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July 17, 2005

Added a fundraising thermometer to the home page, which will only appear during fundraising drives.

Added notices about the Evolving Collective Intelligence weblog to several pages, including the home page

Revised the World CafÈ page, including adding the announcement of Juanita Brown's new book The World Café and Tom Atlee's Review of it.

Added Co-Intelligence Institute Newsletters - December 2003 to June 2005 (excerpts)

April 30, 2005

Replaced former board list with the current Co-Intelligence Institute Board - with photographs, email addresses and descriptions of board members

January 30, 2005

Added to the Co-Intelligence and Spirituality topic page

Universal intelligence

Another version of the Lord's Prayer

Group Awareness Exercises

Wisdom

December 21, 2004

Is Collective Intelligence Like Individual Intelligence?

In this intervening year, a number of additions and revisions have been made to this site which have not been logged on this What's New page. We are starting anew and hope to catch up with this backlog in the coming year.

December 12, 2003

The site has had a major upgrade. About 10% of the site is new or has been significantly redesigned or revised. To avoid clutter only the new additions or totally rewritten pages are listed here.

Home page

Co-Intelligence
Co-stupidity
Co-stupidity and our collective problems
Intelligence
What is intelligence?
Six basic manifestations of co-intelligence
Multiple intelligences.
Collaborative intelligence.
Collective intelligence.
Universal intelligence

Special Links: Windows into the Worlds of Co-Intelligence
Theoretical articles about Co-Intelligence Topics
Multiple-Approach Studies and Compilations
Co-Intelligence-Related Articles including many articles by people not directly associated with the Co-Intelligence Institute
Features: Don't Miss These
Co-Intelligence scholars and practitioners

Democracy and Politics
Co-intelligent activism.
Crisis Fatigue and the Co-Creation of Positive Possibilities

Process and Participation
Leadership
Community
Story

Spirituality
Morality and Ethics
Co-intelligent moral sensibilities
Morality as Intelligence

Co-Intelligence Institute
Our Work
Special Campaigns and Projects
The "Center for the Study of Citizen Deliberation" (CSCD) Project
Citizen Conversation, Dialogue, Deliberation and Reflection (CCDDR) Program
Major Funders

Diversity
Diversity is as big as the universe
Not All Differences Are the Same
Ten strategies for dealing with diversity
Mediation

Deliberation
Peter Dienel's "planning cells" (Planugnzellen)
Google statistics showing the increase in interest in citizen deliberation
Using Citizen Deliberative Councils to Make Democracy More Potent and Awake

Wholeness
Intrinsic Participation and the Great Co-Creative Dance
Creative Uncertainty
Don Michael's 'Observations Regarding a Missing Elephant'
Paul Ray's The Elephant is in the Living Room, Not Under the Street Light
Waking Up into Wholeness, Dialogue and Mystery
Lies, and our odd relationship with truth

Wisdom
Excerpts from Articles about Wisdom
Wisdom and Wholeness
Some Characteristics of Wisdom
Sources of Wisdom
Some Ways We Can Be Wise
What can be wise - or foolish?
Resonant Intelligence and the Core Commons

November 7, 2003

Using Citizen Deliberative Councils to Make Democracy More Potent and Awake

Sept 9, 2003

Highlights from our work in 2003

Aug 23, 2003

Town Meetings on Technology by Richard E. Sclove describes Danish Consensus Conferences (aka Danish Technology Panels)

Democracy and the Precautionary Principle: An Introduction by Maria B. Pellerano and Peter Montague describes ways communities can address all their common issues, including technological ones. Describes 13 specific methodologies.

Added the following to Scenario and Visioning Work

• Green, Gary, Anna Haines, and Stephen Halebsky. Building Our Future: A Guide to Community Visioning <http://www1.uwex.edu/ces/pubs/pdf/G3708.PDF>
• Organizing Hope Initiative. Guide to Community Visioning. Minneapolis: Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the University of Minnesota Extension Service, 2001. <http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/rlc/comm/object.htm>
• Peterson, Mark. Harnessing the Power of Vision ­ Ten Steps to Creating a Strategic Vision and Action Plan for Your Community. A short version is available on line at: <http://extension.usu.edu/wrdc/resources/drtoolkit/tool2-z.pdf>
• Democratic Politics of Technology by Richard E. Sclove. Includes description of European Scenario Workshops <http://www.loka.org/idt/intro.htm>

Workshops September 2003 with Tom Atlee and Rosa Zubizarreta

June 29, 2003

What Could We Do to Take Back Our Democracy? introduces the following pages. Its long form includes them all in one page.

