ChatGPT – A Partner in Unknowing (AI Meets Wisdom Series – Part 1)
ChatGPT can help us realize how much we fall short in our approaches to complex challenges. By wisely using its capacity to summarize …
How “harmony” makes interesting sense of Chinese culture and our shared future
China’s governing principle of the Mandate of Heaven and their standard of Harmony can be used to understand some of their dubiousness about …
My first book on co-intelligence is now published! + Mar 15 event…
My new book Co-Intelligence: The applied wisdom of wholeness, interconnectedness and co-creativity has just been published! You can check it out and order it right …
Pluralism, Plurality, and the Generation of Collective Wisdom
The New Pluralists and Plurality activists are rising to meet the challenges of rapidly increasing social division. They aspire to enhance the …
Engaging the Metacrisis (Part 3: Polycrisis vs Metacrisis…) (was “Systemic Drivers of Collapse”)
I offer here a review and extensive excerpts from an article that is shifting my perspective on the polycrisis/metacrisis, and thus is …
Systemic Drivers of Collapse (Part 1: Introduction)
“Systemic drivers of collapse”* are dynamics and assumptions built into our current global civilization’s systems. They are present in various forms in diverse …
Love & the Wise Democracy Pattern Language
Is there anything in the Wise Democracy Pattern Language about LOVING? A friend challenged me about that and I’ve finally found a …
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 …
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 – …
Dancing with Systems – and Interdependence!
Donella (“Dana”) Meadows has written dozens of remarkable articles about systems thinking. Today I decided to share one of my favorites – …