Many people who have experience with collective presencing either in a spiritual community or organizational setting, report that when the collective processing faces phases of intense and chaotic discomfort and passes through, that the transformation on the other side is relative to the amount of tension that is able to be processed. Groups that self-select by … Continue reading Keeping it Real
Category: Meta-Design
In-sighting Emergent Capacities
For the past 17 months I have been running an on-line experimental adult learning course called The Magellan Courses. This experiment in self-organizing co-creative education was the basis of my presentation paper for the ITC 2013 Conference. Here is an excerpt talking about some of the meta-design lessons we learned: Over the course of our first … Continue reading In-sighting Emergent Capacities
Generative Design-Build
In an excellent article on Christopher Alexander's notion of "wholeness", by Michael Mehaffy and Nikos Salingaros share the following from their new book: A set of diagrams from Helmut Leitner (a software engineer in Graz, Austria) helps us grasp the wholeness-generating transformations. We reproduce his five-step graphical description from our book Algorithmic Sustainable Design. 1. Step-wise: Perform one … Continue reading Generative Design-Build
Principles of a Generative Meta-Design
Principles of a Genereative Meta-Design Auspicious – focuses on the affirmative, optimistic, serendipitous Indescribable – seeks to make the unthinkable possible Self-steering – adapts by re-inventing its own working language Fractal – making complex systems navigable through pattern-familiarity Holistic – delivers complex, comprehensive and self-aware outcomes Synergistic – cultivates … Continue reading Principles of a Generative Meta-Design
Generative Process Analytics
Saying what we think and thinking what we say. Hidden in our language is a basic story about the way we think things work. Often, the words we use do not accurately represent this hidden story, while people who use the same general systems terms may be implicitly thinking of a totally different kind of … Continue reading Generative Process Analytics
Theory, Practice & Innovation
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate. ~ Buckminster Fuller The philosopher Roy Bhaskar writes about theory-practice inconsistency. He likes to use David Hume as an example. Based on the implications of his idealist philosophy, Hume made the statement that it actually made … Continue reading Theory, Practice & Innovation
Entangled Categories
One of the obstacles in the way of creative thinking is the way we limit ourselves with conceptual categories. There are two most common habits are We put physical or constructivist constraints on conceptual (epistemic) tools. We associate categories within exclusive sets. These habits can be quite subtle and nuanced, but they appear everywhere in … Continue reading Entangled Categories
Knowing, Fearing & Questioning
As we sit in a circle together, we can watch how thought arises. Noticing, we can make distinctions between categories of knowing-thoughts, fearing-thoughts, and questioning-thoughts. As we sit in a circle together, noticing, and allowing all knowing, fearing and questioning thought to pass, without holding or offering, or saying -- just noticing -- as we … Continue reading Knowing, Fearing & Questioning
Everyday Bardo
Following excerpted from Chogyam Trungpa, The Six States of Bardo There seems to be quite a misconception as to the idea of bardo, which is that it is purely connected with the death and after-death experience. But the experience of the six bardos is not concerned with the future alone; it also … Continue reading Everyday Bardo