Below is a slightly edited excerpt from an email written by a group facilitator participating in one of the urban Occupy actions (name withheld at their request). Their note reveals an emerging difficulty that could undermine the ability of such a…
The viral story field set free by Occupy Wall Street is morphing and spreading to hundreds of cities. The multifarious conversation of transformation is popping up everywhere like mushrooms in a forest. Both alternative and mainstream media are fi…
It is slowly dawning on me that I’ve seen events very similar to Occupy Wall Street. The first time was on the Great Peace March in 1986 which started out from Los Angeles as a hierarchical mega-PR event with 1200 people and tons of equipment. It …
Along with a lot of other people, I’ve been wondering what’s going on with Occupy Wall Street. Although it obviously shares energy with the Wisconsin occupation and Arab Spring, its mix of persistence and lack of demands makes it a puzzle, draggin…
Who participates in “whole system” conversations? Partisans, Stakeholders, Domains and Citizens by Tom Atlee Consciously convened conversations have many functions. Many seek simply to get people talking with each other. Others try to bring togeth…
This is, for me, the most inspiring TED Talk I’ve ever seen. Silver Donald Cameron – Bhutan: The Pursuit of Gross National Happiness And here are a film and a book that expand and deepen the view that economics can and should be about generating g…
A longer version of this article with more detailed guidelines and references can be found at http://co-intelligence.org/WD-WiserDecisions.html As a civilization we have tremendous collective power, but we don’t always use it wisely. We can make g…
This month, July 2011, is the 20th anniversary of one of the most remarkable journalistic initiatives I’ve ever seen — an innovation so cutting-edge that even the innovators did not recognize its world-shaking potential. In July 1991, MACLEAN’S m…
Summer 2011 Co-Intelligence Institute fundraiser progress report: Funds raised so far: $3240 // Target: $20,000 Percentage of needed funds raised so far: 16.2% People on our mailing list: 2088 // Days left before end of fundraiser: 10 Thank you to…
Every now and then potentially game changing innovations show up. Wikileaks is one of them, something that shifts the relationship between centralized power and broader national and international populations. We don’t know what exactly will happen…