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 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 …
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 – …
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 …
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 – 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 …
Can a small citizen deliberation have more impact than a giant one?
Among the many trends I see in my work on democratic innovation I highlight two here, one in Canada, one in the …
Mutual learning in context – everywhere – always…
A poem about another deep dynamic we can tap into to generate wisdom together. What is it about the fact that everything …
Contextual Intelligence as a path to greater wisdom
Contextual intelligence is about expanding our understanding of – and capacity to address – the contexts shaping the situations we face. It’s …