Anti-nurture training

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Reflecting on Anti-Nurture Practices

Discover the hidden lessons that shape our perspectives and behaviors. This quiz invites you to reflect on the ingrained societal teachings that may be hindering personal growth and community collaboration.

Confront the misconceptions of competition and scarcity.
Explore how childhood teachings influence adulthood.
Assess your journey towards collaboration and authenticity.

14 Questions4 MinutesCreated by EvolvingMind72

We learn to disrespect Indigenous and direct ties to land.

Still inside me.

Totally rejected it.

I'm working on that one.

We learn to be quiet, polite, indirect, and submissive, not to disturb the status quo.

Still inside me.

Totally rejected it.

I'm working on that one.

We learn facts out of context of application in school. How will this history, science, math show up in our lives, in the work of growing community and home?

Still inside me.

Totally rejected it.

I'm working on that one.

We learn that tests and deadlines are the reasons to take action. This puts those with good short-term memories and a positive response to pressure in leadership positions, leading to urgency-based thinking, regardless of the circumstance.

Still inside me.

Totally rejected it.

I'm working on that one.

We learn to compete with each other in a scarcity-based economy that denies and destroys the abundant wold we actually live in.

Still inside me.

Totally rejected it.

I'm working on that one.

We learn to deny our longings and our skills, and to do work that occupies our hours without inspiring our greatness.

Still inside me.

Totally rejected it.

I'm working on that one.

We learn to manipulate each other and sell things to each other, rather than learning to collaborate and evolve together.

Still inside me.

Totally rejected it.

I'm working on that one.

We learn that the natural world is to be manicured, controlled, or pillaged to support our consumerist lives. Even the natural lives of our bodies get medicated, pathologized, shaved or improved upon with cosmetic adjustments.

Still inside me.

Totally rejected it.

I'm working on that one.

We learn that factors beyond our control determine the quality of our lives--something as random as which skin, gender, sexuality, ability, nation, or belief system we are born into sets a path for survival and quality of life.

Still inside me.

Totally rejected it.

I'm working on that one.

In the United States specifically, though I see this most places I travel, we learn that we only have value if we can produce--only then do we earn food, home, health care, education.

Still inside me.

Totally rejected it.

I'm working on that one.

Similarly, we learn our organizations are only as successful as our fundraising results, whether the community impact is powerful or not.

Still inside me.

Totally rejected it.

I'm working on that one.

We learn as children to swallow our tears and any other inconvenient emotions, and as adults that translates into working through red flags, value differences, pain, and exhaustion.

Still inside me.

Totally rejected it.

I'm working on that one.

We learn to bond through gossip, venting, and destroying, rather than cultivating solutions together.

Still inside me.

Totally rejected it.

I'm working on that one.

Perhaps the most egregious thing we are taught is that we should just be really good at what's already possible, to leave the impossible alone.

Still inside me.

Totally rejected it.

I'm working on that one.

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