions I encounter the
other one is one that probably said the
other hates women people think more
often than they say it so I was actually
quite pleased when it gentleman actually
sang and it works out the only day he
saw so much Super’s when he said it he
said ok I know in developing countries
women and women farmers they have far
fewer resources they have less
– in patrol over technologies
information they have lower wages they
have to do more unpaid work they have
another child care and they listed a lot
list of things that he understood and he
said of all these reasons this means the
equity and equality there could be a
really nice thing for women aren’t they
and then he said this was the sheepish
parade he said yes but the pin what
about the poor men so let’s look at
those two questions starting with the
first women in the question of putting
the colony in relation to food security
the backdrop of course is that we still
have a lot of people with only enough
nutritional food in the world but 800
million is estimated at present that’s
especially true for developing countries
and there’s that that Easter’s been
compounded because that’s where the
population growth is fastest so we need
food production to keep pace with that
but there is a challenge there are men
farmers women farmers and meanwhile
women farmers are able to produce less
than men farmers why the Rhine has to do
with what the gentleman was referring to
women farmers have less access to all
the things they need to grow the same
amount of food things like good for you
could see good fertilizer information
training all of these things so what
looks like a food production problem
person has a lot to do with an
inequality problem now world economy is
limited
people in excess as males farmers what
do you think will happen
lucky for us the Food and Agriculture
Organization viewing his exit crunched
numbers and what they came up with was
if we were the men farmers in the same
access equal access if we production
would go on and up to the tune of 100
250 million more people having access to
food that’s equivalent of for Malaysia’s
going from not having enough to have
enough to play extraordinary it’s quite
profound shift for just making things
deploy this this relationship this
amplified of food outcomes is something
that also seen on the ground at work
that I’ve been doing with her with
wonderful rumensin rivers in Bangladesh
for example where there are significant
food challenges including that the
little ones the kids undersigned about
half of them suffer from the study so
they cannot grow to their full physical
or mental potential it shouldn’t be
talking about the future
the longer present so in this context
we’ve been working in the area of
helping poor farmers get more fish and
strengthen their backyard pond systems
and one of our entry points is by
working to get women more access to and
control over these pots
oh geez and we’ve been working with
women and men together to say okay are
there issues they’re about to or there
are social in nutrition or incomes for
your families as well north of course
doing this we found something really
interesting over time through the
section research women started to not
have to wait for their husbands to come
home and catch fish for them they
stopped over to wait for permission to
catch fish we were able to catch fish
more regularly and catch more fish they
also started how our decision-making
power which became very important
because now that they were able to
control an outlet to these fish and in
this case they were able to make sure
that their children these little ones
who eat them need this nutrition the
most they were in to make sure they got
this yes it is this wonderful little
fish number one story they have only
tiny soft bones you can make them into
delicious fish escapes and studies and
the impacts such a punch in terms of
nutrition so their game in giving these
kids a defense against these nutrition
related diseases
this is coming about through 16 gender
equality very interesting it received
during the same question over to poverty
what I see in the world is there an
alarming remains and communication is
getting better but there’s still about
one in ten people who centre of extreme
poverty at the same time the issue of
gender and gender equality remains a
pressing pressing issue it is debated it
it’s high manatee
to get to a situation of economic
equality between women and men it’s
estimated at about 100 and 17th years is
a long time
this next date okay we’ll wait for our
children’s children’s children’s
children’s children’s children’s
children okay that’s such a long time
but what does that mean in terms of
zero-sum we approach it that way than
it’s just we have to choose between
poverty reduction and solving the
technical issues
the good news is there’s all sorts of
research now that says don’t choose
groups like the World Bank of the IMF
have looked at it and said that
increasing equality is leading to
stronger economies from national to
global levels this is also something
I’ve seen in countries like Egypt where
for example women the fish retailers we
they get very poor prices for what
they’re trying to sell because of gender
related issues like harassment in the
marketplace when there was issues are
reduced they’re able to get better
prices translates right over into
poverty reduction very interesting for
this also has going for at this synergy
