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The Co-Intelligence Institute

May 2024 Newsletter

The Nonviolent Global Liberation Community joins us
for this month's RWCI learning call

Join us on Friday, May 24th (10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm BST) for our next Real World Co-Intelligence call, featuring members of the Nonviolent Global Liberation (NGL) community

The NGL community is a group dedicated to bridging the gap between the current global crises of scarcity, separation, and powerlessness towards a world of flow, togetherness, and choice. A world in which people have agency and know they matter.

Since 2017, this community of practice has been tirelessly experimenting with radical nonviolent approaches rooted in gift economy principles, facilitative leadership and collaboration. They offer learning opportunities to delve into their principles, tools to increase capacity in decision-making systems and pathways to support their work through gifting or direct participation.

We’re delighted that four members of the NGL community will join us for the interactive learning call including its co-founder and social visionary Miki Kashtan. They will present the following core aspects of their work and group process with us: The Vision mobilization framework, The Financial Gift Hub (FGH) and how the community works on gift economy principles, Convergent Facilitation, Liberation for all and Nonviolence.

Join us for what promises to be a fascinating learning call!

The Holistic Paradigm
as Democracy's Evolutionary Frontier

For the latest article in our blog “Parts and Wholes” CII board member Andy Paice has written a paper covering ideas that have been brewing and patterns he’s seen emerging as he has worked in the field of deliberative democracy in the UK whilst simultaneously exploring an ongoing interest in holism, spirituality, consciousness, and psychology.

Read part 1 of the article

What we’ve been appreciating this month

We’ve been impressed by a concept paper by Laureen Golden and Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard called Introducing “Transformative Social Systems” (TSS). Their work has given a name to a whole host of practices which serve to elicit “the deep meeting of hearts and minds that can arise when we engage in dialogue and reflective listening to access deeper, collective sources of knowing.” These practices are identified as a missing ingredient in current efforts to address our crises and there’s a call to action: for practitioners across these TSS to cohere and work together. Please read and share!

Likewise Ted Rau, expert in governance design and sociocracy has responded to this call with his own piece How Transformative Social Systems help to recreate meaning that broadens the concept even further, demonstrating how they create meaning, relevance and agency.

It has also been great to see CII’s founder Tom Atlee collaborating with long time colleague, learning partner and collective wisdom thought leader George Pór exploring the potential for Collaborative Hybrid Intelligence (CHI). This focuses on the inquiry into “What can make the relationship between human and AI agents wiser?”

George’s action research project is testing an assumption that “to the extent that the cultivation of CHI is guided by the deepest wisdom and highest consciousness available to the collaboration, it can demonstrate the qualities of wisdom and compassion,” and promote broad long term benefit. We can’t wait to see what emerges from their explorations!

Some upcoming events in our larger ecosystem

We are celebrating the 2024 Participedia School on Transnational Democratic Innovations, which will be taking place from June 10 - 15 in a decentralized way, on three continents: South Africa, Brazil, and Canada. While registration is currently closed, there is still a wait-list.

And, we are super excited about the upcoming “Frontiers of Democracy” conference at Tufts, from June 13 - 15. This year the focus is “VIolence, Non-Violence, and Robust Democracy”, and Rosa Zubizarreta-Ada will be offering a brief experiential session on Dynamic Facilitation.

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