Engaging human life energy elegantly for change
To change the world we can call forth and inspire people’s life energy toward the fundamental needs of life. Doing this requires …
Expanding Guidelines for Group Wisdom
Collective wisdom is vaster and more benign than collective intelligence, but can sometimes be even easier to achieve in small groups. Alan …
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 …
January opportunity #1: Can Conversations on Crises Change Civilization?
Powerful conversations have a track record of impacting individuals and systems in significant ways. Thus, for many of us who practice and …
Comparing “the wisdom of crowds” to real collective wisdom
The popular book “The Wisdom of Crowds” says a lot about the remarkable accuracy of thousands of people making guesses about something …
Realizing Empathy as Part of Co-Intelligence
Few people – including myself until recently – have realized how important empathy is to co-intelligence. Here I focus on four important …
From Conflict to Creative Collaboration: A Review of Rosa Zubizarreta’s User’s Guide to Dynamic Facilitation
Rosa Zubizarreta’s new book on Dynamic Facilitation is the best description I know of a truly remarkable process for generating breakthroughs when …
An opportunity like no other – the Great March for Climate Action
In March 2014 the giant Great March for Climate Action will begin its 8 month cross-country activist trek. I believe it has …
Transforming Occupy’s challenge into transformation and innovative self-organization
Two weeks ago I had an intense conversation with a colleague working with a local Occupy community. A small faction had recently done a protest that – although physically nonviolent – was not verbally, spiritually, or strategically nonviolent. The…
A big breakthrough for all group process folks…
For almost 5 years I’ve been involved with envisioning and creating a “pattern language” for group process. (A pattern language is a set of design factors to guide people in creating things that are wholesome and life-giving – vibrant communities,…