1. Voter-verified paper trails and open source software to prevent computerized election-day corruption.
2. Clean money initiatives to handle special-interest distortion of election campaigns and governance.
3. Multi-candidate debates and voting to handle two-party domination.
4. Citizen reflective councils to bring wisdom to all public decision-making, including elections.
5. National and state initiative processes through which We the People can pass needed laws when our representatives are not able or willing to do so.
6. And other approaches to electoral systems change from other organizations.

New links for the Danish Board of Technology (click on "Show All Methods" then "Consensus Conferences" to see their description of what we've called Danish Technology Panels -- and a note on the first US national legislation proposing them. Since the Web has precious few good descriptions of this valuable method, we've also added more on Consensus Conferences:

• Consensus Conference: A Danish description
• A study of official Danish technology assessment activities by Sandy Heierbacher. Includes other good resource links at the end.
• How consensus conferences are organized. Adapted by Tom Atlee from Johs Grundahl.

Interdependence, Interdependence Days and Declarations of Interdependence and a full selection of sample Declarations of Interdependence

A new page on Public Participation which includes the existing page on Principles of Public Participation and a new section on Designing Multi-Process Public Participation Programs which includes: 

• Possible Outcomes of Public Participation
• Creative Tensions as Trade-Offs or Potential Synergies?
• Designing for Community Intelligence: Embracing and Transcending the Usual Logic of Public Participation.
• Some Functions that Serve Community Intelligence and Some Processes that Support those Functions
• Functional Characteristics of Public Participation Processes
• Generating Wisdom Through Democratic Process

All of these multi-process public participation pages are layed out on one page here.

Three articles on the spiritual underpinnings of collective intellience and wise democracy:

• Politics for a co-creative world, published in Science of Mind magazine
• Empowered Dialogue Can Bring Wisdom to Democracy published in Earthlight magazine and
• Tom Atlee's long poem The Tao of Co-Intelligence

Links to the site for Jim Rough's book Society's Breakthrough! and the full text of Mary Parker Follett's remarkable 1918 classic on holistic democracy The New State

May 6, 2003

Tom Atlee's new book The Tao of Democracy is announced on both the home page and the books and publications page.

Tom Atlee's biography has been updated, including a new picture.

July 8, 2002

"Spirit and Stardust" speech by US Rep Dennis Kucinich

"Politics as Spiritual Practice" speech by former mayor Larry Robinson

Paul Ray's "New Political Compass" -- Post-materialist social and consciousness movements are shifting politics in the Western world beyond left vs. right to a 4-directional politics that resembles a political compass. The New Political Compass is summarized in YES! magazine on http://www.futurenet.org/22art/ray.htm and you can download the full report (167kb) at http://www.futurenet.org/22art/NewPoliticalCompassV73.pdf.

"Can Citizen Deliberative Councils Legitimately Claim to Generate a 'People's Voice' on Important Public Concerns?" - a reflection by Tom Atlee, July 2, 2002

Another view of Quaker Worship for Business: http://www.quakerinfo.com/articlep1051.html

There have also been revisions to the Innovztions in Democracy website

June 19, 2002

Bohm Dialogue - A lot of information on Bohmian dialogue all in one place

The Dialogue to Action Initiative - Great resources on all kinds of dialogue and dialogue organizations. Featured their conference A National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation - Oct 4-6, 2002 on the home page.

Linked several pages to Connie Barlow and Michael Dowd's Great Story website.

Added a link for Educators for Community Engagement's Learning Circles

Added links to Tree Bressen's great new site on consensus resources.

June 12, 2002

Since Ralph Nader's Concord Principles kept disappearing from websites we linked to, we have put it on the Co-Intelligence Institute's site. They're a decade old and still very instructive.

