The words 'domination and partnership systems' come from Raine Eisler but you might call these patterns something else.
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Industrial growth society vs life sustaining society (Macy); takers vs leavers (Quinn); strong father versus nurturing parents (Lakoff); colonial vs Indigenous, extractive vs regenerative, etc. You know it when you see it/experience it.
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Is the world made up of objects trying to overpower one another in endless competition, with white men at the top of the pile, and safety to be found in accumulation, or is the world not a pile at all but a web of relationship, with stability and security to found relationally?
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Progressive movements of all sorts are seeking to create partnership systems. Environmentalists, feminists, racial justice advocates, etc are working towards the same power-with rather than power-over relationships in different domains.
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And the further we get beyond Earth's limits, the more urgent the move towards reintegration with the rest of life is, the more urgent the move towards partnership culture becomes.
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Similarly, the more precarious our social systems become, the more nuclear weapons are aimed across borders, the more water scarcity breeds conflict, the more vulnerable we become to the state of other nation's health systems, the more urgent a shift towards partnership becomes.
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In fact, I think that's really our work. Not ending climate change or improving access to reproductive health care or strengthening civil rights - those are all outcomes, measures of the degree that partnership values have taken hold.
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If you have followed me thus far, then you may see an opportunity. Because the two patterns permeate everything. Your marriage. Your staff meeting. International climate policy. Questions of presidential power and legitimacy.
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This thread is too long to describe the all the ways that these patterns influence one another, but I believe that strengthening partnership patterns anywhere helps weaken domination patterns elsewhere.
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Example - your staff meeting of your org that aims to shift your city towards justice and equity could model listening, and learning, or it could be stuck in a hierarchical pattern, where shouting and put-downs are common. (Anyone every been in an org like that?)
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When you send your newest team member out to hold a neighborhood listening session will she have practiced learning, speaking up, holding space in your staff meeting, or no? The answer will help shape which pattern takes hold in the neighborhood meetings.
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When the neighborhood comes together weekly in a spirit of listening and consensus and then they go to lobby city hall together, what spirit do they carry, what do they disrupt, what do they reinforce?
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Staff meeting seems small, unless you see it as a little, but crucial, thread in a larger pattern.
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Some of us are placed with influence at the UN, or able to get to our national capitols to protest. Others can't. But we all inhabit these patterns. We all have (sometimes very tiny) degrees of freedom to strengthen one and weaken the other.
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Being strategic, I'm coming to believe, isn't about identifying the most critical point of leverage, it's about honing your courage, skill, tenacity, and clarity about which pattern you place your hope for the future in, and showing up ready to embody that pattern.
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Anyone who has stood up to a bully or challenged a cultural norm or said no to an expectation knows that these moments, even the little ones, ask a lot of us.
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Just because these aren't all decisions of national or global consequence doesn't not diminish how hard it can be to shift patterns.
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But, seen this way, none of us are excused from the fight, because of our seeming insignificance, our career, our geography, or anything else.
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Do you think a nation where at every dinner table women, people of color, people of different religions and the earth were respected would have the president my country does today?
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Do you think a nation where parents never lied to their children or cheated on their taxes or cussed out the players on the other team would have a government compliant to the highest bidder?
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These patterns are connected and through them we each have power that ripples and ripples and ripples outward and upward.
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