Real Possibilities
May 08, 2008
A few days ago I stumbled on a new model for whole-system intelligence inspired by some work my friend Peggy Holman is doing with Journalism that Matters. These journalists are reexamining the kinds of stories they tell and their role in democracy, especially in light of how the rise of bloggers and other citizen journalists challenges mainstream media. Journalism that Matters is trying to revision that challenge into a create leap for the whole field.
I suspect this model is a draft and will shift over the coming months. This original version takes the form of four overlapping circles -- INFORMATION, CONVERSATION, VISION, and ACTION -- arranged in a circle such that they flow round and round to generate collective intelligence -- an iterative, creative, collective learning cycle. Here's how it goes:
Continue reading "Whole System Learning and Evolution -- and the New Journalism"
posted by Tom Atlee on Thursday May 8 2008
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April 27, 2008
In addition to its immediate relevance for our personal behaviors and health and as a public health issue, this report from The Ecologist on "The Gathering Brainstorm" of damaging Wi-Fi impacts, includes the sentence "The technology is now moving far faster than it can be tested or regulated."
This is one of the rare occasions of a specific reference to a phenomenon that really concerns me:
Continue reading "Gathering storms of unwanted change"
posted by Tom Atlee on Sunday April 27 2008
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July 06, 2005
My July 6 Washington Post headlines email contains this item: "Are a Nominee's Views Fair Game?": "White House and Senate Democrats headed toward a collision yesterday over the role ideology should play in the selection of the next Supreme Court justice, outlining a key conflict that could define the nomination battle over a successor to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor." There's more than meets the eye here...
Continue reading "Citizens Juries to Choose Supreme Court Justices?!"
posted by Tom Atlee on Wednesday July 6 2005
updated on Saturday September 24 2005
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July 04, 2005
All forms of dialogue and deliberation serve our evolution into a culture of dialogue. Part of that evolution is the increased legitimacy and empowerment of forms that call forth more of society's collective intelligence and wisdom. As new forms of dialogue and deliberation demonstrate their effectiveness, they can be increasingly trusted by citzens and officials, and thus can (and should) become increasingly embedded in the institutions of social policy-making.
The increasing sophistication of dialogue and deliberation methodologies over the past two decades, combined with increasingly sophisticated communication and knowledge-management systems, as well as the spread of holistic philosophies and spiritual practices, suggests that we are rapidly increasing our ability to generate collective intelligence and wisdom through well-designed communications. We now face the task of bringing that capacity into the public trust and into official practice.
To clarify part of that developmental trajectory, we can map a spectrum (below) that reflects the growing empowerment and legitimization of citizen dialogue and deliberation. We can start with a category that embraces all types and qualities of such conversations and public engagements -- the ecosystem, if you will, of democratic discourse within which diverse species of dialogue and deliberation interact and evolve.
Continue reading "A Spectrum of Politics and Governance Grounded in Empowered Citizen Dialogue and Deliberation"
posted by Tom Atlee on Monday July 4 2005
updated on Saturday September 24 2005
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Whole System Learning and Evolution -- and the New Journalism
May 08, 2008
Gathering storms of unwanted change
April 27, 2008
Citizens Juries to Choose Supreme Court Justices?!
July 06, 2005
A Spectrum of Politics and Governance Grounded in Empowered Citizen Dialogue and Deliberation
July 04, 2005
Scripture-based Deliberations on Public Policy?
June 25, 2005
Australia's Amazing Conference (and Work) on Deliberative Innovations
June 19, 2005
No Term Limits for the U.S. President?
June 15, 2005
A Movement for the Conscious Evolution of (increasingly conscious) Social Systems
June 14, 2005
What does it mean to share ideas with a bird?
June 13, 2005
Further Info on New BC Voting System Initiative
May 22, 2005
Growing Together at the Emerging Edge of Evolution
May 22, 2005
A Citizens' Consensus Conference on Nanotechnology in Wisconsin
May 04, 2005
Brad Blanton's Campaign and the Transformation of Democracy
April 28, 2005
One Provocative Future of Media
April 21, 2005
Tom Atlee Radio Interview May 1, 2005
April 14, 2005
Power of Silence
September 05, 2004
The Co-Intelligence Institute seeks communities for Community Intelligence projects
September 05, 2004
Polarization and Intelligence
September 05, 2004
Community Intelligence Resources
September 05, 2004
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