Join Us For Our Celebratory & Exploratory
The Tao of Democracy and Beyond!
In our July newsletter we asked you for feedback on how to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Tom Atlee’s book, “The Tao of Democracy”. The most popular ideas included a book group, mini courses on Wise Democracy’s prime directive, conversations exploring what has changed since the book’s publication, and conversations on Tom’s current work (read more on this below!)
Overall, we saw a clear desire to get together to talk, network and build connections.
Now, Andy Paice and Rosa Zubizarreta have combined several of the above possibilities into a celebratory offering for this fall: The Tao of Democracy and Beyond: a Gathering of Hearts and Minds.
This will be a series of 3 two-hour sessions to connect and envision emergent futures where new forms of democracy are generating collective wisdom.
We’ll offer mini presentations followed by open-space style breakout sessions, where you can dive deeper into that session’s theme, or host a break-out group on your own projects.
We are also marking 16 years since the original Storyfield Conference in 2007, which preceded the current slew of great initiatives sprouting up all over, focused on narratives for social change and transformation – another cause for celebration!
The following year, in 2008, CII launched the “ Phoenix Conversations A Call to Prepare for Profoundly Uncertain Future Crises” – conversations which are even more timely now as public awareness of the climate crisis is finally reaching a tipping point.
And it’s now been seven years since the initial launch of the Wise Democracy Pattern Language in 2016, where we sought to advance what we had initiated with the Tao of Democracy.
We want to celebrate the work we have done over the last 20 years and celebrate YOU – as part of the extended community who has been connected with us, in one form or another, along the way.
We envision this celebration as a “large community gathering” rather than a “public event”: Everyone is welcome and please invite any friends who might resonate with this work, even if we've not met yet! Just please don’t post it on social media.
To hold your spot, please register your interest here and save the following dates:
Wednesdays, October 25th, November 8th & November 29th, from 1-3pm Eastern Time, 7-9pm Central European Time
Online hosted via Open Space
More details to follow soon.