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Intrinsic Participation and the Great Co-Creative Dance

In this essay I expand on the idea of “intrinsic participation”, a concept I introduced in “Creative Participation of the Whole – …

There is something about the universe — an elegant order in the way everything fits and unfolds, an inexplicable beauty in its …

In my first post on this topic I introduced basic principles of intercentricity – a dynamic worldview of reciprocal aliveness. In the …

A poem suggesting that we are all very much together in the co-creative dynamics of the whole of life, even as we …

If I were a good tomorrow, I’d find the story that made me happen And the people who lived into it Till …

Among the many trends I see in my work on democratic innovation I highlight two here, one in Canada, one in the …

We know we can scale up democratic exercises like voting to embrace thousands or millions of people. But what about scaling up …

Majoritarian voting can get us to a workable answer quickly without having to worry about minorities and concerns. But sometimes some of …

Normal is coming unhinged…. The social and environmental horrors likely to be committed under President Trump are likely to incite massive civil …

Within a month of toppling its dictator, Tunisia’s 2011 Arab Spring revolution was bogged down with a struggling transition government and a …