Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

The Next System Project ... FREE 60-Minute Webinar: Counting Care In ... An Introduction to Social Wealth Economic Indicators

Measuring the Real Value of Care is the Cornerstone of Systemic Transformation

Dear Peter,

We are writing to invite you to attend a conversation with Co-Chair of the Next System Project, Gus Speth and Riane Eisler, President of the Center for Partnerships Studies and Founder of The Caring Economy Campaign, on 'Counting Care In.'

In this session, Speth will join Eisler to discuss why we must have measures of economic success that include environmental, social, and political dimensions -- recognizing that measuring any one of these dimensions without the others does not give the picture we need to steer toward the next system. (More details below.)

[REGISTER] Counting Care In: Thursday, April 14, 2016 11am Pacific

In Solidarity,

The Next System Project

P.S. Want to learn more about why a Caring Economy is an essential part of systemic economic change?

Check out Riane Eisler's new essay 'Whole Systems Change: A Framework & First Steps for Social/Economic Transformation' in Next System: Possibilities and Proposals, a Next System Project series. in this webinar you will learn:

• A new balance sheet to measure what really counts.

• How both the economy and our well-being will thrive when we use Social Wealth Economic Indicators (SWEIs) as the basis for sounder policies and better lives.

• How SWEIs can help build a strong economy that values and invest in the essential work of care.

• How SWEIs provides the evidence-base you need to make the case for caring policies such as paid parental and sick leave, caregiver tax credits, better pay for care workers and educators, and increased investment in early childhood care and education.

• How the SWEIs raise awareness around gender and care that makes it essential to explicitly make those foundational dynamics visible.