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January 2013

The wisdom of the fringes?

In the end, I believe that those who call forth the most collective intelligence and wisdom will be those who can manifest – and help others manifest – two vital capacities: 1. the ability to include more of what is normally overlooked and exclude…

Participatory wisdom and sustainability

I am working with a team exploring the emerging field of participatory sustainability. From this new perspective, sustainability cannot be achieved without increasing the level of co-intelligent participation in all aspects of our public life – es…

A society governed by the people’s wisdom…

Last weekend I joined a small group exploring the idea that society could have the capacity to generate “public wisdom” and that we could empower that wisdom to support wiser public policy and popular behavior. Because many people don’t know what …

Feedback dynamics in climate and society

In the debate over climate change, I find myself paying more attention to authorities who highlight important positive feedback loops through which a warming atmosphere triggers increased climate change. Their troubling scenarios come not from inn…

An unsung treasure for facilitators and civilizations

Back in the mid-90’s I discovered Jim Rough’s Wisdom Council formathttp://www.co-intelligence.org/P-wisdomcouncil.html and began promoting it through my network as a way to increase the co-intelligence of a community. I loved the design of it – ev…

Damascus Snowball Truce (a real moment of peace)

I have something else I was going to post, but just saw this. It reminds me of the WWI Christmas truce. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce There is a deep lesson and inspiration here. I think we would learn so much by fully understanding…

A tremendously insightful “Eulogy to Occupy”

Over the last 15 months I posted many reflections on the Occupy movement. That movement is clearly not over, morphing into new shapes even as its most potent meme – “We are the 99%” – continues to reverberate. Yet there was something about the ori…