Conscious Evolution

The UK is buzzing with social enterprising and social innovation. It is a country that’s definitely happening. The good news comes just in time, when the world needs working prototypes of better ways to organize commerce, governance, and civil society action. The global society needs successful models of working and learning together at increasing scale, to meet its multiplying crises, more than ever. The living laboratories where those models are experimented with, are rapidly multiplying all over the world, and in some countries more so than in others.  read more »

I don’t have an accurate map of all the unconferences, barcamps, world cafés, “open space” sessions and appreciative inquiries that occur in many countries, with increasing frequency. In a sense, it would never be accurate because by the time a new video gets posted about an event occurring, two other went unnoticed by those who were not there. Thus, memes and practices worth to replicate can’t spread as rapidly as it would be useful and necessary to scale up innovation. Noticing it contributed to the following dual motivation of this writing.  read more »

2gather08 was a remarkable, high-energy unconference in London, July 2-3, 2008, "a festival of ideas, popular technologies and progress."

Inspired by meetings I had the week before at the Shambhala Insitute of Authentic Leadership in Nova Scotia, about the Collective Intelligence Convergence website in Montreal, and the "Café U" action research in Boston, I decided to sum up my current thinking on the issues that I started exploring in Spiraling up.

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