In a wise democracy, who are “stakeholders” and what is their role?
Stakeholders are citizens involved with a specific issue or domain, whose activities actually constitute that issue or domain. Thus the stakeholders of …
Deep Democracy and Community Wisdom
A community has more potential capacity to generate wisdom than any individual. But that potential can only be realized to the extent …
A reflective note for this Friday and next Tuesday
Who are we in this strange time? What are we doing here? The news is incessant. In the face of so much …
Wise Democracy: A Poem and Two Interviews
In addition to a timely political poem, I want to share two interviews I had recently which overlap a lot but each …
Dialogue Guidelines to Deepen Awareness (Part 3)
This is the third of three posts in which I share some insightful guidelines for expanding individual and group consciousness by highlighting …
Dialogue Guidelines to Deepen Awareness (Part 2)
This is the second of three posts in which I share some insightful guidelines for expanding individual and group consciousness by highlighting …
Dialogue Guidelines to Deepen Awareness (Part 1)
This is the first of three posts in which I share some remarkable guidelines for expanding individual and group consciousness through particular …
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 …