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Dear all, Its good to be here. Besides trauma and how it affects one`s being and showing up, my special interest area is how child bearing and rearing affects women (and sometimes men) at work and the interplay between how much the organisations support families at different stages in their life and work satisfaction and productivity. I have chosen to work independently after a career with UNICEF in different countries and am in the process of exploring my own inner landscape while holding space for my clients as well as thinking how we can bring the IDGs to younger generations through intergenerational learning. I look forward to learning together.

The title of this United World College (UWC) endorsed online short course intrigued me so much that I applied and… I got accepted as one of 13 villagers entering the experience together! We are a deliberate mix: different continents, countries, genders and ages. Over four weeks, we will imagine the world as a village of 100 people while exploring global inequality, identity, interdependence and citizenship. We are guided by facilitator Kevin Fox, Human Geographer and founder of The Geographical Imaginations Expedition & Institute. Last weekend we had the first two sessions that were all about orientation: meeting the other villagers and looking at/discussing statistics. One thing became immediately clear: we all see through our own lens but often unconsciously adopt a dominant perspective when observing the world. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie called it the danger of a single story. I’d call it something more uncomfortable: the quiet acceptance of someone else’s definition of reality. That discomfort sits at the heart of what I want to explore in these four weeks, because the story of global inequality is not an accidental one. It is not a story of some nations simply failing to develop while others succeeded. The opening quote from the World Inequality Report 2026 says it plainly: inequality is a political choice. It is, in many ways, designed. Nations across the Global South are routinely labelled “underdeveloped”; a word that carries the assumption that the people there lack the capacity, financially and intellectually, to lift themselves without the guidance of the Global North. The so-called migration crisis is presented as a stand-alone emergency, stripped of its context: the decades of extraction, interference and deliberate policy choices that created the conditions for it.

IDG holds a promise… something it stands for… and that emanates from it... that makes many come to it… what is it?... Maybe it does not matter... maybe what matters is 'how is it living up to its own promise?'... Inner Development... but anyway, what is it? ...what is this promise for you?

Could it be that our 'certainties' about a term — operate at a subconscious level, giving it an extra force and hence a stronger impact on our system when it activates? I wrote an article: 'Stressing out stress' to experiment and illustrate this. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stressing-out-stress-marvin-maneve-pokyf But you can also react from the introductory paragraph above about 'certainties'.