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 …
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 …
Creative responses to events in Charlottesville
There are dozens of possible responses to the recent events in Charlottesville. Perhaps our greatest opportunity right now is to have truly …
Life-affirming engagement with the Trump phenomenon
Donald Trump surpasses all other U.S. candidates in raising negative responses – a dynamic which both helps and harms his campaign. His …
A really good new book about dealing with differences
Greg Nees’ Connecting Hearts and Minds: Insights, Skills, and Best Practices for Dealing with Differences is exactly what it says it is. …
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 …
Six Paths to Greater Empathy
Big Empathy is about expanding our empathy to embrace the suffering and well-being of more of life, more deeply, more competently, and …
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 …
Sandy Hook: Individual and societal madness and healing
My friend and colleague Miki Kashtan has written a compelling article exploring the interconnectedness of personal, community and social dimensions of the Sandy Hook crisis,”Adam Lanza and All of Us”http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/tikkundaily/ad…