Is It Possible To Be Ethical If We Do Not Feel Empowered?

Power and Ethics. This is complex and uncomfortable territory for many of us. 

As the divisiveness and extremism builds around the subject of covid and more specifically the vaccine, as communities and entire countries are establishing two classes of citizens, I am particularly concerned about the murkiness created within a culture that strategically disempowers its individuals in order to ensure ideological compliance and docile participation. 
 

Is it possible for us to stand in our ethical responsibility if we do not feel empowered? 
 

What do choice and consent look like in a culture that violently demands only one perspective? Even if we willingly agree with that perspective, what happens to our subconscious experience of choice if we witness our culture’s violent refusal to respect those who disagree? 

And what about those who feel dishonored and disempowered? When we experience the violation of censure, exile, and the loss of bodily autonomy, we are likely to act from a place of fear. Is it possible for us to behave ethically when we are in fear? 

For those of us who guide others––those of us in positions of power and therefore responsibility––the questions above are critical. Yet they require a compassionate, curious and diverse community that nourishes dissent and disagreement. This is a rare and radical thing these days. 

Please join our rare and radical Embodied Ethics community. Beginning in January we will courageously spelunk into the heart of this terrain, with care and curiosity. Guided by a fundamental desire to be cultural change agents in the Great Turning, we will honor each other’s ideas and wisdom as we grow and deepen our own. We might not answer any questions or solve any pressing dilemmas. But we will most assuredly become better, more engaged humans, with the capacity to engage in the most critical issues that face us today as ecologically embedded, ethical participants who share an emboldened experience of our belonging.

And if you’d like to dip your toes into this conversation and community space, please join us for two free webinars, December 8th and January 5th.