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Pre-gathering conversation

Submitted by Rowan Simonsen on March 5, 2006 - 20:04.

What are our burning questions before coming to the gathering?

What thoughts, expectations, visions and hopes do we want to share before we meet? 

Participants, as of Monday, March 20:

Anne Marie Troelsen, Denmark
Brad Blanton, USA
Carl Damm, Denmark
David Reis, Denmark
Dharma Korsgaard, Denmark
Finn Voldtofte, Denmark
George Por, Holland
Jan Nouwen, Holland
Judy Wallace USA
Lene Bredahl, Denmark
Maria Sastre-Kjorling, Sweden
Martin Ehrensvärd, Denmark
Martin Ludvigsen, Denmark
Per Skovmand Rasmussen, Denmark
Pernille Overø, Denmark
Peter Kahr Greve, Denmark (joins later)
Ria Baeck, Belgium
Rowan Simonsen, Denmark
Shiven Holmgren, Denmark
Thomas Davidsen, Denmark
Tina Ranløv, Denmark
Yann Mauchamp, France

George's question

Submitted by George Por on March 18, 2006 - 21:54.
What does it take to embody collective intelligence and wisdom--in a community of learning, practice, and innovation--as demonstrated by our capacity to co-presence the future that needs us to manifest?

Here's one piece that popped up in a recent conversation with a new friend I met in the  retreat of the Sacred Circle convened by Aubrey, Jean-François, Shari, and Tim, earlier this week:

"The trap that most people fall into when talking about collective intelligence is that they think that by naming it and defining it, that it will do its magic and successful adaptive change will be assured."
 

I believe in order to boost our CI so that we can reach simplicity

on the other side of rapidly growing cognitive, social, and generative complexity,

we need to speak the truth about our current experience of collaborative sensing and meaning-making,

and inquire into how to make it more effective, efficient, and enjoyable,

so that CI can truly scale up and support more conscious social systems at a larger scale.

 

I am thankful to Tom Atlee for bringing the concept of "simplicity on the other side complexity" into the current CI conversation.

Finns question: Who is it now - at this point in time

Submitted by Finn Voldtofte on March 8, 2006 - 17:15.
In "A consciousness perspective on Moving The Edge" the last paragraphs reads like this:

I think we (together with uncounted other initiatives happening at this time) have a possibility of ”keeping the prayer wheels turning”, so that the entrypoints for consciousness in our middles can be sustained and substantiated. In this way more consciousness can flow into the world, more life, more love, more beauty, more mystery, more spirit....

I do think it is important. I don’t think it is important that I or you do it, but if we are the ones for whom this perspective makes sense, then we are the ones that can act upon it."

For me the question theese days, as the gathering gets a "body" in the form of participants,  sums up to: Who? Who is it now – at this point in time – knowing that many have been “here” before, and at the same time thinking that there have never before been a “here” like the one we are in now.

The edge has moved rapidly lately, so what can now emerge – what wants now to be called into being?

Pernille's question

Submitted by Ria Baeck on March 5, 2006 - 21:17.
Inspired By Rias question, mine would be: What is possible now?

Regarding using different forms for inquiry and expression my burning question for some time have been: How can the field dance?

Pernille

Tom Atlee's Burning Question Today

Submitted by Ria Baeck on March 5, 2006 - 21:15.

"I wouldn't give a nickel for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity." -Einstein

What is the simple truth about collective intelligence and wisdom on the other side of its complexity?  (I suspect that all our diverse existing perspectives about collective intelligence and wisdom are on this side of complexity -- and that bringing them all together would throw us into a very uncomfortable complexity.)

And therefore:  What would have to happen for our diverse approaches to, sensibilities about, and definitions of collective intelligence and wisdom to deepen and broaden into a common sense of collective intelligence and wisdom so compelling that it became a natural and expected capacity of humanity at all levels of society?

My burning question is: What's next?

Submitted by Ria Baeck on March 5, 2006 - 21:14.
As we promised in our last conference call we would all write up our burning question regarding our gathering within a few weeks.

My question is really very short: What is possible? What is next? What is possible next?

In my mind's eye I see a rich, innovative synergy between the three perspectives that we so far have brought together: on the edge of collective consciousness and wisdom + using different forms for inquiry and expression + integrating the harvest and the chronicling and the blog and the video. Not a 'litte' agenda; but I don't see it as something difficult to accomplish but I see the fun of creating and the joy of inventing new forms of being together and co-creating.

You can challenge me with some questions, then maybe it is possible that I can be more explicit about this, if need be.