Collective Intelligence
Developing a Mindful Approach to Earth Justice Work
Journal Article
The story one tells oneself about climate change shapes individual feelings and actions. For example, are we on the verge of breakdown or breakthrough? There is ample evidence for both.
Liminal Leadership
Article
Our liminal leadership will be as people together in a struggling biosphere—just you and me and the other 7 billion mothers and daughters and fathers and sons. We will not lead on behalf of a company or a nation, not on behalf of a religion or a belief system. We will hold each other through the storms of economic volatility, ecological turmoil, and political insanity. There will be trauma, pain, and loss through which our solace during this transformation will be nothing less than the creative expression of tenderness.
The Power of Three | Awakening New Energy in Group Work
Article
A person living today in a modern city or a suburb can be surrounded by others yet feel deeply, dangerously […]
Open Group Practice: Eight Social Selves
Article
Through co-operative inquiry, observation, and collective reflection, we began to track patterns of social behavior that seemed to follow a typology. This eventually led to the naming of eight ‘indigenous social selves’ that masquerade around as human beings in conventionally structured environments. The eight social selves are derived from alternative coping mechanisms at three levels of being: an inner core primary psychological schema, an outer social processing temperament, and an interpretive ideology.
Collective Presencing: A New Human Capacity
Article
This is the first in a series of articles introducing the phenomenon and practice of Collective Presencing, a new capacity evolving in humanity at this time. Great thinkers have foreseen its coming—we recognise it in Aurobindo’s descent of the supramental and Teil-hard de Chardin’s noosphere. But what exactly do those terms mean? Where these gifted individuals intuited and envisioned the birth of this new collective capacity at the dawn of the last century, we are now starting to be able to describe it from experience. While many might recognise the phenomenon from transpersonal group work and other such practices, so far as we are aware, this is the first attempt to articulate it as a path and a set of capacities that can be intentionally developed.