Two weeks ago I had an intense conversation with a colleague working with a local Occupy community. A small faction had recently done a protest that – although physically nonviolent – was not verbally, spiritually, or strategically nonviolent. The…
For almost 5 years I’ve been involved with envisioning and creating a “pattern language” for group process. (A pattern language is a set of design factors to guide people in creating things that are wholesome and life-giving – vibrant communities,…
More and more I think of my transformational work as a DNA-modifying RNA molecule, tweaking the changes needed for conscious evolution. The dominant social DNA – the society-shaping designs and dynamic patterns that replicate and evolve – are all …
Few existing institutions of higher education have sufficiently integral worldviews or evolutionary capacity to teach the knowledge and competencies urgently needed to co-create a sustainable civilization out of our era of rapidly emerging consequ…