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Questions for CIC Convening Team Use

Submitted by Tom Atlee on November 3, 2006 - 05:01.
This forum is for sharing and discussing questions to use for different purposes in our work together convening the Collective Intelligence Convergence. It is not for exploring answers to those questions, which can be done on another forum.

What are we learning?

Submitted by Sheri Madrone on November 4, 2006 - 01:04.

i love these questions (thank you tom and peggy) and another question emerged for me in all this as i was holding them in meditation earlier today.  i've also been holding all this within the context of this quote from AofH:

There is something called learning at a rather small level of organisation.

At a much higher gestalt level, learning is called evolution

– Gregory Bateson

4.  What are we learning during this co-initiation phase of our invitation process?  And if we are learning at the “higher gestalt level”, what is evolving?  Have we learned anything already that would shift our orientation? 

5.  What is the strange attractor for the Field of CI that is sitting right in front of us and isn't yet visible if seen with certain eyes?

 

Time for interviewing the invitees / reporting back to the team

Submitted by George Por on November 3, 2006 - 13:56.

Those are all juicy questions and I can hardly wait to get on the phone  with my invitees. Tom will you have time to do the same with yours? If not could you help coordinating their distribution among the rest of the hosting team?

How can we make the responses we'll get the shared knowledge of the whole team? Maybe using the "Invitation process" topic?

Generative co-interviewing

Submitted by George Por on November 3, 2006 - 13:48.

Thank you, Tom and Peggy, for these beautiful generative questions that open new possibilities to deepen our relationships in the hosting team and let us to hold our co-creative process with more coherence and shared clarity.

 I wrote my piece on the two personally most meaningful contexts or lenses, through which I relate to our collaboration, before I read your questions but it seems that I started answering them there. Nevertheless, I feel there's more to say and if there's anyone who would want to  engage in a generative co-interviewing with me, that could be fun...

Questions for online/Jan15 working groups

Submitted by Tom Atlee on November 3, 2006 - 05:27.
These questions can be pursued by teams of participants and convenors in an effort first to explore the field and finally to structure a coherent document describing and declaring it to the world.

1. LANGUAGING - What cross-disciplinary vocabularies and integral perspectives can help us work better together and communicate about the field of CI as a whole?

2. MAPPING - What are the varieties of collective intelligence and what fields, ideas, professions, etc., are relevant to CI -- even if they don't speak of themselves in those terms? How do these all relate to each other? What inquiries pursued by each approach to CI constitute a substantive (even unique) and potentially synergistic contribution to the field of CI as a whole?

3. DEFINING - How can we best define the phrase "collective intelligence", so that it expresses both the essence of our individual approaches and the broad extent of the field as a whole?

4. VALUING - What value would be added if CI became more coherent and visible, both as a capacity and as a field of study and practice? How do we articulate its benefits to the world?

5. RESEARCHING - What research questions, if pursued well, would make the most difference in furthering the field and capacity of CI in the world?

6. STRATEGIZING - What initiatives and mutual learning partnerships might we co-create or catalyze, that would advance the field and its ability to address collective problems, including major global challenges like climate change, resource depletion, terrorism, extreme wealth disparities, emerging "superbugs", and other major challenges?

INVITEE QUESTIONS

Submitted by Tom Atlee on November 3, 2006 - 05:14.
Here are some questions to ask invitees -- any, all or none of which we could use (directly or as inspiration) for phone interviews. The first one is specifically for people who said "yes". The others could apply to anyone. It might be interesting sometime to answer them ourselves (individually or interviewing each other). There are, of course, too many questions here, but you get the idea. [Again, thanks to Peggy for help thinking about these.]

1. What was your YES! in deciding to attend this meeting? What in particular interested you in participating in this overall effort to convene collective intelligence as a field of study and practice? What kind of difference do you think it could make?

2. When did you fall in love with this idea collective intelligence? How did that come about?

3. In your experience with collective intelligence, what ways of thinking about it make the most sense to you?

4. What is your sense of collective intelligence as a field of study and practice that includes and goes beyond your own work?

5a. What inquiries are you and your current colleagues pursuing that especially contribute to the greater understanding and/or manifestation of collective intelligence? 5b. What other juicy questions about collective intelligence would you really like to see pursued?

6. What patterns do you see, if any, among the diverse actors involved in investigating or facilitating collective intelligence?

7. In the next couple of months, what kind of online work, conference calls, shared materials, etc., among participants do you think could maximize the fruitfulness of our time together in January?

8. What role can you imagine yourself playing in the emergence of this field, as a field of study and practice, that you might really enjoy? What special gifts, passions, insights, inquiries, etc., do you have to offer to further that emergence?

QUESTIONS FOR US (to clarify our sense of purpose)

Submitted by Tom Atlee on November 3, 2006 - 05:05.
1. How do you (I)(we) see the purpose of this gathering?

2. What could be different as a result of doing this work? What is possible here?

3. What does this effort mean for you (me)(us) personally? What's the juice and energy for you (me)(us)?

We could ask these of ourselves privately, answer them online, interview each other, or just let them sit in our awareness. Exploring them consciously might help us understand what process design(s) would best serve us. [thanks to Peggy for help with both the questions and notes on their use.]