Let’s redefine ‘social climbing’.

It used to mean strategic alliances, blending families so that power was accumulated and multiplied. It used to mean looking better, having more, controlling more and climbing the ladder of perceived human success, measured by money, status and power (and appearing in the women’s mags and society pages. It meant going from ‘lower’ to ‘higher’ up the socially defined ladder.

In my view social climbing could be all about learning social skills, growing emotional intelligence and the capability to navigate through conflict without the need to dominate another. It could be about climbing out of (read ‘growing out of’) our often unconscious, ego-driven motivations that are self-serving, and tuning in and connecting with our ‘essence’ dominated motivations instead. Social climbing could become a personal pursuit, the ‘climb’ happening on the inside. Social climbing could mean relationship mastery, fully flowered as a self-regulating mature human.

Self-awareness and awareness in general, is growing and expanding all over the world. Our marvelous technology allows us to educate ourselves beyond borders and across divisions that have kept us separate in the past.

We live in extraordinary times and we have such incredible resources at our disposal. In my view it is time we paid attention to maturing – beyond the physical, and intentionally educating ourselves more, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. We need to catch up with ourselves and climb out of mind-sets and world-views that set us against each other, motivated by fear, (much of which is manufactured).

‘Currency’ between humans hasn’t always been about money. In essence it is really about trust. The quality of trust between humans is indicative of the health of that relationship. Trust is seeded when we are. Healthy bonds between babies and their carers build brains that are ‘wired for life’. Unhealthy human relationships are the cause of many of our local and global issues and they have their roots in our early conditioning.

Can you imagine how much resource would be available for more productive things if we mastered human relations? What could our potential be? The more resourced we are to thrive, the more opportunity we have to express the best of ourselves throughout life and make a useful contribution.

So where do we begin? Bottom line, in my view it’s time, high time, to re-value parenting and the raising of baby humans. I tend to harp on about this but only because I must. We cannot afford to pay lip service to the most important role on the planet. We must widen our lenses and pay attention to supporting all parents and caregivers in being personally resourced in ways that help create solid foundations for developing children. Great societies are built on the roots and wings of children – all children.

We must use what we know, both intuitively and through science, to raise awareness and skill levels of those who are growing the future of Humanity. This is totally doable and we are already on the way – but it’s time to move things along. Women and carers of children have been demonstrably under-valued for far too long. For the health of our future we must change the oppressive economic models that dis-empower those who nurture the human future.

Let’s make social climbing about the very personal education it takes to become aware of just how much we can influence our own lives – and our future and play to our uniquely human strengths, and we have plenty! It all begins with the way we grow our babies. Empower the carers – they do the most important work on our planet. They shape human destiny.

And that’s it... from my view.

Amanda