Parts and Wholes
The blog of the Co-Intelligence Institute’s close community
The CII community is greater than the sum of the individuals connected to it. Equally colleagues and friends associated with the Co-Intelligence Institute have their own roles to play in other fields, with experiences and expertise to share relevant to the topics we explore.
This blog is a space for interaction where ideas diverge and converge!
Writers here are inspired by the concepts of
co-intelligence - intelligence that embraces wholeness, interconnectedness, and co-creativity.
& wise democracy - the practical application of co-intelligence
in our systems of governance.
If you’d like to contribute a blog post get in touch.
Reflecting on our internal “Connection Calls”…
Our core CII team had been meeting at least once a week to pull together the monthly public calls, create the monthly newsletter… …and see if we could figure out fundraising. While we were feeling somewhat burned out, we chose to do something counter-intuitive: we added a second weekly call, for “connection”...
The cutting edge of digital democracy
Andy delves into the emerging field of digital tools designed to amplify our collective capacity for sense-making. Building on groundwork laid by platforms like Polis, this article explores how advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) are reshaping the field of digital democracy.
Celebrating the evolution of Citizens’ Deliberation
A few of the pioneering innovations in deliberative democracy we've been tracking from the Democracy R & D newsfeed.
“Occupy the New Paradigm” -- leverage for transformation
In order to to help "occupy" and transition to a new holistic paradigm.Rosa advocates making support for this way of seeing and being more visible, being vulnerable about our own conditionings, and cultivating solidarity.
The Holistic Paradigm as Democracy's Evolutionary Frontier (part 2)
Part 2 explores how might we take democratic innovation into deeper levels of this shift so that it becomes ever more able to address our collective predicaments.
The Holistic Paradigm as Democracy's Evolutionary Frontier (part 1)
Andy’s part 1 of a long form article examining how our current crises arise from our modernist worldview, and how the emerging field of democratic innovation aligns with a shift towards a more holistic, interconnected paradigm.
Doing Democracy Ourselves & the Convention of the Future Armenian
Andy highlights ISWE’s vision of what ‘doing democracy for ourselves’ might look like and a real world example of this from Armenia
The Potential in a Century of Uncertainty
John explores scientific discoveries that may bring humanity to a greater appreciation of humility and a wiser use of uncertainty.
Further Thoughts on Pluralism, Diversity and Wholeness
Rosa builds on Tom’s blog post “Pluralism, Plurality, and the Generation of Collective Wisdom”