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 …
Shrinking our Big Selves: Part 3 of “A big-picture, co-intelligent vision of diversity and privilege”
We are each a complex, networked, ecosystem of a self, not just a role or a race or a name. Beneath our …
A big-picture, co-intelligent vision of diversity and privilege (Part 2)
In this second post I share two more articles (in addition to the one featured last week) that have helped me understand …
A big-picture, co-intelligent vision of diversity and privilege (Part 1)
Discussions and struggles over diversity and privilege are up-welling in societies around the world, including in my own life and projects. In …
Universal Intelligence
There is something about the universe — an elegant order in the way everything fits and unfolds, an inexplicable beauty in its …
Intercentricity (Part 2b): Examples – From pluralism and education to power and democracy
In my first post on this topic I introduced basic principles of intercentricity – a dynamic worldview of reciprocal aliveness. In the …
Intercentricity (Part 2a): Examples – from activism to love and spirituality
In my last post I introduced basic principles of intercentricity – a dynamic worldview of reciprocal aliveness. In this post and the …
Intercentricity – the web of reciprocal aliveness (Part 1)
Back in August 1991 – at the dawn of my co-intelligence work – I wrote an essay exploring the implications of seeing …
Can problem-solving itself be problematic? (Sense-making, Part 6)
This essay is largely a critique of how we tend to focus on problem-solving to address any undesirable situation. However, as I’ve …
The Challenge of Listening and Healing (on US Inauguration Day 2021)
In Wednesday’s inauguration, President Biden called on Americans to come together in unity and healing. So did former US Youth Poet Laureate …