Tom Atlee: Creative Participation of the Whole – a North Star concept

Creative Participation of the Whole – a North Star concept For people in the Northern Hemisphere, the North Star, Polaris, is the only star that always sits in the same place in the sky. Before modern technologies like GPS, it was vital to navigation. So it has become a metaphor for a significant and dependable …

Tom Atlee: Shrinking our Big Selves: Part 3 of “A big-picture, co-intelligent vision of diversity and privilege”

Shrinking our Big Selves: Part 3 of “A big-picture, co-intelligent vision of diversity and privilege” We are each a complex, networked, ecosystem of a self, not just a role or a race or a name. Beneath our shallow surface appearance and social identities we are full, whole people, deeply alive and potent with meaning and …

Tom Atlee: A big-picture, co-intelligent vision of diversity and privilege (Part 1)

A big-picture, co-intelligent vision of diversity and privilege (Part 1) For several years I have been increasingly challenged, curious and evolving in my perspectives on equity, justice, and privilege. I recognize this as my own personal experience within a vast, complex societal evolutionary process filled with intensely difficult, necessary, dangerous, puzzling, potent and uplifting events …

Tom Atlee: Intercentricity (Part 2b): Examples – From pluralism and education to power and democracy

Intercentricity (Part 2b): Examples – From pluralism and education to power and democracy INTERCENTRICITY AND…. NETWORKS Networks are examples of social structures that are founded on centers and relationships instead of borders and separations. Therefore, many different networks can coexist in the same space. They are distinct at their centers but become increasingly mutually-permeating as …