between equity and equality is that
there are other potential spin-off
effect and there’s a story from Nepal
that helps show those my connection to
the story started when they started
working on community forests at a time
when the Government of Nepal had handed
over the right to protective meters the
forest of communities and from all the
world a little bit a zero-sum game the
forest will be protected they were
winning but
and on the most women and the poor in
particular have needed firewood to cook
who needed to collect firewood to sell
for example when they have no other
options they were largely excluded even
if we look just at the people it looked
like a zero-sum need when lose because
the more powerful people the community
the wealthier men from the higher size
groups they were maintaining their onyx
ala dating that position of power by
being part of the committee is getting
the benefits whatever came out of the
committee’s there’s marginalized folks
they were not getting those benefits
that access issue was a big part of that
lose for them what we just talked about
but there was another part as well one
woman said I have to collect wood but
now if I try to write us a paper I try
to go into the forest people call me a
forest destroyer they chased me from
meetings and she described it in terms
of fearing such shame now what we did in
less reason some terrific researchers
there girl together and we started
working through this action research
process looking at ok these communities
would it be interesting avenues to them
if it
a collaborative approach to this ability
to process focusing on Emily and so we
worked with them in our anticipatory
monitoring and visioning and learning by
Jillian tips are really exciting a few
years but we saw a change was very
revealing because first decision-making
changed women in the poor started
getting on committees and they started
being able to voice their interests and
their concerns sometimes they argued
would have been more open and not the
arguments got solved because the whole
system was tinted towards a more
equitable inclusive system at the same
time because who made decisions with you
when we saw mrs. the plants infection
started to teach for example we’re
collecting fire may have been burned now
there’s a bit particular area but also
kind of a flexible use area for the
families that really had no other
options at the same time the forest
groups started to develop other options
like raising small livestock to sale so
people did have alternatives they could
start giving subsidies to poor families
for example free timber of certain
portions so that people could reinforce
their houses so we wouldn’t be blown
down by storms and they didn’t have to
go and steal from the forest to get the
wood to do that and what this meant
for a few years worshiped that when that
really spoke to this question of zero
Sun because what we saw was the forest
was still winning it was still very well
protected in fact more people got more
excited from a part of protectiveness
there were more volunteers patrolling
for free to keep Outsiders from stealing
from the forest there were more people
getting involved in activities like
replanting there are slopes so that the
soil wouldn’t run away so you know
landslides which would also help protect
the watershed more people got involved
the committee had more success doing
what it was trying to do but on the
other side the income of the poor and
women in particular started to grow and
the employment through the florists
ropes and the small loans to the for US
troops and what’s the process was that
it wasn’t growing because there was just
a redistribution verisure was growing
also because the pie was growing
everybody in the community started to
see those same benefits of income of
loans of employment so there is this
momentum through equity and equality we
saw the community getting stronger and
hardly reducing the very earth when we
talk to people who know about so what’s
your what’s a big takeaway from this win
or lose what do you think
and we were surprised when women in the
poor spoke of how much it was awaiting
for them we were really interested to
hear the folks that look like they were
waiting at the pope set and we thought
it only is everliving lost power and
what
kind wasn’t exactly them I wasn’t would
not only because the primers bigger in
the flesh was protected but also because
they don’t feel that they were part of a
community that has so much less conflict
they were part of a community that was
proud of what it was accomplishing and
that before they had authority but now
they have a respect and that meant quite
a big deal to them so not so much
zero-sum onofre neither for what if we
turn to that second question the
question about gentlemen asked about a
little of the men if there’s only so
polity will happen the outcomes that
we’ve already seen they they clearly
speak to that in the sense that well
food security and poverty reduction and
even protecting forests or the
communities that are strong those are
benefits for women they have demand
everything but we can answer that
question in another way as well many
perspectives for men themselves men who
have made transitions from less equal
and equitable relationships and
situations to much more so I can share
some examples from Zambia for example
where we do some work with small-scale
fishing communities and something to
