A short ask for support
Dear friends, The unique gift of our work at the Co-Intelligence Institute is clarifying the nature of collective folly and collective wisdom, …
A new wise democracy pattern language + March event
In this post I announce and describe a new expanded (96 pattern) version of the wise democracy pattern language (WDPL) and the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Finding our way together – through innovations in shared understanding (Collective Coherence Part Two)
Majoritarian voting can get us to a workable answer quickly without having to worry about minorities and concerns. But sometimes some of …
Earth will survive. Shall we? – Some Science, Spirit and Song
This morning an astrophysicist’s essay brought up for me my long-time suspicion that “saving the world” is more about saving ourselves than …
Finding our way together – through innovations in voting (Collective Coherence Part One)
Groups use various methods to live together, to think together, and to come together to get work done. My new series of …
The Co-Intelligence Institute’s unique and expanding contributions – with you!
This post is a fundraiser. You’ll read about some of the Co-Intelligence Institute’s leading-edge activities and how specific people treasure our valuable contributions. …