Collective Intelligence and Quaker Practice

A new set of co-intelligent public participation principles at the Principles of Public Participation page.

There's a new website for The Center for Deliberative Polling.

Corrected the link to Citizen Consensus Councils

Created a new page regarding Citizen Deliberative Councils

Made many revisions to the Metaphor Project Website

March 9, 2002

Very interesting responses to a Jan 2002 survey about wisdom and a "wisdom society"

Added to the Scenario and Visioning Work page the article Doing Scenarios by Art Kleiner - Whole Earth, Spring 1999 <http://www.wholeearthmag.com/ArticleBin/224.html>

Feedback, Social Power, the Evolution of Social Systems [23K] explores the role of feedback in evolution and learning, in the evolution of intelligence, and in the health and transformation of social systems, noting the critical crossroads we've come to and the possibly mythic role of concentrated wealth in the coming transformation.

Added several new endorsements., changed contact info for worldwork.org/home.htm

Added the following quote from Michael Bridge to my pages on Questions:

Added to the new homepage the already-posted A Call to Move Beyond Public Opinion to Public Judgment as a special "feature article"

February 10, 2002

A new face to the home page (the old face still exists), including links to new pages like these:

• Articles about Wholeness
• Articles about Co-Intelligent Politics and Democracy
• Articles about Co-intelligence (basics)
• Articles about Activism
• Public Issues and Co-Intelligence
• Intelligence and its companion piece Multi-Modal Intelligence and Multiple Intelligences
• A Cycle of Dynamic Coherence

Major revisions in "How you can be involved in the co-intelligence work" including a link to a newly-posted article "Using Co-Intelligence In Your Own Life"

Using Synergy, Diversity and Wholeness to Create a Wisdom Culture describes the theory underlying holistic politics. It explores the "more than" in the common phrase "the whole is more than the sum of its parts" -- especially analyzing different types synergy and the ways in which the whole and part embody, contain or connect with each other. The resulting lessons are explicitly applied to the challenge of evoking the wisdom of the whole on behalf of the whole.

A revised Tom Atlee autobiography, including

• What others say about Tom Atlee's co-intelligence work
• Tom Atlee's published writings, workshops, conferences, etc.

A new donations page, including a quick and simple way to donate online by credit card.

December 18, 2001

Revised the 911 entry page to include

• 911 Community Dialogue Initiatives
  • Commons Café for a New World
  • Conversation Cafés
  • 'Listening to Our Neighbors' Programs
• Empowering the Wisdom of Our Humanity
• The Metaphor Projecct 911 crisis materials, including sample letters to the editor about the 911 crisis which use specially-designed metaphors:
  • Sept 14 - U.S.moral integrity demands crime metaphor, not war
  • Sept 24 - America needs smart game plans, not war
  • Oct 25 - Defusing Terrorism, Not A War on Terrorism
  • Dec 12 - The Rescue Metaphor: The World Rescue Campaign

Revised A Call to Move Beyond Public Opinion to Public Judgment to include

• An overview of the emerging deliberative democracy movement.
• Fascinating references on deliberative democracy
• Citzens' Juries

November 30, 2001

Responses to the 911 crisis were added to the site a month ago but not noted here earlier. These include

What should we do in this crisis?
Questions for reflection about the 911 attacks
A Call to Move Beyond Public Opinion to Public Judgment -- which was newly revised today to include

Two excellent reviews of citizen deliberative processes
and the issues around them
Participatory environmental policy processes: experiences from North and South and
Scientific Deliberative Polling and Deliberative Democracy

Also National Initiative for Democracy was added and Philadelphia II/Direct Democracy majorly revised to reflect significant changes in this remarkable program.

July 26, 2001

Thoughts on Generative Leadership

Exploring transactional and transformational conversations

Dynamic Facilitation and Group Energy by DeAnna Martin

Dynamic Facilitation as a Resource for Self-Organization by Rosa Zubizarreta

The Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance http://www.forgivenessday.org/

Michael M. Crow's and Daniel Sarewitz' Nanotechnology and Societal Transformation

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