Culture is a Field and one that holds a ton of power within it. Fixing culture, changing culture, deviating from culture, going up against culture are phenomena you know well. Based on your lived experiences in your family, your marriage, your friendships, your place of worship, your schooling, your organisations, and your professionalism, you understand viscerally the forces of culture.

Cultures are coercive by design because they operate according to assumed sets of rules. Those rules are both overt and covert. They are often not expressively “open to change” even whilst everyone wants to do culture change or evolve family systems, for example.

Cultures build per the dominant set(s) of rules dictated, observed, and absorbed. Culture is informed and informing. Culture has origin stories. It has its own DNA. Your integrity and discernment are mechanisms to participate healthfully within cultures.