Our Vision

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  At the Democracy Mindset Initiative, we believe that it means standing in your full power to self-actualize your own dreams while simultaneously bringing your power to the process of group self-determination so that our society can meet collective goals.

Responsible citizens also recognize the difference between governing and politics. They expect their leaders to focus on the provision of services on behalf of all citizens and ensure their actions don’t inadvertently support the “horse race” view of politics.

   Our nation today is deeply divided. Our connection through a shared purpose seems all but gone. More so, we are losing our sense of self-determination and replacing it with a sense of grievance and victim thinking.

More broadly, our situation is VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous). Even before the pandemic – an event the likes of which the world has never seen – we were tired, frustrated and overwhelmed by the increasingly unmistakable implications of the unmet promises and erosion of the American Dream. 

When the world gets VUCA, we face two general options. Some people will grow their cognitive capacities and rise to meet the challenge. But, without guidance, most people do the opposite. We get overwhelmed and shut down our ability to make sense of the world. When this happens, we fall into grievance and victim thinking, and might not even notice it, since we can’t see ourselves from the outside when our ability to make sense of the world shuts down. In the end, we give up our power to self-determine our destiny and find ourselves more ensconced in chaos than when we started.

    The Democracy Mindset solution is to reclaim both our personal power as individuals and our collective power as a nation so that we can work together toward creating a shared future that allows us all to thrive. 

We do this by adopting a Democracy Mindset – a set of cognitive capacities that help us to make sense of the world even when the world is VUCA-level challenging. Looking at the world through this mindset, we understand that our personal power to self-actualize our dreams is synergistic with our group’s collective power to self-determine its destiny. We recognize that we are all stronger when we are working together toward a shared purpose. We discover that when we are overwhelmed by VUCA, the thing that is actually taking our power is our own fear, and we learn how to transform that fear into a passion that moves us to create the life we want. 

Democracy Mindset training expands minds to expand society. Join our mailing list or use the Contact Us form if you’d like to learn more about how you can step into your full power by stepping into your Democracy Mindset.