Collective Intelligence

Forming a hosting team for building the Finn space

Our intention is to honor our friend, the late Finn Voldtofte, his work and spirit, by creating more than a beautiful memorial site. We want to grow a space where people can interact with and learn from his work, continue and weave it into their own.

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Synch session for forming a Nexus facilitation team

Dear Friends,

This week, the geeks of Nexus had a real-time meeting over the net, using audio and text chatting, electronic whiteboarding, voting and polling, to advance a meeting agenda packed with many exciting topics. They were exciting because they can lead to new capabilities for all of us to connect with one another, grow friendships and projects together. We spent three rich hours online, and Fernanda is working on the meeting harvest...

Some of the burning questions expressed in that session were not technology focused, e.g.:
How can we nurture more content and social interaction on the Nexus site?
What are the priorities to others? People not in this conversation?
What will bring people to the site?

Those questions triggered the idea for a similar, real-time meeting of those who may want to hold the space for our online community and facilitate the emergence of its collective intelligence, i.e.: its capacity to create the future that it strives for.

If you recieved my email invitation to the synch session, it was for one or more of the following reasons. You:
- are experienced facilitated face-to-face and/or online communities
- have a treasure of experience with independent media communities
- are organizing content and articulating community roles on the site
- mentioned somewhere your interest to facilitate conversations
- have a passion and talent for making the site visually beautiful
- have designed evolutionary learning communities
- are member of the site’s co-initiation team

We will meet on Friday, Feb 10, 3:30 to 4:30 pm Pacific Time.
Fernanda will send you info on what you need to have and do to access the virtual room.

Regarding the design of our synch session, let’s dream it up together. We can start it by setting aside 10-15 minutes for accessing our inner stillness in any of our favorite ways, and from that silence, sensing the whole community as an organism, including those who are not yet online.  and asking ourselves:

1. What does this organism need in order to grow healthy and vibrant, which I can contribute to?

After the answer(s) emerge, go back to your contemplation of the second question:

2. What are the immediate issues of high importance and/or urgency that we need to talk about, first?

Write down both sets of answer and post them below, by clicking on "add new comment." They will help shaping the design and flow of our meeting next week.

Hope to meet many of you in the synch room,

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Masculine and Feminine - Spirit and Source

 

 Ria Baeck's Model - The Masculine (Spirit) and the Feminine (Source) collaborate through us in the dance of holding the space for our open inquiry into collective presencing.  From here the emergence of our highest future potential and the next steps for manifestation are born. 
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Women Moving the Edge - 4th Iteration - Harvest

This is the harvest of the fourth gathering of women moving the edge, which took place at Angel's Rest in November 2008.

 

Although there were only five women present – three participants and Judy and Ria – it was the right mix, and the right people.



This harvest was spoken by Ria on the day after the gathering ended.

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A Walkabout Into Collective Consciousness

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.
— Linda Hogan, Native American author and poet

 

Look deep into nature
and then you will understand everything better.
— Albert Einstein

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Collaboration wikiwebs with Jim Miller

Collaborators are invited to these wikiwebs. 

Here are the URLs:

Algal Oil Diesel.  Growing Chlorella vulgaris for its algal oil.  Extraction of algal oil and processing it into food products and biodiesel  read more »

Our steady attention...

Our steady attention to what is moving us


in the luminous moments of co-inspiration


transforms the fleeting experience into continuous celebration


of the awakening of the collective learner


to its potential for higher intelligence and wisdom,


capable to hold more compassion and complexity.

Taking down all the Berlin Walls

 Jumptime
It takes the collective intelligence of the multitudes to take down all the Berlin Walls...

 

workplace communities, social networks, knowledge networks, communities of practice, virtual worlds, community currencies, smart mobs...

 

 

 

 

The art on the left is of Michelle Paradise.


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taking the Wall down

taking the Wall down
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