know what’s not me is that in that
context there are expectations about how
men should be how they should behave not
to be seen in every single country in
this case
my particular context there’s a an
expectation that mean they should be a
strong decision maker of the household
they should be independent in the sense
because they earn an income that’s for
them and they can spend it on what they
want there’s a strong expectation that
they should not be the caregivers of
their children that’s women’s work so
when we first learn about what did they
think of having made the transition
through various processes and over
various links of various reasons they
came up with some really insightful
answers and across the board they talked
about the reasons why it was good for
them not even talked about why human
continues to it in the face of other men
pushing him to backslide and one news I
wanted to share was was one of the money
related that Norma bone caregiving and
he said how they shifted I didn’t ever
see myself as a man who is able to be
the most to mention aluminum and matter
he was a winner there was another
gentleman who to the highly pragmatic
approach to us is decision making and on
larita’s directly they said I wouldn’t
don’t lose his not only words hearings
highly pragmatic going from my rational
decision-making role to one that’s
shared he saw is very good because he
said if men always think there are the
leaders of the home they will stress
themselves and die early
there are gentlemen
fella by the name of Justin he really
spoke about the combination of things in
part of our sessions to decision-making
and I was very important to him because
he saw that she had this way had been
operating very much separately and now
addition he saw them as a team he talked
about their mutual respect and he talked
about harmony in the house and that was
good for them and all their children and
one of them she talked about he saw it
having benefits in terms of where they
were headed and they thought they were
headed out of poverty and he said things
like we’re on the way because we’re
working together we’re going to be able
to replace my last trip with a real iron
roof that will protect us well and for
him he described we keep going in this
equitable rangas way of cooperation use
it and you don’t box mine we will move
to a higher level so in this long
journey from the wood 7 through a couple
of decades of research and development
I had a chance to reflect on zero some
of us over time
there’s a lot that I wanted to share the
modest that it seems to me that whether
we are working and developmental
volunteering and development or whether
we are trying to bring around the future
that we want through who we are and what
we do and our families who we are and
what we do in our schools in our
communities it seems to me that it is
very much worth it to surface and to
question the assumptions that are all
around us and that the assumptions that
guide what we do and how to approach
these big challenges when we arrive that
thought to zero so miss and we think
about equity and equality and getting to
a future all the signals are there that
it’s time to move beyond thinking in
terms of zero-sum doing so moving beyond
zero some will give us an opportunity
and that opportunity is opposed probably
a future creation process that is not
about one group any group of men women
any group needed to lose so that another
group can win it’s an opportunity to
make getting to the future you want a
learning process in which we are seeking
out and are choosing the pathways and
possibilities you literally can all win
together
you
about the future now if you were to take
a moment and just imagine that future
what would that world look like to you
would every adult and child have enough
food to eat whether it be a world that
is free from poverty with their equity
and equality between women and men from
all walks of life have you been holding
on to that right bold mutable vision of
the future is incredibly important it’s
profound it’s also only the first step
in the journey isn’t it there’s still a
little matter of figuring out exactly
how are we going to get there one of the
things that’s going to be very important
for us to have on our radar as we’re
trying to navigate our way to the future
it’s just how potent assumptions are in
shaping exactly how we engage with
challenges and in shaping your outcomes
of those challenges and finally by the
surf spending the nature of the
situation or understanding the rules of
the game and I can give a little story
to illustrate that from when I was alone
and I was lucky enough to have a brother
and sister older than I
and they let me hang out with them when
they’re older give your friends and
there’s to run around and play all the
sorts of things and one day we were
playing a game in which one person would
hide and everybody would see and if you
found the person who would join them and
then if somebody else found you they
would join you and eventually you’re all
together and in this occasion I started
searching for them I instantly realized
there’s probably one best hiding place
and it was even written up high it was
too high for me because quite frankly I
was going this route and so I went to an
older girl and they said I have an idea
and you have that let’s team up and off
we went and she opened the shed and said
sorry kid no luck but she went one way
