Actualization

With ubiquitous access to all the tenets and traditions of global wisdom and wonder, instant communication and collaboration tools in every modality, and overnight courier service for tangible resources as needed, I believe that it is time to fuse the best aspects of socialization and education into a paradigm of actualization. My wish is to maximize the innate potential in every life.

Embracing the very best of all times, places, and traditions, it is time to re-envision and 'make actual' an effective, adaptable, and sustainable paradigm of human actualization that builds upon the primary socialization of the home and cultivates the unique potential of every human being from 'cradle to grave' so that they may 'transcend' and give back from 'over-full.'

We currently spend all our time, energy, and talent and resources on conventional and alternative models of schooling and education. More resources than ever are dedicated to shaping perceptions of reality via popular culture and social media campaigns. And yet: Time marches on. Budgets are spent. Vision statements are published. Careers are built. Wonderful people come and go.

Having toyed with oodles of innovative ideas without highly effective, adaptable or sustainable implementation, things tend to go on pretty much the same.

For those that remain and, most importantly, those yet to come, there are big questions for billions of everyday people who long to become their 'personal best' and contribute joyfully and productively to the organizations and associations that they give their lives to. Whether they participate out of necessity or choice, with or without expectation of belonging, meaning, or inspirational and evolutionary engagement, the fundamental human questions remain. However lofty they may seem given the status quo, they matter. Urgently! It is vital for this time and all times. People engage with hope and trust that the endeavor will be beneficial and reciprocal for themselves and those they love.

I will always yearn to make the immediate past, present, and future count! Every minute. Every dollar. Every person. Without giving up fundamental human freedoms and flexibility for dystopian data sets, I yearn to know if out beyond the privileged and performative nature of socialization, schooling, and education, a bigger, broader, and more soulfully aligned and integrated paradigm of Actualization will be possible. Can individual human empathy and ethics ever scale in organizational life to honour the hopes and dreams of every child and grandchild (our individual and collective future)?

After all, as Josie Bisset says, 'Dreams come a size too big so we can grow into them.' Let's go!