In this engaging conversation, Jenny Grettve, Head of Transformation at EIT Culture and Creativity, discusses her vision for a Global Council of Women aimed at healing cultural divides. As a systems thinker and author, she advocates for governance driven by wisdom and inclusivity. They explore the transformative role of creativity in societal change, the importance of authentic leadership, and how collaboration can reshape our future. Jenny highlights the need for grassroots movements and a shift towards sustainable practices in order to overcome current crises.
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Working Within the System
Positions within large organizations can effect change from the inside.
Multiple scales of action, both top-down and bottom-up, are crucial.
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Genesis of the Women's Council
Mindy saw Jenny's LinkedIn post proposing a Global Council of Women after Trump's reelection.
Inspired, Mindy joined immediately and invited Jenny to the podcast.
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Women's Council as an Art Project
The Women's Council art project explores alternative governance structures.
It aims to build and test concrete models for a more equitable system.
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How can we bring wisdom to those with power and power to those with wisdom? If we were to step into elder hood and bring the best of ourselves to the table, could we create governance structures that would help to heal our cultural divides, create equity and guide is wisely through the coming crisis?
Jenny Grettve believes we can and has set up a global council to make this happen.
Jenny is a good friend of the podcast. She joined us in episode #228 to talk about designing and building a school along Doughnut economic lines and then again in episode #249 to talk about the evolution of a Mothering Economy based on the values of compassion and care for future generations. Jenny is an author, philosopher, systems thinker and designer, author of several books, most recently the Mothering Economy that we talked about the last time we met. Then, she was leading WhenWhen, a new feminist design agency that creates system demonstrators to test ideas generated by global researchers working with the climate crisis and sustainable life. She was still working there last November when Donald Trump managed to take the US Presidency again. Amidst all the shock and horror of that moment, I saw a post Jenny put up on LinkedIn, proposing the creation of a Global Council of Women as a way to bring forward the values that our world needs at this moment of total transformation. I signed up on the spot and then asked Jenny to come and talk to us about it, so that the idea might spread in the Accidental Gods spheres. And then as I was doing the reading for this episode, I found that Jenny had started the year in a new post - that she is now Head of Transformation at a European Council funded organisation called EIT - that's European Innovation and Technology - Culture and Creativity. Which means Jenny is now taking the wisdom of creativity right into the heart of the bureaucracy that sustains the super organism, at least in the EU. So here we are, considering the nature of wisdom and elder hood, how we might overcome the gender divides that so assail us in service to life - and how to bring creative ideas deep into the heart of machine. Please know that the Council is not only for women - the first meeting is exploring whole, healthy masculinity and how it can be prioritised in this world. Which feels like such an integral part of our thinking now. So please do join - the link is below.
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