The truth at any cost lowers all other costs
A new wise democracy pattern language I am immersed in work co-creating version 2.0 of the wise democracy pattern language that we anticipate will be available by mid-April – free online as well as offered in a beautiful boxed set of cards for sale. The new set has most of version 1.0 patterns plus more …
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In a wise democracy, who are “stakeholders” and what is their role? Stakeholders are citizens involved with a specific issue or domain, whose activities actually constitute that issue or domain. Thus the stakeholders of a domain collectively have the potential – IF they collaborate – to make whatever difference is most important to be made …
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Deep Democracy and Community Wisdom A community has more potential capacity to generate wisdom than any individual. But that potential can only be realized to the extent the community creatively utilizes both its diversity and the tensions and disturbances that arise within it. The most potent forms of leadership and governance thus involve nurturing the …
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Dialogue Guidelines to Deepen Awareness (Part 3) This is the third of three posts in which I share some insightful guidelines for expanding individual and group consciousness by highlighting certain dynamics during dialogue exercises. For more information and background about this remarkable approach, see the first post in the series. That first post, this post, …
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Dialogue Guidelines to Deepen Awareness (Part 1) Dialogue Guidelines to Deepen Awareness (Part 2) See Also: Tom Atlee @ Phi Beta Iota
Scaling up powerful conversations: Examples, methods, and approaches (Collective Coherence Part Four) Below are a dozen approaches to scaling up what we know is possible in relatively small face-to-face conversations to include and/or influence thousands or millions of people. Keep in mind that many of these approaches have special qualities that – in combination with …
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How to scale up conversations to embrace millions Four factors to keep in mind when scaling up All the different approaches to scaling up that I’ve explored in my research involve different versions of the following four factors: 1. Broad Participation – Sometimes it’s the number of people involved, sometimes it’s their targeted diversity (diverse demographics …
Sprouting self-organized collaborative governance When we think of governance we usually think of formal institutions: The Government. But governANCE is simply the function of managing our collective affairs. GovernMENT is just one way of doing that. People without special authority but with real interest in their community and larger social issues are working together to …
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Finding our way together – through innovations in shared understanding (Collective Coherence Part Two) Majoritarian voting can get us to a workable answer quickly without having to worry about minorities and concerns. But sometimes some of us want to tap more inclusive wisdom in our search for collective guidance. In those situations minorities, dissent and …
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vTaiwan – A Glimpse of Open Source Open Space Government (Part 1) The following is a layered description of vTaiwan over four messages: In this, the first post, you’ll find an introduction (a 1 minute read) followed by a 3-minute overview. In the second post I offer you eleven brief “Notes on Aspects of the …
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Is the Public Well-Informed Enough to be Trusted with Democracy? Dear OZY Third Rail folks, You ask “Is the Public Well-Informed Enough to be Trusted with Democracy?“ Your question dances around an even bigger, even more important situation, without actually acknowledging it and its related question: Is it realistic to depend on our current form …
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