Win-Lose Decision Making is Systems Design Failure

by Patricia Anne Davis, MA

Manifesting Co-Creative Solution: Pure Democracy – Indigenous

6 Nations of Iroquois Confederacy:
Affirmative thinking system: powerwithin from creator to have powerwith others

1. Male gender life-task: Protector-Providers in healthy helping partnership with
Female gender life-task: Live-givers and Nurturers
2. Initiative by group consensus
3. Referendum by group consensus
4. Recall leader for taking people into hunger, poverty, sickness & premature death
Representational Democracy

Eurocentric Dualistic thinking system: conquest is powerover

1. Hierarchy/Patriarchy – Aristocracy; Oligarchy; Plutocracy
2. Initiative by majority vote is powerover
3. Referendum by majority vote is powerover
4. No Recall for taking people into hunger, poverty, sickness & premature death: Accidents, Suicide, Homicide, Genocide, Infanticide

The Out-of-balance Condition: Killer Power

“…patriarchy and masculinity are not synonymous.  Female patriarchs can be just as domineering as males.  Like their counterparts, they live in a patriarchal ethos that operates through control over others, over themselves, over nature.  We need to recognize also that many men have a more finely honed femininity than many women.  We all are the children of patriarchy and, therefore, we all have to take responsibility for a killer power shadow that would massacre the feminine and the masculine in whatever form they manifest.  [This] is not a defense of the feminine at the expense of the masculine.  The one without the other leads to suicide or tyranny.”#1

 

Core Issue: root cause is killer power – conquest and powerover

Colonialists do not know how to take care of mother earth, thus her capacity for caring for us is diminishing.  The air that is father sky is also being polluted, yet we continue on a path of self destruction and destroying nature. “Environmental problems… are mostly the result of a miscalibration between human intention and ecological results, which is to say that they are a kind of design failure.”#2

Pamela Colorado and a Dineh medicine person Hanson Ashley in “Wayfinding and the New Sun” concluded that “…people did not learn the most important lessons within the world – but between the world cycles.”  “Between the worlds was the time when humanity had to do things to put itself in accord again – in accord with life, or with the natural world, however you want to say it.”#3

  [Hanson knew me and my late father. They were both Dineh medicine people].

1. Woodman, Marion, Dickson, Elenor, DANCING IN THE FLAMES, The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness, Shambala, Boston, MA, 1997 (pp 1-11).

2. Orr, David,  THE NATURE OF DESIGN, “Human Ecology as a Problem of Ecological Design”, Oxford University Press, Inc. 2002 (pp 4, 20).

3. Colorado, Pamela, “WAYFINDING AND THE NEW SUN: Indigenous Science in the Modern World”, Noetic Science Review: No. 22, Summer 1992, (pp 5).

PURE DEMOCRACY: Peacemaking using an Indigenous Process

Peacemaking Process Based on Indigenous Wisdom

1. Problem Identification: naming the out-of-balance condition.

Fraud and corruption in leaders and in the government and corporations     

Core Issue:  the root cause that maintains the out-of-balance condition.

Addiction to greed – never enough and never satisfied

2. Obstacles: emptying is correcting the obstacles to internal change that maintain the root cause of destructive and death producing choices.

Recruiting each generation of youth to participate in their own demise by using their 5-senses as a weapon against themselves and others by perpetuating social engineering and conditioning to win-lose=no-win decisions

3. Realistic Ideal: reframing win-lose=no-win decisions into win-win decisions for constructive and life-affirming choices.  Affirming powerwithin to have powerwith others eliminates the need for powerover.

Designing a safe and supportive place for people to discover their inherent gifts; to give expression to their creative imagination; to be rewarded by giving expression to their creative imagination; and, for each person, their family, community, society and nation to benefit by giving expression to their creative imagination.

4. Co-creative Resolution: manifesting the win-win co-creative solutions. Authenticity gives authority to dismantle tyranny.

Implement Pure Democracy

The Indigenous Ceremonial Change Process teaches peacemaking and win-win decision making for male and female gender life-task teamwork

Design Process:

• Envision – visualize: seeing
• Conceptualize – intention: thinking
• Dialogue – affirmation: speaking

5. Life Application: co-creative situational leadership for decision making and    designing the co-creative solutions:
Manifest Process:

• Construct – manifest: doing
• Life Skill – living co-creative solution(s)

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein