Expanding democratic genius into collective wisdom (Part 2)
I’ve been promoting mini-publics – citizen assemblies, citizens juries, citizen councils, etc. – for more than two decades. Their design is a …
Expanding democratic genius into collective wisdom (Part 1)
Dear friends, While working on my last blog post about Audrey Tang’s work, I was also helping organize and edit a book …
Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of my best essay on emergent group process
My quiet summer fundraiser continues. So far we’ve received $2282 from 23 people. If you find my work meaningful, please send me …
Making “Wholeness” a Realistic Guiding Principle
Tom Atlee Jun 12, 2025 What this message is about: Wholeness isn’t about perfection—it’s about participation in life’s evolving dance. In this …
Reflections on Faith (Certainty Series Part 2)
Dear friends, If you’re looking for certainty, this post may not help. However, it may be interesting to notice how you feel …
The Holistic Paradigm as Democracy’s Evolutionary Frontier
I want to bring your attention to a very important essay on “The Holistic Paradigm as Democracy’s Evolutionary Frontier”. Starting here, it explores …
How I stumbled into the visionary beauty of citizen consensus councils
I’ve stumbled on a 23-year-old video where I tell the story of how a vision I loved – about what citizen consensus …
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 …
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 …
Large-scale collective sense-making processes (Sense-making – Part 5)
I’ve long advocated the use of multiple processes in public and stakeholder engagements so that synergies among them can be tapped. Recently …