Conscious Evolutionary Agentry and Evolutionary Systemic Intervention

Co-intelligent activism naturally blends into conscious evolutionary agentry where the focus is on increasing the ability of human systems to make wise choices and take wise actions as they transform themselves.

Conscious evolutionary agents seek to use the life energy and situational dynamics they find in and around them -- including problems, possibilities, and crises -- to align the interests of the parts with the well-being and healthy evolution of the whole.

This is distinct from more usual forms of social change and humanitarian interventions, but is a natural evolution out of them. Below are articles and links exploring this unique approach to making the world a better (and better) place -- including such topics as evolutionary identity, evolutionary activism, evolutionary philanthropy, evolutionary systems change, and more.

The Evolutionary Worldview

Learning to Be Evolution

Becoming Evolution's Conscious Weavers

Learning from Our Evolutionary Past Into Our Evolutionary Future

The Evolutionary Role of Conversation

Evolution, Process, and Conversation: A Foundation for Conscious Evolutionary Agentry by Peggy Holman

Transformational leverage

Building a Wise Democracy as Crises Emerge

Democracy and the evolution of societal intelligence

Evolutionary Dynamics and Social Systems by Tom Atlee and Peggy Holman, published in the Integral Leadership Review

Consciousness takes us beyond avoidable force, waste, and risk

A Movement for the Conscious Evolution of Social Systems

Does Compassion Need to Evolve?

Feedback, Social Power, and the Evolution of Social Systems

The Evolutionary Role of Citizen Deliberation

Evolutionary Philanthropy Papers - Since the articles above address all forms of social-evolutionary intervention, they provide important perspective and options for evolutionary philanthropy. The ones below, however, apply particularly to philanthropy.

Crisis and Evolutionary Leverage in Philanthropy (doc)

An Evolutionary Funding Network

Reframing Wealth as an Evolutionary Calling

And see our page for the June 2006 Evolutionary Philanthropy Salon that includes the final report (pdf) and many documents (pdfs, docs, urls, etc.) contributed by participants including Tom Atlee, Peggy Holman, Duane Elgin, and others

See also

Conscious Evolution

Leadership

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