The Trump doorway to an empathic new story
Normal is coming unhinged…. The social and environmental horrors likely to be committed under President Trump are likely to incite massive civil …
Imagine a country imagining its future together. It did!
Within a month of toppling its dictator, Tunisia’s 2011 Arab Spring revolution was bogged down with a struggling transition government and a …
Six Paths to Greater Empathy
Big Empathy is about expanding our empathy to embrace the suffering and well-being of more of life, more deeply, more competently, and …
How to integrate information for a wiser democracy
Many fields and professions – from journalism and academia to video games and movies – can and do stimulate informed – or …
Crucial Adventures in Systems Thinking
Systems are everywhere. They shape us and we can, do, and should shape them. Our destiny is tied up with them but …
Entertaining a Shift in the Story Field
Entertainment media like soap operas and video games are being used for social change – to shift the embedded stories of our …
Areas for Strategic Action to Enhance Societal Collective Intelligence
I believe that any person or group wishing to catalyze the emergence of a sustainable civilization must take strategic action to enhance the collective intelligence of entire societies. (NOTE: The term “whole society” or “entire society” does not …