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 …
The taproot of wise democracy
“Co-intelligence is the capacity to call forth the wisdom and resources of the whole and its members to enhance the longterm vitality …
Exploring Wholeness in more detail – to support our highest aspirations
Wholeness is the foundation of the co-intelligence worldview. It is a big subject – embracing many varieties, dimensions, and manifestations of wholeness, …
Exploring the many species of Power (with Wholeness in mind)
There is power everywhere, not just in domination and control. Power comes in many forms and guises and is itself evolving. Those …
Potent hope dances with passive hope and spectatorism
Optimism and pessimism are kind of like spectator sports: things are getting better – or – things are getting worse. Passive hope …
Crucial Adventures in Systems Thinking
Systems are everywhere. They shape us and we can, do, and should shape them. Our destiny is tied up with them but …
Wholeness moving in us and the world
Rachel Naomi Remen offers a story about how wholeness became embedded in the world, waiting for us to call it forth. I …
Pattern Languages: Social DNA for conscious evolution of social systems
More and more I think of my transformational work as a DNA-modifying RNA molecule, tweaking the changes needed for conscious evolution. The dominant social DNA – the society-shaping designs and dynamic patterns that replicate and evolve – are all …
Whole System Conversations – and the Voice of the Whole
Who participates in “whole system” conversations? Partisans, Stakeholders, Domains and Citizens by Tom Atlee Consciously convened conversations have many functions. Many seek simply to get people talking with each other. Others try to bring togeth…
Judgment, Love, and Wholeness
A big part of loving (to me) is learning to (and making the effort to) let go of judgments of the one I love (and, by extention, progressively, of everyone). This involves unpacking my assignment of the label “bad” into its parts, such as: a. I do…