Offerings for a New Paradigm Politics
We are near the end of our summer fundraiser. Folks have donated $3274 toward our $15,000 target. Please join them in supporting …
Can problem-solving itself be problematic? (Sense-making, Part 6)
This essay is largely a critique of how we tend to focus on problem-solving to address any undesirable situation. However, as I’ve …
Waking Up into Wholeness, Dialogue and Mystery (Sense-making – Part 1)
A compelling, well-reasoned essay challenges us with the idea that we actually don’t know what’s going on – ever. A colleague responds …
We are all in this together – Part II
A poem suggesting that we are all very much together in the co-creative dynamics of the whole of life, even as we …
Some clarifying big-picture perspectives on the coronavirus
I think we will see everything…people coming together and some with an “every man for himself” attitude. I also hope this is …
Can a small citizen deliberation have more impact than a giant one?
Among the many trends I see in my work on democratic innovation I highlight two here, one in Canada, one in the …
Simplicity, Complicatedness, Complexity, Chaos – and Transformation
Situations that are simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic involve very different dynamics and thus very different forms of engagement. If we are …
A Journey into the Juicy Complexity of Regenerative Culture
Two reviews of Daniel Christian Wahl’s Designing Regenerative Cultures I knew a lot about regenerative culture before I opened this remarkable book. …
Factors that support collective intelligence and wisdom
Many factors play a role in how collectively intelligent or wise a group, system, or situation is. Here I offer tentative lists …
Exploring Wholeness in more detail – to support our highest aspirations
Wholeness is the foundation of the co-intelligence worldview. It is a big subject – embracing many varieties, dimensions, and manifestations of wholeness, …