My conversation with an Indigenous/metacrisis-educated AI (AI Meets Wisdom Series – Part 6)
Dear friends, For many months I’ve been exploring connections between my work, the metacrisis, and Indigenous worldviews and wisdom. Last week I …
My search for life-serving transformational directions in these times
Dear friends, We are certainly in a time of profound transformation. The competition between worldviews is heating up and the field of ideological …
What are the economics of trauma, healing and enoughness?
My Australian friend Tirrania Suhood recently referred me to an excellent article on economic dynamics that are driving personal, community, national and …
To help our caring give its greatest gifts
Dear friends, Our caring about or for something or someone means they are important to us. We are concerned how things turn …
What is the practice of co-intelligence? Part 5 – Ten Qualities
This is the fifth of six posts seeking to describe what it means to practice co-intelligence. (You can read the first post here, …
The prospect of wise public policy (AI – A Partner in Wise Democracy? #7)
I had a conversation with Claude, one of my AI colleagues, which I share here. Starting with a prompt about wise public …
Individualism, Collectivism, Metabolism (Hospicing Modernity, Part 1)
Shifting our fundamental identity from being separate individuals and groups to being facets of the dynamic metabolism of nature – as strange …
ChatGPT – A Partner in Wise Democracy? #3 – Storytelling (AI Meets Wisdom Series – Part 5)
In this post, I challenge ChatGPT 4o to imagine how the Community Catalyst Program it recommended (in my prior blog conversation on …
ChatGPT – A Partner in Wise Democracy? #1 (AI Meets Wisdom Series – Part 2)
Below I share one of my conversations with ChatGPT 4o about generating wise, inclusive, multi-level self-governance. It provides a remarkable overview of …
Talking about public participation & community engagement with the US Federal Government
These are my responses to the Federal government’s new Request for Information (RFI) survey about methods and leading practices for advancing public …