What is Social Wisdom?


​Social Wisdom is a state of being that reflects an individual’s ability to operate with a tamed ego through a filter of compassion for self and others. Compassion is an internal feeling that arises when one cares about a person’s life and personal situation.  When one lives with compassion there is a desire to understand, forgive, help, and demonstrate kindness toward self and others, and desire to see all as happy and healthy. This compassion is driven by an understanding that each person’s set of human conditioning creates unique needs and emotional behaviors that can negatively affect those around us, and our world as a whole. By exposing and learning to tame the needs of the ego, forgiving self and others for being humanly conditioned, and developing compassion for each individual’s humanly conditioned situation, we move into a space of operating from a place of self-love as opposed to seeking love, acceptance and a sense of self-worth from others. When we are each individually wise to what drives the personal needs and behaviors that play themselves out in all facets of social interaction, and heal negative needs and behaviors, humanity as a whole will operate socially wise.
The Social Wisdom Initiative is:
  • An initiative designed to change individuals so as to change global humanity long-term
  • A grassroots groundswell of compassionate people who will no longer tolerate societal systems that operate from greed, waste or self-serving practices
  • An initiative that creates a foundation from which the 17 Sustainable Development Goals can be achieved
​The Social Wisdom Initiative is Not:
  • Driven by an expectation of changing global humanity on a short-term basis
  • A top down initiative to change current systems within our societies
  • An initiative trying to satisfy the 17 Sustainable Development Goals themselves

​Why Do We Need Social Wisdom?​


We, as a global humanity, need Social Wisdom due to the fact that joy loves company equally as much as misery loves company. When an individual learns to tame the ego and live from a place of compassion, there is no desire to see anyone as less than; and an internal desire develops that wants to see all living beings as happy and healthy as they feel themselves.
 
Each system, be it political, educational, medical, economic or social in nature, is driven by individuals. If the individuals driving and promoting those systems are operating from the needs of the ego, those systems will have a higher likelihood of becoming self-serving due to personal agendas. If those same systems are driven by individuals who no longer need wealth, power and control as a measure for their self-worth, our systems will shift to support a desire to see all living happy, healthy and in harmony with each other. If those governing those systems are not able to move beyond their need for wealth, power and control, and a critical mass of humanity is operating from Social Wisdom, those operating from personal greed will be seen as unhealed, and not secure in their own self-worth as opposed to revered or desirable. What is viewed as desirable is that which is in harmony with the word around them, not opposing it. These desires include people, homes, vehicles, corporations, companies, communities, practices and systems.
 
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are a collection of 17 global goals set by the United nations General Assembly in 2015, for the year 2030 and depends heavily on our systems being driven by a desire to see all living beings as having equal worth, value and the right to humane treatment. This can only be achieved if the individuals governing those systems operate from a place of compassion. Compassion is developed when the needs of the ego are understood, healed and tamed, which is also known as operating with Social Wisdom.

Our Global Partners

A global Partner shares these beliefs:

Socially wise people... ​
  • ​Value equality, collaboration and humane treatment of all
  • Find their worth and value internally through their kindness, collaboration, compassion, self-love and wisdom
  • Live life from a place of compassion for each other and the world we live in
  • Know they are enough as who they are
  • Do not measure their worth through what they do, what they have or any external identification of themselves
  • Value natural living over opulence and waste
  • Desire all people to live from a place of internal joy and peace
  • Value collaboration over competition
  • Do not tolerate systems that put promote greed, power, control or the practice of putting profit before people, animals and the planet
  • Value global connectedness over separatism 
  • Seek internally to find sources of pain and wounding, so as not to project it onto others
  • Take responsibility for their own happiness
  • Seek to understand, not judge
  • Value uniqueness in self and others
  • Do not fear rejection or betrayal from others because they love and accept themselves
Yvonne Mughal, Sheroes United
Alyx Couch, P# Utah
Dennis Johnson, Eurotas
Sazka Dominova, Jaguar People
Kalpesh Pater, World Transformation
Douglas Gilliland, Whisper Valley
Isabella Antinoro
Kelly Schwegel
Daniel Dick
Elizabeth Rose
Elisabeth Melcher
John Izzie
Jericho Skye
Katie Kelley
Chau Mai
Joe StClair
Michaela Kafrgova
Stephan Drescher, Science 27
Nancy Chen, Lamb Star Pie
Megan Zuzevich
Tori Clay