The 2019 Statutory Enforcement Report from the US Commission on Civil Rights confirms “the reality that, today, the nation still has not reached a time when recognition of and protection for core civil rights promises is the norm for all Americans.”  

This pervasiveness of human injustice caused by our dysfunctional systems is visible every day in the suffering of our patients, colleagues, friends, neighbors, and unfortunately, even in ourselves.  Uncovering the etiology of such injustice provides the key to transforming our educational, business, political, and social hierarchies to become true democracies, to not only improve their function, but to, more importantly, improve the health and well-being of those upon whom that function fundamentally relies.

The Belief-Behavior Systems Archetype© describes where unconscious bias occurs in our thinking, why it is so difficult for us to recognize, and how we can learn to overcome it; more specifically, it uncovers how and why racism, sexism, discrimination, censorship, and exploitation occur, how and why burnout is a global crisis, and the inextricable link between unconscious bias, human learning and social justice. And this framework describes the human thinking and human behaviors that result in diversity, equity, and inclusion, social values being sought in nearly all sectors of society.