Raising children for a miraculous interconnected world
I offer videos from two of my most important teachers – Daniel Schmachtenberger and Nora Bateson. Their lessons are about the importance …
ChatGPT – A Partner in Wise Democracy? #2 – Strategy (AI Meets Wisdom Series – Part 3)
In this message, I explore ChatGPT’s adventure with me into strategizing how to utilize the great list it produced of existing approaches …
How I stumbled into the visionary beauty of citizen consensus councils
I’ve stumbled on a 23-year-old video where I tell the story of how a vision I loved – about what citizen consensus …
AI Series #1: Dimensions of Generative AI / ChatGPT
This article discusses the potential risks of giving AI god-like powers, especially as AI becomes superintelligent and embedded in all aspects of …
Intrinsic Participation and the Great Co-Creative Dance
In this essay I expand on the idea of “intrinsic participation”, a concept I introduced in “Creative Participation of the Whole – …
More juicy Inquiries into sense-making (Sense-making – Part 3)
In the previous two posts in this “sense-making” series (here and here) I shared several earlier articles on this subject that I …
Can a small citizen deliberation have more impact than a giant one?
Among the many trends I see in my work on democratic innovation I highlight two here, one in Canada, one in the …
Sense-making – together and apart
Moment to moment we are each trying to make or maintain our sense of what’s real, what’s important, what’s going on. We …
Wise Democracy Card Decks are now available
Printed card decks for our Wise Democracy Pattern Language (version 2.0) are now available for purchase in boxed sets with 96 pattern …
Imagine a country imagining its future together. It did!
Within a month of toppling its dictator, Tunisia’s 2011 Arab Spring revolution was bogged down with a struggling transition government and a …