How can we clean up the mess in the world? - Women Matters in The Widom Factory

No doubt: our world is presenting itself as rather messy these days.

Politics and power struggles, social unrest, financial insecurity, religious fanaticism, terrorist attacks, social justice warriors promoting totalitarianism, declarations of independence in nations which seemed to be united, global warming, draughts, floods and hurricanes... the list goes on and on.

How can we deal with all that? It seems to be overwhelming for most of us. All these horrible news! We get the impression that the world is a dangerous place - and probably it is. But it leads us to feel helpless in the face of not really knowing what we can do to change the situation.

Building the plane while flying

One thing is obvious: the "normal" way of problem solving doesn't work anymore. Abuse of power and violence lead to more of the same and to increase the problem instead of solving it. We need new ways of meeting the challenges and to begin to do something constructive which takes into account the impact of our doing on the future. Women in contact with their feminine qualities have always been the source of true problem solving, of finding creative and caring ways to do what needs to be done. These are the really powerful women who source their power by tapping into the unknown and exploring and intuiting what is the next step in the unfolding of the future. Not merely goal directed thinking - a quality of the masculine aspect - but going ahead in a constant feedback loop which sometimes requires to change the goals while moving toward them.

In our monthly conversation of WOMEN MATTERS we explored what we perceived as challenges and what we see our personal and collective contributions to solutions could be.

We ended the conversation with the gender topic, the freedom of choosing gender and children who are seen as already so smart to lead us adults the way. 

Well, we women need to be very aware to not add to the mess by our tendency to overestimate our children and at the same time to overprotect them!

Enjoy the conversation and if you feel inspired to join us please let me know!

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SENSING AND SILENCE – Feminine Qualities in Public Discussions

What are "Feminine Qualities" and how can they be helpful in our lives and in the world?

For a very long time feminine qualities have been dismissed as not appropriate for managing the "real world". Tough men had to say where the world is directed to and the feminine ways of being seemed to be more adapted to raising children and be good wives in support of their husbands. Well, yes. And we shouldn't underestimate the influence of women on their men. In my opinion they, sometimes, were able to calm them down a little and so prevent the worst. We cannot know how often and how much they were successful, but obviously not successful enough if we consider where the masculine way of being in the world has brought us: A life full of technology and wellbeing on the one hand and destruction of our basis of life on the other hand. The question arises: what is of more value and how can the world come back into balance - if it is still possible?

Certainly not with more of the same, with more masculine drivenness for power and dominance, for destruction of nature in service of ideas and ideologies. We women and the feminine ways of being and thinking - which can be embodied also by men -, we need to become active and take part in the destiny of our planet, give our gifts for the survival of our species. We are born caretakers and weavers of relationships, we have the innate knowledge of how to create bondings and how to take care for future generations. We are called to become self-confident about our abilities - instead of holding back for fear to be smiled on as "a weak woman who sheds tears on everything" and who is not able to deal with the hard facts of life. 

We need to present feminine qualities in the public sphere, push back against masculine arrogance and shortsightedness and offer our perspectives on everything that matters, directly and in public. We might not always be "right" - and we are not - but we need to counterbalance the overly rationalized and simplified ways of masculine reasoning of "one at a time", where they loose the wider perspective on the consequences of their decisions and actions.

For this reason the women of "Women Matters" inside the Wisdom Factory come together and explore what can be done and how we can be in order to become part of the solution instead of perpetuating the problem.

Watch here our meeting last month - and if you feel inspired to collaborate, contact us!