| Your Name | Mondy Jera |
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| Email Address | mondy.jera@thinkplace.co.nz |
| Cohort Assignment | Aotearoa / New Zealand with In-Person Intensive in Auckland 2023 |
| 1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | deep human insights work and designing information that people can use to change social issues |
| 2. What role do you see as yours to play? | I am a synthesiser of information and can tell stories in a way that galvanises people into action |
| 3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | I'd like to do this at a bigger scale with more impact and more consistently to bring about real change. |
| 4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | Being more centred and responding, not reacting. Downsizing, minimising and living leaner than I have been, and with more intention. My motto over the past few years is, "make do with what you've got" |
| 5. And for professional growth? | Learning more about how to lead and be a thought leader. Knowing what story I'd like to tell, what I know and have done, and what I can meaningfully contribute. Making my business more successful. |
| 6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | I've had 30+ years of learning about social systems, impacts of injustice and social determinants of health and wellbeing. I've been a professional consultant learning on the job, as well as being in academia. In addition, I experienced a personal trauma that has shaped my thinking about humans - I've invested loads of time learning about people and their drivers. I've been an astute observer of human behaviour, and I use this knowledge and personal experience in my work. |
| 7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | Psychology, sociology, philosophy (stoicism, phenomenology), and behavioural economics (to a lesser extent). I'm finding it hard to narrow in on individuals, given I read a breadth, but probably not deeply from any one thinker. |
| 8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | I think humans have lost their way, but I think they are good at heart. I think we have been very un-intentional about where we have ended up. I believe humans have lacked humility in recent years and have focused too much on individualism and a quest for "happiness" at all costs. That has taken us to a bad place of making decisions that don't include a bright future for all. I am comfortable believing we are here as organic, living beings that sprung up from the organic matter of the earth over time. Maybe we're just a big cosmic accident? I'm not inclined to believe in one god, but perhaps an intelligent energy that we don't understand yet. |
| Date Created | March 30, 2023 |