The sensemaking crisis has resulted in people losing the fundamental ability to make sense of their lives. When people can’t make sense of their lives, they make poor choices, can’t navigate their lives, and can’t solve their personal problems. This leads to various states of psychological despair that fuel the mental health and substance abuse crisis we are facing today.

To address this crisis, we need to deliver easy to use, affordable, sensemaking tools and training.

Inqwire has developed, tested, and is now deploying affordable software and coaching solutions specifically designed to help people make sense of things. Unlike traditional mental health services, Inqwire’s solutions are designed specifically for sensemaking, which makes them faster, more effective, and more affordable.

Humanity is facing numerous challenges that threaten both our future as a society and our survival as a species. While many are actively working to address these challenges, it is not enough.

If we want to effectively and rapidly address these challenges, both large and small, we need as many people as possible who have the personal empowerment and self-efficacy to do and create things to help the world make sense.

Sensemaking as a practice provides a direct and rapid path to increasing personal empowerment and self-efficacy, and Inqwire is currently offering solutions designed to help people realize their full sensemaking capacity for personal empowerment and self-efficacy.

As part of the sensemaking crisis, the world is experiencing a ‘Wisdom Poverty’. Wisdom is not parables or platitudes, wisdom comes from our own unique direct experiences with life. When we distill and articulate those experiences, we capture highly valuable knowledge that can be shared to help others navigate and make sense.

We now know from science that wisdom is not restricted by age, and the thinking that leads to wisdom is something that can actually be taught and learned. The wisdom lying within each and every person is essential to the future survival and success of humanity, and it is barely even being tapped.

Inqwire has found that sensemaking is directly tied to the both the collection of and development of wisdom, and is working on solutions that both leverage and increase the wisdom of humans.

In the past century, modern culture has been dominated by a way of thinking that has increased the amount of nonsense in the world and brought humanity further away from its senses. While this way of thinking was once seen as the ideal, it is not the way of thinking we need for the future.

To create a world that makes sense, we need to change the way the world thinks. We now know that sensemaking provides a framework of thinking that accelerates learning, problem solving, and trains the kind of thinking humanity needs to successfully navigate complexity and make decisions that make sense.

Inqwire is currently working with schools to bring sensemaking training and activities into the classroom.

Recent years have put a spotlight on dangerous levels of division and ‘political tribalism’ in society. Behind this division is the work of various factors and forces, such as manipulative forms of media, that actively block people’s ability to make sense of reality, and frame our neighbors and friends as enemies.

One of the most significant threats to creating a world that makes sense is an inability to see each other as allies and work together rather than against each other. Sensemaking can fast track the restoration of people’s recollection of the shared context they have with others, and break the illusions that are created to put us against each other.

Inqwire is currently developing sensemaking networks and activities that address societal and cultural division through tools that make it easy and safe for people with different alliances to come together.

Guaranteed solitude, quiet, long views and nature are essential ingredients in an environment that’s conducive for high quality sensemaking. But only a small percentage of the world’s population is fortunate to have access to an environment with even one of these ingredients, and for those who do have access, it’s often provided by retreat centers that offer their own programs and ideologies that are often not conducive to sensemaking.

We can’t create a world that makes sense if the people we need are unable to think and make sense of things because of their environment. We need to expand access to environments that support sensemaking.

Inqwire is actively developing new models, platforms, and experiences to provide more people with affordable access to the kinds of environments and the self-guided tools they need to successfully make sense of life and the world, removing the need for expensive programs or the pressure to adopt polarizing ideologies.

Even with all the individuals and groups who are trying to make positive change happen in the world, it’s not nearly enough. Failures of collective problem solving, orientation, and effective action are crippling the greater effort to create a world that makes sense within an ever shrinking window of time.

We need to organize the individuals who are trying to make change and dramatically increase the effectiveness and impact of collective action.

Inqwire is actively developing new processes and models to empower and enhance the collective agency to solve the most important problems.