ReGeneration. Short bites. Episode #12: May East

Name: ReGeneration. Short bites. Episode #12: May East
Uploaded: 2020-05-03T18:16:46+00:00
Duration: 1 min 2 s
Channel: Virginie Glaenzer
Description: In this segment of the ReGeneration short‑bites series, the host (Speaker A) and guest (Speaker B) discuss the importance of honoring the ‘threshold’…

3 May 2020 · 1 min

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In this segment of the ReGeneration short‑bites series, the host (Speaker A) and guest (Speaker B) discuss the importance of honoring the ‘threshold’ phase in rites of passage, arguing that rushing to solutions bypasses essential learning. They connect this idea to the broader need to reassess collective narratives that shape social life, emphasizing that prevailing discourses and frameworks—such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and new funding streams—embed power structures that can either enable or hinder systemic transformation. The conversation calls for a deliberate slowdown to critically analyze these narratives and frameworks before moving into the next societal phase, questioning where new funds are directed and how they energize change.

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I can take one of the lines of Daniel, the one that's saying, "Oh, we're rushing with solutions," and remembering that the ancient ones would say the importance of the lesson of the threshold in rites of passage when you're moving from one stage in development or human journey to the next one. The threshold is where you, you learn most of your lessons, and if you rush with the threshold into solutions, you don't learn the lesson and you need to repeat that threshold. So it's very important to slow down, and slowing down, the second point that I want to weave in is this question of the new narratives that were, I think, embedded in the question, how do we move our collective narrative?
And I think that discourse creates frameworks which structure social life, to which power is exercised. So in this threshold time, I think it's important that we spend time developing this critical analysis on the current frameworks that can either structure or hinder the systemic capabilities for us to come to the next phase. And so time for thinking of the, what are they?
Because very, very easy we can say, wow, we have the SDGs framework, we have now all the ministers of environment in EU is saying, okay, so now that we pumping new funds to the system, where these funds are going to, where the funds are going to energize.
So yes, threshold time to question the frameworks before we assume these are the frameworks that will frame the discourse and how we're going to design our societies and how power is going to be exercised.