Engaging with the Evolving Whole
What this message is about: Everything in the world is part of an evolving whole. Learning – once again, newly – how …
Why do we value wise democracy’s “prime directive”?
The Wise Democracy Project has a guiding principle – its prime directive to evoke and engage the wisdom and resourcefulness of the …
To Fix, Improve, and Transform Democracy
Democracy is in trouble around the world. Thankfully, we see many creative responses emerging to meet that challenge. Among other initiatives, the …
Collective intelligence is only one-sixth of co-intelligence
Many people assume that co-intelligence and collective intelligence are the same thing. They aren’t. Co-intelligence includes collective intelligence plus a whole lot …
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 – …
Offerings for a New Paradigm Politics
We are near the end of our summer fundraiser. Folks have donated $3274 toward our $15,000 target. Please join them in supporting …
My Growing Taboo Awareness (…for Wise Democracy)
Taboo uses social pressure and self-censorship to keep us from thinking, talking or behaving in ways our social group doesn’t want us …
Dancing with Systems – and Interdependence!
Donella (“Dana”) Meadows has written dozens of remarkable articles about systems thinking. Today I decided to share one of my favorites – …
Creative Participation of the Whole – a North Star concept
What does it mean to engage the creative participation of the whole? That aspiration is both simpler and more complex than it …
Large-scale collective sense-making processes (Sense-making – Part 5)
I’ve long advocated the use of multiple processes in public and stakeholder engagements so that synergies among them can be tapped. Recently …