Tom Atlee is one of my heros. For years he has been running the very excellent Co-Intelligence Institute from which I gather lots of information and inspiration. Recently he sent out an email on the emergence of collective intelligence as a field of practice here’s what he has to say: “Collective intelligence, as a field of study and practice, is taking off. Some really interesting work is being done, quite beyond the dialogue and deliberative democracy realms we focus on at the Co-Intelligence Institute. It turns out that even when thousands of people don’t talk to each other at all, …
The discussion following my post about the community with the drugs problem has produced some amazing responses. In order to keep the space open, I have set up a page in the Open Space Wiki. Feel free to contribute both here or there.
Fifteen years ago, sitting in my living room listening to the CBC broadcasting live as the Tiananmen Square protests were quashed. This remains one of the most powerful images of living in truth ever produced.
I am currently working with a small community which is having a serious problem with drugs among their youth. In a meeting with community leaders the same solutions came forward, most notably that the police need to enforce laws better (they don’t), the local government needs to do more (it won’t) and the dealers need to be run out of town (but no one will do it). I suggested that, in the face of the evidence, none of these solutions are the magic bullet. So far none of what NEEDS to happen is actually happening. So what is the answer? …