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The Co-Intelligence Institute

June 2024 Newsletter

Summer Schedule of Community Calls

You're very welcome to join us for our next community resonance call which will take place on Friday July 19th. You can register here. We'll leave this June’s fourth Friday free so that people can attend the Global Summit (in the post below) if they wish to do so.

We’ll take a summer break during the month of August and on Friday September 20th we’ll return with our next Real World Co-Intelligence (RWCI) community learning call.

First Global Summit for
Co-Creating a World that Works for All

A truly international hosting circle, including CII friends Peggy Holman and Ben Roberts, is organizing the First Global Summit for Co-Creating a World that Works for All. This pioneering online event will take place over two phases from late June to late July 2024. The intent is “To create connections that support people and organizations who are working to co-create a world that works for all. Connections invite novel possibilities that open hearts, cultivate empathy and belonging, generate hope, energy and resources, and inspire action.”

During these turbulent times of Metacrisis, the idea of "co-creating a world that works for all" may seem overly hopeful. However, as Ben Roberts explains through Vaclav Havel's words, "Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

Phase 1 (June 27-29) features an Open Space event spanning multiple time zones, where participants will self-organize into breakout sessions, setting the agenda around issues that matter most to them.

Phase 2 (June 30 - July 25) provides a "Summit Map" for continued self-organized conversations and potential collaborations.

People connected to CII will be attending. Join us if you feel called, whether you wish to learn, share learnings, offer experiences, find new partners, or simply seek a welcoming space to face these challenging times together.

Watch our call with The Nonviolent Global Liberation Community

In our Real World Co-Intelligece learning call on Friday May 24th we were delighted to host the Nonviolent Global Liberation Community. NGL is a community of practice dedicated to bridging the gap between the current global crises of scarcity, separation, and powerlessness towards a world of flow, togetherness, and choice. Since 2017 they have been tirelessly experimenting with radical nonviolent approaches rooted in gift economy principles, facilitative leadership and collaboration

You can watch the recording of the event here on the CII YouTube channel. During the call four members of the community presented four key aspects of NGL’s work:

Emma Quayle (at 8:18) talked us through NGL’s Vision Mobilization Framework which articulates an overarching vision for a collaborative mode of living that works for all. The framework maps out current constraints while keeping a larger vision in view, and finding practical ways to bridge the gap.

Alper Suzer (at 16:06) introduced us to The Financial Gift Hub which works to decouple giving from receiving through a transparent resource distribution model. Its purpose is to allow resources to flow to where they are needed, operating from unconditional giving rather than reciprocity obligations.

Verene Nicolas (at 26:24) shared the practice of Convergent Facilitation which aims to find integrative decisions that work for all perspectives without anyone having to give up what matters to them.

Finally Miki Kashtan at (34:43) talked about working with power differences and how those imbalances skew whose concerns get heard and taken into account versus whose concerns get overlooked or ignored. This requires interpersonal ‘dialogue compensation’, and systemic changes.

Watch the video recording

What we’ve been appreciating this month...

The work of Suzette Brooks Masters, Director of the Better Futures Project at the Democracy Funders Network!

Her article on Reimagining American Democracy as Governance for the Future charts efforts around the globe to incorporate governance innovations that might be replicated in the USA to make “American democracy more resilient, adaptable and innovative, able both to meet the immense challenges and exploit the vast opportunities the future holds.”

She has recently published a report with Karthick Ramakrishna on The Promise of Future Design , an innovative methodology, practice, and a movement created and propagated originally in Japan by Academic Taijo Sat. From the wise democracy point of view Future Design is an exemplar practice of the Deep Time Perspective pattern.

From Suzette’s report:

“Variously described as a methodology, a practice, and a movement, Future Design uses role play and imaginary future generations to help groups improve their capacity for empathy and creative problem solving, and to better account for the needs of both current and future generations.”

“By learning more about this simple yet effective role play method, and by adapting it to serve the needs of communities across the United States and in other countries, we can improve our ability to make decisions that are anticipatory and increase our capacity for creativity, collective imagination, and collective action.”

A group on the West Coast, USA has been inspired by Suzette’s work and created this awesome gathering which has already sparked a great deal of impact and connection: Cultivating civic futurists to imagine and build a better tomorrow

Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy is a visionary book that reimagines the relationship between technology and democracy. Authored by E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang, and a whole community of contributors, it critiques how current technological trajectories like AI and cryptocurrencies often reinforce authoritarian control and undermine democratic values.

As an alternative, the book proposes a "Plurality" paradigm that presents an optimistic and inclusive vision for how technology can be harnessed to strengthen democracy, foster collaboration across differences, and create a more sustainable future for all.

This is one for our summer reading! You can download it here.

June's Wise Democracy Pattern

Nurturing Social Capital

Divisiveness and alienation undermine wisdom-generating capacity. Social capital is the resource of human connection. Bonding capital exists within a group and bridging capital exists between groups. So nurture and invest social capital to generate not only more social capital but greater abundance and well-being generally.

Featured Question

Who do you know who is a part of a very different culture or group – especially one you have some serious considerations about? Can you imagine them helping you out with something, or you helping them out? Why or why not?

Featured Resource

Community Bridge (first of three 10-minute videos, which get better and better as you go)

June's Co-Intelligence Poem

The Delusion of Separateness

By Albert Einstein

A human being is a part of the whole,

called by us “Universe”,

a part limited in time and space.

He experiences himself,

his thoughts and feelings

as something separated from the rest -

a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.

This delusion is a kind of prison for us,

restricting us to our personal desires

and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

Our task must be to free ourselves

from this prison

by widening our circle of compassion

to embrace all living creatures

and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Einstein image by Travis Morgant

Note: Einstein’s original was not a poem. I made it into one. There are several versions of this quote. This is not the most common one but is apparently closest to the original. See this explanation. - Tom Atlee

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