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I would like to suggest an interview with Tom Atlee, founder of the Eugene based Co-Intelligence Institute. http://www.co-intelligence.org   Quoting from the institute's website: 

Healthy communities, institutions and societies -- perhaps even our collective survival -- depend on our ability to organize our collective affairs more wisely, in tune with each other and nature.  This ability to wisely organize our lives together -- all of us being wiser together than any of us could be alone -- we call co-intelligence.  In its broadest sense, co-intelligence involves accessing the wisdom of the whole on behalf of the whole.

Tom networks nationally with a variety of thinkers, groups and institutions whose work seeks to promote wiser, more empowered, shared democracy and collective decision making. His work ties in well with the work of Healthy Democracy Oregon (HDO), represented by Elliot Shuford, a recent guest on your show. The results of HDO's Citizens' Initiative Review (CIR) will appear in this November election's voters' information booklet. The CIR is just one example of the kind of work Tom and the Co-Intelligence Institute promote. 

Tom has written a couple of books on his work:  The Tao of Democracy and Reflections on Evolutionary Activism

I think the ideas of wise group decision making that the Co-Intelligence Institute promote are particularly relevant in the pre-election craziness of campaign spin-doctoring and thoughtless, partisan selective blindness.

Check out the website: http://www.co-intelligence.org

Kennett Payne

posted 1 year, 8 months ago
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