and I went the other I kept searching
and searching in about 30 minutes later
and realized I was alone and they
figured out what had happened and they
served back to the woodsman it dragged
something over and I climbed up there
look him in there they run the girl I’m
getting to look two dozen super creepy
spiders and the importantly governor the
assumption is stories the nature is some
key and that is that it was a zero-sum
game assumption a zero-sum game refers
to a situation in which in order for one
person to win the other person has to
lose like a teeter totter for one side
didn’t work the other side has to go
down now what kind of assumptions very
useful in all sorts of situations from
chess and checkers to if you are heading
off to the southeast
games and you wanted to win the question
is the very useful is that kind of
assumption in the case of getting us to
the future that we want in very specific
terms how useful is that kind of
assumption in terms of equity and
equality in getting to that future – not
because that’s that’s a question it’s an
assumption I encountered quite a lot in
my work in research for development
research development it’s really just a
fancy way of saying a lot of people who
are very committed to finding pathways
to that future the way they encounter
this is subkey you can kind of break it
down into two main questions and the
first one is it’s a question of okay we
have all these pressing challenges in
the world and some of them are quite
concrete like poverty and not enough
food
shouldn’t we be prioritizing these
concrete ones doing those first before
we spend our limited time and resources
on pursuing equity inequality that’s one
of the big questions I encounter the
other one is one that probably said the
other hates women people think more
often than they say it so I was actually
quite pleased when it gentleman actually
sang and it works out the only day he
saw so much Super’s when he said it he
said ok I know in developing countries
women and women farmers they have far
fewer resources they have less
– in patrol over technologies
information they have lower wages they
have to do more unpaid work they have
another child care and they listed a lot
list of things that he understood and he
said of all these reasons this means the
equity and equality there could be a
really nice thing for women aren’t they
and then he said this was the sheepish
parade he said yes but the pin what
about the poor men so let’s look at
those two questions starting with the
first women in the question of putting
the colony in relation to food security
the backdrop of course is that we still
have a lot of people with only enough
nutritional food in the world but 800
million is estimated at present that’s
especially true for developing countries
and there’s that that Easter’s been
compounded because that’s where the
population growth is fastest so we need
food production to keep pace with that
but there is a challenge there are men
farmers women farmers and meanwhile
women farmers are able to produce less
than men farmers why the Rhine has to do
with what the gentleman was referring to
women farmers have less access to all
the things they need to grow the same
amount of food things like good for you
could see good fertilizer information
training all of these things so what
looks like a food production problem
person has a lot to do with an
inequality problem now world economy is
limited
people in excess as males farmers what
do you think will happen
lucky for us the Food and Agriculture
Organization viewing his exit crunched
numbers and what they came up with was
if we were the men farmers in the same
access equal access if we production
would go on and up to the tune of 100
250 million more people having access to
food that’s equivalent of for Malaysia’s
going from not having enough to have
enough to play extraordinary it’s quite
profound shift for just making things
deploy this this relationship this
amplified of food outcomes is something
that also seen on the ground at work
that I’ve been doing with her with
wonderful rumensin rivers in Bangladesh
for example where there are significant
food challenges including that the
little ones the kids undersigned about
half of them suffer from the study so
they cannot grow to their full physical
or mental potential it shouldn’t be
talking about the future
the longer present so in this context
we’ve been working in the area of
helping poor farmers get more fish and
strengthen their backyard pond systems
and one of our entry points is by
working to get women more access to and
control over these pots
oh geez and we’ve been working with
women and men together to say okay are
there issues they’re about to or there
are social in nutrition or incomes for
your families as well north of course
doing this we found something really
interesting over time through the
section research women started to not
have to wait for their husbands to come
home and catch fish for them they
stopped over to wait for permission to
catch fish we were able to catch fish
more regularly and catch more fish they
also started how our decision-making
power which became very important
because now that they were able to
control an outlet to these fish and in
this case they were able to make sure
that their children these little ones
who eat them need this nutrition the
most they were in to make sure they got
