Polis: A Breakthrough tool for broader, deeper consensus
Polis is an online survey platform where all the items being surveyed are created by the participants, whose responses to each other’s …
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 …
A new face – and new ways to engage!
The Co-Intelligence Institute announces a new board member and a new webpage for CII’s new Patterning Ritual for Moments of Transition and …
Truth and the dance of fact and story (Sense-Making Part 7)
Facts ground us in reality. Stories ground us in meaning. The two together can produce powerful guidance, what we call “truth”. But …
A unique gift and an ask
As a gift to you as a reader of this blog, Co-Intelligence Institute (CII) board member Sita Magnusen has created A Patterning …
Reflections on Wise Democracy in practice
New Co-Intelligence Institute board member Andy Paice tells the story of his work with communities in the UK, bringing the theory of …
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 – …