decision making
Collective Intelligence Collaboratory | CICO
Making sense of the huge array of organizations, software and concepts pushing to “change the world” is nearly impossible, as long as we remain unable to compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges. We are putting together a highly improbable mix of people...
Our Wise Democracy Pattern Language
This is exciting. Tom Atlee and the Co-Intelligence Institute team have developed a terrific collection of 96 patterns they describe as… “features or design principles that we believe would show up repeatedly in a democracy characterized by collective...
Thinking outside the circle | George Woods
In our hurly-burly times, it seems that the circle is no longer the shape to form in decision-making, or in organising social change. As an alternative, activism might instead adopt structures, tactics and decisions that accommodate the ideas, experiences, prejudices,...
Spokescouncils: Learning from Stop New Nukes
By the time I arrived at the camp the first spokescouncil meeting had already taken place… Everyone was welcome and affinity groups sat behind their spoke in the traditional ‘pizza slice’ formation with spokes effectively working in a fishbowl. However it was...
Collective book on collective process
A handbook on group process for egalitarian collectives. Its focus is on the often unrecognised negative dynamics that can occur when people try to work collectively. it is a collaborative work-in-progress, and everybody is invited to contribute.