Scaling up powerful conversations: Examples, methods, and approaches (Collective Coherence Part Four)
In the first two posts in this “Finding Our Way Together/Collective Coherence” series, I explored innovations in voting and in conversations that …
How to scale up conversations to embrace millions (Collective Coherence Part Three)
We know we can scale up democratic exercises like voting to embrace thousands or millions of people. But what about scaling up …
Journalistic Curiosity and Some New Powers of the Press
Three different journalistic initiatives all involved a whole country witnessing seriously diverse citizens truly hearing each other and connecting across political divides. Only one …
Sprouting self-organized collaborative governance
People without special authority but with real interest in their community and larger social issues are working together to do what’s needed …
Finding our way together – through innovations in shared understanding (Collective Coherence Part Two)
Majoritarian voting can get us to a workable answer quickly without having to worry about minorities and concerns. But sometimes some of …
Earth will survive. Shall we? – Some Science, Spirit and Song
This morning an astrophysicist’s essay brought up for me my long-time suspicion that “saving the world” is more about saving ourselves than …
Finding our way together – through innovations in voting (Collective Coherence Part One)
Groups use various methods to live together, to think together, and to come together to get work done. My new series of …
The Co-Intelligence Institute’s unique and expanding contributions – with you!
This post is a fundraiser. You’ll read about some of the Co-Intelligence Institute’s leading-edge activities and how specific people treasure our valuable contributions. …
vTaiwan (Part 5) – Lessons for Government-Engaged Popular Deliberation
How could we generate vTaiwan-like citizen- and stakeholder-engaged government elsewhere? In this post I explore the nature of government engagement with participatory …
vTaiwan (Part 4) – Online sources for my research
Here are dozens of links I used in my explorations of vTaiwan and my invitation for you to explore further one of …