Exploring Nonviolent Communication through a meta-relational lens (AI Meets Wisdom Series – Part 8)
My first conversation with the AI Aiden Cinnamon Tea (ACT) – Part 3 Dear friends, For many months I’ve been exploring connections …
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 …
Big Caring
Caring can be shallow or deep, short or longterm, successful or failed. It can be individual or collective or even built into …
Who benefits and how? A holistic view of win-win-win
People talk about win-win and win-win-win – and I talk about wisdom producing long-term broad benefits. But what does this all mean, …
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 …
An inspiring example of seeking to live one’s values
In this post I share a report from a long-time friend who has a unique way of working to live her values …
Two DIY Approaches to Help Everyone Feel Heard
There are many ways to help people feel heard. Many of us realize how valuable that capacity is not only for conflict …
The co-intelligent satisfaction of needs
All the activities of life can be viewed as efforts to satisfy fundamental needs. The specific things we think we want or …
Empathy notes #4: Toward an era of wise caring
Reason and feeling each have gifts and limitations. Used well together they generate wise caring. There are examples of wise caring in …