wisdom

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 – …

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Taboo uses social pressure and self-censorship to keep us from thinking, talking or behaving in ways our social group doesn’t want us …

Donella (“Dana”) Meadows has written dozens of remarkable articles about systems thinking. Today I decided to share one of my favorites – …

What does it mean to engage the creative participation of the whole? That aspiration is both simpler and more complex than it …

I’ve long advocated the use of multiple processes in public and stakeholder engagements so that synergies among them can be tapped. Recently …

I share below some of what I’ve been up to, especially new inquiries arising around my wise democracy vision, including the nature …

A compelling, well-reasoned essay challenges us with the idea that we actually don’t know what’s going on – ever. A colleague responds …

Democracy is rule of, by and for the people. There are many ways to try doing that. This message looks at a …

Here’s a short evolutionary systemic look at where we find ourselves and why it is important to make a shift outside of …