this yes it is this wonderful little
fish number one story they have only
tiny soft bones you can make them into
delicious fish escapes and studies and
the impacts such a punch in terms of
nutrition so their game in giving these
kids a defense against these nutrition
related diseases
this is coming about through 16 gender
equality very interesting it received
during the same question over to poverty
what I see in the world is there an
alarming remains and communication is
getting better but there’s still about
one in ten people who centre of extreme
poverty at the same time the issue of
gender and gender equality remains a
pressing pressing issue it is debated it
it’s high manatee
to get to a situation of economic
equality between women and men it’s
estimated at about 100 and 17th years is
a long time
this next date okay we’ll wait for our
children’s children’s children’s
children’s children’s children’s
children okay that’s such a long time
but what does that mean in terms of
zero-sum we approach it that way than
it’s just we have to choose between
poverty reduction and solving the
technical issues
the good news is there’s all sorts of
research now that says don’t choose
groups like the World Bank of the IMF
have looked at it and said that
increasing equality is leading to
stronger economies from national to
global levels this is also something
I’ve seen in countries like Egypt where
for example women the fish retailers we
they get very poor prices for what
they’re trying to sell because of gender
related issues like harassment in the
marketplace when there was issues are
reduced they’re able to get better
prices translates right over into
poverty reduction very interesting for
this also has going for at this synergy
between equity and equality is that
there are other potential spin-off
effect and there’s a story from Nepal
that helps show those my connection to
the story started when they started
working on community forests at a time
when the Government of Nepal had handed
over the right to protective meters the
forest of communities and from all the
world a little bit a zero-sum game the
forest will be protected they were
winning but
and on the most women and the poor in
particular have needed firewood to cook
who needed to collect firewood to sell
for example when they have no other
options they were largely excluded even
if we look just at the people it looked
like a zero-sum need when lose because
the more powerful people the community
the wealthier men from the higher size
groups they were maintaining their onyx
ala dating that position of power by
being part of the committee is getting
the benefits whatever came out of the
committee’s there’s marginalized folks
they were not getting those benefits
that access issue was a big part of that
lose for them what we just talked about
but there was another part as well one
woman said I have to collect wood but
now if I try to write us a paper I try
to go into the forest people call me a
forest destroyer they chased me from
meetings and she described it in terms
of fearing such shame now what we did in
less reason some terrific researchers
there girl together and we started
working through this action research
process looking at ok these communities
would it be interesting avenues to them
if it
a collaborative approach to this ability
to process focusing on Emily and so we
worked with them in our anticipatory
monitoring and visioning and learning by
Jillian tips are really exciting a few
years but we saw a change was very
revealing because first decision-making
changed women in the poor started
getting on committees and they started
being able to voice their interests and
their concerns sometimes they argued
would have been more open and not the
arguments got solved because the whole
system was tinted towards a more
equitable inclusive system at the same
time because who made decisions with you
when we saw mrs. the plants infection
started to teach for example we’re
collecting fire may have been burned now
there’s a bit particular area but also
kind of a flexible use area for the
families that really had no other
options at the same time the forest
groups started to develop other options
like raising small livestock to sale so
people did have alternatives they could
start giving subsidies to poor families
for example free timber of certain
portions so that people could reinforce
their houses so we wouldn’t be blown
down by storms and they didn’t have to
go and steal from the forest to get the
wood to do that and what this meant
for a few years worshiped that when that
really spoke to this question of zero
Sun because what we saw was the forest
was still winning it was still very well
protected in fact more people got more
excited from a part of protectiveness
there were more volunteers patrolling
for free to keep Outsiders from stealing
from the forest there were more people
getting involved in activities like
replanting there are slopes so that the
soil wouldn’t run away so you know
landslides which would also help protect
the watershed more people got involved
the committee had more success doing
what it was trying to do but on the
other side the income of the poor and
women in particular started to grow and
the employment through the florists
ropes and the small loans to the for US
troops and what’s the process was that
it wasn’t growing because there was just
a redistribution verisure was growing
