Plucking possibilities and energy from the collision of hope and despair
Things are getting better and better and worse and worse faster and faster, in bigger and bigger ways. These two faces of …
Messy motions towards a better world
The more alive reality is, the less clear-cut it seems to be. If we look closely and fairly, what seems bright and …
Listening for Change: A remarkable essay by a remarkable colleague
Good facilitation can help us hear each other in ways that free up our collective energy for change. Here is a provocative …
A thanksgiving mindful of ALL children
Below you will find a remarkable Thanksgiving prayer-poem by child advocate Marian Wright Edelman. In its vision and compassion it reminds me of …
A Timely Poem: The Unholy Majority
I’ve recently been engaged in some new background research, writing, and conversations and have been absent from this public space for a …
A wisdom-generating deliberative democracy game app?
Most virtual forms of democracy that involve discussion, debate, networking and/or voting may facilitate individual voter expression and learning, but are not …
Pros, cons and the liberation potential of random selection
Today elections are more manipulated spectacle than enforcing the real answerability of elected governments. Existing political systems make wise decision-making highly unlikely. …
A new participatory Co-Intelligence Institute is emerging…
Dear friends, I am excited to share with you some developments from a series of nine virtual meetings over six weeks in …
The meltdown of “jobs” – gloomy and bright
Automation is deleting jobs at an accelerating rate – and there are bright and gloomy implications for that. On the gloomy …
Juicy Compilations about Big Empathy and Transformational Conversation
In the last ten days two major compilations have been posted related to the co-intelligence work – one on Big Empathy and …