What will happen, how will it happen?

Moving The Edge will depend on all of us!


Arrival will be during Sunday March 19th, and we will convene after breakfast at 9 am Monday morning. We close Thursday March 23rd at 4 pm.

In between will be an adventurous inquiry. The convening team will serve as hosts of the process for as long as it is needed, including hosting the opening session. We will also offer a simple structure for the days to support the flow of the gathering. Most likely the guiding structure will be Open Space.

There will be a grand hall, and a number of smaller rooms and locations available for us.

We expect people of all walks of life and work, having in common to feel called by this invitation to inquire into the role of collective intelligence in moving the edge of evolution.

So we expect, and intend to support, the emergence of a field of collective intelligence, and we further expect that the unfolding of the content and process of the gathering will be the result of how we engage with this field of collective intelligence, rather than the result of any individuals hosting, lecturing or other more commonly seen conference activity.

We expect to discover new ways of being together and to be part of evolving practices, insights, principles, collegial networks etc. of collective intelligence that have not happened so far.

It is likely that we will build on the experiences some of the convening team had in a gathering called The Kaleidoscope Café retreat, which happened in Sept. last year in the south of England and the Evolutionary Salon, held early Jan. on Whidbey Island near Seattle.

We sense that we are building - even through different gatherings with most of them different participants - a collective capacity to think, live and act as a real collective that is at the same time conscious of itself. Up to now, the convening team is experiencing this - with all the uncertainties and questions that are inevitable. We engaged ourselves in this experiment and we hope you will join us!