also because the pie was growing
everybody in the community started to
see those same benefits of income of
loans of employment so there is this
momentum through equity and equality we
saw the community getting stronger and
hardly reducing the very earth when we
talk to people who know about so what’s
your what’s a big takeaway from this win
or lose what do you think
and we were surprised when women in the
poor spoke of how much it was awaiting
for them we were really interested to
hear the folks that look like they were
waiting at the pope set and we thought
it only is everliving lost power and
what
kind wasn’t exactly them I wasn’t would
not only because the primers bigger in
the flesh was protected but also because
they don’t feel that they were part of a
community that has so much less conflict
they were part of a community that was
proud of what it was accomplishing and
that before they had authority but now
they have a respect and that meant quite
a big deal to them so not so much
zero-sum onofre neither for what if we
turn to that second question the
question about gentlemen asked about a
little of the men if there’s only so
polity will happen the outcomes that
we’ve already seen they they clearly
speak to that in the sense that well
food security and poverty reduction and
even protecting forests or the
communities that are strong those are
benefits for women they have demand
everything but we can answer that
question in another way as well many
perspectives for men themselves men who
have made transitions from less equal
and equitable relationships and
situations to much more so I can share
some examples from Zambia for example
where we do some work with small-scale
fishing communities and something to
know what’s not me is that in that
context there are expectations about how
men should be how they should behave not
to be seen in every single country in
this case
my particular context there’s a an
expectation that mean they should be a
strong decision maker of the household
they should be independent in the sense
because they earn an income that’s for
them and they can spend it on what they
want there’s a strong expectation that
they should not be the caregivers of
their children that’s women’s work so
when we first learn about what did they
think of having made the transition
through various processes and over
various links of various reasons they
came up with some really insightful
answers and across the board they talked
about the reasons why it was good for
them not even talked about why human
continues to it in the face of other men
pushing him to backslide and one news I
wanted to share was was one of the money
related that Norma bone caregiving and
he said how they shifted I didn’t ever
see myself as a man who is able to be
the most to mention aluminum and matter
he was a winner there was another
gentleman who to the highly pragmatic
approach to us is decision making and on
larita’s directly they said I wouldn’t
don’t lose his not only words hearings
highly pragmatic going from my rational
decision-making role to one that’s
shared he saw is very good because he
said if men always think there are the
leaders of the home they will stress
themselves and die early
there are gentlemen
fella by the name of Justin he really
spoke about the combination of things in
part of our sessions to decision-making
and I was very important to him because
he saw that she had this way had been
operating very much separately and now
addition he saw them as a team he talked
about their mutual respect and he talked
about harmony in the house and that was
good for them and all their children and
one of them she talked about he saw it
having benefits in terms of where they
were headed and they thought they were
headed out of poverty and he said things
like we’re on the way because we’re
working together we’re going to be able
to replace my last trip with a real iron
roof that will protect us well and for
him he described we keep going in this
equitable rangas way of cooperation use
it and you don’t box mine we will move
to a higher level so in this long
journey from the wood 7 through a couple
of decades of research and development
I had a chance to reflect on zero some
of us over time
there’s a lot that I wanted to share the
modest that it seems to me that whether
we are working and developmental
volunteering and development or whether
we are trying to bring around the future
that we want through who we are and what
we do and our families who we are and
what we do in our schools in our
communities it seems to me that it is
very much worth it to surface and to
question the assumptions that are all
around us and that the assumptions that
guide what we do and how to approach
these big challenges when we arrive that
thought to zero so miss and we think
about equity and equality and getting to
a future all the signals are there that
it’s time to move beyond thinking in
terms of zero-sum doing so moving beyond
zero some will give us an opportunity
and that opportunity is opposed probably
a future creation process that is not
about one group any group of men women
any group needed to lose so that another
group can win it’s an opportunity to
make getting to the future you want a
learning process in which we are seeking
out and are choosing the pathways and
possibilities you literally can all win
together
you
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