Here is my experience with the remarkable book, Braiding Sweetgrass, which successfully immersed me in the indigenous awareness of the living world as “all my relations”. The implications are staggering – and superbly communicated by the author, Robin Wall Kimmerer, equally grounded in indigenous Potawatomi and Onondaga wisdom and Western …
Governance actually involves more than governMENT. Here we explore six approaches to getting things done together as whole communities and societies: Shared …
What would life in the public realm be like in a wise democracy? Let’s indulge our imaginations for a moment…. I asked …
Dear friends, The unique gift of our work at the Co-Intelligence Institute is clarifying the nature of collective folly and collective wisdom, …
In this post I announce and describe a new expanded (96 pattern) version of the wise democracy pattern language (WDPL) and the …
Dear Readers, 2018 has been a landmark year for the Co-Intelligence Institute (CII) and me. Over the last two years we’ve been …
Stakeholders are citizens involved with a specific issue or domain, whose activities actually constitute that issue or domain. Thus the stakeholders of …
A community has more potential capacity to generate wisdom than any individual. But that potential can only be realized to the extent …
Who are we in this strange time? What are we doing here? The news is incessant. In the face of so much …
In addition to a timely political poem, I want to share two interviews I had recently which overlap a lot but each …