A new wise democracy pattern language + March event
In this post I announce and describe a new expanded (96 pattern) version of the wise democracy pattern language (WDPL) and the …
Dialogue Guidelines to Deepen Awareness (Part 3)
This is the third of three posts in which I share some insightful guidelines for expanding individual and group consciousness by highlighting …
Dialogue Guidelines to Deepen Awareness (Part 2)
This is the second of three posts in which I share some insightful guidelines for expanding individual and group consciousness by highlighting …
Dialogue Guidelines to Deepen Awareness (Part 1)
This is the first of three posts in which I share some remarkable guidelines for expanding individual and group consciousness through particular …
How to scale up conversations to embrace millions (Collective Coherence Part Three)
We know we can scale up democratic exercises like voting to embrace thousands or millions of people. But what about scaling up …
vTaiwan (Part 5) – Lessons for Government-Engaged Popular Deliberation
How could we generate vTaiwan-like citizen- and stakeholder-engaged government elsewhere? In this post I explore the nature of government engagement with participatory …
vTaiwan – A Glimpse of Open Source Open Space Government (Part 1)
Here’s a fascinating introduction to one of the most remarkably co-intelligent experiments in governance happening on the planet today. More to follow…. …
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 …
Using a few million dollars to transform American political culture
What high-leverage initiatives can we imagine that could embed wisdom-producing dialogue and deliberation – among citizens, stakeholders, and/or public officials – deeply …
Listening for Change: A remarkable essay by a remarkable colleague
Good facilitation can help us hear each other in ways that free up our collective energy for change. Here is a provocative …