Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of my best essay on emergent group process
My quiet summer fundraiser continues. So far we’ve received $2282 from 23 people. If you find my work meaningful, please send me …
Making “Wholeness” a Realistic Guiding Principle
Tom Atlee Jun 12, 2025 What this message is about: Wholeness isn’t about perfection—it’s about participation in life’s evolving dance. In this …
My first book on co-intelligence is now published! + Mar 15 event…
My new book Co-Intelligence: The applied wisdom of wholeness, interconnectedness and co-creativity has just been published! You can check it out and order it right …
A new face – and new ways to engage!
The Co-Intelligence Institute announces a new board member and a new webpage for CII’s new Patterning Ritual for Moments of Transition and …
Truth and the dance of fact and story (Sense-Making Part 7)
Facts ground us in reality. Stories ground us in meaning. The two together can produce powerful guidance, what we call “truth”. But …
To Fix, Improve, and Transform Democracy
Democracy is in trouble around the world. Thankfully, we see many creative responses emerging to meet that challenge. Among other initiatives, the …
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 …
Large-scale collective sense-making processes (Sense-making – Part 5)
I’ve long advocated the use of multiple processes in public and stakeholder engagements so that synergies among them can be tapped. Recently …
Making Democracies Worthy of the Name… and More
Democracy is rule of, by and for the people. There are many ways to try doing that. This message looks at a …