Why do we value wise democracy’s “prime directive”?
The Wise Democracy Project has a guiding principle – its prime directive to evoke and engage the wisdom and resourcefulness of the …
My Growing Taboo Awareness (…for Wise Democracy)
Taboo uses social pressure and self-censorship to keep us from thinking, talking or behaving in ways our social group doesn’t want us …
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 …
News on my 2020 work and a request for support
I share below some of what I’ve been up to, especially new inquiries arising around my wise democracy vision, including the nature …
The weirding of political parties calls up visions of inclusiveness
I collected up some articles that make fascinating sense of what is happening in political parties – and in ourselves as we …
A wide-ranging interview with me, for your enjoyment
A couple of months ago I was in San Francisco and did a podcast conversation with Duncan Autrey, a fascinating conflict transformation …
Finding our way together – through innovations in shared understanding (Collective Coherence Part Two)
Majoritarian voting can get us to a workable answer quickly without having to worry about minorities and concerns. But sometimes some of …
The wisdom of the fringes?
Counterintuitively, the highest evolutionary wisdom lies on the fringes of business as usual. The fringes are fringes because they are different, dissident, …
Exploring Wholeness in more detail – to support our highest aspirations
Wholeness is the foundation of the co-intelligence worldview. It is a big subject – embracing many varieties, dimensions, and manifestations of wholeness, …
The wisdom of the fringes?
In the end, I believe that those who call forth the most collective intelligence and wisdom will be those who can manifest – and help others manifest – two vital capacities: 1. the ability to include more of what is normally overlooked and exclude…