In the world now, we are facing the meta crisis or several crises converging together threatening life on the planet
There's evidence all over - ongoing genocide in Gaza, war in Ukraine, conflicts in Kashmir, Manipur;
forest fires in the Himalayas, floods in Sahara desert, the list is never ending!
The inner conflicts within human beings manifest as crises in human systems. How do we move to the next evolutionary threshold we ask?
The leadership- political, business, cultural is locked in their vested interests. Wisdom has been separated from power. It's a self terminating loop! In this scenario, we believe that the right response begins with:
The Crisis at Individual Level
The Connection between the self and the world severed
The narrative of you or me or The mindset of scarcity
Losing touch with inner self
Lack of understanding of the multiple realities of the outer world
Limited definition of success
We see the breakthrough for this is within each individual. Hence, Youth Alliance aims to intervene there but we don’t want to do it in the right and wrong paradigm, because that’s just in the head. We wish to take individuals on a journey of rediscovery - to find and speak their own truth, to listen to each other and build a common language. Journeys that engage the faculties of head, heart and hands. Each journey has following aspects:
The process lets individuals to reclaim the connection between the 'self' and the 'world' and see how we are all interconnected. And shift the narrative from 'you-or-me' to 'you-and-me'. Gradually a community of such individuals has come to be that supports each and is creating ripples of change in the world around it. We see this as the work of leadership based in the consciousness rather than just in the intellect.
References:
1 Oxfam International Report (2014)