Facts ground us in reality. Stories ground us in meaning. The two together can produce powerful guidance, what we call “truth”. But that dance of Fact, Story and Truth is trickier than it at first seems. This post is my first attempt at exploring that territory looking for useful understandings. …
As a gift to you as a reader of this blog, Co-Intelligence Institute (CII) board member Sita Magnusen has created A Patterning …
New Co-Intelligence Institute board member Andy Paice tells the story of his work with communities in the UK, bringing the theory of …
The Wise Democracy Project has a guiding principle – its prime directive to evoke and engage the wisdom and resourcefulness of the …
Democracy is in trouble around the world. Thankfully, we see many creative responses emerging to meet that challenge. Among other initiatives, the …
Many people assume that co-intelligence and collective intelligence are the same thing. They aren’t. Co-intelligence includes collective intelligence plus a whole lot …
In this essay I expand on the idea of “intrinsic participation”, a concept I introduced in “Creative Participation of the Whole – …
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Taboo uses social pressure and self-censorship to keep us from thinking, talking or behaving in ways our social group doesn’t want us …
Donella (“Dana”) Meadows has written dozens of remarkable articles about systems thinking. Today I decided to share one of my favorites – …