Taboo uses social pressure and self-censorship to keep us from thinking, talking or behaving in ways our social group doesn’t want us to. Taboo can help keep a group healthy with minimal effort. But it can be disastrous for a wise democracy where all sides of every issue need to …
Donella (“Dana”) Meadows has written dozens of remarkable articles about systems thinking. Today I decided to share one of my favorites – …
What does it mean to engage the creative participation of the whole? That aspiration is both simpler and more complex than it …
We are each a complex, networked, ecosystem of a self, not just a role or a race or a name. Beneath our …
In this second post I share two more articles (in addition to the one featured last week) that have helped me understand …
Discussions and struggles over diversity and privilege are up-welling in societies around the world, including in my own life and projects. In …
There is something about the universe — an elegant order in the way everything fits and unfolds, an inexplicable beauty in its …
In my first post on this topic I introduced basic principles of intercentricity – a dynamic worldview of reciprocal aliveness. In the …
In my last post I introduced basic principles of intercentricity – a dynamic worldview of reciprocal aliveness. In this post and the …
Back in August 1991 – at the dawn of my co-intelligence work – I wrote an essay exploring the implications of seeing …